<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Fuchsia Fox and an Artifact Absent</strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/rrbvOfC.png)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Albion / Nerissa<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>December 26th, 2018 |<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>Toshiro’s place<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Toshiro | Mentions: Albion<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>A new day<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Casual winter clothes<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Nerissa wasn’t an early bird. She liked to sleep late and after a hot shower lounge into the cafeteria to enjoy her breakfast, without a hurry to begin her work. The people in the SOPHE had become wary of her little experiments. She trusted without a doubt that her magical items would work as planned, but there was a 50% chance they actually did. Maybe even less. Nerissa had created Choker of Transformation. It was meant to turn a person wearing it into a great beast form. Instead the poor guy who agreed to try the choker didn’t change into anything, but he believed he was a dog and behaved like one for half of a day. Nera had her hands full trying to look after her human sized dog and keep her out of trouble. After that she struggled in finding unsuspecting victims to be her guinea pigs.<br/><br/>The fox demon didn’t see that as a problem. It just meant that she was in no rush with her work. It worked well for her, because she had a bad habit of getting lost in online shopping or social media when she was supposed to write her reports and keeping her work space clean ended up in her listening music loudly and dancing around the room, getting barely anything done. She had to think about Albion’s safety too because he was about only one crazy enough to be willingly her guinea pig. She shouldn’t wear him down. Sometimes the fox demon had spurs of motivation and she did actually work hard. She liked tinkering with pretty things and studying her powers while doing that. It was the interesting part of her work.<br/><br/>A door to the balcony opened and closed. The pink haired fox demon entered onto the balcony with a big mug of hot cocoa. A chilly wind brushed her long hair gently. She was wearing a blue winter jacket with a white fur trimming on top of her clothes of a simple long light grey wool sweater and a short black skirt, which barely showed from under her sweater.<br/><br/>One could expect her to smile mockingly at Toshiro when she noticed the man, maybe throw some belittling words at his direction or at least look him with a deep disgust and hate. Yet her reaction was something different. “Oh, hi Toshíro! How…” She was about to ask about his day but when she looked at the man sitting on a bench with his cat her words simply died on her lips. Nerissa stepped closer. His face looked like someone had beat him up… There were bruises, and considering how a light reflected from his skin he had tried to hide them with a concealer. “Oh Toshiro! What has happened to you? You look terrible! Did you get in a fight? Oh you poor thing! We should…” She was going to say that they should take him to a doctor for a check-up but Toshiro was the one who was here for check-ups.<br/><br/>Because Marceline was on his lap the girl circled at a side of the man who had seen better days. She leaned closer to wrap her arms around Toshiro, to embrace him in a warm and caring hug. This fox demon was a master of deception. After all she had done, less than a day ago, she didn’t even blink when putting up this show of a genuinely caring friend. Even her big golden eyes had a look of worry in them.<br/><br/>There were very few who didn’t get along with the fox demon. She was always smiling, quick to help others, curious and chatty. Her cheerful personality and pretty appearance did help a lot in getting the people of the SOPHE on her side. It took just some months after her joining into the SOPHE (on 1st of April. How suiting) that she won Toshiro’s friend, Albion on her side too. It hadn’t happened gradually. It was a sudden change. Albion had been rather gloomy and quiet. He seemed to be immune to the fox demon’s attempt to befriend him, mostly ignoring everything she said or then replying with one word sentences.<br/><br/>There were some office gossips, guesses of what had happened. The most popular guess was the most obvious one. What could happen between a young demoness and a handsome soldier? If asked neither one of them confirmed such rumors. Whatever it was, the change in Albion’s behaviour was visible. He started to come out of his dark shell. His change was a positive one. The fox demon had got one more person in her list of people who liked (didn’t refuse) hugs and friendly kisses on a cheek. Toshiro probably guessed that those naughty rumors weren’t true. If all it took to change Albion’s attitude was one time sex, that would have happened way before Nerissa even arrived into the SOPHE. Especially when the pair didn’t act like they were in a romantic relationship. If one excluded Nerissa’s peculiar behaviour, which she showed to everyone she considered as a friend, those two were definitely just friends. The fox demon seemed to be happy from that Albion actually listened and spoke to her, and responded to her hugging and sometimes even gave her ear scratches.<br/><br/>The gold eyed demon had charmed even Toshiro’s friend. She was a Calder demon the researcher had underestimated. Considering her close relationship with Albion there lingered a chance of her knowing some of Albion’s deepest secrets. Perhaps Nerissa knew about Toshiro’s feelings towards Albion and her source of information was Albion himself.<br/><br/>