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[quote=Vashti][color=darkcyan]“If Liao wanted to wipe us out then she wouldn’t have taken us to the hospital. She would’ve blasted us in Fantasy Land. Still, if we’re in danger then I think it’s time we’re all filled in on what’s what. Because I did join the Coven for protection.”[/color][/quote]
[quote=Maya][color=9e0b0f]“DENs could’ve killed us [i]so[/i] easily during that first raid, nevermind all the times after that… not that I trust them, but if they were gonna kill anyone, it wouldn’t have been… Well, it wouldn’t have been Izzy.”[/color][/quote]

Conspiracy theorist Emily was in full swing as she rolled her eyes. 

"... Maybe she doesn't want to kill all of us," Emily started, "Maybe Izzy stumbled upon something she shouldn't have... or knowing her, she was having an affair with Liao and she iced Izzy before it could be made public."

Anything was possible with that slut. Emily shrugged as she looked at the two, who seemed to be wholly trusting of the DENS. "Either way, we should [i]not[/i] be taking everything at face value, especially from a shady government agency." She left out some of her harsher lines about the Coven being naive and too trusting... mostly because it would fall on deaf ears. She crossed her arms as she looked between everyone in the group.

[quote=Grace] "[color=#FF5757]None of us asked to be like this and we're just tryna' survive like damn why are there so many things after us?[/color]"[/quote]

Emily looked at her and realized that she was probably all that initiated in all of this magic Coven nonsense. Then again, she seemed a bit... [i]green.[/i] Too green for the Coven. In all honesty, Emily can't find a logical reason why she's still even here... unless little Quinn here attracted a girlfriend. Hmph. [i]Disgusting.[/i] Either way, Emily had some relatively blunt things to say to her.

"... It's because strange attracts strange, darling," Emily echoed the words of Babylon... which she knew was probably not all that appreciated, but those words made such an impact on her. Emily grabbed onto her brown hair and pulled it off to the side and revealed her [url=https://imgur.com/iOkycrO]sigil[/url] to Grace. "Long as we have magic, we're going to be magnets for this kind of shit." She just bluntly answered before she chuckled.

"It's a package deal."

Around this point Claudette came back with the newbies... and Emily crossed her arms as she looked at them. One was a tall, boy-looking, chick that she wondered was one of Madison's friends. She talked with a hood accent and Emily could tell that Claudette, really, picked the wrong time. The other one was a pale looking chick with brown hair that was around her height, who awkwardly introduced herself. Honestly, at this point, Emily couldn't justify bringing more members of the Coven into this.

[quote=Maya][color=FireBrick]“... Izzy’s dead. She was killed by some mass murderer called Annabelle, something Lyss didn’t bother to tell us till right now. So yeah, I’d say something happened while you were gone.”[/color][/quote]


"Augh... Mademoiselle Izumi? She's..." Claudette was honestly shocked to hear about it... she wasn't all that close to Izzy, mostly because she avoided Claudette. Nonetheless, she was a sister and it was shocking to hear her go. "... When did this happen?"

"No clue, but..." Emily turned to face the two new people, then Grace, then Isla with a narrow look. "... I suggest that you all leave while you have the chance, you don't want to get involved in this." She just bluntly said as she crossed her arms. It would make no difference to Emily because people left the Coven all the time. Just look at Kayla! One little deal goes wrong and she drops off the face of the earth! Some leader she was. However, Emily was not looking forward.

However, that was when Claudette realized that she had to step up. "Now, now, now, Ms. Reed, I would not say [i]that,[/i]" She rolled her eyes and shook her head. "If this Annabelle is the one killing people, then she's not specifically attacking [i]us[/i] but instead she seems to be a threat to Tampa as a whole."

Claudette began her little speech as she walked up to the middle of the room and "took the stage". "Which means we are likely better off sticking together than leaving-"

"... Or leaving Tampa," Emily said as she crossed her arms.

"-or turning against each other. I do not know the whole situation with Annabelle, and while it may seem like Lyss knows more than us, we have to remember that she's a veteran of the group and she most likely had her reasons for doing so. However, I do not believe those reasons are valid anymore and she should enlighten us on the situation." Claudette said as she looked at Lyss... truth be told, she didn't trust the DENS but she knew that Lyss was hiding something. She could only hope that Lyss still has the Coven's best interests at heart.

Emily still had her arms crossed as she closed her eyes... before the Coven got a bit too sidetracked, she remembered [i]why[/i] she came here in the first god damn place. "... I found a lead on Babylon."

"Oh?" Claudette said.

"Orlando, a family fucked each other to death. Sounds like her," Emily started, "I don't know if anyone forgot-" [i]Because Quinn sure as hell did[/i] "-but Babylon [i]is[/i] still using Ellie's like a fucking meat suit as she does all sorts of depraved shit with [i]her[/i] body. I don't know about you all, but I'm [i]not[/i] okay with that. I know you guys already forgot about Molly, but she got abscised and [i]because[/i] we sat on our asses that Apparition is God knows where and we're unlikely to ever find it."

By her admission, Emily didn't do anything at the time because she didn't care and she now hates herself for being so apathetic. However, things change. The Coven should change.