[b]Cair![/b]

Each of them has a different angle on the Princess Heron's disguise - Sayanastia's mythic disaffection, Injimo's barely restrained violence, Rurik's dutiful protocol, Tsane's brilliant inspiration. Cair, in her heart of hearts, thinks that they're all shit at it. They all treat Heron as something other than a person.

Because the Hero of Ages [i]is [/i]a person. She has a deep sense of humour - sometimes expressed through joyfully oblivious compliance with stupid instructions, sometimes through insanely over-engineered solutions to basic problems, sometimes just through a general gremlin energy. Injimo might have spent her entire life locked in sword-duels with Heron, but the two of them didn't have a single secret handshake. Cair and Heron had four[1]. They actually vibed together, and she'd always thought the others were to blame for not making the attempt.

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Secret Handshake #1: Continuously high five until someone comments on it, at which point do two more high fives and then stop with no explanation.[2]
Secret Handshake #2: Initiated when Heron offers a handshake while wearing the Liquid Mercury ring. Cair absorbs the ring into her alchemical body and recreates a copy on a different finger. Messages are encoded depending on which finger.
Secret Handshake #3: Initiated when Heron is in disguise as anyone, and Cair disguised as Heron. Cair-as-Heron allows Heron to detach her hand and then hurriedly re-attach it, ideally done after establishing a sight line where only a particularly annoying/credulous person can observe it, thus feeding all kinds of wild rumours and speculation.
Secret Handshake #4: Thumb to index finger, finger shimmy on withdraw.

[2]This lead to tragedy when accidentally initiated in the Bonedust Expanse
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She was wearing the Heron disguise now. Pointless not to. Insane to try going without it - she'd just be stuck in non stop 'but thou must summon thy manager' loops. Would be nice if she had some backup on it, though, but nobody was talking to her right now. 

"What do you think we should do about it?" she asked. Heron's sense of humour wasn't to smart mouth, quip or argue with people no matter how stuffy. Hers was an approach that required restraint and absolute deadpan severity. So she kept any hint of a smile out of her face and delivered her line with all the gravitas that her outfit - a dart board face mask surrounding her face like a halo, on top of a red and black striped dress-cape with another full sized wooden dartboard hanging over her chest, attached with mithryl links - would allow.