The Nexus

Carrie stares at Agatha, then sighs. "Babe. Oh my god. You're---you do get that me being a princess of a nation that your nation has very particular diplomatic relations with introduces further complexity to our relationship, right?" As she warms up, she unzips her sweater a bit, then tur...

[Flatchested House] Agatha is so relieved at hearing Carrie forgive her, understand her, that she doesn't quite grasp the full implications of the bombshell revelation. It even seems funny, in comparison to the very serious matters they were just discussing. Princess Caroline of Vulpania. Her eyes ...

A Goddess of Hunting walks in the front door and immediately stalks up and down the tavern, parallel to the bar, looking at each person present for only the half second necessary to confirm they aren't her prey. Despite her tall black boots, her footsteps don't make a sound. She's wearing a black le...

[A Temple Sunken in Time] Callie falls out of a tree. Not like she was up in the branches, no, she appears to emerge directly out of the trunk going sideways at speed. She's at least graceful enough to turn it into a roll and bounces up onto her feet, like she meant to do that. There probably aren'...

And Sally giggles back, wiggling her finger back and forth just a touch, smiling happily down at the two. "I can tell! A legendary grip, they've got! Couple of legends already. But I'm doing well! Thank you! Just serving a lot of cocoa. And how about yourself?" Tovia shrugs, a casual and ...

[House on the Flats] Carrie blinks as they arrive. However, she's not too dazed to overlook the storm of emotions inside herself or Agatha. "Well, that's convenient..." Giggling softly, she takes off her jacket and hangs it on the stand by the door, holding out a gloved hand for Agatha's ...

Carrie squeezes her hand, her face lighting up even more. "Y---yes, of course! Oh my gods, yes---uh, hold on---" As she wraps a shaggy wing around Agatha, she pushes her glasses up and wipes her eyes with her free hand, then fumbles her phone out. After a few seconds, she shows a picture ...

[Strategy Room] The mere thought of spending a long flight in a loud deathtrap with two new coworkers she needs to make a good first impression on is enough to make Callie's anxiety spike. What if they crashed and had to shelter for days before rescue? She's only got a few hours of emergency conver...

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School > ?] The Inquisitrix starts to follow the princess, stumbling for half a step at that revelation before catching up and grabbing her gloved hand while they walk. Silver panic embroiders her eager voice. " You adopted... Can, can I meet them? Is that allowed?"

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School] Carrie is alarmed, but only briefly. She wraps her arms, then her wings, about Agatha as they kiss. When she pulls back, her eyes are teary too. "Oh, Agatha... I don't know if I want to tell you everything or just kiss you forever." "Tell me everything...

"Ooooohhhhhh!" Sally blinks a few times, before lightly and gently -- after double checking it's okay -- lowering one hand to go let one of them, Sally has already forgotten, touch her finger. Or maybe just boop them gently if they're too young for that. ". . . I have already forgott...

[Strategy Room] "Okay, yeah, that sounds bad." Callie looks down at her pencil skirt and heels and her ears pin back sheepishly. "Okay so I think I overdressed for the job interview and definitely overdressed for exploring a ruined temple. Can you write down the coordinates of this p...

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School] "Well..." Carrie swallows. "I heard you were around Inside. So I asked Rhett's advice on how to get in contact with you again, and with what he told me... I came here and prayed to Ponera. I asked her to help me get in contact with you, 'n I told her I...

[Strategy Room] The foxgirl gives Ambrosia what she hopes is a reassuring smile. The two scholars won't have to worry about any deathtraps with the sorceress there to protect them! She's gonna do such a good job on her first mission and get that promotion. Out loud, however, she only jumps on the l...

[Strategy Room] "That doesn't sound so bad," Callie muses. "Traps and magic puzzles only try to kill you once, in one way. Magic guards will keep trying new ways to kill you until they're stopped." She's not too surprised by the preservation of suppressed information. People hav...

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School] Carrie whoops, wings flapping as she's spun about. She's filled out a bit as well, at least making it from skinny to lean. She holds onto Agatha's arms and shoulders. "Malnutrition in prime growing years, so sue me---and I missed you too." She's beaming, he...

[Strategy Room] Callie gives Ambrosia a quick nod before listening attentively to Dorota. The idea of working with people who (probably) won't kill her at any point between the completion of the job and the payout is going to take some getting used to. Keeping the details of one or both of her type...

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School] Agatha slams into Carrie and wraps her arms around the other lady's waist in a rib-bruising embrace. She plants a foot and pivots on it, bleeding off all the momentum of her charge by lifting Carrie off the ground and spinning her around. The scrawny, malnourished se...

[Strategy Room] "A pleasure to meet you both. Before this I was a research assistant to the Good League of Good's Medical Director. My magic works just as well in the field as in a lab." Callie shakes Ambrosia's hand while explaining a bit about herself. She doesn't want them to think she...

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School] Inquisitrix Lyubov Donnikova starts with surprise at being called out to, her left hand going to a rapier on her right hip. She stops walking, placing her feet so she's ready to draw and lunge. Then there's the spark of recognition in her eyes, firing a smile of very...

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School] Does she expect Ponera to speak to her? Does she even dare to hope for a sign? How long is she willing to wait for- A gust of freezing wind whips a flurry of snow down the street, driving it against Carrie's face and forcing her to turn her head. A woman wearing a bl...

"Certainly! What flavor of milk would you lik- OH MY GOSH TINY BEANS" Sally beams at the li'l babies. "I LOVE THEM THEY ARE PERFECT." Up close, Sally can see that the twins have blue hair and adorable lil blue cat ears. Somewhat less cute, they both have black lines curving acro...

[Strategy Room] "Oh, I'm Callie. And yes, I am." The sorceress considers leaving it at that and pretending like she totally knows what Dorota is talking about. But perhaps some honesty would be right. "Actually I'm not completely up to speed on, uh, what your expedition is? Reinholdt...

[Yasnaya Polyana Middle School] When Princess Caroline Vulpan arrives at the address given to her by the Exalted spymaster, she'll find herself at a school in the evening. It's a heavily dilapidated brick building with iron bars on all the first floor windows, located in one of the poorer districts...

[Reinholdt's Office] If only she had half the confidence in herself that Reinholdt has in her, she would be unstoppable. Callie stands up, quietly thanks Rein for the opportunity, and heads out. [Strategy Room] An arctic foxgirl walks past the strategy room on her way out. She stops and pokes her h...

[RCA Station] "Serving the Royal Family is my duty, Carrie. And helping you directly is much preferable to taking orders from and being second guessed by an entire chain of command from the RCA Director on down to the regional Vice-provost of Operations." Chief Khan waves off her gratitud...

[RCA Station] It's not professional for a Chief of Station to roll their eyes at a member of the Royal Family, but Rhett does it anyway. "Then let us consider our options. The fastest way would be to send Kynegetis, or at least some of her priestesses, out to hunt down the Inquisitrix and rend...

[Reinholdt's Office] The cat is much more useful than the foxgirl. For instance, if you pet him you feel much better. Callie nods along as he speaks. It sounds good, but she's getting a bit hung up on practicalities. "So I just... walk up, identify myself with HALO and... introduce myself?&quo...

[Reinholdt's Office] "I mean, I do have research on magical intelligences I'd like to continue, but to start out with I just want to be useful." There's more honesty in that than Callie would say to anyone other than Reinholdt and perhaps more than anyone other than him would pick up on. ...

[RCA Station] "Not your girlfriend?" Rhett overtly examines Carrie's left hand for a ring. Not finding one he shrugs, a gesture of acquiescence to the eccentric orbits that keep bringing the two women close together for brief moments before spinning them apart for years at a time. And now...