<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/0/07/Dark_Sakura.jpg)</div><strong>Lucy F.</strong><br/><hr/>After Lucy finished explaining her own past history, she got a little more information on how her new server worked from her fellow teammates, and it proved to be a rather interesting explanation.  No egocasting?  That meant that she wouldn't be required to swap bodies very much, if at all, and that was a prospect that she was fine with.  Sleeving into a new morph was always an irritating experience for her, even if she usually had enough self-control and fine motor skills to keep it from becoming an active hindrance.  There was always that little, nagging itch in the back of her mind, the knowledge that the skin she wore wasn't her own, that the face looking back at her in the mirror wasn't hers, that she had left her real body behind when she sold off her old Futura all those years ago.  Making the adjustment, getting used to the alien sensations that came with a new morph, always seemed to take longer for her than it did for others, so learning that she wouldn't be asked to step out of the Sylph that she had finally become accustomed to and into an ever-growing list of new bodies was rather welcome news for her.<br/><br/>As for the rest, sticking around the inner system was fine with her, as well.  She'd be able to leverage her connections a lot more easily to help out on missions, if it become necessary to do so, though her fame was going to be a bit of a double-edged blade when it came to Firewall's needs for secrecy and deniability.  And the bit about the Round Table?  She was sure that the rest of the server would expect her to sit quietly and watch when she showed up, but she was already preparing for the possibility that she might have a chance to show her social talents off to the leaders and members of other cells during the meeting.  It was a chance to make an excellent first impression, if she could properly argue for and defend any assertions she made.<br/><br/>And then, with the note that the explanation ended on...<br/><br/>"I'm already carrying everything that I'd want to bring along,"  She responded, when they talked about going back to get her things.  "Between my day job and my hacking skills, all my most prized possessions are digital, and I've already got my actual gear on me.  I'm sure Vercile will have a trinket or two she'll want to go back and get before she gets moved to wherever Firewall is sending her, but aside from that, all that's in the apartment is posh furniture and clothes I was going to feed back into the fabber next week anyway.  I'll have to arrange to have it sold off, but I can do that over the mesh later tonight.  Shall we skip ahead to finding me a room, and then move on to the celebration?"<br/><br/>If she was actually going to be offered her choice of rooms aboard the<em>Hacienda del Sol</em>, Lucy was already planning to suggest that she and Rayearth share a room.  Vercile had had a cover as a member of her entourage that was rather similar to the one that Rayearth was using, after all, and she had wound sharing an apartment with the woman.  Getting the chance to do a little bonding and get comfortable with one another would help with the cover story, help to make it look like they were working closely with one another on a regular basis.  And if it wound up not working out, it wouldn't be much trouble at all for one or the other of them to move out to some other room.<br/><br/>That was the reasoning she would use to try to convince her teammates.  It was mostly true, but she also privately wanted an excuse to have a lot of time alone with the young woman.  Learning that Rayearth would be masquerading as one of her subordinates was like learning that she was being given a new toy to play with, and while she would have to be more subtle with this one than she had gotten to be with Vercile, it would still be fun to see just what sort of new horizons she could open up for the girl during their time together...