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She can treat pentagons like they're cheap, with three and a half Jokers in Origin, but there's no reason to use one when she can do without. Still stealthed to everyone except Ripper, she flickers to Rayne and back, quicker than blinking.

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Rayne stumbles slightly on the landing, surprised by the abrupt change of location.

Ripper stands up and calmly punches him in the jaw.
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"Ow," he says, cradling it. "What kind of reaction is that when your best mate comes back from the dead?"

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"All right, all right," Rayne sighs. "It was a nasty trick, and I'm sorry. But it worked, didn't it?"

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"Define 'worked'."

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"You got your precious empress to conjure me up; don't tell me she didn't do the same for Randy," he snorts.

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"He can't perceive me," Bella puts in. "Unless I decide to let him. We can discuss Randall separately if you'd like though."

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He tries to say something, shoots Bella a brief exasperated look, and amends to, "I'm sure you can guess who I asked for first, and funny fucking thing, he wasn't dead!"

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Rayne follows the aim of that look and squints curiously at the imperceptible Bella.

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Bella slooooowly unstealths.

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"Well would you look at that," says Rayne, impressed.

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Ripper sits back down in his chair and drops his head into his hands.

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"You went to considerable and asinine trouble to get ahold of me," Bella says to Ethan. "I have an appointment in seventeen minutes, but if there's something you'd like to say before then, you may."

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He shrugs. "Could you dig up Randall while you're here?"

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"Assuming you mean that metaphorically, no."

Privately to Ripper, she adds, [We can discuss it if there's some way to cover it up, I just don't particularly want Rayne here to have the information.]
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[Honestly, of the two of them, Randall's more likely to go to press with it,] he says without lifting his head.

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"Ta ta, then," says Rayne unconcernedly.

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[Then he can sit on the waiting list a bit, but I'm hoping to have a batch resurrection planned out inside the next year,] Bella tells Ripper.

"Before I go, do either of you need to be un-addicted from any mind-altering substances?"
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"What have you been telling her majesty?"

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"I can't speak for Rayne," says Ripper, ignoring him, "but I'm fine."

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"All right. D'you want to be able to torch?" she inquires of Ripper. She does not include Ethan in this query.

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He shrugs. "Why not."

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"All right." She torchables him, and conjures and hands him the pamphlet on how it works and how to contact one of her emergency-recovery staff by brainphone if he gets into a repeated-torching sort of fix. And then out she pops.

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Leaving Rayne and Ripper to argue it out.

It doesn't go well.



Two days later, Ripper brainphones her.

[That invisible lurking gig, do you do that a lot?]
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