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Aurora gave Raine a giggle as he gave her rump
a swat, ¡°but not in front of the dinner guests.¡± She reminded him as they went
their separate ways for now.? She had picked up on the movement from Mara
out of the corner of her eye.? She had gotten pretty good at knowing when
her spy was around, with a smile she quietly said, ¡°glad you are here my
friend.¡±
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She took her place at the head of the table and
waited for the others to arrive.? Liza, Jordie¡¯s lady gave Aurora a smile
as she took her place at the table.? ¡°How many are you expecting?¡± She
asked her boss.? ¡°Two for sure, maybe a third.? We will see.¡±
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(Jordie)
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¡°Name¡¯s Jordie.? I am not the butler or
Jeeves, Roddy.¡± Jordie said with a smirk knowing that would get the lad¡¯s
attention.? ¡°Respect is a two-way street around her, Lightening Rod,
remember that.¡± He led them to the dining room and once there took his seat
next to Liza.? ¡°You are there,¡± he pointed to a seat across from his,
¡°Devi. And you are there,¡± He pointed to a seat a few chairs farther down the
table, ¡°Lightening Rod.? This is Liza and you all have met, Aurora.¡± He
said indicating their boss sitting at the head of the table.
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(Mara)
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The snake woman watched as the new recruits
filed into the dining room, examining them through the infrared, her tongue
flicking in and out as she tasted the air.? When Aurora came in, she
looked to the darkened corner where Mara was settled, watching, seeing her
smile light up and then ever so slightly, nodding her head in response.?
They had a sort of mental link that allowed them to sense each other's
presences, but Mara didn't have the type of power where she could use it as a
means of communication.? Once everyone settled in and she had a chance to
measure everybody's body heat, Mara melded out of the shadows and stepped into
the light, adjusting the straps of her v-necked dress, going to take her place
beside Aurora, crossing her legs as she leaned back, one hand going up to move
a stray clump of hair behind her ears.
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"Ah, at least, we get to eat.? Is
this everyone, or are we waiting for any other late arrivals?"? She
looked everyone over with her normal eyesight now, taking mental notes of they
sat and moved, what caught their attention.? It was not just force of
habit, but also a survival technique.? One never knew when the information
that she ingested was going to come in handy.
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(Devi)
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Devi gave Lightning Rod a smile when he
introduced himself. Once he took her arm she let him guide her in. As they made
their way to the dining room Devi looked around to familiarize her self to her
surroundings. Her attention turned back to Jordie when he spoke and pointed to
where both Lightning Rod and her self. She gave him a nod and moved to sit in
the chair.
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She had seen Aurora at the head of the table as
she sat down. About to ask a question she stopped as she seen a snake looking
woman step from the shadows and make her way to sit next to Aurora. When the
snake woman spoke Devi smiled. She looked to Aurora, "Thank you for the
invitation. It is very beautiful place."
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(Lightning Rod)
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Following Devi's example, Roddy nodded to Aurora.?
"Pretty posh indeed. My compliments to the decorator." He glanced
around at the other guests seated at the table.? Only two seemed out of
the ordinary, outwardly at least. The first was a large man wearing some kind
of costume, complete with a hood that hid most of his face and some kind of
bracers on his forearms. He looked to be black, fairly powerfully built, and...
possibly on familiar terms with Aurora?? Roddy wasn't terribly good at
reading people, but somehow he was getting that impression.??
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But it was the other latecomer that immediately drew his full
attention.? Even at a distance, Roddy could see that there was something
distinctly not-quite-human about her.? There was a scale-like sheen to
parts of her dusky olive skin, particularly from just above her eyes to down
the ridge of her rather flattened nose, beginning again down her neck to her
collarbone.? Her hair, which was cut fairly short, was a blonde but with a
coppery tint.? Her eyes, however, were her most striking feature.?
Bright turquoise in color, with slitted irises that gave her a mesmerizing
intensity he could feel without her even looking his way.? She moved with
a flowing grace towards the table, filling the normally arrogant youth with an
unfamiliar mix of heart-stopping fear and out-and-out lust.?
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The snake-woman was the last to be seated. Next to Aurora, Roddy
noted.? He suspected that the seating reflected some kind of status,
frowning slightly when he saw that he was further away from their host than
anyone else.? Something to be rectified in the future.? But for the
moment, he could only stare helplessly.?
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"Who... who is _that_?" he whispered to Devi, nodding
towards the woman.??
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(Raine)u
It didn¡¯t take him long to change and return, the truth was he didn¡¯t have to but she wanted
appearances.? Besides this costume was special.? She felt it important that they present a unified front then so be it.? Far be it for him to not make things exactly
how they should be for his heart.? He
would follow her lead, he had thus far.?
Not that he couldn¡¯t just things seemed to have a certain way of working
out when everyone knew their roles.? He
was truly the brawn of the pair, no matter how he may have wanted to be the
brains.? He could implement a plan sure
but coming up with one was not normally his forte.
He gazed at each of those that were there; he was only eager to blast any one of
them back into the middle of next year, if he had too.? At this particular moment he hoped it didn¡¯t
come to that, he hated to clean up the body after all the time that was spent
to make the place look so nicely.? He
smirked even if his face couldn¡¯t be seen, his sonics allowed him to hear the
conversations and the questions that were asked.? He leaned into Aurora¡¯s ear and spoke, ¡°The
Floor is yours.¡±? It was but a whisper
but between then it was clearly audible and his. He watched to keep abreast of
the changes open and ready for any attack.
Tag: Aurora/NPCs, Mara, Devi, Lightening Rod, Raine
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