<div class="floatright">(http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb117/hopefox17/Cuckoo.jpg)</div>Cuckoo stopped talking when Jack started to sing, and she watched him with rapt attention, following his music and his movements around the room. She flicked her eyes down at her body, then at the bed, when Jack turned his glance to her. She relaxed a little as he began casting his warding spell - even if she couldn't sense his magic directly, he was obviously working on something to protect them all.<br/><br/>She smiled at Kamala's question. "I got a message from a puca telling me there was evil to fight, and a quest to be had that might be the next step on my Hero's Journey. He told me to expect others, but this is going to be quite a potent Band, which suggests a rather intense evil."<br/><br/>When Jack warned her about the bed, she gave a start, and sailed off the bed as if propelled by an unseen spring, landing on the other side of the suite, next to an untouched bottle of whiskey. "The beds and the liquor, then. Damn. Those are some of my favourite things. I had a couple of glasses of the house whiskey already. Maybe some of this will burn out whatever was in that." Eyeing the whiskey offered by Jack, she picked up a bottle, bit the cap and neck clean off, upended the contents of the bottle into her gaping maw, and spat the shards of glass and metal into a nearby waste basket.<br/><br/>"So, as I was saying, I'm Cuckoo Laine, daughter of the Morrigan. I'm a warrior, first and foremost. I dare say I'm the strongest fighter here, but if anyone wants to dispute that, I'd be honoured to be proven right or wrong. I'll keep us all safe and bring the fight to the villains' door. Aside from that, I'm something of a healer, and my other skills relate to dairy farming and animal husbandry, so I doubt they'll come up in this quest."<br/><br/>She peered over at Asuka's display, watching the cameras for a few moments. "Nothing out of the ordinary there... that's a very useful skill you have, by the way, Miss Asuka." She pulled out her own phone and hummed to herself. "I've got some contacts in agriculture and the distilling business. In Ireland, mind, but I'll see if any of them have heard anything odd about those companies." She started poking at her phone, clumsily compared to Asuka's effortless control, and composed an email to her contacts.