Ami/Miroku: Personality Clash!

[RyderHakubi]

"Yeah, I've gone without sleep too... but in that case, I was online all night.  I wasn't wasting energy walking..." Ryder reminded... while walking along the path.

[Kwokinator]

"I've done that too," Kwok laughed sheepishly, while continuing to follow. "But drinking helps me stay awake because the alcohol burns in my stomach."

[RyderHakubi]

"No way in hell am I drinking Kwok...  For that matter, I'm not letting you." Ryder said...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok blinked.

"Why not?"

[RyderHakubi]

"Think about it... if I let you drink, you'd probably rape me, or someone else." Ryder said, with some sadness in the end...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok glared at Ryder.

"I do NOT rape people.  I don't even think about it," he said in a hard voice.

"Besides," he said, relaxing a little. "You'll never notice a difference if I'm drunk or not.  I have enough control over myself."

"On second thought... that only applies to my real body.  I have no idea how much alcohol Miroku can tolerate.  I'm pretty sure that I can control myself enough not to do anything rash though."

[RyderHakubi]

"Sorry Kwok, but I've seen alcohol do some NASTY things to people." Ryder replied apoligetically...

"So, I'm not going to take any chances...  I think you can lay off the beer for a while.  It's not going to kill you..."

[Kwokinator]

Kwok shrugged.

"Ah well.  It's not like I'm a hard drinker anyway," he admitted. "And I don't drink beer.  I dislike beer.   I drink harder stuff, like rum and whiskey and stuff like that."

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder facepalmed... "Kwok... just quit while you're ahead man."

[Kwokinator]

"Fine, fine," Kwok relented. "Whatever you say, Ami-chan."

"So what are we gonna do?  Keep going or find a place to crash?"

[RyderHakubi]

"I guess we'll keep going... At least for a few more hours." Ryder decided.

[Kwokinator]

"Alright," Kwok agreed and followed behind.

"Whenever you wanna stop, just say the word."

[Carthrat]

It quickly got very dark.

VERY dark. But they could see lights in the distance..

..a small farming villiage, by the looks of it.

Roughly two kilometres off. Unfortunately, something was delaying their travel.

They could feel a palpable aura of... wrongness, just up ahead... and there was no telling if it was just paranoia in such a situation.

[Kwokinator]

Kwok stopped dead in his tracks.

"Hold on, Ryder," he held up a hand even though no one could see it in the darkness. "We should stop, at least for a while.  Something feels weird out there, and we might need all the strength we can get.

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder nodded... "You felt that too... good, I'm not going insane."

So, Ryder got off the path and fumbled around looking for a tree to lean against... and ran into one... headfirst.

"Iteiteite!" she complained as she fell against it...