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((Two days after Axiom))

Mara rubbed the side of her neck as she walked. Even after so long, her neck gave off a twinge of pain from where Lucian had shaken her during the fight. The fight seemed so long ago but in terms of time was still fairly recently. Hexxis has woken up, Ree had gone scarce but still around the base ..the only one truly missing after that mess with the truth serum was Kae herself and maybe Ashral but no one really wanted to see her come back.. ever.

Wearing black pants this time she looked around and knocked on the door, wonder if Kae will answer of ignore her.

Mara took in her unkempt look with a frown as the first whiffs of alcohol made their ways out from the room. She let out a soft sigh as Kae looked away from her after whispering her name. //darn it Ree.....// she thought quietly as she watched Kae open the door wide enough for her to enter and she did so quickly before Kae could change her mind.

Inside she cast her gaze around quickly, noticing the nearly darkened room, the bottles on the floor and the filled glass on the table. The light that were held over the inhibitor seemed more like an accusation in the near dark room than an actual needed source of light.

"...what did you want.."

To the point like always. "I'm on break today. I wonder if you wanted to join me in getting something to eat. Maybe pass by and look in at Melody ..or just. Talk " she said calmly, turning around until she was facing Kae again, viewing her face with a hint of concern on her own.

It had not been her original plan, she was just going to check that Kae was still alive and go hide out under her covers for the rest of the day. A good scare with drama to follow it was the best thing to jumble up her psyche, something she was still working through. Except until she found that Kae hasn't been seen since the incident and finding her like this right now..better to see if she would take a hint and go out with her for at least an hour or so.

Mara nodded when Kae started to reject he idea of visiting Melody, it was worth a try and either ways she was coming out which had been the only goal. "Just us then" she said quietly watching her get ready as she leaned against the frame of the door then glanced around absently when she went to the bathroom.

"Not really but I can think of one or two places on the fly. We can go to the cafe downstairs " what she preferred really "or if you don't mind riding on the back or a motorcycle I can take us to the city and find something there" longer but riding would also make her happy so either was fine. Which left it up to Kae herself where they might go and talk or glare at coffee/water and hoped it burned.

Mara relaxed as Kae choose what to do even if she had a faint twinge of sadness for not getting an excuse to push herself to drive out today. She waited until she looked away from her phone and started to change her ears and eyes. Mara blinked and stared at eyes with the similar color of her own..a throw back to some diluted non-human blood somewhere along her line.

"That's odd..." she couldn't help but smile as she was finally able to see the deception go up, as if seeing someone trying to imitate her was a compliment ...instead of the insult many people tried to make it be. "Lets go.." she nodded and pulled away, leading the way down, after a few minutes of silence she glanced back. "If you're going to keep that up... you should know we had an adopted brother..and piece of sh** parents. " she said quietly as they started to pass other people and finally arrive at the cafe itself. She moved toward the line ordered something, would pay for anything Kae ordered as well if she let her before going to grab a table.

Mara looked back at her questioningly as she sat down. "Had bad parents too? " she muttered grabbing on to that shared experience then regretting it. She was supposed to make her feel better...not be tempted to join her for a drink. Oh and yes ...she was Rasiel's mother ...and most metas and okay Yeeep.

"Well I'm not that great either.Not sure if I can blame them or not for it, especially since I let my adoptive son basically become property of the company I work for is not very big up there either. "What the heck was she doing? Sympathizing? Maybe ....goodness she bad at this. Stop talking.

Not what she wanted to say, not at all. She took a deep breath and shook her head, it hadn't been a good week for her either and her emotions were pretty shot as well. "I'm sorry Ree is such an idiot...even more than I thought. We will be working on that if he stays ....I'll let you rail him out more if you want .." Weak offer, great she really sucked at this.

Mara opened her mouth closed it and made a slightly face. Well then ...yep she didn't have much in the way of comfort there.

"I guess there are some books ou-Damn it Kae!" Mara glared as she watched the elf dump a flask of some drink into her coffee. "If I wanted to see you get drunk I would have left you in your room." She reached out and splayed her fingers over the top of the coffee lid and glared at her challengingly as she pushed her own untouch coffee cup forward."let it go....newest thing happening?. I am keeping my sister from showing her real side. Why don't we go with that. Tell me some of our old stories sis"

Mara stared at her, oh sh**. "Uhhh..." at loss for words on how to even try to answer, she reached for the coffee she had taken from Kae and uncapped it to sip. "This was a bad idea, now I remember how much of a pain you were" she said trying to regain her mental balance. "....and how Ama used to fly you upside down when you got to be to much " taking a much longer sip this time. " Those were much simpler times. " agreeing as she stopped herself from just drinking the spiked coffee in one go. " The conflict .."she frowned. "That was about the time we stopped talking, we went our separate ways." she shrugged but it was quick instead of a normal shrug when she didn't care.

" I don't think I ever met your family..." this time she took on a carefully neutral look. "My condolences, not....yes that time is iffy for me. But you were family?" a pained look cross her face as she leaned back and closed her eye for a moment. "Talking is good... talking is .... darn it kae now I want to get drunk" she said opening an eye and giving her an accusing look but it wasn't to serious. "Since I seem to be having faulty memory without it. " she muttered leaning forward again and taking the cup.

"Lets talk about that then family. Why don't you take Melody and Hexxis with you? they are your granddaughters after all. If you wanted a second chance it could quite easily be with them" she said absently, already knowing what she would say but if she was missing her daughter that much they could make up for it? or at least Melody.

Mara stared as Kae moved from disbelief to anger then back. She...wasn't aware? oh damn it she wasn't aware. "I thought you knew.... great great great. Well that explains why you didn't contest Tri " she looked back at her and sighed. "When Melody arrived we had her tested against Rasiel's DNA due to some rumors we heard. " a slight frown but she continued. "She came up as a very likely match....don't give me that look either. " she said with a slight raised brow, just encase.

"She might look like him but looks aren't exactly proof. Well... when I went to talk to her, it was after looking at the report from the physical done on Hexxis and noticed very similar marks. I had Hexxis's blood matched... it came back as close as Melody. " she looked down at the coffee and pushed it away moving to grab the pastry instead but just held it lightly in her hands as she looked up at Kae. "I might as well tell you I have a suspicion on who the second parent is. A certain pink hair menace... but there is nothing on file for him. Nor anything left in the hospital for me to test other than what he said about us taking his daughter which could just mean he was planning on adopting her and pulling her to the renegades. " she said quietly, spilling it all out.