145. Trapdoor

[corrinesbell]

[Sheena does her best work at night. Slipping around, darting shadow to shadow or fast leaps from rooftop to rooftop, feet barely touching the surface before she's off again in a hurry. The wings barely slow her down after enough chances to get used to them.

This isn't the town she went to sleep in, she thinks. No amount of maps and briefings could've prepared her for Sylvarant, though, and maybe this was just part of it. She spends a couple days looking for the Chosen, and can't find her - but she does find one of her traveling companions, living with a really annoying redhead in a house near the village square.

Approaching them might bring trouble.

Once she's all sorted and slightly less confused - and proportionately indignant about her situation and being somebody's pet experiment project - she spends most of her time training in the barracks, still doing the semi-stealthy roof patrol thing, this time while trying to get the drop on people, and...ready to play games of hide-and-seek or tag with any kids that might be wandering around. She'll even offer to start as It!]

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[corrinesbell]

[Oh, so he got that impression too, huh?

Hmm.

Sheena drops her guard, shaking her head.]

Look, I'm sorry about the...the arm thing. It's dark and I kinda- thought you were somebody else.

[Hoped, maybe.]

[chikaidestroyer]

[Albert remains rigid despite the apology, not nearly as forgiving for the bad first impression.]

An enemy. [He surmises.]

[corrinesbell]

[Whoa. Whoa, whoa.]

Uh, ahah...no. A friend. [She really stepped in it this time.] Somebody I know from...home? I guess?

[So she was acting just to mess with him. The thing she leaves out is that she probably realized it wasn't him before she made her move.]

[chikaidestroyer]

[He gives her a flat, accusatory stare for a long moment, as if trying to read whether or not she was telling the truth. From the stuttering, it seemed to be.]

You have a strange way of greeting friends.

[corrinesbell]

It's complicated. That friendship. [She doesn't know what it is and by this point she hasn't seen him in...a while.]

[chikaidestroyer]

[And he'll just continue to give the girl an unimpressed look.]

Well? Was that all you wanted to know? Just whatever I knew about that woman?

[corrinesbell]

I know her. She's...I've seen her before. [Sheena folds her arms, looking anywhere but at Albert.] She travels with a pair of known criminals and someone who's trying to destroy the world.

[chikaidestroyer]

[That response is worth a slow blink. Then an amused snort.]

Four people attempting to destroy the world. They must be impressively powerful to go against such odds.

[corrinesbell]

Actually, after watching them for a while they just have a whole lotta luck. [A luxury Sheena doesn't share.]

[chikaidestroyer]

...I suppose that is a possibility as well. But one doesn't try to destroy the world relying on luck. [But he is somehow skeptical, even if he doesn't know much about Raine.]

[corrinesbell]

They're doing a pretty good job of it so far. [Based on her intel about where they started, anyway.]

[chikaidestroyer]

[He'll be skeptical about that as well as he inquires...]

And your aim is to stop them?

[corrinesbell]

I've gotta. It's my mission.

[It's my world they're gonna mess with. She doesn't say it.]