<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/07/Dark_Sakura.jpg)</div><strong>Lucy F.</strong><br/><hr/>And just like that, Lucy's fears were put to rest.  Just as she'd guessed, it turned out that Tremor was simply a little more uptight than most other people, and talking with her new teammates showed that they were all far more warm and welcoming.  She would have to see if she could get Tremor to loosen up a little, as well; in her experience, it was the people that kept the tightest control over themselves who were the most fun when they surrendered that control to another, after all.<br/><br/>After she took the seat offered to her, her teammates started things off by introducing themselves and telling her a little bit about their pasts.  Before she was allowed a turn at it, however, they then moved on to answering one of her earlier questions, outlining for her the exact covers that they had taken for moving about the inner system together.  She was rather pleased to see that the cover for the group was as her entourage; in addition to the small but important ways in which it fed her ego, it would also make it so that she was the one people would seek to talk to if there was any trouble, and since one of her better skill sets was social interaction, that would definitely be a good opportunity for her to display her talents.<br/><br/>As for her answer to their next question...<br/><br/>"I was going to ask all of you if there's anything you'd like to know about me, actually,"  She responded, shrugging a little in her seat.  "Unless this server is getting some major special privileges where security is concerned, Firewall's hard-on for compartmentalization should mean that you won't actually know much about my origins, even if you did get a peek at my service record as a sentinel.  The short bio on my official mesh site is a complete fiction, of course, and if there's anyone here who is the type to look up more official documentation, you're probably good enough to realize that 'Lucy F.' is a fake identity that Firewall helped me set up when I first started working for it.  Since you've all talked to me about your origins, would you like to know mine?"<br/><br/>And, if it turned out that they did want to know more about who she was and where she came from...<br/><br/>"Well, first things first, have you all heard of Project Futura?  That little top-secret black project that Cognite started up at the tail end of the Fall, where they tried to see if they could mass-produce human beings by taking a bunch of infants, sticking them in a time-accelerated simulspace, and having them experience 18 years of life in a mere 3 years of real-world time?<br/><br/>"Ah, good, then I won't have to go into more detail.  Yes, I'm one of the Lost.  After I escaped from my corporate caretakers, I traded away my Futura morph for an Exalt and spent my time blending in and living quietly in society.  I had managed to get a job that was a lot like the one Rayearth is going to pretend to have when Firewall found me, and everything after that, you've probably already read about."<br/><br/>Of course, rather than working for a digital designer, she had been doing the programming grunt-work on XP production in a porn studio, and had also participated as an actress in a few of their films and XPs on the side.  And one interspecies XP in particular had left her with a rather infamous reputation in a few circles; infamy which had actually been a big boost to helping out with her own marketing when she first got started as a fully-fledged designer, herself.  Of course, with this being a pragmatist server, she was sure that none of her teammates were the types to be outraged by anything like that.<br/><br/>Aside from her curiosity over how much they knew about her past, Lucy found that she didn't really have much in the way of questions for anyone, at the moment.  She preferred to get to know people by watching them in action, rather than asking them about themselves.