"if you wanted to be proper about this you wouldn't have asked me to do this in the first place, or are you saying I've won? Oh, and just so you get some ideas I can be anything you want me to be, I could even be exactly like Luke if you so desired."
"That'd be super uncomfortable," he whispered back, and stuck his tongue out at him as he waited for Mira to think of a question. "I mean, I'd know it wasn't him, yet you'd look and sound like him... that's seriously a mood killer. And no, you've not won, far from it."
"So...do you learn a lot about the places you go to as a Hunter? Culturally, I mean."
"You know you could've asked me that any time without using a question here, right?" Sol asked, a bit amused, though he just shrugged.
"It's too late now, though. It's an easy question so I'm not going to trade it in for a hard one. So... let's see... well. It kind of depends on where I go and how long I stay there. I do have a lot of my jobs in North America, but I've been everywhere from South America and Egypt to Europe and now Japan. I've been in Australia once, but they seem to deal with their own supernatural issues. I always try to learn at least some words, like, hello and good bye and thanks, though I don't actually speak any other language fluently. Some languages I know better than others, I've gotten pretty good at Portuguese, I've always spoken at least some Spanish, and I know a fair bit of Egyptian Arabic. Then there's the Latin stuff, but that's not really related to travelling.
I don't really have a lot of time to sightsee when I'm somewhere, I'm not a tourist-attraction type of person either way. Not if I'm alone, anyhow. Of course, if there's a lot of mountains I'll usually try to climb at least one during the downtime, so I've gotten to see quite the sights. Not to mention, the stuff I hunt don't tend to live in the middle of the big cities, so you know, I get to see a lot of nature. Forests, deserts, dales, rivers..." He took a bit of a sip.
"Apart from that, I tend to eat on the more native restaurants if I can, get a taste of the cuisine. Sometimes I talk to some of the locals, but when I do I tend to go looking for whatever hunters and folklorists in the area. Now, that's a topic all on their own, I've met people who's given me all the information I need, and a place to stay, and then more. They can be very friendly and willing to help out, they're just glad there's another hunter with different skills. I met a woman in Egypt, we ended up working together to take out some sort of... Serpopard. Yes, it was half serpent and leopard, and I was not at all prepared for it. But she taught me a lot, and I ended up giving her a fair bit of the reward. Or did she give me a fair bit of her reward? I can't seem to remember who had the original job. Anyhow, doesn't matter.
Now, some places, and I don't want to be rude, but I've mostly found this in Europe, are not so easy. Could be because I'm American, could be because Europe has a more varied community of hunters, like the US does, but they can be rather... unfriendly if you get into their territory." He sighed.
"I dunno what it is, they are nice once they get that you're just there to do one job and then leave, but even then they're not too fond of the "highest bidder" kind of hunters, even if some of us takes the jobs they're not equipped to deal with. I once met a guy... somewhere in the UK. Think it was along the Scottish coast. Very nice, until I mentioned that I was going to hunt in the area. Apparently, we had the same target, and... Well, I'm not a coward, but let's just say I backed off and let him deal with it, at least after he brought out the shotgun and started glowing. Thing is, he wasn't unfriendly, and he let me collect my reward, though, apparently he worked for some organisation in the area, and would get his pay there. He just... really wanted to take this one on his own. British people are weird," he added, glancing over at Daniel, smirking innocently.
"Anyhow, I could go on forever, but it's my turn to ask, and I'm going to ask... Will. Truth or Dare?"
