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Somewhere near the beach- Wednesday evening

Hearing radio last night had probably kept at least a couple people indoors today, but that would be the exact opposite of Jaina's style. If there were things in the creepy fog, then she was going to be out in the creepy fog. It could be blamed in part on natural curiosity, in part her job description, and in part because some weird prophecy thing told her she had to do this sort of thing.

After a while of patrolling, though, she was beginning to doubt whether coming out here was a good idea after all. There'd been far too much seeing things that weren't there a second later, and when you found yourself running through calming techniques while being ready to possibly fight things, that was a problem.

[For one, unless the NPCers get bored and wanna throw a monster in.]

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Zayne was curious about the fog. There was a weird... mental thing that he could barely feel, but it didn't seem to be having any negative effects. Still, he had planned on going back to the dorms several minutes ago but, um, he had gotten lost in the fog.

He eventually realized that he was near the beach due to the lack of buildings. "Okay, so I have some idea where I am," he muttered to himself. Just then, he spotted a friendly shape in the fog. "Jaina? Hey! What are you doing out here?"

Well, that was weird.

Jaina saw the human-sized lizard thing, and while she came from somewhere where that wasn't exactly abnormal, it was abnormal here. And she didn't hear words, just... animal sounds, or something. Still, her danger sense wasn't going off. She could separate that from paranoia, at least so far.

Her hand on her lightsaber, she stood her ground for a moment, waiting to see if it would do anything.

Jaina was usually friendlier than that. "Jaina? Are you okay?" Zayne asked, coming closer. He added a wave, just in case.

Later she'd probably blame it on the fact that she was jumpy, but before she even realized she was doing it, she had her lightsaber unclipped and the violet blade lit. "Don't come any closer if you know what's good for you," she told it, even if she knew it probably had no idea what she was saying.

"I swear I know what's good for me," Zayne said, stopping dead in his tracks as he watched the lightsaber's glow cut through the fog. He raised his hands to show that he was being as non-threatening as possible. "I just don't know what's going on. I'm sure we can talk it out if you put that away."

She had no idea what it was saying, but the fact that it hadn't turn and run wasn't making her feel any better. She stepped closer, weapon raised. "I thought I told you to go."

No, technically, she hadn't.

"Okay, you don't want to talk," Zayne said, reaching slowly for the lightsaber hanging from his belt. He didn't want to use it - especially since she was a much better duelist than him - but he wasn't going to be caught even more unprepared than he already was. "But you should still put your lightsaber away. We don't want anyone getting hurt by accident."

Jaina was jumpy and frustrated and wasn't sure if the growls it was making were supposed to be a warning to her or not, but she decided to give it one more of her own.

Well, kind of a warning, anyway.

She extended her hand, trying to send it flying backward with a Force push.

Zayne did, in fact, go flying backwards. Before he hit the ground, he thumbed his lightsaber on so that he would be prepared just in case she followed up. "Okay, I don't know what's gotten into you, but I'm going to defend myself if you force me to," Zayne said from his spot on the ground. "And then you're going to have to explain to everyone why you chopped my arm off."

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Was that a... She didn't know what it was holding. She didn't know it had the opposable thumbs to hold something. And it wasn't getting up, but it was still growling, and Jaina was just impatient enough that she didn't want to see what it was planning.

"Okay, that's it," she said, heading towards him with her lightsaber raised.

Zayne held out a hand and tried to Force push her back to give him a moment to get to his feet so that maybe, MAYBE, he could actually stand a chance.

Startled, she almost fell back, scrambling for balance. What the kriff just happened there? It hadn't come near her and that felt like...

She shook it off, bringing her lightsaber back up and running torward the creature.

Zayne was standing and had found a decent defensive stance, but Jaina was already on top of him. "You're going to feel really bad about this when you come to your senses!" Zayne yelled as he prepared himself for whatever she did.

Yeah, she really was, but all she was seeing was it preparing to come at her and all she was hearing was a roar, which she attempted to silence by swinging her lightsaber at it.

Zayne brought up his saber to parry the attack as he stepped back, both for balance and to maybe get a little bit away from Jaina. Because this was creepy.

Jaina couldn't figure out what was going on here. Whatever it was the thing was holding was being used like a weapon... And was it falling back already? She'd barely done anything.

It was probably good for them both that her brain automatically took things like this in even in the middle of a fight, thanks to years of battles. Although her next swing was very definitely a serious attempt to end the fight, or at least sever something, she was very curious as to what it would do.

It would get its lightsaber knocked away from it, that's what it would do. Nothing severed, though, for which Zayne was extremely thankful. "Sithspit," Zayne yelled, before using the Force to push at Jaina, hoping to steal another moment to figure out where his weapon went.

There was that push again! Expecting it more this time so that she wasn't entirely thrown off, she brought her weapon up to start moving closer and end it-

But the growling noise somewhere behind her made her stop. Lightsaber still raised, she turned her head to see the shape of another one of the creatures wandering around somewhere behind her in the fog, but it wasn't coming closer either. Okay then, first things first.

Jaina turned back to the one she'd been fighting, but... it didn't look right. The shape seemed to be losing form somehow, and she hesitated, not wanting to strike without knowing what was happening.

Zayne couldn't find the lightsaber with the Force, so he decided to go back to doing things his way when he noticed the hesitation. "Jaina? Are you going to listen now?" he asked. "I can find some way to be completely nonthreatening if it helps."

Well, more nonthreatening.

Jaina looked back toward the thing behind her, still ambling (as much as a baby godzilla could amble) along and not bothering her, and that hadn't changed shape.

But when she looked back in front of her, she didn't even see the monster anymore.

The curses going through her head were really not fit on repeating on most respectable words.

"Zayne?" Not that she trusted at the moment that it was really Zayne, but she was pretty sure.

"Oh, sure, now you'll talk to me," Zayne said, looking surprised. "Only after giving me an quick sparring lesson."

Okay. Mildly freaked out now. Only mildly, really. Turning back toward the lizard thing heading away, she said, "I thought you were... You didn't look like you- Do you see that thing over there?" she asked, pointing right at it.

"The big lizard?" Zayne asked, trying to get a good look at it through the fog.

She sighed with relief, glad to know she wasn't going completely crazy. "Yeah. You looked like one of those," she said, and added sheepishly, thumbing off her lightsaber, "Sorry."

"Well, nobody was hurt," Zayne said, meaning himself. "So it could have been worse."

Thank the Force for that. Attacking a friend thinking they were someone else was one thing, she'd done that before- and she'd be dealing with that natural thought progression later- but if she'd actually hurt him, or worse...

"We shouldn't be out here," Jaina decided, already looking to try and get her directional bearings back in the fog.

"Can you help me find my lightsaber first?" Zayne asked. "Especially if there are lizards like that around?"

"Yeah,' she said, clipping her own back to her belt. Lizard things or not, she didn't want to jump the gun again. "I think I saw it head over this way."

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