<div class="floatright">(http://imageshack.us/a/img855/5968/dawnjp.jpg)</div><br/>The appearance of someone else brought Valerie's attention via her Judge's Ear Technique, spending personal essence so as not to draw undue attention.  Such had simply become habit when making new introductions, since a leader just needed to know what was going on.  A strange thought occurred to her then: she might not stay leader for long.  With Solars so easily adapting to anything, she couldn't help but briefly wonder if someone else would be even more talented than her with a command structure.<br/><br/>Still, she didn't have time to stop and consider.  She stood up and gave a smile.  "Hey.  I'm Valerie.  I see you saw my notice in the paper?"  At least the other girl seemed similarly nervous.  Hopefully she'd done the right thing in putting out the notice to draw everyone together.