[Day: Friday, May 8th. Time: 1:00 p.m.] (Three days since the pre... oh) [You had either a great, lousey or mediocre time at an Italian restaurant for lunch, and then you all piled in your vans to go home. Togo, Luana, Heinrick, Keiko and Pavla took the other van. They left already. Rose and Jamie are in this one with Karin and Cyra. You haven't.] [Stort.] * Roseli gets in the driver's seat this time, just in case more people are running around with dizzyness supernatural powers. She had Italian food! [Karin helps Cyra get in the back, then gets in the front. On the driver's side. 'Cause who wants Rose to drive? Nobody :X] ( >.> ) (Hahaha.) (Bwahaha) (Okay, we'll go with that, then. :P) [Except maybe Rose.] (It's fine. Go with what you said.) ( Ok. ) (But my theory makes sense!) * Roseli judges this situation, then says, "Jamie, why don't you ride shotgun?" * Roseli gets in back with Cyra, thus keeping her ward from having to sit next to the girl she's terrified of, at least. [Cyra doesn't mind. She's in a happy place right now.] * Jamie managed to avoid sitting near Cyra on the way out, and at the restraunt itself... and is more than grateful for yet another close call now. She hurries to the front of the van. [Karin rests her hands on the wheel. She doesn't turn on the ignition. "So."] So? [She turns around in the driver's seat. "I've been thinking about the way Cyra reacted to Jamie. She doesn't react like that to most people. And then there's what happened with Pavla..."] * Jamie turns herself in the front seat so she's facing Karin and can twist her neck to see the back of the van. * Roseli crosses her legs, glances at Cyra (who seems happy), and then looks at Karin. What about Pavla? ["I read the logs of the fight. Something happened to Pavla and Jamie during theirs."] * Roseli nods once. "Jamie, tell Karin what happened." * Jamie winces pre-emptivly, but having an order to talk does make it easier. "When when we met I saw... behind her, I saw ..." She pauses to gether herself and glance back at Rose. "I saw Ten." * Jamie wraps her arms around herself after once again forcing out that paradox between the universe as ordered and the universe as is. [Karin looks to Rose.] Pavla had no idea what was going on. Didn't think it was my job to explain it to her. ["Explain what, though?"] Ten. * Roseli sighs a little and shakes her head. "Anyway. What were you getting at?" [Karin takes a deep breath. "I'd like to have Iris look at Cyra and Jamie, if that's okay with you."] * Roseli blinks, then nods. "Why?" * Jamie sits up enough to actualy look at Cyra for the first time in months. "Wa... was she Hotaru too?" ["No. She's always been Cyra. Which is why I don't understand it. Except..."] [She glances at Rose. "Can I trust you?"] Of course. (Of the three guardians on the blue team, Rose is probably the most trustworthy for Karin!) * Jamie subsides and goes back to hiding behind her seat. [Karin pauses for a minute, then says, "I think there might be things they aren't telling us. About the genmod process, about what goes into the drug they use... about everything, really."] * Roseli takes this in stride. "Not surprised." Brief pause. "This your van, or Blitzkrieg's?" (Or car. It's probably a car!) (We're in a van) (Oh, darn my memory. (You were right first!) ["Don't worry. I got Robbie to make sure it's clean."] * Roseli nods and glances around anyway just in case. ["And I'm sure we can trust Iris. Shemy best friend and Cyra's sister."] Iris is a good woman. * Jamie doesn't realy have anything to add. 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Roseli (2d8) and gets a natural 12 for a result of 12. ( Wow, that sentence got mangled. ) Just to be sure: Jamie, sense any bugs in the van? [Karin nods. "She is. We were both orphans in the village where we grew up. Had to look out for each other."] * Roseli smiles. "Good that you had her there. How'd you both end up here?" 2d8-6 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Jamie (2d8-6) and gets a natural 4 for a result of -2. ["Long story made short, I got invited to Warthog's School of Magic, and later Iris was discovered by the government."] * Roseli nods. * Jamie looks at Rose. "I... don't see anything." (Actualy, take out the elipses on that one.) Good. * Roseli smiles. "Not that I don't trust Robert, but it's good to make sure." [Karin smiles. "Well, now you know I'm not setting you up."] Didn't think you were, really. But... you understand. [She nods.] * Roseli sighs. "So. Things they're not telling us." Like I said, not surprised. They have a tight rope on us and a tighter rope on our wards. Jamie's fanfiction escapades are a result of genemodding, according to Schumaucher. I just don't know how and Blitzkrieg hasn't given me any more information. * Jamie tries and fails to sink into her seat. [She nods again. "I knew they were keeping secrets, but I don't think I realized before just how deep they could go."] * Roseli chuckles bitterly. She looks out the window and twists at her bracelet. [Karin glances along the sidewalk. "I don't know if Iris will be able to find anything, but she's the best option."] Then we should try her. Off hours. Think you can invite her somewhere out of work and we can meet you? [Karin nods. "Yeah." She smiles. "Thanks, Rose."] ( And here I bet you thought the only reason Karin was so nervous about asking Rose to lunch is because she's secretly a lesbian and wants to make out. ) (Actualy I thought it would be about Jamie flipping out and trying to kill her ward. Silly me.) (So are you gonna FF to the actual examination?) * Roseli turns her attention to Karin and smiles a little. "Sure. I want to know what's going on, too." ( I was just going to end it, actually :P ) (Okay, then we shall do it some other time.) [End!]