Lines Are Drawn

[hellfire_child]

Her favorite wine, her favorite cheese, a 40 year old bottle of cachaça for Marcelo, and a packet of fine tea to go with one of his wedding gifts. They were as well-chosen bribes as he could gather without seeming suspect. Alistaire announced he would be stopping by to see his favorite aunt a few hours in advance, already knowing her schedule. He really didn't mean to spy on her, but it just seemed like common sense, for the barely half a dozen people he knew that he'd find their deaths regrettable.

The best skeleton keys his money could buy and his own mutant gift let him bypass security (again, he really doesn't mean to be rude, he just doesn't have the patience for doormen, security, intercoms...), and he knocked at Stephanie and Marcelo's door in the husband's building.

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[pyroprincess]

"Oh?" Stephanie raised an eyebrow slightly. "You've never lacked for company before. Who is this special someone who has captured your interest?"

Alisa was not something Stephanie preferred to talk about. She didn't really have any malice towards the woman, but she was never particularly enamored with her.

[hellfire_child]

"I've never been trying to be a better person before.

Tawakawa Reiko. She was the specialist I brought in to deal with Alisa's recovery after dispensing with Shinobi. She's very intelligent, and skilled. Of course she's lovely as well.

I intervened on her behalf when settling the loose ends in Japan. Her connections with the Yakuza have been severed."