Jump One

Oh dear. Maybe she was in over her head? Well, probably, only she was also doing just fine in the grand scheme of things. She hadn't been killed. She'd only used one jump. Who knew how many jumps she even had left? Two, maybe three--plenty of time to find a world that wasn't going to drop her in the middle of an ongoing battle.

What little the woman--Ayr--said still painted a pretty clear picture, along with the bodies on the floor. Knife was firmly desensitized to corpses, sparing them little more than a glance.

"So, your people... the colored skinned people--are they fighting humans?" Because that seemed to be the picture, which made her wonder why this one was even willing to ally with Knife.

Who was, you know, human.

"We don't need to get to the east gate, just some place safe. So I guess if the east gate is safe, we can go there. Otherwise we can just bunker down."

Knife was no stranger to looting--in another context she might have joined in--but she was deeply wary of both touching the strange dead creatures, and slightly worried she might upset her sword wielding momentary ally.

"So you're... a genie?" A probably very stupid thing to say, but Knife had no way of knowing that. "Like from Aladdin?"

That was really the extent of her knowledge about genies. Really, it was a miracle she even knew a djinn was a genie.

"This is all weird to me," Knife said with a sigh. "But I already have some supplies. I've got food and water in my bag, so it's just whatever you want." Which was... who knew what. What did genies need to live? Air? Wishes? Who even knew.

Knife didn't have the patience to wait anymore, and she reached down, flipping the indicator over.

Five minutes. Maybe ten at the most. And then she'd be gone, hopefully before a battle picked up. In theory she could teleport if there were trouble--it was second nature to her--but she was deeply wary of teleporting while supercharged. There was no telling if it would even work, or if it'd tear her into another dimension by sheer accident.

How could she explain what Aladdin was? Even though logic told Knife not to try, she did anyway--it was as good a way as any to fill time.

"We leave when the box is ready, yeah." She wasn't going to commit to any time frame, but it wouldn't be long, and that was what mattered, right?

"Aladdin's a Disney movie set in Arabia about a boy who finds a genie trapped in a lamp that will grant him three wishes, and he uses the first two to help himself but then he learns humility or something so he uses the last wish to free the genie rather than getting what he really wanted, but the Genie's a good guy so he helps him out."

Or something. Knife hadn't seen the movie in a long, long time, and her memory wasn't the best. She'd liked it as a kid though, and didn't that count?

Knife scowled at Ayrkra's comment, folding her arms over her chest.

"I'm not saying that's how it works. I've never met a genie. Or I guess I have now. I'm saying that's how the movie went."

Not that the woman would ever see the movi-

Knife's thought process was abruptly interrupted by the shrill beeping of her indicator. A quick check confirmed what he thought, that all the indicator lights had clicked on.

"Alright," Knife said quickly. "Ignore all that other stuff. You just need to hold onto me and then we'll zip away to wherever and we can figure things out from there, alright?"

Without any more introduction, knife stuck her arm out for Ayrskra to grab, ready to teleport the moment she did.