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Mariel:

“Half sisters. Never was very close. Never wanted to be. Frankly, they scared me. I looked for every excuse I could to be elsewhere. When the ones who picked me up went to find them at home, they were no longer there. Don’t know what happened in the interim. But I sympathize, Anne.”

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Anne

She looked carefully at Mariel. She said nothing. She didn't want to upset the good thing she had going and it was nice to have someone to talk to. But Anne wasn't sure she wanted sympathy either. There was some old joke about where to find it in the dictionary, and she didn't want to find any of the three things.

"I am not sure what I want, but I do appreciate having someone to talk to. I was alone growing up as you can well imagine."

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“Yes. I imagine they didn’t really let the two of you talk to eachother much if at all. Didn’t want to lose control.”

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Anne

"Each other? Who do you mean?" Her brows furrowed as she tried to think of who she might mean.

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“You are Nyx’s daughter. Alchemy also has a daughter.”

She says carefully.

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Anne

An involuntary shudder passed down her spine. "My mother was crazy, but at least she was a mother in some form. I don't know what Alchemy was like really. I met her a few times. I knew that she and Nyx were something to each other. But I didn't realize that she had a daughter too."

She shook her head "I am betting she was at the event we both were and she is here now." She closed her eyes and concentrated for a moment. Peri doesn't know that she has powers, that wouldn't fit Alchemy. Dash is broken in some way. That seemed more like that experiment guy.

"She is wearing extra special jewelry isn't she?" She smiled. Yes that made sense. But why did she end up with the thing. "Is the ankle thing a monitor or a damper? Or both?"

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“Alchemy ... is as near to a sociopath as I can imagine. Cold, manipulative, narcissistic, completely amoral. Or that is the girl that I saw back then and I have no reason to believe she has changed.”

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"I don't know. But since she and Nyx were working together I am pretty sure that you are pretty right."

"Does she know who I am?" She wondered if that would be a good or bad thing?

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Mariel:

“I am not quite sure. I am trying to tread carefully here as I don’t know how she might react. I wasn’t sure how you would react. I want to bring it up slowly.”

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Anne

She smiled "I just don't get your concern. To potentially homicidal super beings in an unfamiliar situation with unfamiliar people. What could go wrong?" She laughed lightly, but it was obviously forced.

"I have a memory of meeting a girl, once, long ago, but at that time I didn't know auntie psychopath very well. Not saying I do now, but having been around crazy mom Nyx, I suspect she was even more dangerous. Her powers were very very odd, and that would make almost anyone act differently given what they could do."

"I am ok with her knowing or not knowing as the case may be. I have to make a new life, and this place is where I am for now. That means I have to learn to live with the people that are here. The other option is a deep dark hole, and that isn't my first choice. I guess I am saying take your time, feel it out and she can learn of me when she is ready. For now I will remain Anne, and not mention mom in any case at all. I really don't want most people to know that my mother was Nyx, that will kind of bias their view points. Don't ya think?"

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Anne - we have parentage ranging from Enkidu to Innana, Darkstar, Blink ... I don’t think your parents define you here. You are who you are.

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Anne

She smiled a forlorn kind of a thing. Tilting her head to the side she said "that may be true, but in its own way it is naive. Perception is part of one's view point, which steams from what one has learned. So to associate Nyx with me, is to color one's view point of who I might be. Yes I can overcome that point of view in time with effort. But it will alter things just because it is now present in their minds. I know it will come out at some point, but I suspect like the other daughter, they are keeping it close to the vest to avoid exactly that kind of a influence. Don't you think?"

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Mariel:

“Perhaps. Not an option I had at any rate. I even had a codename. ‘Trouble’. I was perhaps a bit willful.”

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Anne

"You probably know my given name. But I haven't shared it here for multiple reasons. One I am not the person that my mother wanted me to be. This may not be my first choice in the direction my life was going to go, but this is a new start. Another reason is that my mother might not have been killed and she will certainly come looking for vengeance. Should I be that target, I doubt a name change would protect me, but it does offer protection here from preconceptions of who or what I am."

"I'll admit I am operating out my own naive little bubble, but much of what I know has been beaten into me with a very large club. Some comes from family knowledge having wealth means everyone wants to stick their hands in your pockets. I understand that this place is different and you don't operate that way, which is why I made my offer. I wish to be different than my mother in that manner. She took what she wanted without regard for anything else."

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Mariel:

“I almost went by Carmen. But I decided my name was one of the few things father gave me that I wanted to keep. And Anne, I want to assure you wether it comforts you or not, she will get you over my cold dead body. I can assure you I can still be troublesome.”

Her face was dead serious.

“As for your given name, actually I do not. Grey could have had it off you, but she isn’t going to do that.”

She pauses again a moment longer.

“Anne, if you wish to pay your way and can do so I will not stop you, but as of right now, things are paid for.”

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Anne

She considered for a long time and said "as long as it is in the strictest of confidence, my given name is Tenebra. Yes just one name, like a bad rock star."

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"Father didn't generally go for the theatrical when naming his offspring, even if he did it himself. I was Mariel. Then there were the other two. They chose their names themselves. Personally thought it was a load of pretentious rot even then, but hey, what did sixteen year old me know?"

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"I believe my mother felt that a name should invoke the feelings in your opponents that she desired. I suppose that is partly why I chose Anne. To spit in her eye even if it wasn't literal.

"In my own viewpoint a name is important, but I am not out to intimidate someone into fear. I don't know what I want my name to say of me, but for now, I need the other name in my past. I don't know what to do with it, and I certainly don't want to be influenced by it. Naive as that sounds, since it obviously is affecting my choices." She shrugged.

"I should let you get to whatever it is you need to do, so that you can rest. Let me know if you get supervision or protections in place and want to see what happens if or even if I can offer energy back to you. I am curious too."

She didn't stand though, it wasn't clear she was ready to go as her words had said.

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She puts down the cup of tea after another sip, then looks across and meets her eyes.

“Anne, I am here as long as you need it, if you have something to say get it off your mind. I’m not sure I’m sleeping easily tonight even after I go to bed. Please, talk.”

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She looked at her for a moment. "I am really not sure what to say. So many conflicting thoughts are warring in my brain. I never had a mother like some did and I can't say I missed it, because I didn't know it. You understand the painful feelings just rolling inside without anyone to share it with, ta shoulder to cry on?"

"I just want to know things. Like did Nyx survive? Why do I want to know? I can't answer that, I really don't know. Maybe because for whatever it is, she was my mother. Am I glad she is gone? Oh yeah. Pain is not a bed fellow I want and I do know it.

"I guess my biggest concern at the moment is what will I do when I am confronted. I intend to be good, but I know what my mother was like. She lashed out for no reason I could see from time to time. If I am provoked, what will I do? I just don't have the confidence to know that it will all be ok. Even though you say it will be, and I didn't kill when I could have. I still just don't know. That scares me. I don't want to tell that to anyone else, you understand. You are listening, but it still fills me with fear like my mother were standing over me yelling at me to do something.

"Does that make any sense?"

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“My mother died in birthing me, so I never knew her. Who knows, perhaps her presence might have led to father being different? My second ‘mother’ - now she never liked me. She was vying for favor for her offspring. I was never close. Of course, given time she died as well. So I never really ‘had’ a mother in any real sense, so perhaps I am a bit vague on that feeling. All I had was father, and father was a different story. He tried to mold me, and almost succeeded save for the fact that I got myself a conscience from some damn place or another.”

She pauses again.

“Anne, if I were to tell you I can guarantee everything will be alright, I would be a liar. I’m not going to lie to you. What I can say to you is that it is my intention, our intention, to try to give you the tools you need to be able to make decisions you are comfortable with when the time comes. At times, I might make you really mad at me. But my goal is the same. Every day is a new fight. Try to take one more step forward than you take back and see what happens.”

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"Your father was probably like my mother, other than Nyx was cray cray in the most obvious way.

"As far as what the future will do, or bring? I agree one step at a time. I have trepidation, but who wouldn't?

"I think I will go stick my head in the sand for a bit. Possibly learn about the others that are here in my new environment. They will be as much of this social experiment. I have hopes as well.

"Good talk," she said finally. Her eyes shone with a little more comfort then they had earlier.

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Mariel:

“Yes, it was. I am glad we had it. If you need anything, my door is, as it were, open.”

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Anne

She straightens "one step forward," she says over her shoulder with a small light tone, to go with her half smile. She moves towards the door and unless stopped, she exits.

[OOC: Fade?]

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[fade. Welcome to join girls dorm if wished. Some point over the next couple I’m likely advancing a day and starting some new things unless someone has something the particularly want to set up first. Likely when I’m off on tues or wed.

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