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Started February 12, 2018 by Mila

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Patagonia jogged back to the scene, phone charger in hand. "Here, plug this in. Maybe we can turn it on or something…?"

Lucia took the charger and scanned the room. There was a plug by the window. She gestured to both women to follow her.
"Thanks for the charger, uh…" she looked at the fox hybrid questioningly.

"You're welcome. Now plug it in." She knew that look all too well: she was judging her. She hated that feeling and instead of dwelling on it, watched the disc excitedly. Maybe it would take some attention off of her for a while.

(i wasn't judging you, I was asking for your name. Though Patagonia could interpret it differently, but they still don't know each other's names)
Lucia took the disc and plugged it in. It lit up for a while, and a blue zap of electricity shot up from it. Then it shut down again.

(oh oof we'll just assume it was a rush of judgement on my characters part)
"Woah… Is the charger okay? Are you okay? Am I panicking? No…" Patagonia began fidgeting nervously and breathing heavily. "Oh God…"

Lucia exhaled quickly, closing her eyes and leaning back on her hands, grateful to have jumped out of the way in time.
"I'm okay." she opened one eye and glanced at the wire. "The charger's okay. No one's hair is on fire just yet. So I think we're all okay." She said slowly. "What do you think that was?"

"It looked like a fuse blew, but I can't be sure. All I know about fixing technology is resetting the wifi and sticking my phone in rice when I drop it into the bean dip at the cantina down the street, which is more often than you think." She breathed a sigh of relief, more to calm herself than anything else, and looked into the other girl's eyes. "What's your name?"

Lucia was startled by the other girl's honest stare. "Lucia." she replied quickly. "What's yours?"

"Patagonia." there, she thought. Now was that so hard? You're being social!

While the girls talked Alaria went to check the device. No burn marks, no apparent damage. So either the shock had been a power surge, or that was part of the device's function. She raised it to her deep blue eyes.

A symbol: two Lines horizontal above eachother, and a circle on either side of that. The circles were glowing the same blue as the discharge. The two lines were white. It reminded Alaria of an old rank sigil that she'd seen some hybrid species batalions use. She couldn't peg which one it was, though. It wasn't hers.

She held it up to the two girls, "What do you two make of this?"

Patagonia's eyes flashed in momentary recognition but shook her head dumbly, refusing herself to recall what had happened.

Lucia racked her brains for an answer as she stared at the symbol. It did bring back a memory, ever so vague… She brushed it off.
"No idea. Was it engraved on it?"

The hybrid shook her head. Alaria turned to the the other girl, "What about you? Does this ring any bells? Kinda looks like a rank sign, but it's acting like a signal indicator…" She pushed her brown hair out of her eyes again.

I need to get my bloody hair trimmed…

Making up her mind finally, Patagonia looked down at her zentangle-decorated Converse. "It's a symbol for a secret society."

"Oh? How do you know?" said Lucia.

Alaria gazed at the hybrid. The girl gazed back, an unease in her eyes. Alaria met her gaze with as much compassion as she could, "What was your name again, hybrid?"

"I'm Patagonia. I-I was a member during College."

Lucia looked between Patagonia and Alaria. "Am I missing something?" she asked hesitantly.

"I'd better go, I don't want to be late for work. It was nice meeting you two…" Patagonia stood suddenly and dashed to her table, snatching her stuff, and making a beeline for the door.

"Tactless moron." Lucia muttered to herself, letting her head droop against her chest.

Suddenly, Patagonia dashed back to the other two, fear etched in her face like a stone carving. "L-llook… It-It's a- Run!!"

Lucia immediately jumped to her feet, trained to act quickly. "What is it?" she asked urgently, looking out the window.