Snippet #2589037

<January 13, 2087, 2034 hours, Kreuzbasar kiev, East Berlin>
Redcap sat in a café, hidden away from the cold outside. She was hunched over the bar, poring over a paper map of the wilderness surrounding Berlin, muttering herself and occasionally scratching an X over a different part of the map. Her brow was furrowed in thought, and she would occasionally flick her eyes to the left of the map in front of her, as if consulting with some invisible page. In a way, she was. She had opened an extranet tab to a listing of claimed reagent sites near Berlin on an enchanters forum she occasionally visited, and was viewing it through her commlink. She did not enjoy what she was reading. She placed another X on her physical map, cursing under her breath in Irish and breaking the lead on the paper.

"Another soykaf," she called to the bartender, holding up her empty cup. "And a pencil, if you've got one." She tossed her broken writing utensil on the café bar, then ran her fingers through her ginger mane in exasperation. She closed out of the extranet and looked around the bar as she did, noting that one other person seemed to have taken shelter from the cold inside the café. She squinted at the elf analytically for a moment. "Do I know you?" she asked.