a bottle of red, a bottle of white

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Who: Xanatos and Kenzi
Where: An Italian restaurant
When: A day after Kenzi's first post, at 7 pmish.
Warnings: None, will add if needed
Summary: Xanatos takes Kenzi out to dinner in exchange for information about her world.

Xanatos was waiting in the lobby of the restaurant. He was wearing the same blue suit that he usually wore and he checked his watch idly. He had already gotten a table for himself and Kenzi and was waiting for her to show up.

He wanted to learn more about her and about her world. He had dealt with magic, gargoyles, the fair folk, things like that. He knew that his experience couldn't be unique-this place had too many people with too many different stories. And he wanted to know Kenzi's. Xanatos had gotten used to a mildly comfortable position interacting with the supernatural back home: he wanted to have it here. And for that, he needed as much information as possible.

He looked out of the front window, waiting for Kenzi to arrive.

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Kenzi normally lived by the rule of being fashionably late for things like this. But it was only her second day in the city and she hadn't yet had a chance to build up her stores, so to speak. So a free meal was something she wasn't going to be late for. At least not this time.

At barely a minuet past seven Kenzi entered through the front doors and looked around. Her hair was pulled back in twin puffed up braids, that really only served to make her look even younger than her twenty-two years. She'd found a new shirt and vest to wear but otherwise her outfit was the same. Something she loathed.

As she looked around the restaurant she realized she had no idea what this guy looked like and she never did get a name. Hopefully he was already there since he, at least, would recognize her.

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Xanatos smiled slightly, as he spotted Kenzi. He walked up to her, waving his hand at her. "Kenzi, I presume?" he said, nonchalant smile on his face. He offered his hand for her to shake, trying to look nonthreatening. "David Xanatos. We talked over the network. I believe I owe you dinner."

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Kenzi stared at his hand for just a moment before grasping it and giving it a firm shake. After she released his hand she smiled up at him. "It's good to meet you face to face. And yes, dinner. I'm really glad for it to because I am starving."

She gave him a quick look over once she was done talking. He wasn't bad looking and he wasn't coming off like a complete creeper but that didn't mean she wasn't going to watch him closely during the meal.

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Xanatos nodded, looked over at the concierge of the restaurant, gesturing to the man slightly. The man grabbed two menus and started walking. Xanatos followed, and gestured for Kenzi to follow him. As they walked to the table, Xanatos started up idle small talk.

"How have you liked the City so far?"

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Kenzi settled in across the table from him and appeared to relax in her seat. Although, any keen observer would have been able to tell she was ready to get out of her seat at the first sign of trouble.

She gave a lazy one shouldered shrug. "It's a city. I've only been here a day so I haven't had a chance to get a full impression of it yet. I'm...sure that'll change."

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As the waiter set the menus down, Xanatos smiled slightly at Kenzi. "And you haven't had to deal with vampires or anything like that yet." Though really, from what she had told him, he doubted that vampires were out of the ordinary for her.

He looked through the wine list, frowning slightly. "Care for a drink before we order?"

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"Luckily." True vampires were nothing new to Kenzi back home but they didn't go around rampaging. They were much more intelligent and often fed off bagged blood from blood supply banks.

She smiled as she picked up a menu and gave a nod. "Wine would be lovely."

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"I hope you like red," Xanatos said, smiling slightly. He turned to the waiter and ordered a bottle-partly to show off slightly and partly because he hoped it would encourage Kenzi to drink and her to tell him more things. He turned back to Kenzi, smiling still.

"So, does the information come before or after the dinner?"

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"If it's alcohol I like it." Good luck on getting the wine to be enough to loosen Kenzi's tongue. The girl usually downs enough tequila or vodka to kill most people.

"I suppose I could give you a little info now." She grinned widely across the table at him before picking up her menu. "Ask a question and I'll answer. Maybe." She said as she scanned over the menu.

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Xanatos returned that grin, as he looked idly at his menu. "Then we'll start off with something simple: how many people know about the fair folk in your world? The fair folk themselves excluded, of course."

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She shrugged. "There's the doctor that works for the Light Fae. And this one guy that we helped whose father is a will of the wisps. And another guy whose adopted son is Fae but he didn't know until Bo told him. And uh...I really don't know."

She continued to look over the menu as she spoke. She wasn't sure what she was going to pick everything looked so good.

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There was a classification? Well, that was new to Xanatos. "What separates the Light Fae from the Dark Fae?" At least, he assumed there was a Dark Fae. It made sense to him that there was.

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"Morals I guess. The Dark Fae don't care if the humans they feed on die. Some even kill just for the thrill. Light Fae have laws that protect the humans they feed on." She didn't even look up from the menu as she spoke.

Starting a new thread because geeez

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Kenzi finished off a couple more bites and a few sips of wine before she started talking.

"I don't really know that much about Under Fae. We've only had a few encounters with them. Which is a good thing."

She took another sip of wine and cleared her throat. "Under Fae are basically monsters. I haven't see any that closely resemble humans. Well, there are some that do but they always have features that set them apart. Like maybe their giants compared to the average human. Or they have a mouth full of really sharp teeth and a tongue like a lizard. Or they have freaky eyes. Or their skin is scaly or something."

She shoveled in a couple more bites of food.

"I think most of them have forms like uh...golems or here was that spider one." She shuddered. "I think for the most part their wild...er, feral. They don't seem to be on either the Light or Dark side. They just hunt."

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That was...interesting. There was nothing remotely like Under Fae in his world. Everything was either intelligent enough to reason with humans or smart enough to stay out of the way. Nothing that just 'hunted'. Xanatos was starting to realize how lucky his few dalliances with the supernatural have been.

Of course, that didn't mean anything. He was going to still continue and meddle with the supernatural.

"How do they survive? At least, I assume they don't make much contact with the rest of humanity."

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Kenzi shrugged. "Some are hard to kill so they don't worry too much about coming into contact with humans. Like there was this spider...only it wasn't a spider I can't remember what it was called. It would make it's victims really paranoid. Like to the point of driving them to murder and then suicide. It fed off that paranoia. And see the spider couldn't be killed by just like, squashing it or whatever. You had to destroy the heart but it would hide it's heart."

She finished off the rest of her food before continuing. "I guess they might lure humans to their lairs so they don't have to risk venturing out and being killed. I mean...even the rest of the Fae fear and kill these things. Although I think they're fear might be of exposure if one of these Under Fae goes wild on the human population."

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"Well. That's...interesting." Interesting was putting it mildly. Between the vampires and the Under Fae that Kenzi mentioned, he needed to seriously upgrade his contengency plan for the supernatural. This was over his head. Granted, it was interesting and he wanted to learn more about it, but it was still over his head.

"And it was your job to stop it." He chuckled slightly, shaking his head. "I never would have pegged you for a supernatural detective."

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Kenzi chuckled and shook her head before finishing off her glass of wine. "It's not really out job to stop anything just help normal people with their weird problems. Most of the time it turned out we were helping Fae all along. The only time it came down to really stopping anything was with like...Bo's mother or the Garuda. Or some really dangerous Under Fae."

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"A Garuda? What's that?" It was astounding how little Xanatos knew about this.

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"The Garuda. I think it was the last one left or something." She twirled her empty glass around before pushing it away. She really didn't need to break anything.

"From what I gathered they were a race of being that predate the Fae. They fed off the hatred and anger of the Fae. And long story short when the Fae war was put to an by magical means rather than natural the Garuda were left with very little to feed on and I guess most of them starved to death. But some recent events brought the Garuda back to the surface with the goal to start another war that could likely bring about the end of both human and Fae life."

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"I have a feeling if I asked you about everything, we'd be here for a while." Fae war, Garuda, she kept using more and more terms that he didn't know. He took another bite of his pasta, thinking of another question.

"What would happen if humans learned about the Fae?"

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Kenzi nodded, unable to help the little grin that formed on her lips. "Yeah. There's a lot." She didn't really want to tell him everything in one sitting anyway. She wanted to milk any free meals or whatever she could get out of him.

In response to his question she shrugged. "The Fae think it'd be the end of everything. All out war between humanity and Fae-kind." Kenzi could understand that line of thinking. Not all humans were as accepting of the things they didn't understand. Most humans would see the Fae as strange incredible powerful beings and therefore a threat that needed to be wiped out.

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That caused Xanatos to frown. He could see the point. He had read about the gargoyles-how they were cursed by the humans. Indeed, it had taken Goliath a while to trust any of them.

"I guess, what the world needs is more adaptable people-like you."

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She shrugged. "I was pretty freaked out by it at first. Still am from time to time. But you have to admit it's some pretty cool shit. As far as more people like me...it would help if there were more Fae willing to actually work with humans."

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"I can understand exactly. I'm a rarity in my world-someone who willingly interacts with the supernatural. It's wonderful," Xanatos admitted, smiling slightly. He was of the camp that enjoyed the supernatural, he enjoyed it immensely. He kind of wanted to visit