The first time Valerie read the letter, it frightened her.  She wondered how it had been delivered, how someone knew where she was and how long they'd been following her.  It was rather isolating.  Her immediate action was to try to call up Mira.<br/><br/>As the phone rang, she had time to reread the letter, consider and reconsider.  Of course Mira would have gotten one of these as well.  Likely there would be several Scions, Mira among them, and it allowed for some planning.  On the one hand, she didn't want to dismiss this, but on the other hand, it did feel a little frightening.<br/><br/>Assuming the phone call was picked up, Valerie spoke softly but just a bit quickly.  "Hey, it's me.  You probably got the same weird letter I did.  Seems odd, but if I don't live anywhere that often and they can find me, better not to just dismiss it.  Still, I don't want to go in unprepared.  Want to handle this that I'll show up early and stealth the place out, and you can be in the public view, catching eyes and being distracting in case I need to jump out of nowhere?"  Perhaps it was a hasty plan, but without any information to go on, it was the best one she had so far.<br/><br/>Valerie knew that she would have to be there, but it didn't mean she needed to be quickly apparent...