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| (2013-06-03 - 2013-06-12) |
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| Alma Hyral | Lower Archades It was a humble place, a place where many people start with the dream of making it to the upper level. Most never reach it. It is a place where information is money, and money is power. The people here range from honest, industrious folk to the dregs of society who would slit anyones throat for the right price. It's a world of small triumphs and whispers and extended connections. Ever since Kyra and Alma had come to Archades, they'd rented out an apartment in a nicer area of Lower Archades. And while Alma supposed she should be grateful that Feige's cyborg guardian had made her life.. tolerable here for the first few days, given that it had beaten the living /Chaos/ out of anyone that accosted her.. she didn't feel very grateful at the moment as this was the second job she'd lost as a result of Feige Abramson. Except this time it was just a part time job as a chef. The incident the previous evening with the Beetle Guardian that Feige had set over her and Judge-Magister Gabranth had exhausted her to the point where she'd slept past the start of her shift.. for the third day in a row. And so while she should be out there searching for a new one, she knew that it wouldn't be all that difficult finding a new job with the skills Max had imparted her. So she spent the day catching up on her sleep instead. Ever since they came to Lower Archades, the Hyral sisters had put their skills out there. Alma had offered free healing, any time, no questions asked day or night. While Kyra was making a small fortune off her alchemical potions. For this reason, every so often she'd be awakened by some minor emergency, or someone seeking medical advice. Most frequently it was a new mother from the slums seeking advice on prenatal care... For now, she was passed out on the couch, in a new set of white mage robes with a red triangular trim, her hair was rather unkempt at the moment, as several long, stray locks fell free of the bun she was trying to use to tame them. The cyborg in the beetle powersuit was watching over her from the corner of the room. Every so often it would spout off some nursery rhyme with a grating voice... |
| Helena Celba | And then HELENA appeared. "Oh Kyraaaaaa~..." She says entering the apartment... Then she realizes that Kyra isn't here, and that Alma is sleeping on the couch. She places a hand on her hip considering things. Right now, she was looking for her student/girlfriend for a little fun...and not even the carnal kind, but all she got was Alma. Then again, a passed out Alma could be...FUN to deal with...she pulls out a black marker. She then looks at the Beetle... "Who the <GOOSEHONK> are you?" she asks the thing. |
| Alma Hyral | The Beetle Cyborg, would look at Helena. It had a full helmet and visor over it's face, which would faintly glow blue on occasion, as if indicating some sort of robotic eyes or actuators. It's arms were crossed as Helena took out the black marker. When it spoke, it was.. like the illustrious Rapper Albert Einstein was wont to say, like WALL-E having sex with a speak and spell. "HICKORY DICKORY DOCK, I'M NOT GOING TO CLEAN YOUR CLOCK!" Apparently it was choosing to leave Helena alone unless she outright threatened some sort of real physical harm to the girl. However it didn't deign to tell her exactly what it was either. Maybe it recognized that Feige and Helena were on good terms.. Or maybe it was just amused by the idea of the prank. Either way, given the addition of a new voice into the apartment, along with a raised one, the girl stirred, and eventually looked at Helena through bleary eyes. At first she looked decidedly foggy, like she didn't recognize that anyone was here, but then she sat upright quickly. Readjusting her glasses, she'd offer a tired smile, "O-Oh Helena. I didn't expect to see you a-around so soon. W-What brings you all the way to A-Archades?" She'd get up, idly trying to tame whatever long strands of hair had escaped her bun as she did so, "Could I o-offer you something?" |
| Helena Celba | Helena grins... Then Alma is awake, she shoves the marker away ultra fast. "Oh hey Alma, you look like hell...I was just lookin' for Kyra, but I guess I can wait here..." She says, and looks around...small. Tiny even. She moves to sit down on a seat, and relaxes a little, "Well, IF you're offerin', I am famished...I was gona go drag your sister off for a meal!" she pauses, "To a resturant, not to eat her. Minette has been spreading TERRIBLE rumors about me lately!" she might not be, but Helena is sure she is! That vile pinched nose glasses dork! She'll get he-...ahahaha, no her life is her getting hers. "Also, it's not like I hate you or anything...you frustrait the hell out of me, sure, but to be fair, you do that to a lot of people." She smiles, she is trying to be pleasent. |
| Alma Hyral | "S-She's out. She doesn't u-usually tell me where she's g-going. And y-you're welcome to stay as long as you like.." And that was true too. Kyra came back frequently enough but she never really told Alma about her comings and goings. She'd cant her head towards the beetle, "D-Don't pay any attention to that by the w-way. It's just the M-Murasame Zaibatsu's way of e-enforcing the non-disclosure a-agreement. It f-follows me everywhere." Yeah, even into the bathroom and showers... She'd head over to the kitchen, and start gathering some ingredients from the small pantry. "R-Really?" She tsks in a sort of impish voice, "M-Minette /too/? My h-how these rumors have s-spread. And h-here I thought you'd already consumed S-Selly." And then she freezes notably, as Helena relates that to her, and she'd just sort of look over her shoulder, offering a light smile, "Do I r-really? My g-goodness." And as she worked at starting to set up, she'd just say in an idle tone, "W-What is it? The m-moralizing, or my magic t-that gets to you?" |
| Helena Celba | "Ha ha ha.." Helena laughs at that, "You DO have a sense of humor!" she says, at the consuming Selly joke, "Ha..." she pauses...the last time they'd seen her together...she shakes her head, she wasn't sure what the hell was up there, she contributed it to Murasame and Nik. Siiigh...she turns it around though, "Well...the machine also does keep you safe, I hear you got into a situation with someone trying to kidnap you. Terrible.." She says, "Especially when it was done so horribly." She shrugs her shoulders... "I suppose that can't be helped with the barbaric place we live now.." "No, it's the moralizing, the inflexability..but you seem to be learning how to be flexable..." she says, "AND you cursed me out the other day, I think there might be hope for you yet!" she says, with a smile on her face, "The magic...eh," It still bothers her, but she isn't going to admit it... "Oh yes...you wanted to talk with me, didn't you?" |
| Alma Hyral | She'd just raise her thumb and forefinger, putting it together, as if to say just a little bit of humor, before putting her hand down, grabbing a knife, and beginning to work at the food. When she answered, she decided to offer the /safe/ answer, given that she didn't know how much Helena knew "It k-keeps me safe only b-because the Z-Zaibatsu considers me one of it's s-science experiments." She'd look up briefly at Helena, giving her a wry look, "Really? You t-think I moralized that much? I-It's a shame you never met my F-Father. I honestly t-thought I kept it to a bare m-minimum." Some chopping and mincing, "R-Right. What exactly do you think my m-magic is, anyhow?" |
| Helena Celba | Helena crosses a leg and considers somethings...yes Feige's handiwork is here.. Oh well, it'll pass or something...or not. She taps her fingers for a moment and shrugs, "Maybe? You've done better lately..when you first got here you were pretty hard to deal with. Also, your...talk with Master Murasame wasn't your best moment when coming to not moralizing." She says, "And I fear if I met your father, IF he is worse than you, then a problem might have arrisen." A deathly problem... "Your Magic? Well, before I thought it might be something related to Cosma...BUT...your sister informed me that her magic is natural...something tells me that Cosma doesn't bestow power like I thought, but rather you channel power using it as a focus...which makes me wonder if Black Magic and White magic are that much different, if it's based off of the person and the intent." |
| Alma Hyral | The knife comes down, and stops briefly, her voice taking on a hard edge, "Do you think that meeting was Souji's shining moment either? The things he said make any sort of moralizing I offered to him seem tame, in comparison. He's not the man Tira loved anymore Helena. She'd be ashamed of him. But out of respect for what he once was.. for my sister, I'm not going to put that out there. I'm only saying this to you because you brought it up, and I know you're close to him, and were close to her." She didn't offer any further comment on her father, she instead moved it on to the other subject. "It is related to Cosma, but not in the way you think. You are right.. in some respects." She's quiet for a time, deciding how best to broach the subject, "...you and my family knew me an astronomer, but I'm really an astrophysicist. And on our world, astrophysicists were often at odds with Cosma Naturalis because they tried to prove that she doesn't exist." She'd look back up, "...I tried to prove she does, by experimenting on my White Magic." Helena would recognize that this was perhaps the most taboo act within her faith, one which was /violently/ suppressed. |
| Helena Celba | The room drops a few degrees. "I would advise you to rethink your words." she says, firmly, "Let us not dwell on the subject." The words are ice cold...devoid of emotion, "Because if you knew what he felt, you would regret your words." However, the moment passes...Helena wasn't going to go back to it, only if Alma pushed. "...Really? YOU?" she says, surprised, "...Okay, so...you...did you prove anything? If so, your discovery would probably shake the entire world...probably crushing anyone opposed to the Naturalis faith..." Helena isn't bothered...it'd make a line in the sand so definte...well, people would either be for or against it...and those not with it...would flock to Chaos. "So you experimented with White magic...and you are afraid of Cid? You...are no different than his family, you realize." |
| Emi Dennou | Beetle is still sitting in that corner, watching, and repeating those mantras. But after several moments it speaks up a bit more directly. "NOT TO BE RUDE, BUT SOMETHING HAS BEEN BOTHERING ME ABOUT YOUR APPEARANCE. I IMAGINE YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO TELL YOU, YOU PROBABLY HEAR THIS A LOT AND IN FACT SOCIETY ITSELF PROBABLY MAKES IT QUITE OBVIOUS. I DON'T WANT TO BE RUDE BUT I'VE GOTTA SAY IT." There is a momentary pause. "YOU'VE GOT HUGE TITS." |
| Alma Hyral | She would actually lift her head to meet Helena's gaze. This was a subject she showed absolutely no fear on, whether Helena chose to try to intimidate her or not, "If there's one thing I know about Tira, it's that she knew the value of life...and if he chose to communicate that, maybe I would. But he did not." The moment passes. She'd just continue to stare at Helena for a time afterwards, before nodding, "Yes, and no. I can't prove she exists to a scientific certainty. And if what I found is her, then.. she's not mute, but I can't understand her. She offers no guidance. I just /hear/ her song. I /feel/ the presence of a higher power. She's a being of perfect benevolence, I don't think she cares how we perceive her, how we worship her.. so long as it doesn't damage creation." She'd give Helena a lopsided smile, "What do you think would /really/ happen if I tried to tell this to my faith? I'd be declared a heretic, an apostate, or a monster. Besides my methodology isn't one I think I can duplicate." And then she offers a little further explanation, "What I did was I tried to take universal forces like gravity, fusion, light, time, electromagnetism.. and I tried to duplicate them with white magic, as is normally done with black magic, or time magic. I thought it'd be simple, White Magic is supposed to be the magic of Order, of creation itself isn't it? The universe stems from these forces, they hold it together. I studied the theories, the equations.. and it didn't really work. I could manage to duplicate it in some minor fashion. But I couldn't truly do anything of worth with it. But I kept trying, I kept combining them together.." Oh boy the fusion experiments were interesting, and really hard to conceal. "...and one day it just clicked. And I started to hear /it/. And then I couldn't stop, hearing it. I thought I'd gone mad." She'd give Helena a wry look, "Why do you think I was so afraid of him? Because his magic, those forbidden arts? They're the polar opposite of what I've become. And yes, I was terrified of what he'd be like from the stories my Father used to tell me." She'd pause for a moment, considering, "In the end.. here's what I found out.. most of the forces which are normally associated with time magic, or black magic? They can be duplicated with white magic, they can't harm others. I can manipulate gravity in a beneficial way. I can manipulate my personal perception of time, but can't harm anyone while I do it. Light and fusion... well they're properties of white magic that are similar to what it could already do.. I just have more precise control as a result.." And then her explanation is cut short, and she literally facepalms. "Yes, thanks for that perv-bot 5000. As if I don't get enough of this when you follow me into the bathroom or showers, you now have to bring it to my guests." |
| Emi Dennou | "BEEP BOOP FUCK YOU." Beetle says. "IT'S MY JOB TO KEEP AN EYE ON YOU. IT'D BE FREAKING INCOMPETENT TO JUST ASSUME YOU DON'T GET FUNNY IDEAS IN THOSE PLACES." It pauses a moment and adds, "DOES HELENA KNOW ABOUT THE MOLE ON YOUR ASS?" |
| Helena Celba | Helena doesn't say anymore on Souji. She was done, and unless Alma did something very unwise... Thens he listens...at first it was idly...but then it grew more and more interested. She heard Cosma...she touched divinity...with basic magic.. Helena documents this...she listens to everypart...sure, it could be done with Black Magic, but she duplicated this with White magic... "I can heal with Dark Magic, so it is...not unheard of. I heal differently, but it is still healing of a sort." She says. But this...this... She touched the song of Cosma...this is not that interesting, Cosma whatever... But it could be touched...if she could touch... She thought her goals unobtainable, but now...with this... It was possible to save him after all? But did she have the magical skill to do it? She might...need help. |
| Helena Celba | Helena snaps out of it, looks at the bot. "Oh my! How fresh~! You certainly know how to compliment a lady.." She says, with a coy smile, hiding something less...innocent. |
| Alma Hyral | Her cheeks actually do flush, as some of her calm is broken utterly by that, "L-Let me amend that s-statement to /super/ p-perv-bot 5000." She'd just nod at Helena's statement, "I know you can..I think any magic can duplicate.. any effect, but it's always to a different degree." And then another pause, "My magic in the end.. isn't all that strong. It's /different/, I think it's more attuned to universal order than typical White Magic. And therein lies its limitations, because it requires perfect order, and tranquility to use it effectively. I don't think it's a magic we were meant to have, or achieve. So I don't really want to develop it much more.. It's like I stumbled on something beautiful, and brought something back with me. Like I'm a thief of some small piece of the divine." |
| Emi Dennou | "BEEP BOOP, I AM MERELY STATING FACTS, BECAUSE I AM A ROBOT." Beetle says. "HELENA, BACK ME UP, IS IT PERVY TO JUST POINT OUT FACTS OR IS IT PERVY TO GET ALL ABLUSH WHENEVER THE SUBJECT COMES UP. IN SHORT, I AM ASKING IF YOU AGREE THAT ALMA IS A DIRTY, DIRTY, GIRL." |
| Alma Hyral | She'd be sputtering at the bot, her cheeks flushing deep crimson in response, "BUTYOUARENTAROBOT! WHATINCOSMAMAKESYOUTHINKTHATIHAVEADIRTYMIND!?" And then she's just speechless as she considers the issue. Did she have a dirty mind? Really? |
| Helena Celba | Helena thinks about this... This is important... She blinks, distracted by Feige bot and Alma. Rubbing her face, she shakes her head, "Oh no, not at all...it is perfectly normal to point it out." She says, with a smile, "I mean...if we were all a little more honest about what we thought of other people..." She grins, "Well, Alma, what do you think? Are they huge? I am told they are nice and soft..." She says, "You agree right?" |
| Alma Hyral | Alma.exe has encountered a fatal error. Alma blue screen of death. Rebooting. And after a few minutes of just gaping at Helena she'd just look down and mumbles something awkwardly like, "M-Much bigger than m-mine..." |
| Helena Celba | "That doesn't answer the question!" Helena says, "Do you need to feel?" She asks, innocently... |
| Emi Dennou | Beetle, who isn't actually a robot, says, "YEAH. NO REASON TO CLAM UP OR FREAK OUT. BOOP BEEP. THAT IS WHAT MY LOGIC CIRCUITS SAY." A pause, a glance down to Alma's, then up again. "YEAH PRETTY MUCH TRUE." It's not really that into science. |
| Alma Hyral | "NOIDONT!" She blurts out really quickly, then takes a calming breath, "I.. d-don't." And then she'd just glare at the SUPER PERV-BOT 5000 |
| Helena Celba | She stares at Alma for a moment, "Well? Soft right?" She bounces a few times for everyone to get a look. |
| Alma Hyral | She looks away from Helena, "How w-would I even know that!? W-Why would I even w-want to know? I'm /not/ i-interested in girls!" Also somehow, during all this, she cooked a rather large amount of French pastries. Don't ask how. Max's teachings allowed her to do that on auto-pilot and it still turned out amazing. |
| Helena Celba | "Oooo..." She says, and grabs a pastry. Hermnomnomnom... "Yes yes, I know...but you could at least have an opinion...we can STILL look at each other to compliment our looks without physically being interested..." She says, rolling her eyes. "Not everything I do involves wanting to make out. |
| Emi Dennou | Beetle says, "HEARD THAT BEFORE. OKAY. WHATEV. YO. YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF GROWING UP TO DO." It looks at the pastries. |
| Alma Hyral | "Just a l-little more than h-half then?" And then a quick glance, and then she mumbles, "A-Alright they do look p-pretty soft. I b-bet the b-boys love t-them." Another glare at super perv-bot 5000. |
| Emi Dennou | "HOW MANY PASTRIES DO I GET?" Beetle asks. Beetle does not seem to have Bustered Shame yet. |
| Helena Celba | Helena looks at Spy-bot. "I thought robots didn't eat." She says, and looks towards another pastry, and then grins at Alma...she is just like the little sister she always wanted to torture...she laughs a little...it sounds...pleasent. "Oh, I am totally not sorry, but it was funny!" She says, mischeviously. |
| Alma Hyral | Alma Hyral makes a quick grab towards Helena to try and figure out how she's recording, then she slips and falls on the slick kitchen floor, hitting her head on the counter on the way down. While on the kitchen floor, stunned, only states one word, "Ow." |
| Emi Dennou | "I INTEND TO BRING THEM TO MY HUMAN FRIEND WHO LIVES IN CANADA." The 'robot' says. "THE ITSY BITSY SPIDER WENT UP THE WATER SPOUT." IT checks to see if Alma has massive head trauma. |
| Helena Celba | "What's a Canada?" Helena asks, before wincing at Alma... Siiiigh, Helena moves over to help Alma up. The secret, is her Tablet, but shhhh. "Oy...lets check that head of yours." She eats another pastry. "Are you sure you're a robot.." She says, leaning over a bit too far. |
| Alma Hyral | No such luck. Massive head trauma might be preferable to facing the situation, but there's only some minor swelling, which is swiftly going down with a quick application of a regeneration spell with a hand to the forehead. Helena might see one thing written on Alma's face, in response to all of this, it translate to /F- my life./ She gets up with Helena's help, before picking up a few pastries and thrusting them towards the Beetleborg Perv. |
| Emi Dennou | "A FICTITIOUS PLACE." Beetle says. "I AM NOT A ROBOT." In fact it takes the pastries, turns around a bit and the visor flips open long enough for it to shove one inside. The visor slams shut shortly after, the remaining pastries still in its hands. |
| Helena Celba | Helena sighs... And does something uncharacteristic. She gives Alma a nice long hug. "Come on, it's not all bad. You are living with your sister." she says, "You gota find the good in things." |
| Alma Hyral | "Might as w-well be fictitious from what M-Max has to say on it." At first Alma is a little stiff when Helena hugs her, but then she kind of just accepts it, wrapping her arms around Helena in return, and then she says something quietly, "Y-You're right. Thanks H-Helena." Once she's released from the hug she'd state, "I r-really need to s-start cleaning m-myself up anyhow. K-Kyra and I have to go m-meet with Judge M-Magister Gabranth later today." |
| Emi Dennou | Beetle is quiet for a long while, thinking--perhaps--about Sisters, and getting to live with them, or lord knows what else. "I'LL STAY HERE, WON'T GET IN THE WAY. DON'T MAKE ME REGRET IT." It says. Looks like Alma might have some 'unwatched' time after all? |
| Alma Hyral | "T-Thanks. I'm not g-going to try anything.." She'd glance towards the Beetleborg, then she'd state very quietly, "I k-know the consequences." |
| Helena Celba | Helena sits down with the pasties. Mmm... "Consequences?" she asks the Perv-spy bot. |
| Emi Dennou | "FEIGE IS HOLDING A HOSTAGE LEGION APPARENTLY," Beetle says. "DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT THAT MYSELF BUT I COULD GET IN TROUBLE IF SHE TRIES SOMETHING WHEN I'M SUPPOSED TO BE GUARDING HER." |
| Alma Hyral | Alma would give Helena a suprised look, "You d-didn't know? I t-thought you knew e-exactly what Souji and I discussed.. he t-threatened to kill her h-himself if I d-didn't keep my m-mouth shut and r-resolve it with F-Feige in a p-peaceful way." |
| Helena Celba | "Oh that." Helena says, "I think you misunderstood. Souji would kill her himself, IF it came to harm the corperation." She says, "If it became the difference between one life, and those under his umbrella." She shrugs, "But that is a discussion that is long sense the point of speaking of.." |
| Alma Hyral | "It's still a l-life being held hostage, Helena." She persists stubbornly, "All I did was try to run a b-background check on someone i-interested in my r-research. N-Nothing more. And t-this is what happened. All of it. I-If not for that, I would have stayed..but we're long since p-past that now.." She gestures towards the Beetleborg. |
| Emi Dennou | "WHAT." Beetle says. "WHAT ABOUT ME? I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR DECISIONS. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS SHIT." |
| Helena Celba | "What is more important...one, or thousands?" Helena asks, she stands, "I'll go walk around the city, I guess...it looks like I won't get to have fun with Kyra today...oh well." She says, and heads towads the door. With the pasties. |
| Alma Hyral | "Thousands of lives aren't at s-stake if she's r-released. Souji tried to say the s-same thing. But e-everyone just speaks in hypotheticals. I'm t-tired of being someone's little s-social science experiment to see how long I c-cling to my morality before I break." And then Helena is out the door, she sighs. Buries her head in her hands. She really did want to just allow herself to break down and cry, but she had no time for that.. she had to start getting ready for a meeting with Judge-Magister Gabranth. And then she'd glance towards the Beetleborg, "I was just s-saying that you s-spying on me is a r-result of all of this." |
| Emi Dennou | Beetle is quiet for a moment before adding, "I KEEP TELLING YOU, TO FEIGE EVERYONE IS AN EXPERIMENT. DO YOU THINK SHE IS PUTTING HER OPERATIONS AT RISK AND SPENDING ALL THIS EFFORT JUST TO TOY WITH YOU? IF SO, THEN I WOULDN'T BE HERE DOING THIS FOR HER." "WHAT STARTED THIS?" She asks. "YOUR INVESTIGATION INTO HOW SHE KNEW YOUR MOVEMENTS. ABRAMSON AND MURASAME OBVIOUSLY HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING. MURASAME RUNS A TIGHT SHIP. DO YOU THINK SHE ANTICIPATED YOU WERE A 'DO-GOODER'? NO, SHE WOULD HAVE ASSUMED YOU WERE ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE STAFF--JUST ON BOARD WITH THE OPERATING PROCEDURE AS SHE WAS. DID SHE START WITH THIS THREAT IMMEDIATELY OR DID SHE BRING IT UP LATER, ONCE SHE UNDERSTOOD YOUR VIEWPOINTS?" "WHEN PRECISELY DID SHE START INTERFERING WITH YOU. HINT: WHEN YOU STARTED INFORMING LEGION OF HER SPYING ON THEM." "WHY WOULD ABRAMSON NOT WANT LEGION TO KNOW SHE IS SPYING ON THEM?" |
| Alma Hyral | Alma Hyral would stare at the beetle long and hard, "N-No. I'm t-thinking that she was t-toying with me from the start. She knew what I was l-like already in many ways because she was o-observing me through the N-Network. And unless you're implying that F-Feige is quite careless she wouldn't have let it s-slip t-that she was o-observing the network unless she i-intended for me to follow up. U-Unless she thought I was just p-putting on an act on e-every occasion around the N-Network." And then after a short pause, "So e-either I'm paranoid as a r-result of this treatment and your m-mistress is less w-wise than she lets on, or I was an e-experiment from the start in corruption since /everyone/ is an e-experiment. G-Given how S-Souji spoke to me, I'm g-guessing the latter." |
| Emi Dennou | Beetle facepalms with both hands. "ABRAMSON SAW A MAGE THAT STUTTERED A LOT. WHY WOULDN'T SHE THINK IT WAS AN ACT ANYWAY? WHY WOULDN'T SHE MAKE A MISTAKE ANYWAY? SHE IS NOT A GOD AND IS NOT OMNISCIENT. BUT REGARDLESS YOU COULD HAVE INVESTIGATED ANY NUMBER OF WAYS. YOU WENT DIRECTLY TO LEGION. WHY WOULD FEIGE THINK YOU WOULD TELL THE PEOPLE SHE IS SPYING ON THAT SHE'S SPYING ON THEM? FEIGE WOULD NEVER PUT HERSELF IN HARM'S WAY LIKE THAT UNTIL SHE HAD THE UPPER HAND. SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A STUPID MOVE. WHY WOULD SHE THINK YOU WOULD BE STUPID WHEN YOU DISPLAYED COMPETENCE PRIOR?" "WHY WOULD ABRAMSON, A SCIENTIST WHO SEES EVERYONE AS AN EXPERIMENT, WANT TO HAVE A NETWORK OF DETECTIVES THAT SHE COULD SEE THROUGH?" Beetle asks. "VERY CURIOUS DETECTIVES WHO OBSERVE MANY HAPPENINGS AND THROUGH THEIR CONTACTS HAVE MANY AVENUES TO FIND OUT INFORMATION." "BECAUSE ABRAMSON WANTS TO LEARN EVERYTHING, BUT THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY PLACES HER EYES CAN BE." Beetle stands up. "ANYWAY. SAID TOO MUCH. WILL LEAVE YOU TO YOUR PONDERINGS. THANK YOU FOR PASTRIES. WE ARE EVEN NOW FOR YOUR HEALING." |
| Alma Hyral | "I'm so g-glad that we've e-established that I'm a f-fool again and that I was s-stupid and c-careless. But in the e-end.. it's not my f-fault that your mistress is kind of an a-amoral j-jerk." And then she just heads for the restroom. Slamming the door. She's going to actually get some privacy this time. |
| Emi Dennou | "OH WHATEVER! SERVES ME FOR TRYING TO HELP!" Beetle yells back, well 'yells'. She stomps out of the apartment and slams the door behind her. Then she opens the apartment door and slams it again because she's not very mature. It does not return that day. Or the next. Or the following day. Or again. |