Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25582638-20151210004452/@comment-5999656-20160116065158

This wasn't going well. After Fen's initial foray into acting, the response from the two females only suggested that they were beyond familiar with dealing with people with shady demeanors, which meant that trying to look competent in front of them was pointless. Their casual banter over something which seemed to be of significant importance was putting Fen more and more on edge.

"I don't think I'm really qualified to protect Cyzarine. She's extremely competent at self-defense already. But if you mean try not to attract too much attention, well then, all you need to do is leave the talking to me." ''Yay, I can act normal. So valuable.''

She turned to Cyzarine.

"Right... and you can see how competent I am at doing housework." Even though deception was futile, Fen was growing weary since being nice had failed to make any real impression on Cyzarine's behavior towards her. Why bother being friendly if it was going to be perceived as shady intent? But facts are facts, those were okay to say.

"Are we going to the meeting soon? I'll go get my halberd from the room." The mansions wasn't so massive that Fen wouldn't be able to retrace her steps to the guest bedroom. She started off towards that location, but then stopped.

"Is it really bad that you're revealing your resources to me? If it gets you in trouble with your parents, I wouldn't want to create bigger problems for you. So maybe it's best that we stop acting like anything beyond temporary business partners trying to sort out a shared problem."

Fen turned and went back up the stairs, and picked up her weapon from where she had left it on the bedstand. What she had  said was true: it would be best if this whole issue got cleanly sorted out as soon as possible. Clearly Cyzarine and her associates were involved in something much more powerful and much more dangerous than anything Fen ever wanted to know about.

Such is the life of the old upper class, she thought. ''They'll do whatever it takes to maintain their same traditional power in society. Apparently that includes sowing spies in every possible corner of society, so they can bust out their bazookas the second anything happens in the neighborhood.''

Instead, she tried to look ahead to why the Daybreak Syndicate wanted her. Zodiac Eye had had extensive information on their services and organizational information, suggesting that they were a legitimate company servicing mostly the wealthy.

Information retrieval, huh?

Soon she would have some answers, and that thought was satisfying even in the awkwardness of the current situation.

She must be thinking of recruiting the Syndicate to investigate the Nine Dragons.

That was the most obvious conclusion.

More danger, excellent.

Fen would do her best to fulfill her duty as a decent human being and then bust out as soon as possible. Such was her plan.