[h2][centre] [color=6ecff6]Victoria Darya Romus "Vika" [/color] [/centre][/h2] [h3][centre] [color=a2d39c]Wednesday Afternoon - Coffee Pot - "MiLady Corvus returns anew" [/color][/centre][/h3] [@Silver Fox] [hr] Victoria was waiting, as the encriptions locked one by one, point to point and behind 1024 bit codes, youd spend weeks just trying to identify where and where it was sent before you even stood a chance at breaking into the data being transmitted. it was slow as hell for anything but simple text but closest you could get to unbreakable for the present. green lights and codes flashed across until the chat screen finally opened, it was a public wifi but the advanced security easily compensated for any risks. [color=82ca9d] Know why SOl so active right now. its a feeding frenzy right now Sol, you know i don't go down the rabbit hole anymore Sure about that . Oscillating security keys are not widely known . had to be one of the musketeers False . you know the suits likely have that tech . We where not only ones working in shadow realms . Business but we had so much more I made that security key . you think i not tell . Bullshit . That was fun, we never would of worked long term True . your not only smart one . your talking to one . We never tried . your threat map is way up . Il look . i aint going deep though . Im tiny bit curious now . Thanks X . Still a chance V . [/color] Sure, he knew more than he let on and she knew more than was revealed, it was a dance they always played and had done for past few years. They had worked together when she was back in England, dated and spent a few memorable nights in Moscow on a job "sharing to save money" as they had started out. well they both knew that had been a lie but hey. It had ended, it never was going to last, well maybe... that looked at the time about as likely as England winning the world cup though. Still the mystery was proving ever deeper, someone big had a intrest on SOl alright and Victoria had a bad feeling it would be not a good reason that the city had drawn the eyes of a larger fish. there was always minows but the great sharks always swam with purpose and reason. they never did anything just for fun. Pausing from her thoughts Victoria noticed someone was approaching and felt a nudge as her coffee made little rings in its surface, looking up she spotted the slightly goofy wave of Ashton, yeah had to be her. No one else she had met was as distinctive in Sol so far. Bar maybe the red headed cop.. she was definitely pretty though her hair stood out in her mind for some reason. Drama not so much, red hair yes now. Looking up with the same grey eyes, though her skin tone was more like alabaster and her hair raven black rather than ghostly white it used to be. Blinking slightly and noticing a cane, and what looked like some definite injuries. Yep, that definitely was Ashton but she had certainly been busy of late. The level of change in Victoria she was surprised she had made the link, having to look up, the treatment had not changed her height in anyway, but she was dressed in a black and red corset topped dress, something the old Victoria never would have worn. a Blood red stone glittered on a short necklace round her neck, a symbolic purchase of her anew. Victoria looked a tinge gothic, but with the pale skin and dark hair, the look did suit her nature and disposition. More importantly, for first time in years she felt like she was in charge now, not the illness. With same English accent adding the tinge of Russian she had the Gala, ashton was nice to her that night, pretending to be someone else, not in this situation. Some things like her hand position was hard to break and seemed to instiively want to reach for a stick that was not there getting up and so, but after all 9 years of habits was hard to break and she still needed it at times. she never would be fully back to old health but was far better than her former self. [i][color=6ecff6]Hey, I changed abit. Still Vika, I got cured of a sorts. This is the real me hidden under the illness. Sit, rest your .. well i know what standing about with a stick is like. its not always easy. [/color][/i] She had the posture ok, but at the angle she used she used did not look perfectly comfortable, though she had 9 years to master it forced by circumstance and health. She was honest, this was her before she had fallen ill, it was her returned. The risks had been worth it, 70% chance of success, 30% stuck in a wheel chair, but when you had lost so much it was worth the risk even if she would never be a athlete again. Gesturing for Ashton to join her and kind of nervously running a hand through the raven black hair as the vertical highlights of purples and blues graduated though, Victoria gestured to Menu in a welcoming manner, she could at least buy her a coffee for looking after her that evening. If ashton reconised her, would anyone else but she seemed to be confused to so perhaps she could pass for someone else even to guests at the party? that would be fun to test anyway, might be a handy ability, all she needed was some decent sunglasses and perhaps a change of makeup style? [i][color=6ecff6]You looked after me, seems im returning the favour, Want a coffee? You where kind to me when i was feeling abit down and more vunrable, least i can do. [/color][/i] Looking slightly concerned at the stick and her seeming new crop of injuries, she did not want to quite open that door so directly and obviously though. Folding down the laptop to be polite, Cardinal would be to busy digging, he pretended to be interested but he loved a good mystery. one of the things that had brought them together for a time in the first place. looking back, she shook her head slightly at old thoughts and eyes snapped back to present and Ashton.