A spin-off 1x1 between [@Desire] and myself with our characters Atlas and Shara.

[center]As you rest in your room, a soft scraping sound echoes in your ears. Whether you're asleep or merely meditating, this sound jolts you to awareness and you search for the culprit. A slim disk, the size of a small plate, has been fit underneath your doorframe. When you touch it, you feel a prick on your finger from a beam of light, and then the disk whirs to life and you are greeted by the holographic visage of an Oxidal Female.

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[i][b]"With the looming war between the Warden Kingdom of Juren and the Empire, many would assume that is the most prevalent threat to peace. Gazes have long since been turned in breathless anticipation for the tensions to rise and escalate into a catastrophe between the two sovereign powers.

While the collective gaze has been distracted, none have noticed the strange happenings within the very Empire itself. Missing persons in the thousands have been reported, peasants living in rural areas and in the slums of the cities, unimportant to those with power. An unwanted problem, so they put the issue to the wayside for many months.

Now, however, the issue has become much more pressing. An Erdevar Ambassador from Juren brought his twin daughters with him to Asturias, and they were whisked away in the middle of the night. Due to any negative reverberations this may cause regarding the war, the Ambassador has been put under "house arrest" within his quarters in the royal palace, unallowed to leave or message Juren regarding the matter. 

And now I'm contacting you, Atlas the Shadow and Shara of the Veil, in regards to a very delicate mission. Without proper evidence, we cannot hope to put the most likely suspect under questioning. Who is he, you are probably wondering? The Archduke Viktor, uncle to the Empress Katarina. Both of you possess skills which will be crucial to this task, and you have limited time to get to the root of this.

I have secured you a place in the royal gala taking place on the morrow, pray attend and watch the Archduke's comings and goings. If you speak a word of this to anyone other than eachother, you will find it to be a very sore mistake.

Vi."[/b][/i]

The disk powers down immediately after she says the word "Vi", and offers no other identifyer besides those obscure letters. As you inspect the disk, something catches your eye. A ring with an odd signet on it, imbedded into the back of the disk. Plucking it out and wearing it will prove that it seems to be fit perfectly to your ring finger, and when equipped it seems to make you feel more powerful, as if supplying you with life force.

Left without much choice, you feel conscripted to attending the gala. You have heard rumors about your partner to be, perhaps you've ran into them once or twice but cannot remember the incident completely. Whatever the case may be, you hope that you they will not get in your way.[/center]