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[hider=Mood Music][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b9n0Amr9RI[/youtube][/hider][/center][right][h1][color=f49ac2]Edict[/color] & [color=C67C12]Leon[/color] & [color=7B81B3]Kenshiro[/color][/h1][/right][right][sub][hr]Mentions: [color=f4eb93]Britney Williams,[/color] [color=DA70D6]Lila Blackwood[/color] | Direct Dialogue: [color=7ABBFF][b]Layla Hyacinthus/[@Estylwen],[/b][/color] [color=9966CC]Anya Baksh/[@FernStone],[/color] [color=goldenrod]Sully Mcpherson[/color] & [color=silver]Sloane Farris/[@Atrophy],[/color] [color=6644ff]Jack Hawthorne/[@Blizz],[/color] The Gathered Coven | Location: The House on the Hill [/sub][/right][hr]
[/indent]Leon remained fixed on Layla, their participation in the meeting cursory with the attention it was being given. He listened to Layla's plan, and as it unfurled, he only felt more nervous about it. There was no way Lynette was just going to let her go about her business about the Temple without making herself a useful host.
[quote=Layla][color=7ABBFF][b]“I can still be useful…”[/b][/color][/quote] 
[color=C67C12]"Well... Then you must be planning on taking another Charge, right? Another Apparition in place of them before [i]Him[/i]? Because... Part of your training is...-"[/color] Leon gripped the bridge of his nose in frustration. [color=C67C12]"-The whole point, really was you having rowdy uncontrolled spirits! You're learning, we're trying to improve your control, right!? So that when... When you do, and please don't say his name around these people-"[/color] he whispered. [color=C67C12]"-but when you do, you'll be ready! Right? So, you... You need to consider that! You [i]should[/i] consider that."[/color] he finished, not wanting to sound like some sort of taskmaster or pusher forcing this on her. 

He had enough regrets about getting his friends involved with his family. Frankly, he had been hoping that Layla said yes, and that she would be done with all this magic. She needed therapy, real human therapy; not a Leech replacing the Vampires. And then Sully squirted her in the mouth. As much as he wanted to be the grouchy wolf, it was... It was Sully! He'd been disappointed in the guy a few times, but never so mad that he could have anything for him but genuine love and affection. A bit of the healing liquid spilled across his hair as well, making it grow just a little uneven. 
[color=C67C12]"Oh, Sully! Bro, is one of those filled with JD? Jesus, watch where you're squirtin' your loads Brother, we're tryn'a have a private thing for a second."[/color] he chided playfully.

Edict was a bit distracted by the interaction, mostly by Sully. The always and ever hopeless gorilla. It was only endearing to a certain point, quickly becoming overbearing after a few minutes. But Sloane was with him, and he couldn't help but stir the pot a little bit.
[color=f49ac2]"Oh, my fellow thief! Glad to see that dour expression is still stuck to your face after getting bug-zapped outside a Dairy Queen."[/color] he grinned, long since having gotten a drink for himself.

[quote=Jack][color=6644ff]”If anyone has a chance of translating those notes, would it not be you? Your closeness to Kari puts you in an advantageous position, does it not? We can recover the notes and translate them ourselves.”[/color][/quote]
As Edict joked around, Ken scoffed at Jack's assumption that he had any clue about what was going on in that text. Even if there was Gamanese in it, he wasn't going to have the wearwithall to associate his own vague knowledge of the language with the beginning of a cypher. 
[color=7B81B3]"I'm a Soldier and a Farmer, Jack. I'm not some code-man or a Shiro user like Kari is. I wouldn't be able to help at all."[/color]

Edict took in the different suggestions, listening to what everyone had to say before a grin finally washed over his face.
[color=f49ac2]"Alright, hear me out. I'm game for suggestions from anyone else, but... I think we should do what we do best! I think, maybe in this situation, being a group of disorganized dissenters can help us! The proposition is Absolute Chaos: If 8th told Schmidt that we're looking for the notes and didn't find 'em... Then we should make it look like it broke us! That this is the last meeting, and that everyone's just gonna separate and do their own things. So they think we're disorganized and that we don't have our shit together. All we need to do as a group is buckle down and agree on a plan to break their ankles!"[/color] he said, mimicking a basketball fakeout with the glass in his hand.

[color=f49ac2]"We go underground as we can, and start pulling strings like how Adora said: Doin' shit like trying to get the good brains out of 8th and onto our side. If they see a little group, maybe headed by Luca or something, maybe they'd be more willing to go for it. Or, at worst, we can have different cells working different angles. And then rather than doing in-person meetings, we do them while we're sleeping. Anya coordinates."[/color] he rose his eyebrows.

[color=f49ac2]"And I hate to say it, but we ask people like Brit or Lila to... Act as bait a little bit. Not now, but when we know we've got helping hands. In the mean time, we'll have other people working the Schmidt side, trying to get what we want before 8th Street thinks we're organized enough to pull this off."[/color]

Ken pointed a finger into the air, waggling it around.
[color=7B81B3]"I refuse to be a part of plans involving the cooperation of 8th Street members. They all smell of Emily; even if their ideologies no longer align, they did at one point! Someone must be responsible!"[/color]