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"I agree with you," Lynne said, her smile steady. She lifted the cup in front of her, swirling the liquid around so it just brushed against the rim. "Playing pretend is a lot of fun, isn't it?" She flipped the cup over, the liquid inside becoming a pair of dice as she struck it top-down upon...

"Do I get to choose this time?" Lynne asked with a smile, her face reflecting the human disguise worn by the Thretriiyma. "It's only fair I get a turn, right?"

Blasts of moonlight slammed into her doppelgangers' faces, blasting them into clouds of smoke that quickly reformed themselves. The eye turned red, Lynne's copies mocking her with their smiles. Strange, she hadn't been aware her face could make that expression. Not that these things were really...

The spiderweb of ice and moonlight which formed the wings of the tree reflected in Lynne's solid black eyes as she gazed up at them in silence, the steady pulse of emotion from the tree's core resonating up through the thick tendrils of her head. Death, loss, loneliness. A cold, aching regret...

Lynne turned as the fog closed in behind her, humming flatly at the unsurprising development. Her hum turned to a sigh as she looked around at the shift in scenery, rubbing the back of her neck and dropping her human disguise. "Guess I lost the straw-pull, then," she said, the words of her mind...

"A 'name' usually represents what you are, not what you're supposed to do." Lynne said, eyeing Akiko's unresponsive body with some concern. "We should move with some urgency. Four trees, four of us, I guess we split up here."

Lynne's feet touched the ground as they moved through the fog, air shimmering around her as Lynne's human appearance reasserted itself over tentacles and grey skin. She had dropped her glasses somewhere, but that was fine. She hadn't really needed them anyway. She gazed at the figure that...

"It's very similar to that," "Elena" said, moving her hand to her hip. "I was arranging for additional supplies to be moved onto the Blackbird! Our dearest lead physician is rather tragically somewhat horribly disfigured, you see, and terribly self-conscious about going out on her own." She...

Rhyssa bristled at the word "kid", staring off in the direction the little robot had scampered. It wasn't like she was unaware of how she looked, and it wasn't the first time she had heard the question. Really, it should be expected at this point. Even so, the idea of being perceived as childish...

"Akiko!" Lynne lunged forward, catching her before she could hit the ground. A thin grey arm wrapped around Akiko's waist, keeping her propped against the bony outcropping on Lynne's shoulder. She eyed the detective's face with concern, a tiny crease forming in her alien brow, before turning her...

Dr. Haliday watched the busker and his dancing girls leave with curiosity. Something about their departure struck her as strange - the slightly outdated messaging device, the flash of red, the sense that they had been, however briefly, appraised. Recognized. She was pulled from her thoughts by...

Lynne stopped floating. If she were in her human disguise, Akiko was almost certain her mouth would be hanging open in shock. When she at last responded, her voice echoing in Akiko's mind, it was in a language she didn't recognize. "Ez'st hingra-kham!" Lynne looked away briefly before speaking...

"I don't think they woulda taken my clown money anyways." Rhyssa remarked stuffed the bill back in her pocket with a shrug. She watched Circuit pick up the snackbot without comment, leaning over to poke at its change slot for loose coins as she turned to follow. The trio (quartet?) made their...

"Not unless you have something soaked in lunar radiation that i can swallow," Lynne replied, three red pupils staring at her from one inky black eye. "...Or a fast forward button."

"I'm not sure, I haven't fought a hivemind before, or anything like this," Lynne answered, stepping back from Jacques. "If it had eyes, I might be able to disrupt their neural network, though I'm not sure I have the strength right now to force my way in to their heads otherwise. The weight of it...

"Nice to meet you, Circuit," Rhyssa replied, extending a hand to greet the little robot properly while the vending machine grew increasingly intent on forcing a transaction. Her hand twitched, and she cast her eyes back down the alley as about a dozen other vending machines suddenly lit up...

Rhyssa jumped as the machine revealed itself, several drones appearing from within her clothes to flit around defensively. The vending machine overwhelmed her with light and noise, assaulting Rhyssa with information so quickly that only another machine could hope to keep up. A few of her bolder...

Rhyssa clapped a hand over the robot's- well, where a mouth would be if robots had one. A finger flew to her lips in a shushing gesture, Rhyssa's head on a swivel to make sure no one had heard. "There are no Chalcideans on this station, little guy! What a silly joke you just told me...

Lynne crossed the space between her and Jacques in half an instant, clawed feet hovering off the ground. "I don't believe you," she said, their eyes inches apart. One of her hands came to the stump of Jacques's arm, cauterizing it with a glow of moonlit energy. "Arkadiy was terrified of it, he...

Lynne rushed back into the control room, shaking her head in an attempt to clear her addled mind. The door to the hanger slammed shut behind her, sensors detecting the breach from the portal and tripping the first security protocols. Anything else would need to be activated manually from the...