<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-style: italic">Congratulations!<br/><br/>Kudos on the Marriage! <br/><br/>You got yourself a looker! <br/><br/>He ain't the ugliest thing! <br/><br/>Ayy, stop by Lio's on Fifth, we got some gifts!</span></span><br/><br/><br/>Light dimly stretched toward the windows of a room high above the city. Nothing save for the sound of the occasional mouse click filled the room as a young woman stared transfixed by her laptop. Her eyes scanned with burning focus as she looked at the emails and messages being sent to her by various family members. Her jaw had tightened and her hand tightly balled a fistful of her white silk sheets as she scrolled through the messages. Of course her Father wouldn't spend time sending little congratulations over this, he was the one setting it up after all and he knew she wouldn't be a fan.<br/><br/>A small, reluctant tap against the glass door of the patio and the woman's eyes darted upward. Her hand moved with blinding speed to shut the laptop, and slid it away. With a snap of her fingers the lamps on either side of bed eased into a warm orange light.<br/><br/>"un- FUCKING- believable!" she shouted down over the balcony as the figure slowly opened the glass door. It turned to gently close the door behind it before making it's way towards the stairs to the woman's massive bed.<br/><br/>"Actually, I should expect this from Ikathka Real himself. He thinks it's cool to just do....<span style="font-style: italic">this</span>without asking me? You'd think-" her words caught in her throat as she watched the figure move.<br/><br/>The creature silently made it up the stairs before stiffly sitting at the foot of the bed. It opened a sharp-toothed mouth to speak before collapsing into cloud of oily black mist. When the mists had cleared, all that was left behind was a small defeated looking blackbird at the foot of her bed. All the rage and disgust that had been building in the girl dropped out of her in that instant.<br/><br/>"Jin, sweetie, It's okay," The woman said as she made her way to the foot of the bed "This is not your fault! You couldn't have known that Dad was going to do this,". Without waiting for a response, she scooped the small bird into her hands and brought it toward her chest. The little creature gave a small shudder before letting out a small noise; something between a sob and a chirp.<br/><br/>"I should've done more," his sweet small voice came out as a whisper "Your dad wouldn't have gone this far if I had just worked harder, made more progress, more territories, he would've finally trusted us, we could've told him. I-" another shudder and the boy was silent.<br/><br/>"Jin" the woman said with low even tone "I need you to look at me, Jin"<br/><br/>Despite the little bird's distress it did as it was told and peered up at the woman.<br/><br/>"Do I look angry at you, sweetie?" she cooed. The boy looked down and shook his head.<br/><br/>"No, Ma'am, Lady Ikathka, but I believe you should be,"<br/><br/>"No." She said sternly "This is Jota Ikathka's fault, and nothing you did was going to make him not be a pain in my ass." the anger that she had been containing bubbled up just for moment as she spat that name. She made her way back to the head of her bed and sat the bird down on a pillow "Now all we can do is fix this mess before it becomes a problem for us." she reopened the laptop and scrolled a bit to find an image. Oily black fog enveloped the bird and small black cat emerged to peer at the screen from the side. She brought up an image of an upbeat looking young man with sunny bright features and she tapped a manicured finger against the screen.<br/><br/>"You see this man?" she said as if she were speaking to a child "I need you to locate him and tell him something from me,"<br/><br/>The cat seemed transfixed by the man's image for a moment before swiveling his attention to his Lady "Yes, ma'am?" he squeaked.<br/><br/>The woman scratched the cat behind it's ear as she spoke eliciting a stream of soft purrs "Tell him, that his 'new Wife' would like to meet with him tomorrow morning at the Donna Cafe in Central Square mall. There are some things we need to talk about."<br/><br/>The cat stopped it's purring just long enough to respond "should I scare him a bit?"<br/><br/>The woman let out a small chuckle "I think you should! But not too badly, killing the boy might make things much worse for us,"<br/>___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>The moon was high in the sky by the time of his arrival. Jin beat large heavy wings as he made his way down to perch on the balcony of an Elemental Estate, being just loud enough to be heard by anyone in the adjacent room. He settled down before murky black tendrils enveloped him once more and a young man with piercing snake-eyes peered through the opening into a bedroom. Profane whispers filling the air around him as he reached his mind out toward the man he sought.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF0000"><span style="font-style: italic">The Ikathka have a message for you.</span> </span>