Coco has more successfully defended herself from Leo's prying than his previous pawing.
Leo's attempt has failed as Coco has met the Denied requirement.
Coco has more successfully defended herself from Leo's prying than his previous pawing.
Leo's attempt has failed as Coco has met the Denied requirement.
Leo turns the camera around, studying it for a few seconds before turning it on.
There's only a handful of images in the buffer: the camera is missing the memory card. Had Coco been able to see, it might have given her small comfort. Or perhaps not, given what she'd gone through.
A few of the pictures, Leo recognizes.
The Circle of Creation. Ariadne. The woman he's been talking to, with someone who has their back turned. A nightclub. A blurry photo. A straw boater hat. Another blurry photo. Himself.
"Uuuh." Was the most graceful thing he could muster after finding himself on the camera. Someone was obviously casing the Circle, and was aware of mages to go for both Leo and Ariadne, but how Coco could factor into this he still wasn't sure.
"Okay, sorry, but this needs to stay with me." The First Talon was obviously disturbed by what was on the camera. "I'm dropping this to Ariadne, a friend, tomorrow morning at the Nox and you're welcome to attend. Since whoever took those photos had pictures of all of us and you're obviously not a normal human we need to handle this together."
There was still the issue of the Veil, but that was more up Ariadne's isle. Plus if the redhead in front of him knew what was what she could talk to the real talker in Leo's community.
Leo thinks Coco is composed because he isn't paying attention to her
Coco tapped her index finger on the handle of her cane, this time in annoyance as well as discomfort.
"I don't appreciate being fucked with. I'm trying to help you and your considerably more attractive friend, but not only are you not letting me see the camera, you're trying to lie to me. I distinctly heard this Ariadne say 9 P. M."
There was a blank expression before it clicked that he had in fact misspoken on the time. And the attractive bit was just mean.
"Sorry, I meant 9 P.M. I'm not trying to fuck with you, but there is personal information about me and Ariadne on this camera." His tone was firm but not overbearing, although he was obviously not pleased that inviting her to the meeting bit him in the ass that hard. No good deed and all that bullshit. "Now, I just want to give this to her so she can see. If you like, since all three of us were spied on, we can look at it together. I just want to make sure that nothing significant of hers is on the camera first."
"Are we good to move on here or what?" He could just take the camera and leave, and he was thinking about it, but actually meeting one of the other supers in the world was not something he intended to let go.
The tapping stopped. "Alright. Fabulous, then. Together we shall go and meet Ariadne and then investigate this Camera. I have a quick call to make before we go. Do you mind waiting?"
Coco didn't wait for an answer and instead slipped her phone out of her bag, put the battery back in and called 411 for the number of a plane that could fly a banner above Sacramento.
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