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[center][color=MediumSpringGreen]I’m… late…?[/color]
[color=888888]-Ashley Avenir[/color][/center]

When Ashley arrived at the pre-mission meeting location just in time to hear the beginnings of Dr. Moller’s briefing, she was met with two decidedly unpleasant realizations. First, she appeared to be late, even though she’d left her apartment at a time that [i]should[/i] have allowed her to arrive [i]early,[/i] even despite the slight delay of talking with Olivia, which couldn’t have lasted more than five minutes at most. A quick comparison of her phone’s clock and her visor’s chronometer revealed a worrying discrepancy of [i]twenty[/i] minutes. Although that could have been due to a malfunction on the phone’s part, the high-tech heroine was meticulous about ensuring that it was always functioning properly. Indeed, it [i]had[/i] been as recently as when she left her apartment, when she’d checked it against both the clock on her nightstand [i]and[/i] the one on her laptop. While it was possible that all [i]three[/i] devices were malfunctioning, it seemed far more likely that some other force was at work. Delaying her arrival in order to disrupt critical timings, and call her competency even further into question by the rest of her squad, was certainly something she could see The Hand doing, and there [i]was[/i] a mysteriously vanished esper who called himself the [i]Time[/i] Keeper that could easily now be serving them, one way or another. 

Second, the Knight of Tomorrow and her team would apparently be riding to the target atop the same golden dragon she had [i]shot at[/i], and which had subsequently, and completely understandably, attempted to [i]kill her.[/i] Of course, she hadn’t [i]wanted[/i] to fire on the creature, but that fact didn’t make interacting with it any easier. [color=MediumSpringGreen][i]And I thought working with Amanda was uncomfortable…[/i][/color] Yes, the thought of “boarding the dragon”, as Director Moller had just instructed, filled her with far more trepidation than any of the mission’s myriad other concerning facets.

As the other members of her team began climbing onto the massive creature, Ashley approached the director. [color=MediumSpringGreen]“Agent Orion reporting, ma’am,”[/color] she announced. [color=MediumSpringGreen]“I apologize for my lateness,”[/color] the Knight of Tomorrow added with a small bow of her head. [color=MediumSpringGreen]“It would seem that my phone’s clock is now running exactly twenty minutes slow, along with every timepiece in my apartment…”[/color]

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[center]18 | Female | GEMINI | Vision of Tomorrow
Implements of Tomorrow | Wand, Shield | Arcane | Tune of Tomorrow
Raiment of Tomorrow | Stride of Tomorrow 
Light of Tomorrow | Light | Power of Tomorrow
PRO-TEK 5000 Defensive Surgery Implement | Kevlar Coat, Kevlar Padding, Medical Supplies x 2, Flash Bang, Tazer, Clip Light
[Reveal (2), Purity (4)], Damage (2), Damage X (6), Shield (4), Reflect (4), Restrain (4), Heal (6), Major Heal (18), AoE (2), Powerful (0), Piercing (2), Purify (6), Homing (2), Avoid (2), Construction (4)

DAMAGE: A | SPEED: D | SENTINEL: C | 1250

PHYSICAL: E | ARCANE: C | CHAOS: B | 1250[/center]