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Ira gets a Daémon
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"And I'm pretty sure I can't answer the why."

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"So the next logical step is to figure out what we're going to do.  Ira, you'll need some new clothes to not attract attention.  Verity's clothes are all suicune-themed, but Alizara has a metang.  I don't think you're quite the same size, but you'll look normal in the style I picked out for her."

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"Clothes are clothes," she says with a shrug. "I'd appreciate a change and a shower."

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"I'll go get Alizara and her spare clothes, then," he decides, preparing to teleport away.

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"The shower is that room," she says, pointing at the door closest to the kitchen.  It's clean, and tidier relative to the main room, though a phone-like device has been abandoned next to the soap tray.  

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Okay. First thing, she grabs the phone-like device, and goes back to the main room, holding it out. "Yours?"

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"Yeah.  Sorry, this place is kind of a mess."

The apartment isn't unsanitary or unsafe - she does keep things off of the floor and the auto-vacuum kept track of, and the things scattered around are never food or dishes - she just doesn't put things away when she's done with them.  The towels are where they're expected to be at least, and she hands Ira one in trade for the device.

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Ira shrugs. "Seen worse."

Still, she takes the towel, and goes to shower. It is a normal shower right? She doesn't have to contend with something completely space age?

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The tub is large enough to more-than-comfortably bathe a 6'6" daemon and human at once, and the piping into the room is designed to fill it in a reasonable time.  Beyond that, the controls are similar enough.  

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She considers it, looks back to the aron she's still not used to having follow her. "You good?"

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"Mhmm," it agrees, settling down firmly in front of the door. If anyone wants to get in, they're going to have a fight.

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Well then. Ira will shower, quickly enough, although she will take a moment to just enjoy the hot water.

When she's done, she dries off, and wraps the towel around herself before sticking her head out of the bathroom to see if clothes are available.

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Clothes have been left.  Like the clothes worn by the locals, it's mostly silk.  This set in particular is slate gray, and a design meant to be baggy and comfortable so a slight mismatch in size won't be as noticable.  

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Well. They're clean at least. Even if she prefers closer fitting clothes. She changes quickly, grabs her old clothes, and heads back into the main room.

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There is another person in the room along with Verity and Azure.  She looks remarkably like Azure, only female and dressed in draping blue-gray clothing.  The bluish metal daemon is presumably hers, and sitting beside her chair.  Florentho is sitting in a chair moved close to Azure's, enough that they're almost touching.

"Hello.  I'm Alizara-and-Salanaya," she says.  The metang waves to the aron.

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The aron lifts one leg slightly in an imitation of a wave.

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"Ira and-" she pauses, looking down at the aron. "...How do you know your Daémon's name?"

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"They're normally given names by the parents, or the parents' daemons.  Without that, I guess you can name them whatever you'd like, or I can find you a daemon name website to look through."

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"A website would be helpful, probably. Perhaps later."

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"Right.  First we should figure out what to do, since it's 4:30 now and that's a bit late to be going back to sleep.

"Alizara and I both have work today and it'd be suspicious if we left, so we'll be busy in a few hours.  We can check up on things at our jobs and get back to you then.  

"Verity, do you have a spare phone?  I can reorganize my files and send one over if needed, but I shouldn't spend too many more teleports today unless there's an emergency.  Also, what is your schedule like?"

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"I normally spend from 2 to 11 running around and purifying water.  Normally in the habitats at night, then moving to the farms when people wake up.  I don't keep a strict schedule or rotation, though."  On purpose.  If she could be expected somewhere, someone would be there waiting to bother her about things.  

"And yes, I have a spare phone."  She debates between her personal phone and the one on Araeneve's headset, but it isn't a hard choice considering the difference in head shape between an aron and suicune.  It could be pried out and used by a human, but it'd look unusual compared to a human one.

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"I'm going to assume that me roaming out and about is a bad idea," Ira says flatly.

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"Hmm.  Yeah, probably not with the aron around you.  Though..."  

He makes an uncomfortable face, as the idea he's considering is somewhat taboo and deeply unpleasant.  "It's uncommon, but sometimes people do separate from their daemons.  I did it, as part of my emergency responder training."

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Recognizing that Ira won't have context, "People experience severe discomfort if they get too far from their daemons - 20 feet is the average.  It's possible to snap that and make it possible to go arbitrarily far from each other, if you can stand to walk away for far enough.  Your daemon is still your soul, nothing changes about the connection other than the distance.  And the daemon is often upset for a while afterwards - statistically, it is vanishingly rare for a daemon to instigate or suggest a separation, and are nearly always the first to give in and try to return to their human regardless of personality in other instances.  Less than 2 percent of people seriously attempt it."  

Why yes, she did watch several documentaries on the subject and memorized them.

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"We'll see how stir crazy I get first."

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