Post #2513547 in A Secret World, a roleplay on RPG

"Well then, I must admit that this won't make it into my list of favorite evenings."
She watched the car retreat out of view. Tired from that dialogue exchange, she headed back inside the building and picked up a stone from the ground. Reaching the second floor landing, she casually tossed it to the side, reactivating everything else. The ghosts, the familiars, the portals and the other traps in the atelier. She headed back inside her office via the passage she taught Shino.
"Well, thanks to those two, I now have an excuse to try out something I wanted to try for a long time now."
She finally threw her body on the covers. It was nice to get a good night's rest after that ordeal. She wondered about that security guard though. He might be a Nephilim since he exhibited the same kind of unease that she had when they were close together.

The next morning...
Shino was kneeling in front of Risaya, who was doing something to one of the walls, with her arms on her lap.
"Ummm...Boss? It's okay if you don't bring in my pay for this month. I'll even reimburse it myself. In installments."
"Next time you have trouble like that, try not to risk the building? What do you think would happen if they found out the armory?"
"I'll assume that they'll think you're some kind of nut. The armory doesn't even have any weapons! It's just the place where you store all your dolls and thingies that we don't know if they will even work. They'll only be suspicious if they find something shaped like a gun or a sword.What is a weapon to you, may not seem like a weapon for everyone."
"Aha! And now I'm getting lectured by the cause of the problem? Want me to dock your pay for another month?"
"Aaahh!!! No, please, I'm sorry!"
Risaya finished drawing up some sort of circle in the wall. Shino looked closer on the engraving. It didn't seem familiar. Chinese calligraphy perhaps? She walked over to Risaya as she was searching the shelves for something.
"Still, to be able to trick them like that, just how strong of a Magus are you Boss?"
"If I were to be ranked by the association, I'll be around rank thirty, or something."
"There are stronger Magus than you? That aside, how did you do that anyway?"
"It's a simple trick of the eye. The Fujyuo highlights were designed with symmetry in mind so, all buildings initially looked the same. By manipulating the mirror world of the Kaleidoscope, what we were looking at was the interiors of the adjacent structure. Of course, it can still be broken if they reached out to touch something, so I have to trick their senses even more with the Bounded field. Even if they grabbed something, they won't truly see it for what it is unless I wanted them to. It's really stressful maintaining it up since I had to completely occupy their hearing with my mindless ramblings. Oh, found it!"
Risaya took out a large bottle of red liquid and set it on the table. She poured some contents into a beaker and examined it.
"Hey Boss? What's that?"
"Dragon's blood. It's for using that new form of going in and out of this building. Basically, ingest a small portion of it to your own blood and you should be able to travel between other circles via the dragon's ley lines. Wait a minute--"
Risaya left to take something from her room. Curious about the effects, she took the beaker and drank it. She keeled over to the floor, holding her mouth as the liquid cascaded down her throat. Risaya immediately helped her up and propped her on the chair.
"Shino...you weren't supposed to drink it all. That's why I took out the syringe. A small amount is fine."
"Aarrgghh!!! It tastes like burned toast! How do I look?"
"See for yourself."
Shino walked over to the mirror. Her eyes turned into a deep, reptilian red, similar to a crocodile. Similar to a dragon.
"Aaahh!!! What am I gonna do?"
"I don't know. You're half-dragon now, figure it out yourself."
Risaya answered in an annoyed kind of way. Dragons are ranked even higher than angels and demons in the other world. Being a Nephilim is one thing. Being a half-dragon gives you much more.
"Hey, what if anyone I know sees this? What will I tell them? How will I face them now?"
"I don't know maybe, try using your brain before jumping to stupid things that are out of your control?"
"Boss, this is serious!"
"So am I."
Shino sulked as she lay face-down on the sofa. Risaya looked through some stuff and took out a pair of glasses.
"Here. This should divert the attention off. Try not to think like a dragon. Think of yourself as still Shino."
Shino did as she was told. Checking up on her a few minutes later, Risaya saw that the reptilian features on her eyes were gone. Her eyes were still red but now, they looked more like her own.
"Well, it worked."
Still worried about her pursuers, Shino inquired about the properties of the bounded field.
"Hey Boss? In the off-chance that they saw my face, will that memory be affected by the field too?"
"Yes, as long as it's anything within this area. They'll probably mistake your features for someone else's or when the time comes, they won't be able to describe what you look like. It's the same thing that's going on with me."
"I guess. Even when people ask me what you look like, I can't describe you at all. I can't remember any features you have, the color of your hair, your eyes, even your height and stature. Isn't it hard socializing because of it?"
"That's why I don't go out often. My Origin is "forgetfulness" and, as someone with an awakened Origin, all people I interact with are bound to forget me anytime. Those two won't even remember what I look like later."
Risaya turned to her assistant and gazed at her eyes.
"I wonder how long it takes until you forget me completely as well..."
"Hey Boss, I mean, Risaya-san, don't say sad things like that. I'm still here. You're not alone just yet."
"Well, you won't be forgetting about me anytime soon. I'll probably stay here for a few more years. That's right. I was just whining with no attention to form..."
"Risaya-san?"
"They should've forgotten all about your physical appearance by this time. Go now and find that Mackenzie and bring him under police custody."
"All right, I'm off!"
Shino took a good look at the dragon circle and absorbed every detail of it. She took a deep breath and walked inside, emerging somewhere behind the building.

Snippet #2513547

located in Quarantize City, a part of A Secret World, one of the many universes on RPG.

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