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blxcktxp answered: "O-oh, come on! Do I really gotta-..." B.T. slapped his hand to his forehead, dragging it down his face which stretched downwards a few inhuman inches before snapping back into place. He put his finger back to the earpiece. "Dear dispatcher, please tell me how to get back into the building? I do not currently have the damn keycard. And no, I don't know where the hell it went to."

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Looks up from her papers, few things could get Blazer's attention quicker than a pending crisis. "...why do we need to replace a fire extinguisher?"

Hadn't heard a fire alarm, no drills that were actual runs instead of tests and nothing smelled of smoke.

“Okay, dude, just- think about it for a sec. If this wasn’t something that happens to me a bunch, do you think I’d be hanging out all chill about it, or do you think I’d be freaking out running around trying to put it out. I’m arguing against you trying to put me out here.”

A long few seconds of silence. She grimaces lightly.

nat levels a look at blacktop, though half of her expression is hidden behind her domino mask. “ if i thought this was a good idea, magnidude would have me locked up, ” she says. but as she turns back to the task at hand, she continues with, “ which super isn't the point because we're still definitely going through with it. ”

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Her nose wrinkles, but Xue shrugs and nods - Blacktop isn't stupid, he must be fully aware that he's kinda giving up more money than he would have by doing this. Far be it from her to choose how people apologize to her... although if she had gotten the booze she'd undoubtedly just be gifting it along herself before long.

"Well... yeah, I guess. That's pretty nice of you... don't worry, I'm not gonna ask for anything crazy expensive. Honestly if we ended up going someplace in Chinatown you'd probably end up eating for free anyway... ha ha."

"Oh, um, I don't drink. But- I'm glad you wanna apologize. Because I did have to throw out those pants."

Despite how furious she'd been previously, there's a tinge - just a shade - of rueful mirth in Xue's voice. "I mean, I don't actually know what goes into one of those things, but I put them through the wash at the laundromat like six times and all it did was turn them from white to grey."

A thoughtful pause.

Blazer had to admit she smirked at hearing his remark about being right handed and the joys of paperwork while incapacitated. Good to know the guy felt okay enough to joke about his predicament. Never felt good when someone caught you flat-footed. She imagined it was even worse knowing all eyes were on him.

Didn't like conducting evaluations more than the next SDN branch manager, but it was a necessary evil. Didn't want people in a boardroom making the final decisions as to where to cut cost, where to sever employment at a whim if someone was 'dragging' their good name down.

Her flyover and landing was meant to be unscripted, tracking BlackTop only to see him getting a blast of cold, which had caused the momentary fumble. Nevertheless, he recovered soon enough, incapacitating the aggressor, now it was a matter of getting him back to the office, hence her landing to check up on him.

Watched BlackTop stabilize his injury with molten tar, meanwhile wondered about the Red Ring member, considered the powers they had unleased on him.

"Wind powers? What would someone even call themselves with an ability like that? Breezy? Windi...Windbag? Oh, Gale! That has to be it!"

Realized her muttering was audible enough, decided to turn her attention back to the newbie, "Regardless of what she was capable of, you handled it pretty well. Looks like I wasn't needed for backup after all." Mind you, was going to make her nightly patrol a bit more boring.