Cora smiled brightly down at Akane as she entered, balancing herself on the edge of the tank with her torso up out of the water. It would have been strange for any other viewer, but Akane was used to the sight: above the water, Cora resembled a human exactly, but once her body was submerged in water, it took on that of her true form. Her legs were fused together in a long greenish-blue tail that swayed back and forth under the water, her fin almost transparent. At first, this discovery had been very strange for Cora, as she had never poked her head out of the water until...well, the day she had been forced to. It felt strange as well, but she quickly got over that. There were more uncomfortable things to feel abovewater, she had learned that very quickly.

[color=00a99d]"Okay!"[/color] she said in response to Akane as she positioned her self and slid down out of the tank and onto the floor of the trailer. The others in the troupe had helped placed a bundle of dry towels there to absorb some of the water, but they would need changing soon. Once she was on the floor, she grabbed the damp robe from the ground and draped it over her shoulders, wrapping it about her torso before climbing into her chair, using only the strength of her arms. By the time Akane had approached, she was brushing out her long straight hair with her fingers.

[color=00a99d]"Oh no,"[/color] she said in response to Akane's question,[color=00a99d] "I was still sleeping when you came, actually. It was okay!"[/color] She smiled, then looked around the dark room. Without her skylight open, it was almost pitch black in here, not that that was a problem for either of its current inhabitants. [color=00a99d]"What time is it, anyway?"[/color] She cocked her head to one side, curious. Usually, she woke up rather "early", from what the others had told her, but it was hard to tell with no outside source of light or air just how early it was.

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Illyana had noticed Geralt reaching for her only as he pulled his hand away, and the muscles in her face tightened even more. As Lucien stepped up behind her, she jumped again, nearly bumping him. She looked around, confused for a moment, then felt him take the clipboard from her hands. She looked up at Lucien as a scolded child would, then sighed and nodded, before heading over to the various dishes that had been covered to keep warm and sanitized, giving Geralt a wide berth as she did so.

Geralt watched this unfold and his expression never changed. He watched Illyana skirt him and move toward the food that had been left out, then looked back at Lucien as the two made their way over to where he had been seated before. [color=crimson]"I was just telling the young Madame that she should eat some before working...but I suppose that's why you're the boss, isn't it?"[/color] He said as they sat down, raising his mug of coffee in a mock toast.

He paused before lowering himself all the way, and held the mug out, [color=crimson]"Oh, that reminds me, coffee?"[/color] He asked the ringleader, smiling toothily.