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	[color=#bd71e8]“Shade, come in.”[/color]

	Veronica was sitting behind a desk at a police station. It was just one of her many fronts, and one of her more valuable ones. What type of shadow organization didn't benefit from having power over the law? 

	[color=#bd71e8]“Shade, talk to me.”[/color]

	The woman took hold of her earning and tried to listen. Even if Silhouette wasn't talking to her, she could hear some of what was going on.  Justine yelling 'heart breaker' was not especially reassuring.

	[color=#bd71e8]“...Silhouette?”[/color]

	That was when Veronica looked at a PDA on her desk and could see silhouette's location flashing on the screen. It would seem that she had made her way out of the over city and back onto this plane. But did that Justine had returned here as well? Veronica bit her lower lip and glanced around herself. It wasn't a good idea for her to be running around in the middle of the day. Shadows were her specialty, and the less sunlight there was the better. It was also likely that if Veronica was to leave right now, there would be little she could do for silhouette. The distance she had to travel was far, and magical girls could be killed in an instant. At best, she would arrive and find Sil was fine. At worst, she would be intercepted by a beacon girl. The pros of action were far outweighed by the cons. Some would say there were no pros, and yet...

	[color=#bd71e8]“Your mission isn't over. You don't have permission to rest yet.”[/color]

	Veronica flipped off the lights. The fastest route of travel available to her was shadow stepping over to her location. She could use the ventilation system to get outside, then use the sewer system to get to the dock. But from there, she'd have to ride a boat to Silhouette's location. 

	[color=#bd71e8]“I'm not paying you to sleep, get up!”[/color]
	

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	Sue wasn't sure what she expected. Of course Justine would attack after seeing something like that. Sue was just fortunate that she was able to avoid enough of the attack that only one of her wings were destroyed. By the looks of it, Justine wasn't fairing much better. They both seemed to have a single wing left. The fight was almost over for both of them. Yes, things were coming to a head.

	It disturbed Sue when she saw Lilly practically offer herself before the gluttonous vampire. If she wasn't recovering from her thrashed wing, she might have thrown a gust of wind between the two to blow them away from each other. But it seemed that the spell failed for reasons no one but lily could fathom. Or at least, it wasn't a conversation Sue cared to dedicate her attention to. Until she brought up love, that is.

	Love is an interesting emotion. When people think of love, it's easy to think of its happier side. The word love invokes images of childhood friends playing, young lovers kissing under a tree, or other forms of intimacy. That's the part of love everyone remembers. But there were other forms of love too. Like putting up with simple inconveniences like remembering to go to the store to get medicine, lending your umbrella on a rainy day, or choosing to go see a movie that your partner wants to see [i]way[/i] more than you. Those were better examples of love. But not all love was sweet. Sometimes it could be bitter. There were hundreds of examples of this. But the best example to Sue was her very own story. She loved Amber. She remembered going to all the yard sales with her to decorate the sky bastion. She remembered all of their misadventures, especially the encounter with Mariette. She even remembered confessing her love to her, and how embarrassed she was when Amber stated she only dated men. And now she was gone. Were it not for love, Sue might have been a little disappointed with her death. But the power of love made her brave. She absorbed the black coin, knowing full well that it would bind her to the mint. She watched Amber work under them in misery, and chose to carry a burden greater than her for this one shot at revenge. That was Sue's power of love.

	 Without her wing, all Sue could do was use her mana to repair herself to stay aloft. But she wasn't going to do that. Sue allowed herself to fall while diverting all of her magic into her next attack. She could hear the wind rush past her as she plummeted towards her target. Sue didn't know exactly what Lily was planning, but she had no doubt those dark clouds were the start of something powerful. And speaking of powerful, Scout was unleashing some firepower of her own on the vampire. Sue would have to get out of the way, but she had one last payload of mystic might to deliver.

	[color=PeachPuff]”Take all the love you can handle!”[/color]

	Just as she was falling behind the vampire, Sue thrust an open palm towards Justine. Before she could blink, the mightiest shock wave she had fired yet detonated in the Vampire's proximity. Sue was not going to get away unscathed though. Sue attempted to block with her remaining wing, but the energy ripped it apart before throwing her backwards. With her immediate mana reserves drained and wings in tatters, she tumbled through the air.  The ocean swallowed her as fell out of the sky.

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[b]Age: 24/11 | Gender: Female/Female | Illusion, Gravity
Body | Power of Friendship, Regeneration | Moirai
Wings, Soul Jar, Martial Training, Familiar, Environmental Sealing, Gifted, Awareness, Mystic Artifact

Magical Overload, Paragon, Blessing, Gifted Item | Monster Form, Big Brother, Arrogance, Vendetta
Redirected Magic, Second Specialization | Non-Standard Limbs, Destroyer[/b]

STR: 05 | AGI: 04 |  VIT: 05 | MAG: 03 | LCK: 03

STR: 12 | AGI: 08 |  VIT: 10 | MAG: 16 | LCK: 05

Earnings this post: Zilch

Total: 1 Gold, 45 Silver, 49 Bronze
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	Hah! Man, Lily sure was corny...

	As tempting as it was to land a quick hit on Justine, the other magical girls probably had this under control. Now that the threat Justine posed was, frankly, minimal, She was really just here to confirm that her mission was successful before departing.