((This rp is backdated to a few days after this one))

In the end Harriet had waited until a few days after her encounter with the scary blond with a capital 'S' that she had had the misfortune to encounter whilst out trying to gather quota as Linnaeite.

In part it had been down to the fact that she barely saw her sister, with Ashley seemingly busy with things that Harriet hadn’t wanted to prod too deeply at in case said things turned out to be Reinerite things–

And in part it was because Ashley tended to be more irritable than normal around this particular time of year - and whilst her sister had always been a bit of a scrooge around the Christmas period, it seemed like she had gotten even worse now that Harriet knew about the Reinerite side of things.

Eventually, however, it had reached the point where Harriet couldn’t put off the talk any longer - not least because she hadn’t managed to collect enough energy to meet her quota on account of the scary blond with a capital 'S' encounter - which meant that she (or rather Linnae) was going to have to go back out and find more people to energy drain so that she could make up the rest of the quota - and whilst Harriet would have much rather have been checking out the cute little pop up shops that seemed to have popped up all over the place whilst indulging in hot chocolate and cute little cakes, instead of wandering the streets looking for people to energy drain as Linnae, Harriet knew better to keep it to herself–

Or rather she had learnt better.

Whilst Reinerite seemed to be diligent about her own quota, her sister seemed to be especially enthusiastic about energy-draining at this time of year and kept going on about it being a way of ‘making people useful’ whatever that was supposed to mean - and given that she was going to have to go and find more people to energy drain so that she could make up the rest of her quota, that meant that she was going to have to go out onto the streets - and that meant that she could potentially end up running into the capital ‘S’ scary blond again–

The capital ‘S’ scary blond had told her to tell ‘them’ whoever ‘them’ was that he wanted the Lysithea person that he’d kept mentioning over and over back.

Okay so he had also told her to go and find a General that was always on fire too, although Harriet was not going to think on that too hard right now, not least because she still had no idea about how to do that - in fact she still had no idea how someone being always on fire could work - much less how to go about finding them–

Whereas at least she knew that if she waited up for long enough that she’d be able to catch her sister - and whilst Harriet didn’t really want to talk to her sister, she did kind of report to her at least for the moment and Ashley or rather Reinerite was a General.

So Harriet had waited up.

And waited up.

In the end it had been late when her sister had finally come back from whatever it was that she had been doing and even though she had looked grumpy, Harriet had still spoken to her about the capital ‘S’ scary blond–

Well at least she had tried to, although it had gone about as well as she had expected.

She had done it though - had told her sister as much as she could about the capital ‘S’ scary blond and that he was looking for a Lysithea person and wanted the Lysithea person back - although if the slight scoff that had graced her sister’s lips was anything to go by then it didn’t seem like her sister was going to take what she had said or the capital ‘S’ scary blond particularly seriously–

But whilst Harriet was very much hoping that their paths wouldn’t cross again, she had nonetheless done her part - she had told her General sister.

Hopefully though someone up there would give her a break–

After all she (or rather Linnae) was still going to have to go out and get that energy.

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