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[b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 9[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](136/90)
[b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] TS.O.U. hideout
[color=Aquamarine]Warp Charges:[/color] 3
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Virgin Victory teleport room
Top of the Split mountain
Outside the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage
Tostarena Town
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By the time Midna woke up well past 6 the next day it seemed like everyone had rolled back into the office while she had been out like a light all night. She resisted the temptation to spite the morning sun and stay hidden under the covers. Mostly. Her trip to the bathroom could well have caused a spook or two as she drifted over there with her blanket wrapper around and over herself like a bedsheet ghost.

There in she freshened up, after which she realized that she was out of clean clothes. Again. There hadn’t exactly been time to do laundry yesterday, so her hoodie and mix and match fusion apparel were still dirty, and her new suit was, well it was basically ruined by gashes and blood stains.

[color=Aquamarine]”Urgh, I got beat up a lot yesterday huh?”[/color] 

Still, at least, she could use this as self assurance that her harbinger fusion had worked out as intended. She was now quite the tough cookie. That said, she thought, it would not hurt to think about ways to get hit a bit less going forwards.

Still, that thought did nothing to solve her current predicament, which she did her best to resolve going forwards: [color=Aquamarine]”What kind of princess doesn’t have a wardrobe after all”[/color]

[color=Aquamarine]”Not that this load of tat is going to solve the issue. Going to have to go clothes shopping so i don’t have to go rummaging around for leftovers”[/color] she complained to herself as she rummaged around and eventually pulled out a fairly formal button up [url=https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/splatoonwiki/images/e/e9/AnnakiMask%2BSchoolCardigan%2BBlackDakroniks.jpg]Cardigan[/url] and matching skirt and bow from the collection, groaned at how plain it was, and then put it on anyway.

After that she rolled back over to her sleeping spot, acquired and donned her helmet (and also picked up the previous evening’s spoils) and then followed the sound of activity in the meeting room, as well as the smell wafting out of it.  

She helped herself to some coffee and donuts, though her loose lips couldn't help but snipe [color=Aquamarine]”Wouldn’t exactly call this substantial fighting fuel”[/color] at the choice of fare, only for her to take a sip of the coffee and for her medieval ass to be blasted by the amount of caffeine in it 

[color=Aquamarine]”Fffff-, ok never mind I take it back”[/color] she was forced to admit, before proceeding to tentatively sip at the drink throughout the rest of their talk.

Given the gradual building effect it had on her, it was probably for the best that she said her piece close to the start of it, going in for some much more rambling talk after Benedict‘s own far more efficient words.

[color=Aquamarine]”We got a good look at two of the three crisis yesterday, and, well, they aren’t exactly pleasant”[/color] the princess said, visibly shuddering as what had happened to the children, and almost happened to them, shoved itself to the forefront of her mind unbidden.

[color=Aquamarine]”We have the Other, who were a numerous bunch of freaks and pretty hard to put down to boot if you can’t get them to pop out these ‘lightbulb’ looking weak spots”[/color] she said, relaying one of their foe’s weaknesses

[color=Aquamarine]”And then there were the chimeras, who are like ghosts in this world, and come from another full of floating islands. Both they and their realm corrupt people into monsters, which is why I am hesitant to do anything with this”[/color]  she plopped the ominous red spirit of Enceladus down onto the table [color=Aquamarine]”Despite the fact that using chimeras seems like the best way to fight other chimeras. It’s how Neuron does it, though theirs are blue and some seem to be able to ‘blueshift’ in-order to undo ‘redshifting’, at least before the mutation takes hold. So we might want to just hold onto it, if we are going to look into joining them, see if we can apply whatever they do to theirs to this one.”[/color] 

[color=Aquamarine]”As for what we should do today, well, I think Psych-OSF were doing some kind of operation in tunnels outside of town? Trying to cull off a lingering infestation of Others I think. We might want to shadow them, just in case anything goes wrong and our infiltrators get into trouble, though given that some of our faces are known to them already, and how they don’t want ‘civilians’ fighting the Other, we may need to get clever to avoid being flagged as criminals for trying to help or something absurd like that. Disguises or something maybe?”[/color] she suggested, remembering in that moment that she had her X-Naut Uniform which could work for just such a purpose. Though she would probably have to vary up her fighting style so as to avoid being pegged by it alone, which would be tricky. 

[color=Aquamarine]”If we’re already ‘walking on eggshells’ then that kind of thing might help regardless. Means we can’t mess up Peach, Sakura and Raz’s whole deal by ending up with them being associated with enemies of the state”[/color] though she was aware it was maybe a bit too late for that kind of ploy.

[color=Aquamarine]”Other than that, could I set up portals at our 2 hideouts, or even link us up with our home base as well? Last one would take a little while, I would need to take a metro tunnel, but it could definitely be worth our while resources wise”[/color] see suggested, before adding  [color=Aquamarine]”Plus we could check out and see if these psifish things which are around the other base are worth anything spirit wise while I’m at it. Might be a way of getting more people psychic powers and into Psych-OSF if we want to keep going that route”[/color] unaware that a lot of things about the otherworldly creatures made them very unsuitable fusion targets.

That was all she had really, and so after the princess leaned back in her chair and got increasingly more fidgety as the caffeine overdose started to take hold.