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 Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2019 11:45 am
Marcasite felt jittery but somehow managed to conceal that. The rush of chaos churning out through her and into Emmy was electrifying. The adrenaline rush was almost addictive and it was only the flashes of what she'd seen in herself after that night with sparks-- Nembus that kept her from taking pleasure in it.
Flashing thoughts of Levi grounded her in the harsh reality of what such a thing could mean and she had to keep herself focused.
Marcasite had never done something like this alone. When she'd pulled Nembus from White Moon into the Negaverse, Labyrinthite had been by her side and a general-sovereign had opened...controlled the chaos channel with more precision than she thought she was capable of in that moment.
Still, they'd somehow made it to the other side and when she pulled her hands back, she had to keep them from shaking.
She felt drained, but she kept her shoulders straight and her smile flashing from practice.
"Questions are acceptable now."
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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:45 pm
For a moment, there was a crack in Marcasite's effortless authority, which Emmy filed away in her brain with all the smugness that someone seconds out from something that had felt like a heart attack could muster. With every moment that passed, she felt better. There was still a dull ache deep in her chest but the rest of her felt different. Lighter, somehow. Stronger. She took a closer look at her hands, turning them side to side in front of her face, but besides the red cuffs, they were the same, down to the French manicure. Pain is weakness leaving the body, said signs, mostly in gyms. It seemed that there might be more truth to that than some of the other hackneyed inspirations. "Thank you," she said, nodding at Marcasite. "First, you mentioned another boss. Who would that be?" She wanted to show that she was still focused on business before moving on to the rest. "Second, can you explain the talking cat now? Third, whatever that was? My clothes? Can you explain that as well?" She was still very interested in whatever was going on, but there was also a lot happening in a very short amount of time. She was trying to make sure she processed it all correctly.
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:06 pm
Now that there were two signatures he had to actively suppress, Theodore's brows knit together in concentration and his tail swished back and forth on the table. His ears flicked, indicating he was listening, but he was focused, like a good guardian was supposed to be.
Marcasite however was giving Emmy her full attention.
"Within Argent Industries, you'll know him as Chase Black." He'd been around for sometime and it wasn't a secret that he was really the man in charge even if Jade was the face. "When attending to negaverse-related duties, you'll address him as General Labyrinthite."
Theodore interrupted, to explain himself. "I can speak for myself, thank you," he huffed, turning his pink-eyed gaze her way. "I'm not a cat," he stated in a matter-of-fact sort of way. "I am a mauvian, I simply happen to take the form of a cat while I'm here." His brows furrowed and he fell silent, needing to focus on his aura dampening.
"I'm not from earth. I come from a place much more sophisticated than Earth." He looked incredibly smug about it.
Marcasite withheld her sigh at his haughtiness. "Mauvians provide us with services like aura dampening, which prevents us from being detected while we're in these forms. There's a bit of...it's not a beacon but later, I'll show you what it feels like to be out and about without the cover of someone like Theodore." She wet her lips, preparing herself to formulate a response to the next question.
"This one is a little trickier. It's an ability we can pull over ourselves virtually anywhere and at any time, mostly. It's...powering up so to speak, like taking on an alter ego and we're provided with a magic that prevents people from seeing that I am Jade if they don't already know."
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Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2019 8:45 pm
Chase Black? That sounded like a name that had showed up on the website, if she took a second to think about it, but the other name, the General name, was another that didn’t sound human. She felt like she should be writing some of this down, but despite still being in an office, there was a noticeable lack of writing space, or pencils, at least that she could easily access. “Right,” she said. “Is it common for people at this company to have multiple names? Would that be a trait of this Negaverse?” It would in some ways line up with the military structure, but it was also quite impractical in her opinion. Most people had trouble learning names in the first place. Another voice forced her to turn her attention back to the cat, who was now insisting that he was not a cat, and not even doing a very good job of it. “Mauvians? As in, Egyptian Maus?” Her eyes narrowed at him behind her glasses. “So you’re a magic cat that wants a name in a different language.” That was fine, except for the talking. She was finding that talking could really ruin a perfectly good cat. She decided not to mention that with Marcasite watching, and she simply nodded at the explanation of the clothes.
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 4:41 pm
"It depends," Marcasite answered, as truthfully as she could. "The qualities we look for in employees are qualities we look for in recruits within the negaverse and if one suits our needs well enough for both, we'll utilize them." Like they'd done with Emmy. "It's a trait of entering the magical side of things."
Shoulders shrugged and she paused, deciding she should take time to deliberate her next answer. "There's a lot more to the negaverse side of things, but there will be time to get into that later. I'm sure you're exhausted."
Marce remembered what it felt like to be awakened and even now she could feel the way the corruption had drained her regardless of how put together she pretended to be.
"Mauvians as in from the planet Mau," Theodore huffed, annoyed that she continued to reduce him to something so earthly. "Your egyptians likely had contact with real mauvians and built about their cultures from it." Whether he was making it up was unclear or not. Regardless, he said it like it was fact and he was the authority.
The general interrupted. "Now, I want you to focus on powering down. The best way is to think of it as letting go to the guise that's clinging to you. Like so." She exhaled, the tension in her shoulders leaving for one moment before Marcasite melted away and Jade stood in her place. "Recruitment is often very taxing," she offered, giving Emmy an out. "Once you can successfully power down, we'll wrap thing things up here."
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 12:16 pm
Emmy tried to nod as the information kept coming, although she didn't know how much she was going to remember once she walked out of this building. That was why things like manuals and training videos existed. Then, this was supposed to be an interview, not training. That meant she still kept the smile on, even as the eyes glazed a little. It was only when Marcasite herself mentioned taxing that Emmy's shoulders dropped a little and she let herself be glad she didn't have anything else scheduled for today. She was fully prepared to sink into her bathtub for at least an hour while she tried to process all this, with bubbles and a nice glass of wine to make up for whatever shock her body had just gone through. There would certainly be no talking cats mewling about how they were from another planet. She didn't bother continuing to try to correct him, as she didn't want him to get worked more into a tizzy when her new boss, who was also presumably Theodore's owner, was here in the room. Marcasite was still getting all of her attention, or at the very least all of her eye contact. "Okay," she said, watching as the other woman shifted back. Then she closed her eyes, tried to pinpoint what was different about her now, which she'd felt from the beginning. It was that extra strength. At least letting go of it didn't shake her to her core the way receiving it had. When she opened her eyes, she was back to her slightly different suit. "Is that all?"
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:51 pm
Jade took advantage of Emilia's closed eyes to let her shoulders sag a little. Theodore was hardly paying attention to her and in fact looked rather relieved when both women powered down. He no longer had to continue to concentration on suppression which, in turn, meant that he could relax and he looked a little less stuck up when he wasn't actively squinting in concentration.
"For now," the woman replied choosing to occupy her hands by cleaning up all of the paperwork they'd sorted through and tucking them back into their manilla folder.
"If you have questions, please reach out, but we'll go over things during a proper orientation." She'd have to arrange something, but there were a lot of new hires she was looking into and she'd rather get them all together if she could and do it once.
"I'll see you Monday morning."stari_maga can wrap with your next post <3
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:01 pm
Monday morning.That was that. There were no more implications. There were no more painful gifts. Emilia was in. The tension that she'd been carrying all morning left all at once, and a wave of giddy excitement came in its place. She almost burst out laughing right there, but she kept it to a grin instead. "Of course," she said. "Thank you so much for your time, and for everything." The job in itself was everything that she'd been working for, although it was still nice to fine a company that appreciated her talent so quickly. The rest was different. The power and the promise of another world was different. That was something she knew she wouldn't have found just anywhere, and by Monday morning she was sure she would be ready to learn more. For now, she turned directly to leave, not about to overstay her welcome, and moved on to her next task: beginning to learn how to get out of this building.
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