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[right][b]Bitching To:[/b] Edict [@AtomicEmperor], Britney [@Shin Ghost Note]
[b](Slightly) Less Bitchy Interactions:[/b] Aryin [@NoriWasHere], Layla [@Estylwen], Ruby & Greenwood [@Shin Ghost Note]
[code]The House on the Hill[/code][/right][hr]
Linqian was still pretty fucking tense about the whole shadow creature thing, but the alluring smell of pizza and other food wafted into the room. Her stomach let out an embarrassingly loud growl and she pursed her lips. Fuck. She basically hadn't eaten since last night, outside of a few snacks, but really? 

At least everything seemed under control for now... Her temperature raised up back to normal, and she dropped her hands into something more relaxed. Aryin dropping her guard when Greenwood walked in really helped. If her friend trusted them, then she did too. She knew exactly what that look was in her eye too… and it made her smirk. 

She just nodded to Greenwood and went over to one of the pizza boxes, grabbed a slice of something covered in vegetables, and started munching. Fuck, it was nice to eat someone she hadn't cooked for once... Without being so drunk she threw it up. 

Of course, Layla started shit as she made her way back over to Edict and Britney, leaning against the bar with a scowl. At least Jack shut shit down pretty quickly, just moving on… but Layla had some thing against Jack, from what Linqian had seen, so she figured she’d shut it down too. She didn’t want to deal with more of the fucking whining. Who gave a fuck about the Void?

[color=CD5C5C]”[I]Layla[/I],”[/color] Linqian said in a tired, warning tone - much like an exhausted mother would take with an unruly child. She was too fucking tired to get truly pissed about it. Really, she just wanted some pizza. And if these Greenwood guys could help them find Father Wolf and get revenge? She wanted that. [color=CD5C5C]”Alizee got herself killed. From what Bea- Bianca told me she fucking kidnapped one of their members. If anything they should be pissed at [I]us[/I]. Fuck, we all got fucking shot because of her. Thanks, by the way.”[/color]

She glanced over at Kashmira. [color=CD5C5C]”A bunch more of us would be fucking dead if it wasn't for their healer. So step the fuck back.”[/color]

Linqian leaned in towards Edict, lowering her voice. [color=CD5C5C]”Can you mind drug her again? She’s a real fucking pain like this. Or would that piss off Leon’s cult?”[/color]

Honestly, she was beginning to tolerate Layla, in part thanks to her getting along with Henri, but now? Absolutely not. She was going to do something fucking stupid and there was no way Linqian was letting her brother near that again.

[color=CD5C5C]”Fuck does he love himself,”[/color] Linqian muttered to Edict and Britney as Jack started up a thankfully slightly shorter speech. She didn’t have a problem with Jack, really, but his constant talking was really grating on her already thin nerves today. Fuck, she hadn’t slept enough for that.

[color=CD5C5C]”You work with the Temple? Fuck the Temple- heh, literally, that seems to be the trend,”[/color] Linqian looked over at Aryin with a smirk. [color=CD5C5C]”If you've gotta alliance with them, keep the cult bullshit away from us. Sure, we've got fucking Leon over here, but we're cool with him not his fucking religious family bullshit.”[/color]

[color=CD5C5C]”I’m Linqian Han.[/color] She then said, after getting her complaining in. [color=CD5C5C]I'm not gonna go on like Jack did. Red-green adept, temperature magic primarily. I was on the frontline against the Snake, but I've spent the last ten years working outside of this shit till fucking Father Wolf killed my brother. I want him fucking dead.”[/color]

Her tone was neutral, and her emotions mostly lacking. She didn’t feel much at all today beyond a constant, gnawing irritation threatening to burst out. So close to snapping, with apathy being the only thing stopping it from happening right now.

[color=9966CC]”I’ve already introduced myself, but I suppose I should go into some more detail, to get to know each other,”[/color] Anya started with that fake smile of hers that always rubbed Linqian the wrong way.

Linqian rolled her eyes with a groan, complaining quietly to Edict and Britney, [color=CD5C5C]”fuck, speaking of someone else who loves herself.”[/color]

[color=9966CC]”I’m a pink-purple-orange-gold Adept.”[/color]

[color=CD5C5C]”[i]And don’t we all fucking know it,[/i]”[/color] Linqian whispered.

[color=9966CC]”I can physically enter dreams and manipulate them when I’m within them, along with observing whatever is happening. I can infuse objects so that they induce dreams and ward away nightmares. We were just discussing the possibility of our meetings being held within dreams, so we can’t be tracked or attacked. I’m hoping to develop a spell in case we decide to go that route.”[/color]

[color=CD5C5C]”[i]Fuck, I don’t want her pulling my fucking dreams into other people’s- why did you suggest that shit, Greyson? I’d rather get fucking stabbed.[/i]”[/color]

[color=9966CC]”I can also summon from dreams - my own and other people’s. Creatures of all shapes and sizes, which I can command. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do this when we fought the Stygian Snake.”[/color]

[color=CD5C5C]”[i]Fuckkkk, she can summon from dreams now?[/i]”[/color] Linqian was getting more irate the more Anya went on, whispered bitching to Edict and Britney getting just a little louder and more aggressive. She just really fucking wanted to get past this getting to know each other bullshit and to the important shit - beating 8th down, and killing Father Wolf. [color=CD5C5C]”[i]If she summons from mine… oh fuck, that’d be so fucked. Nobody wants to fucking see that.[/i]”[/color]

[color=9966CC]”Hopefully, we can help each other take out current threats, and maybe us Adepts can work with and learn from each other. Like Sloane, I wasn’t at the previous meeting, so I’m unsure how much you know about [i]us[/i] as a coven. We’re recently reformed, so there’s still some teething problems.”[/color]

[color=CD5C5C]”[i]Asshole member problems more like,[/i]”[/color] Linqian muttered under her breath. Fuck, she really couldn’t take this anymore. When was Anya going to shut the fuck up?

[color=9966CC]”[i]Most[/i] of us left after fighting the Stygian Snake. Only some of us stayed in the city, working in ways we could to clean up the mess left behind. We don’t have the same companionship you do, unfortunately. Our primary accomplishment as a [i]group[/i] was defeating the Stygian Snake. We knew each other as teenagers, but many of us lost contact. Went away. Left-”[/color]

[color=CD5C5C]”Oh shut the fuck up,”[/color] Linqian jumped up, temperature beginning to tick up again. She really couldn’t stand it. This bitch was just going on and on, and Linqian may be fucking stupid, but she wasn’t so stupid she couldn’t read the subtext. Everyone else abandoned the city, nobody stayed behind like their saviours Sloane and Anya who were always protecting it- fuck! [color=CD5C5C]”Stop the bullshit, just fucking say it. You think we all fucking abandoned some shit cause, and we don’t have any fucking achievements like they do.”[/color]

Anya’s smile widened, her eyes narrowing slightly, and Linqian only got more pissed at that. [color=9966CC]”That wasn’t what I was saying, Linqian.”[/color]

[color=CD5C5C]”Sure it fucking wasn’t. Fuck, why bring up that any of us left? Sorry we had fucking lives. Fuck off with you’re above us bullshit, some of us had to work to not fucking starve,”[/color] she rolled her eyes, turning to Ruby with sneer. [color=CD5C5C]”Sorry, we’re not a fucking ‘companionship’ coven or whatever. [i]Some[/i] of us can help beating up the assholes, but we’re not a fucking team - half of us hate each other.”[/color]

Before anyone could say anything, she threw up her hands. Heat, not quite high enough to burn, radiated off her along with anger and distress. Linqian blowing up wasn’t unusual - but Linqian blowing up over something that wasn’t even directed at her, a speech she’d generally just ignore, was a bit off. She felt off. A frustration had been boiling under the surface since she found Jinhai’s spellbook, an intense rage at the whole fucking world, and Anya was just the one that had opened the lid.

[color=CD5C5C]”Why the fuck hide our shit, they’d find out eventually. Most of you are only here to save your own fucking skins anyway, and the rest of us are here to kill that fucking bastard. That’s it. Fucking self protection or revenge.”[/color]