The message caught Cara in the middle of her "morning" meditation. Her ambivalent relationship with the sunlight made her almost creature of the night...and since she lived with rufus, that became almost rule.
First, she thought it to be next mysterious message from that incomprehensible entity ocupating buildings electronic systems. What she heard from the audio system was something different from usual beeping and buzzing and other cryptical sounds comming from CHN, refridgerator and other machines. She dont care, as much as everything works the way she needed. There was a lot of space for every beeing in the place like this.
After hearing the message, she contemplated for a moment. I didnt disturbed her plans for this night, this way or another, she was going to take an usual walk with Rufus and then begin the training.
There was no reason to refuse this meeting, from those few people who knew her actual commcode, it was highly probable, that she was contacted by someone within the company. Still. She wasn`t used to receive messages like this, and that little spark of curriosity was something she let herself yield to.
So she decided to make todays walk a bit longer than usual and maybe there will be some training oportunity that should prove itself usefull for both of them.
She whistled for Rufus, who was taking his morning meal, pet him friendly and told him that the are going out. She didnt gave him the collar, he was more the friend and partner to her thn trained animal, instead she hide him from currious eyes of faithfull citizens by the cloak of invissibility spell. To her astral sight, nothing had changed, and they was used to comunicate more this way than the other. Taking her kukiucchi yari from the shelf in the shrine, she told Rufus to follow her.
Then she closed the enrance, checked the ward and left a plate of syntha-milk with crumbled soy bar at the door yard, maybe some of those kami she heard singing their songs in the nights pay her a visit, and it would be inproper to leave them hungry and thirsty.
As she walked into the night, to take the transport to get closer to meeting point, she felt more and more certain, that she is folowing the path and that whatever happened this night, it is the part of how things have to happen.
The flawless flow of the transportation, fluid stream of subtle consequences, this all made her sure about this. Some people watched her curriously, as she made her secondskin reflect the stars at the sky, that was hardly seen in the city. But none of them make it closer to her. Rufus, even if hiden from their sight, radiated so intensive aura of danger, that at the end of her way she was traveling almost alone.
When she finaly approaches the point of meeting, she toke a minute to sit at the bench close to the seefront, tolding Rufus to Guard she left her body and continued forward just in the dream form. She didnt sense any danger, and saw a little group of people, most of them also awakened, with a grain of expectation and curriosity and biger portion of caution.
She slipped back to her body and get to the meeting place to greet those, who had seen her astral presence, and those, who have not.
And..she also released the spell hiding her barghest friend. Just to make sure that those people do not suspect her from some wrongdoing.
Coming from the mists appears a fragile, pale elven woman, accompanied by huge, dark beast. At the first glance, you should think that she is blonde, but when you recognize the colour of her iris, nobody doubts that she is albino. She approaches with no obvious hostility, gretts you all, quitely but politely, and stands there, out of direct light, with her hand laid on the head of the beast, that sat down by her side. Dressed in the stars ilustrated second skin, she is almost naked to your eyes, hiding nothing. She holds short, decorated, light spear ih her second hand, perfectly polished spearhead shimmering in the dark...
