<div align="center"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Wednesday, January 8th - 8:20 AM</strong></span><br/><em>Kitchen</em></div><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6a/13/6c/6a136c3876bb0b7116281a2a64c67163.jpg)</div><strong>WHO:</strong>Marley Ann (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=316749.msg15283294#msg15283294)<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Pajamas, fake glasses (both pictured)<br/><strong>DOING:</strong>Finishing breakfast, observing<br/><strong>NOTE:</strong>--<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Eric, Kaine, Gia | OPEN<br/><hr/><br/>It would be a mistake to think that<em>everyone</em>in the Cathedral slept in. Three years ago, after many early morning parties, sleeping in was necessary. Now, it was merely a sign of weakness. "Mm," Marley mused, her spoon in between her lips, as Eric strode back into the Kitchen and immediately starting cooking for twelve.<em>She generally looked unimpressed, not happy.</em>Especially now, after the events of the Eclipse. "And where were you this morning?" Marley casually changed the subject. She didn't want to discuss her most recent failures with the IOS. Any funding issues were small enough that she could worry about them alone, at least for now. Everyone else had more to worry about anyway, given<em>their</em>powers. She ate more of her terrible cereal, still watching out the window, leaning against the counter, as if waiting for something. Occasionally, she glanced over at what Eric was doing.<em>He was making pancakes.</em>By comparison, she looked like an asshole.<br/><br/>"Did you notice anything interesting, while you were out?" Marley wasn't overly observant, but she<em>had</em>been up for over two hours, plotting, with her bedroom door open. When she had used the bathroom earlier, his room was vacant. Of course, Eric could have simply been in another part of the house, but with<em>everything</em>that had happened, she highly doubted it. He was also fully dressed, unlike her own pajamas. She took another bite of her cereal, the bowl halfway empty. Eric's pancakes definitely smelled better, but she would save those for other members.<em>They could use a fucking morale boost.</em>Her spoon scraped the sides of her bowl. "Are you going to Kaine's class this morning?" It was a question, but said otherwise. It was Eric's turn to observe Kaine, and her turn to observe Tristyn. Tomorrow they would switch.<br/><br/>It wasn't like Marley expected Kaine or Tristyn to do something wrong, or even harmful.<em>But their best friends had gone to fucking war.</em>War changed<em>everyone</em>, but most of all the soldiers who were on the front lines. They knew their best friends, if they returned to the house at all, wouldn't be the same. Both Kaine and Tristyn seemed more reserved, and<em>sad</em>, but also... broken. Marley wanted to make sure someone was around to pick up the pieces, should they shatter. Her spoon clattered in her empty bowl. The outside view still looked the same, hot and bleak. There was a<em>loud</em>knock at the front door. Kaine was instantly there, despite being far away, half dressed and likely in the middle of preparations for his class.<em>The Eclipse had made him more on edge, more protective, and always ready.</em>Marley took in a deep, audible breath.<em>Here comes the latest shit storm.</em>She watched as Kaine made the sky shift colors, and a cool wind rattle the windows. She wished he had made it snow.<br/><br/>"Fuck," she breathed softly, at the sight of the worn out blonde stepping into her home. "She looks like one of those --" she paused, quietly speaking to Eric, "what are the tiny animals in the holes in the ground in the desert called again?" She blinked as Kaine brought her towards them. Marley set her empty bowl behind her, on the counter. She stepped forward towards the very dirty new girl, before whispering back to Eric, "Groundhog. She looks like a fucking groundhog." Did she come here<em>alone</em>through the desert? Even Marley was a<em>little</em>impressed.