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[color=a0410d]"The world is a complicated place. When I was a kid there was a war, between my people and the Naiads. I'm not an expert on these things, but I think they're cousins to the water elementals?"[/color] Argus replied, "It was over some petty shit, neither side bothered to sit down and talk about it. They just started fighting." the Djinn gave a regretful sigh,[color=a0410d] "It was water vs fire, you can probably guess that my people didn't come out of it as the winners. So we hid. We found a place deep in the desert where nobody could find us, where our ancestral enemies couldn't reach us. About half a century ago, we started sending out agents disguised as humans; using our memory altering abilities to fabricate identities in the human world to learn more about the present age, in hopes of ending our exile."[/color] Argus didn't seem to stop and breathe as he talked, his attention split between the road and his own thoughts

[color=a0410d]"My father was one of our generals during the war, so I was selected to investigate the outside. I ended up attending a school here in New York. During the days I was attending classes, learning about this part of the world and what they'd been doing since we hid away; and at night I was seeking out other supernatural beings. Ran afoul of some rather unsavory types, a cult for some old god. Of all things, I was saved by a Naiad. Didn't care that I was a Djinn, just wanted to help me. We stuck together for awhile, me and her. Watching out for each-other. A few years later, a member of that cult turned up at our apartment looking to get payback"[/color]

The agent turned to look out the window, coughing slightly, [color=a0410d]"She didn't make it out that time. She would've been fine if she hadn't saved me. After that, I packed my bags and caught a ride on a smuggling ship to Egypt, walked my way home from there. Spent the next... 30 years? 40? trying to convince our king that the world was different now, that the Naiads had long since forgotten the war and that we could end our seclusion. I wasn't making any progress, so I decided to try and arrange a diplomatic meeting. When I tried to contact an emissary of their people, I was marked for death by my own kind, labelled a traitor to the Djinn."[/color]

Argus shook his head, instinctively reaching for the cigarettes in his pocket and stopping when he remembered he wasn't alone in the car, [color=a0410d]"I came back to the only other home I'd ever known, but things are a lot different now; I ended up living in the sewers, playing the street urchin until the agency picked me up and put me to work. And that's how I got here, given one more chance to make things right, to make sure my people can live peacefully with the other races without being mistrusted as parasites, beings who subsist by replacing other people's lives with lies. And the first time I meet another water spirit after all those years, I manage to insult her and piss her off when she's just trying to do the right thing."[/color]