<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/60/MapleSrsface.png)</div><strong>Character</strong>: Maple MacAlistair<br/><strong>Who:</strong>The Six (+ Patches~)<br/><strong>Where:</strong>Foley's office<br/><strong>When:</strong>8:30ish<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>Clicky link! (http://www.polyvore.com/frogrun/set?id=217844701)<br/><hr/><br/>"I never said you w-!" Maple starts to snap but with visible effort restrains herself and takes a deep breath, holding it for a moment before exhaling and relaxing. She's had this conversation with BC a hundred times before, no point rehashing it now, tempting as it is to let herself be distracted from the real concerns at hand.<br/><br/>"Okay, it feels like we're all kind of running circles around one another right now," Maple says, her voice taking on a calmer, more even character than her usual playful tones. "William, I appreciate that this is something that you've been shouldering alone for a long time but you can't expect us to just fall in line at the drop of a hat. We don't need inspirational speeches right now, we need answers. I don't think any of us - any of us who bothered to show up anyway - are taking this lightly.<em>I</em>trust you, but I need you to trust me too, at least a little. I want to talk to your Angels. If all they tell me is to fuck off, they're only going to talk to you then fine, but I want to hear it myself."<br/><br/>In her lap the big black and white cat dozes, blissfully oblivious to the terrifying scope of the conversation going on over his head. Maple strokes his fur in a constant, steady rhythm, forcing herself to slow her movements and calm down whenever anxiety starts to spike.<br/><br/>"Given the facts of what we know right now, I think you're lumping all the potential threats into one camp way too quickly. You said the Angels are hiding us and the Bugs want to assimilate us, but if Min-joon or the blue murder lady or both were affiliated with the Bugs they'd have to already know where we are. It seems far too unlikely that out of everywhere in the world they would have unknowingly sent two agents directly to us without prior knowledge of our location. Besides, you were the one who assured me just this morning that Min-Joon wasn't anything like the Monsters we know of so far. So for the moment I think it's best we work under the assumption that there are multiple disparate threats active until we have evidence that points otherwise.<br/><br/>"...Why are we here right now?" she asks. "Are we just putting all our cards on the table, or did you plan on handing out marching orders tonight? I'll gladly listen to any avenues you think I should explore, but I haven't been sitting around twiddling my thumbs."