Lex smiled to herself and sat back down at her table, crossing her legs and sitting back in her chair. She still had an hour or more to waste, but she'd need to leave fairly soon for The Aquarium, as she was planning on going on foot, though she would walk, despite the fact that the normal definition of 'on foot' for her involved less feet on the ground and more leaping across rooftops.<br/><br/>She preferred to meet Element during the day, first, because it would mean that she couldn't be followed by any other curious vampires, and second, because, as an elder, she rarely slept all day, and finding something to do with her time was a tedious process, unless something presented itself, like a young mage girl, for example.<br/><br/>She checked the clock in the cafe, before standing to make her way towards, even in her slow, and meandering way, towards The Aquarium. Things were going to change in Tannis, the real question wasn't wether they were going to change or not, but who, in the end,  would ultimately be the arbiter of the change? Who would decide how the city ought to be? She was, as she'd said, more than willing to give over some of that control to others, partners, as it were. The Arch-Mage, who she had no doubt could be a powerful ally, and an important conspirator in her designs, and whose goals, she thought, would ultimately have their roots in the community of mages. The fellow elder, whose interests lay with humanity, and the softening, or perhaps mediating of the vampire kind in Tannis. And, of course, herself, whose vision, disguised to any but herself, would drive the city to its change. Her potential allies had a kind of strange harmony about them, though, she knew, only time would tell her if her sense of things was bourne out in reality, as it usually was.