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Starr shrugged. "Sure, no problem." She crossed the room and grabbed one of the Substitutes, setting it up on the far side of the room before taking up a position alongside Kate. "Suppose I should've mentioned that everyone's Radiance does something different, and there's no real pattern to...

Starr scratched at her cheek fur. "Eh, well... as far as I know, Radiance came from Joule. But the team originally got it from Maple. I guess she thought it would kill us since these bodies are made of Dark Matter." She rolled her eyes with a small huff. "...Not that that matters anymore...

Starr tilted her head. "Sounds pretty much just like Radiance to me. The rest of us got it from Maple but I suppose you must've gotten it just by spending time around the team." Then again, Maple had said it was contagious, hadn't she? A few of the team members wouldn't been caught dead...

Starr gave a nod. Right, Kate and Brisa were roommates, figures the Sneasel would have seen her around. "Yeah, was feeling on-edge around the guild. All that spy business and such. Tired of thinking about it--figured I'd beat on some Substitutes for a while to chill out a bit." Well, not...

Normally Starr wouldn't have found herself hitting the training rooms so soon after a mission, but then again, usually she found herself sustaining the kind of damage that required a stay in the infirmary, and it was rare that she felt pretty much fine so soon afterward. Well, physically at...

"Right I've gotta find Silver and--" Fuck. Now they really needed someone from Team Spectrum watching Giovanni's cell at all times. If he was literally being held in the building run by one of his spies? God dammit the only thing worse than double agents was double agents in management...

Starr's eyes widened. "What?" She snatched her badge and read through the message in an instant. "Oh my god it's like you people have never dealt with infiltrators," she said to the badge before shutting it off, throwing it in her bag, and massaging her temples again. The fact that most...

"Pretty much exactly what it says on the tin," Starr replied with a shrug. "Mewtwo was supposed to be the weapon that would make it possible. Wouldn't really call that 'building an empire' like what this Giovanni's doing, though, so I don't know how much that compares." The goals were...

Starr leaned her head back against her seat. "Nah. No portal tech in my world. He's just doing normal shit like deposing gods." She let out a low, dry chuckle. God, it was all a bit ridiculous, wasn't it. "And yeah, guess it must've been before you two showed up. He said one of our allies...

Starr let herself relax a bit. Right. Dave had had Brisa's back in the Voidlands, the way she'd heard it. And Brisa... also had a lot of past stuff she didn't want judgement for, so she knew what that was like. Alright. "He's my dad. Not this version of him, specifically, but... another...

Starr dragged a paw down her face. Right. Shit. She'd dropped her guard after the effort of keeping it up for that whole conversation, and now... Even if anyone on Team Spectrum wasn't suspect in this case, that still didn't mean she wanted everyone knowing. Even if they weren't the sort to...

"Yeah, it's called my old job," Starr replied dryly, massaging her eyelids. So Giovanni had been bothered by something. That was interesting. Then again, if it was just because of whatever the hell 'thing' he was missing, that made it somewhat less satisfying. "Lot to unpack there," Starr...

Firm, forceful footsteps carried Starr up the stairs from the holding cells in the basement and toward the first-floor lounge. There damn well better not have been anyone in--okay good, there wasn't. Starr didn't waste a second sinking into one of the seats with her arms and legs spread out...

Now was another good time to imagine the cell block on fire again. There was the immediate urge to just stay here, purely because he expected her to leave and he couldn't stop her from staying. But she really did need to talk with Diyem. And Owen probably. And, fuck, even Nate--wasn't he the...

So apparently the answer to what sort of false promises would he offer was 'fucking none.' Figures. He could've at least pretended he had any reason to not just take off the instant some dumbass let him go. But the mask required her to be considering it. Starr clenched her teeth, letting her...

For a moment, as Giovanni talked, Starr tried to imagine him as the one she knew. Well, slow and calculated was sure one thing they shared. But seriously... 'empire'? Get real. Then again, even if the scope was way off, it wasn't as though it had nothing in common with all that shit with the...

Well, that was one similarity between this Giovanni and the one she knew. He didn't seem to be bluffing on that. It was probably safe to assume they really were that strong. But Team Spectrum had beaten fucking Joule, so she wasn't all that impressed. Starr allowed a bit of horror to creep...

Starr's ears swiveled to the door, where Brisa and Dave had just walked in. Shit. This timing... wasn't the best. But she hadn't gotten the chance to text Brisa and tell her to hold up. And at the very least, it meant that Dave could pick up on some bullshit. Hopefully. She nodded to the...

He'd been chasing Eternatus down. Was that why she'd come here? To hide? To recover? If that was true, then he'd only ever come here to get her. That was... the only reason Team Spectrum was here as well. And the spies that had turned against him. She'd been assuming they'd gotten cold...

On the outside, Starr's face was a cold, hard, unbroken stare. On the inside, she had to stifle the urge to scream. He knew. How the fuck did he know. Sure, he had spies, but where the hell would the spies have heard it from? Wait. Not many people knew. That fact alone narrowed it down...