Content to follow Knot, Nemo strode after him, finding herself strangely unsurprised when he introduced her to a man who looked like he'd lived through several wars, and was sick of everything, anyway. Yup. Definitely one of Smiley's People. Also, how interesting was it that Knot had already picked up on the pronouns?
Hm. Must be Portland.
Before Nemo could speak, however, another woman joined them. Beautiful. Beguiling. Undoubtedly feminine. It so strange, looking at her. There was no one feature that stuck out as particularly striking, and yet, somehow, they all worked in concert to produce a magnificent visual symphony. Nemo's fingers twitched, the urge to reach out and feel the bones beneath the woman's skin, the shape of her nose, the lines of her lips...
"Well, thank you, Knot, for introducing me," Nemo said after a moment, a soft smile on her lips. "Like my escort said, I'm called Nemo, and like you, I'm from Vail, Colorado. Sacramento is shaping up to be really energetic, though. I mean, the Ladder has already swooped in, apparently with support from the Arrow? Like, didn't this Consilium already get taken over by San Francisco, already? They kinda did the same thing, swooping in, installing a government, lying about their true intentions. Kinda makes you wonder about their motivations, huh?"