Paprika is the troublemaker, Bay Leaf is the matchmaker.
“I assure you, there was a noise at regular intervals.”
“Until I came in the room?” Ava asks.
“Correct. It did not stop when Camila investigated. She suggested a ghost in the machine,” Beatrice frowns. “Hello, Lilith. Have you… misplaced Paprika?”
“No, but Bay Leaf has gone on a walkabout; if you see them let me know?”
“Maybe Baby spice is the ghost in the machine,” Ava laughs, removing a cover panel to find a cephalopod that has clearly been tapping a pipe with one of Beatrice’s mechanical pencils. “Holy shit!”
“Language!”
lilith tuts at bay leaf the whole way back to the aquarium, ‘i can’t comprehend what makes you so certain that your interference is even necessary with those two’ & almost shrieks when cam materializes out from among a couple of empty tanks with paprika draped scarflike around her neck.
the two of them stand there. cam looking dashing with her artfully tousled curls and her little grin and paprika wearing his natural red and orange and burnt umber.
lilith, meanwhile, looks perplexed. dressed in her lab coat, which is perpetually stained with fish-guts. bay leaf has one arm stuck to her cheek and he’s trying to climb up out of her arms.
less than dashing, if you aren’t biased when it comes to marine biologists. and camila certainly is.
cam laughing and saying, ‘oh so i was right - it was a ghost in the machine.’
lilith: ‘i don’t-’
cam: ‘it’s a Greek theater thing. you know, deus ex machina.’
lilith: ‘oh… i didn’t know you liked Greek theater.’
cam: ‘uh, well, i like Medea as much as the next person but i know it mostly because of The Matrix. you’d like it, i think. says some pretty interesting things about gender, reality. the monsters are kind of chthonic.’
lilith: ‘right.’
lilith: ‘i have to go.’
cue paprika slapping one arm over cam’s face to save her the trouble of putting her head in her hands.
cam: ‘lilith wait!… we’re going in the same direction.’
but all she’s left with is the sweep of lilith’s white coat disappearing around the corner, the lingering smell of saltwater and gore.
(bay leaf grabbing very dramatically onto the wall when lilith turns the corner, forcing her to stop and gently pry his suckers off the plaster while blushing furiously)
camila sighs, looks at paprika, ‘c'mon buddy, let’s get you back home.’
‘your mom is really weird.’
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Scorpion – The Mummy Sword – Influenced by “The Mummy Returns”
The Mummy Sword by Scorpion has a well-tempered blade of durable 1095 high carbon steel with a sharp edge. The sword is crafted as durably as possible with a full tang construction by riveting its composite black micarta scales directly to the thick blade tang. Included is a sheath of thick and riveted black Buffalo Culatta leather. The last picture shows and example of this type of sheath.
Influenced from the Sword used by Ardeth Bay in the 2001 movie, The Mummy Returns. Ardeth Bay is a chief member of the Medjai, who were a group of bodyguards of several Pharaohs of Egypt. They were warriors devoted to preventing the rise of evil on the Earth. Ardeth aides Rick O’Connell and his family in destroying the twice resurrected mummy. As with all our blades, This heat treated full tang one piece construction results in an extremely durable sword.
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The parallel of Xie Lian and Bai Wuxiang being abandoned in the world, left with nothing but a single sentient weapon. Bai Wuxiang's a sword, Xie Lian's a long white cloth, and it speaks volumes of the people they grew into.
Eventually all that resentment and pain builds up when they're left alone with their thoughts. Someone will push them to the edge and they lash out.
They say when your only tool is a hammer you start seeing every problem as a nail.
Bai Wuxiang's weapon was a sword, so he figured he might as well cut down all his problems. He kept going till there was a river of blood behind him, then and ocean, then a sea. Cutting away everything to shreds till he was forever the only thing left standing.
With Xie Lian, he only had Ruoye so he had to get versatile. A cloth can cover a wound, can wrap up something precious or keep something bound and secure. A cloth can strangle and wrangle and hurt if folded the right way but a cloth can also bring comfort. So Xie Lian grew to learn all the different ways to handle a problem since he couldn't just cut them away. He had to see them, reason through them, fix them the best way he could, mending broken pieces until he himself was whole.
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