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Avery Zain

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Location: Caden's House – Chicago, IL
Skills:
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Avery continues to frown, more and more confused by the second. Kimiko never mentioned having powers. ”I don’t understand,” Avery stated, not sure what else he is supposed to say to seeing a hole in someone shirt caused by an invisible fire.

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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Cassiopeia sighed when Nero hesitated. ”I can’t control how the memory comes out or what comes forward. I just, bring it about. I can stop it or break the connection, but I wouldn’t advise doing that. Once the memories start to unfold its best to let them happen and let the brain go where it needs to go. If it helps, whatever you see I will see. Whatever you feel, I feel. We’ll be connected in a sense until the memory ends.”

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Avery Zain

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Location: Caden's House – Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Fire burns behind Avery’s eyes. He’s certain he isn’t the only one here who wants to tear Mundus apart, but its probably not as bad as what Caden would want to do to them.

Avery sniffs then frowns and looks at Kimiko. He starts and places a hand on her. There’s a burn mark on her shirt. ”Kimiko?”

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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Cassiopeia looks at Nic when he kisses her hand. She smiles softly at him, looking down at their joined hands. She rubbed her thumb along his skin before she leaned over and kissed his cheek softly. She let his hand go and stood.

Cass walked around the table and held her hand out to Nero. ”Well, no time like the present,” Cassiopeia declared.

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Caden

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Location: Caden’s Home – Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Caden watched Cass stand and walk around him, so she stood on the side Nero sat. She held her hand out to them and Caden tightened his hold on Nero. ”You don’t have to if you don’t want to tonight,” Caden reminded Nero.

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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Cassiopeia slowly turns their focus onto Caden as Nero starts to reveal memory after memory about who and what they are. It made sense why Caden was so attracted to them now. Caden was naturally attracted to power, even if his dragon was still stronger. Still, Nero’s rank didn’t sit well with Cassiopeia. Nero being here could cause all of them a lot of problems. Especially if their superior tried to find them.

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Caden

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Location: Caden’s Home – Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Caden rubs Nero’s back while they talk and tell the group more information. Avery seems to take it in stride, whereas Cassiopeia looks on the verge of jumping to her feet. When Nero pauses, Caden looks at them and kisses their shoulder before he takes over.

He tells the group of Mundus and how they had Nero as a slave. He avoided going into grave details, especially what Mundus did to them, but he was certain the others would be able to put two and two together.

Avery looked murderous, and Caden was glad to see it. He had seen how quickly Caden gravitated towards protecting Nero, and Caden had hoped Avery would maintain that need.

”So a witch who made a deal to survive, from what we don’t know for sure, and then rose through the demon ranks quickly after enduring their own personal hell. There’s more coming to the surface but you can’t, or won’t, uncover it yourself. Does that about sum it up?” Cass asks.

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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Despite her better judgement, Cassiopeia scoots closer to Caden and Nero. ”What did you find out so far?” Whatever it was, it was enough to convince Caden they were a good person, or at least someone Caden wanted to spend eternity with.

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Avery Zain

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Location: Caden's House – Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Avery smirked and stood up to get Kimiko a fresh drink and a smaller plate of food for himself. He knew he didn’t have to, but Avery didn’t mind looking after Kimiko or getting her a drink.

He walked back over, setting Kimiko’s drink down in front of her before he sat down.

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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Cassiopeia raises her eyebrows, surprised Nero agreed. She glanced at Caden briefly before looking back at Nero. ”When do you want to start?”

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Avery Zain

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Location: Caden's House – Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Avery grinned and leaned forward. ”Do you want me to make you a drink, too, Kimiko?”

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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Cassiopeia looked at Nic when he took her hand and she smiled lightly, intertwining their fingers and kissed the back of his hand. She truely was grateful for him, and that he was here.

Movement caught Cassi’s attention though and she looked over to see Nero digging through the candy bag. She watched them for a minute before speaking. ”Nero, did you think more about if you wanted me to help you unlock your past memories?”

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Avery Zain

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Location: Caden's House – Chicago, IL
Skills:
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Avery laughed when Kimiko got upset. ”Hey!” He protested when she took a sip of his drink. ”If you want you’re own, just ask,” he said and plucked his drink back.

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Caden

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Location: Caden’s Home – Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Caden looked from Nero to Nic and smiled. ”Thank you for coming. Despite the circumstances under how we met, it’s been good getting to know you.”

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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Cassiopeia nodded and finished eating. She sat back and sipped her whiskey. She avoided looking at Caden and Nero, opting to look at Kimiko and Avery. She was rather intrigued to see why two of them were matching. Maybe she would get some information out of Avery on the way home. Or Kimiko tomorrow.

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Avery Zain

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Location: Caden's House – Chicago, IL
Skills:
Fit

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Avery finished up his second plate of food, and debated getting a third. He looked over at Kimiko who had a fresh plate of food. He picked up his fork and stabbed one of her small potatoes and ate it happily.

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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”If you want. I understand if you want to have lunch just with Nic. You two can use the back room while I’m up front with customers,” Cassiopeia offered.

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Cassiopeia Claire Alistair

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Location: Caden’s House – Chicago, IL
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”Did you want to us to introduce you to Deductive Costa? He might be able to set you on the path of some cold cases if you’re wanting some work right away,” Cassiopeia offered. She wasn’t fully sure if she was invited to this lunch, but she could introduce Kiki to Costa whenever.