For most of the Count’s attempt at levitation, Ziggy leaned back into the bar and sucked at her cigarette with an expression that rested somewhere between disappointment and amusement. Occasionally, she shook her head as though this frustrated gesture might aid Graves in his eventual realization.<br/><br/>“Chill out,<i>Count Chocula</i>. We’re not gonna Superman our way across town.” Crushing the cigarette out before she stepped away from the counter, she made her case as the two headed for the rune scarred door, “If you could do it, you’d just do it. Don’t ask me’ta explain because it’s… not somethin’ I can explain. Can’t teach a bird to fly or a fish to swim or a… whatever you are how to pop’n go.”<br/><br/>Admittedly, she hated walking. One of the many perks to wayfaring was the ability to bypass the physical elements of traveling. Point A to point B was hers in a snap. Likely due to that ease of experience, the magician was out of shape and mildly crotchety about it. The trek down to the coastline was hardly much of a walk at all, yet Ziggy huffed and wheezed the whole way, her sides tight with the threat of a cramp. By the time she and Theo arrived on the docks, her cheeks burned beet red.<br/><br/>Despite this obvious display of discomfort, she snapped her fingers, summoning another cigarette from somewhere in the city. As a result, her pocket lightened.<br/><br/>“…a’right.” Smoke obscured her features as she gazed absently toward the boardwalk and the casino, her teeth rocking the carcinogen by it’s clamped filter.<br/><br/>“As far as laelines go, this is probably the closest. The whole stretch runs the length of a vein… Can’t remember which pack runs this stretch but they probably picked this area because it’s so close to Gaia.” A pause. “Actually, think it might be Lions or somethin’.”<br/><br/>The last time she had come this way, it was with the ghoul she previously mentioned. If he wasn’t at the ONS anymore, where’d that dead fuck gotten off to?<br/><br/><a class="username" data-user-id="7082" data-username="@Lurktastic" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/7082/">@Lurktastic</a>