[center][h1][color=9950ff]Iris Aderast[/color][/h1]

Iris woke up that morning in a rather groggy fashion. Sleeping on her usual bed along the back wall of the room as Dakota and Reb took the bunks by the door. She didn't really care what they did as long as she got her comfy bed still. That morning was a little rough on the girl however, she couldn't quite get herself to actually get up and move around, her head just wasn't there quite yet; Raking her messy hair out of her eyes as she crawled to her feet, she sat there looking around. Those two were still asleep, good for them...The light from the morning sun peaked through the dull curtains, it wasn't shining directly on her face or anything, but just looking at it made her sleepy self want to curl back up. She couldn't do such a thing right now, she'd fall back sleep. Iris blinked the sleep out of her face and stood up, there were numerous books stashed under her bed that Dakota surprisingly hadn't screwed around with just yet, books about alchemy, charming, her own protected golemism book, and various other stuff that was relevant to her life. She didn't exactly look presentable in the current moment, she was wearing stuff akin to a sleepover and her hair looked like she was dragged backwards through Summer's personality; Still, she got up and stretched herself across the room towards a spot across from the window, towards an altar she had going for a long time now. It looked like a desk but it was covered in stuff that wasn't really common in witches today. There was a warm red candle in the middle, with numerous small things neatly placed around it, bitter smelling incense, a knife, runes on wooden slabs that looked burned in somehow, and magic charms folded around the candle that looked like the kind Iris made. She had undoubtedly explained this stuff to her roommates already, if not, then surely Dakota was already familiar, they're friends. Iris was a Lokean witch, one who worshipped the wild and uncontrolled god Loki. There weren't many witches who were religious anymore, there was a time when that was much more common, but she was one of them. This was dedicated to him out of respect, it wasn't exactly hard to see when look at a goofy bastard like him and back at Iris, Dakota and Rebecca would be advised to leave this spot be since they didn't need to be messing with it for any reason. 

Iris reached over the the windowsill and grabbed a box of matches the forgot to put away, she lit the candle in the middle and stuffed the dead match down into the box. The candle was magic, it wouldn't burn anything if something bad happened. If it were to be knocked over, it would snuff itself out; Iris stood there in front of her makeshift altar for a few minutes as she woke herself up, after that she picked up Corvus and set him on her shoulder. Off to breakfast. 

She still looked like a mess when she got a hold of some food, but she was awake; Cereal and toast on her plate, she quickly inhaled it all while some irrelevant [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad4T-j_bOVc]music[/url] was playing through earbuds she had stuffed in her pockets this morning. There weren't many people awake right now, so she almost considered going back to bed for a while, that was of course before someone - no idea who - swung by her and said Deborah needed her and everyone else. So [i]that's[/i] where everyone is. [color=5000ff]"Fuck."[/color] Iris lazily got up and dragged herself upstairs while fooling with her hair to make it look semi-presentable. She didn't care if Deborah was annoyed by her bedraggled appearance - she didn't actually give two shits and a biscuit about that woman's feelings at all - but she didn't like getting yelled at over pointless stuff in the wee hours of the morning. When she finally got up there she slipped in between everyone just in time to hear the whole thing. 

[color=slateblue] “I’m giving you your first assignment today.” “Two weeks ago, a group of witches took down a large group of vampires in Washington, D.C. Our intelligence indicated that there were a smaller number of vampires than we actually found at the nest. We only assigned 10 witches to go, thinking there were only 15 or so vampires, but… we were wrong. There were, on estimate, more than 30 in the building. Our witches were overwhelmed, and we tragically lost two of our fellows.”
“But, what pertains to you is that some of the vampires got away. A good fourth or a third or so, we’d say. They split up, leaving D.C and going somewhere else. We weren’t sure where until yesterday afternoon, when some rather suspicious news began to come out of places close to Washington D.C.
“We’re sending you after them. Left unchecked, vampires multiply quickly, which means they could get back up to their previous numbers in a matter of weeks if we’re not quick about this. Think of yourselves as… exterminators. You are not to leave a single vampire alive.” [/color]

Well, that got real serious real quick. Vampire hunting. Iris had read a decent amount of stuff on them, dead, hemophiles, photophobic. She never hunted one, much less tried, but it was good to know she was working with a group, Calypso was good at fighting, and Arken could make things. In her head, she was already planning what she would bring to the group, lots of potions and magical protection, and maybe Ester too. An old avian golem she hadn't used in a while, could be useful in this situation. 

Cal got ahold of the folder, and started rattling stuff off, armory, cash, travel, it would work out. Iris walked over to her and chimed in, might as well get involved, right?

[color=9950ff]"So. Vampires...I have books on them and plenty of stuff we can use, I can make some potions and some charms for us, I'll bring a golem good for this too, he's old and dusty but he can fly like Dakota, and carry stuff too. What do you think we should do, Cal?"[/color] Iris wasn't the best suited for direct fighting like Calypso's magic, and she didn't even know who the hell "Chester" was. [color=9950ff]"They're nasty things, we could get really sick if they bite us..."[/color]
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