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And for the first time all day, Mali had a moment to be alone. Actually alone. Another time like this probably wouldn't come until right before bedtime, so this was the time to get her thoughts in order. A lot of things had happened, but she wasn't sure how much of it she'd articulated to herself. The bodybuilder disrobed and began pacing around the room.

So there's an actual conspiracy called Juno that seems to control a lot of things, if not everything of significant power. They seemed to have been an active power at least since the prohibition. They branded their members with either the astrological sign for Venus or Mars depending on their gender. These members were kept separate as much as possible. They had names for each of their positions, but Mali forgot what that term was. She'd have to ask about it again later. Some of these members, at least Zoie Crawford and the late Alicia were infiltrating the conspiracy to try destroying it from within.

Juno seemed preoccupied with Ancient Greece and Rome for some reason. An item of interest seemed to be necklaces with a weird geometrical... thing attached to the end. Zoie believed that the source of their fixation laying further back in human history to Ancient Egypt, but hadn't derived enough proof to actually justify her gut theory. 

Relic aka Daniel, is some kind of computer genius and Zoie's brother. Apparently he was in prison at some point. Juno is after him for possessing and knowing things he shouldn't. Really curious, but also physically and socially fragile. Saving him from some thugs got Mali tied into all this nonsense in the first place and her hand broken, but she couldn't bring herself to be angry at him. Kid needs to stick up for himself more. Has really nice business cards

Marc Tinder is an FBI agent who's working as part of les collaborateurs and is apparently a long-time friend of Relic and his family. Seems like a decent enough guy.

Zoie is a prostitute who's working for Juno and has some family and guilt issues to work out. Right now Mali's acting as a cover story to allow her to better work on her investigation of Juno's motivations. Working with Juno seems to provide enough money to casually buy lots of high end clothes and cosmetics without batting an eye at the price of it all. [i]You also might really have a thing for her,[/i] chimed in a voice from a lower layer of her mind that was promptly ignored. There were more people involved, but those were the three most important figures she had been in contact with so far.

The group's current lead was to investigate the supreme court justice Zatara Lyo for information on Valentine's true identity. Right now she was getting ready for a political evening party where she was supposed to do something. Nobody had actually said what she was supposed to do there yet. As part of prettying up, she still needed make-up, her hair styled, shoes, jewelry and perfume at a minimum. Which brought her back to her current situation. These were all things she knew, but for keeping her head on straight, it was good to focus on what she knew rather on what she didn't for once and who her friends were supposed to be.

At this point Mali realized she'd spent a few minutes simply pacing the room in her birthday suit, and Helga was waiting on her to press the button to signal her readiness. She walked back to the door and pressed the button before sliding under the blanket provided. Stop thinking about the big picture and get back to the here and now. The incoming massage was likely to be intense to say the least.