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[center][color=Aquamarine]Did I ever mention how much I hate meetings?[/color]
[color=888888]-Nyxia Torrentia, Neon Tempest of the Ultraviolet Rainbow[/color][/center]

Nyxia was still reflecting on just how much stronger she’d become after the bone giant was killed and how that compared to the power boost she’d received from the bone galleon’s destruction, when Apathy Incarnate, of all people, suddenly blurted out that she’d run into Ashbringer at the local arcade. Just the very name of the draconic woman made the Neon Tempest’s teeth grind together. Her anger only grew when Tsubomi went on to reveal that the goat-themed, shadow monkey-manifesting girl who’d wrecked the school was now a member of Ashbringer’s little group. [color=Aquamarine][i]So I wasn’t seeing things when that dragon bitch scooped up the goat bitch and octo-girl…[/i][/color] the terrifying tealette reflected. [color=Aquamarine][i]Which means Sink Queen’s also working with her…[/i][/color] While Nyxia couldn’t say she [i]liked[/i] the aquatic young woman, Sink Queen had never done anything to annoy her, let alone be openly hostile. Indeed, the tentacled girl had been rather forthcoming with helpful advice. Now, that opinion would need to be radically altered…

Even as she brooded about this, the conversation around her continued, now turning back to the topic of possible forms of transportation. None of it really mattered to Nyxia, since she was still pretty sure she wouldn’t be tagging along anyway, but the simple fact that it was Tsubomi, of all people, dominating the discussion forced the Neon Tempest to refocus her full attention on it. [color=Aquamarine][i]Damn… [b]She’s[/b] certainly chatty today,[/i][/color] Nyxia noted. [color=Aquamarine][i]And did she just… [b]giggle?[/b][/i][/color] Yes, the normally emotionless girl who barely spoke, the girl Nyxia had always referred to as “Apathy Incarnate” was not only running off at the mouth, she was showing genuine emotion. Laughing. [i]Smiling.[/i] [color=Aquamarine][i]At this rate, I’ll need to come up with a new name for her…[/i][/color]

Haruna then offered to [i]fly[/i] everybody to wherever they ultimately decided to go, prompting Nyxia to finally speak up. [color=Aquamarine]“Uh, those battlesuits of yours are cool and all, but even if you could use that big mech you fought goat bitch in back at the school, it still didn’t look large enough to carry the whole club. At least, not without things getting [i]really[/i] uncomfortable…”[/color] she added with a scowl.