[color=E800BC]"Listen, Alayna. I've heard all the damn rumors... And I don't believe them for a second. If you meant to betray us, you'd have done it already."[/color] Rebecca took a long, slow sip of her water. [color=E800BC]"No offense."[/color] Eventually, Rebecca found her way over to her assigned seat, smack between Iris and Alex. She was rather comfortable with both of them, but after all these years, there wasn't anybody she really [i]wasn't[/i] on good terms with. 

[color=E800BC]"Sorry I'm a little tardy, you two. But then again, it is appropriate for a medium to be late, you know?" [/color] She giggled a tad at her own hideous pun, then sighed. [color=E800BC]"Honestly, I just want today to be over. All this anticipation, wondering what the elders have in store for us- it's playing all sorts of hell with my nerves."[/color]