Peregrine Diana Eckhardt

— Peregrine, lamenting being a main character.

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## Peregrine D. Eckhardt

Per (Luis)

Hearts (Daia)

Maya Merlo (Stage Persona)

Abelarda "Belle" Licona (Undercover Racer)

Crimson Red Jaguar Eye and Golden Chained Eye (Radiant Consumption)

Golden crown of thorns and golden eye

Scar across left half of face

Glowing wings, heart, veins, and arteries (Radiant Consumption)

Clyde Eckhardt (Adopted Father)

Nayara Eckhardt Sosa Basurto (Step-Mother)

Daia Palomo Rosales

Mercedes

Luis Cavalier (deceased, assumed zombie)

Guadalupe "Sid" Vasquez

Yohan "The Son"

In-Su Bak

Pilar Demara

Sheriff John "Big John" Marston (missing)

Detective Fridha

Detective Gomez (deceased)

Aureliano Yepes

Bounty Valiente (deceased)

Senator Rubio

Coraline Poe (potential enemy)

Detective Monterrey (deceased)

Captain Hernandez

Lt. Ordonez

Children of the Raven Queen

Maurice (The Raven Queen)

Nocturne Order Members (Gang)

Angels Members (Gang)

Racist Ghosts

Singer/Actress

Queen’s Aid/Political Activist

The House of People (Congress)

Paladin 2

Playing Card Set

Thieves' Tools

Deception

Insight

Persuasion

Stealth

Will

Chapter II: *Blood-Suckers*

Chapter III: *Get Money*

Chapter IV: *6 Feet Under*

Chapter V: *A Bold Bluff*

Chapter VI: *Friendly Fire*

Chapter VII: *Under Auspicion*

Chapter VIII: *Isabel*

Chapter IX: *Under Hallowed Ground*

Chapter X: *Toll the Dead*

Chapter XI: *Zoodled*

Chapter XII: *What a Way to Die*

Chapter XIII: *For the Last Time*

Chapter XIV: *I Only Have Eyes For You*

Chapter XV: *The Weight of Your Sins*

Chapter XVI: *A House of Dreams*

Chapter XVII: *Sentimentalism*

BOOK TWO

Chapter XVIII: *Introducing Maya Merlo*

Chapter XIX: *Assigned Leader at Birth*

Chapter XX: *Benefit of the Doubt*

Chapter XXI: *Your Girlfriend's House is Haunted*

Chapter XXII: *Super Superstitious*

Chapter XXIII: *Running Out of Time*

Chapter XXIV: *Visceral Reaction*

Chapter XXV: *The Train Room*

Chapter XXVI: *Questions Piling Up*

Chapter XXVII: *Under Pressure*

Chapter XXVIII: *Till Death do Us Part*

BOOK THREE

Chapter XXIX: *Gone*

Chapter XXX: *Stay with Me*

Chapter XXXI: *Talk Shop*

Chapter XXXII: *One Foot in the Grave*

Chapter XXXIII: *Whirlwind Romance*

Chapter XXXIV: *Trust Fall*

Chapter XXXV: *Deal with the Devil*

Chapter XXXVI: *Blood and Tears*

Chapter XXXVII: *Sanctified*

Chapter XXXVIII: *Taking the Throne*

## Description

### Appearance

 — Luc Lonetree, seeing Perry in her drag persona, *Maya Merlo,* and on many other occasions.

#### Normal Appearance

Perry is 5’7” with dark, wavy hair that ends in the center of her shoulder-blades and has bangs above her brow. Her eyes are heterochromatic, one gold and one dull red, due to magical injuries and are accented by a light amount of brown eye shadow and eyeliner on her eyelids. Her cheeks are lightly blushed and gain a pair of dimples when she flashes a rosy pink-lipped smile. Due to consumption of a holy relic, woven golden vines covered in thorns grow out of the upper part of her skull through the skin, resembling a crown which is generally covered by hair.

She stands with her hands in her long coat's pockets, but cannot remain casual—she’s antsy, shifting her stance constantly or reaching out to put a hand on the back of a friend. She favors bearing weight on the right side of her body, away from her prosthetic leg.

Perry wears boxy dresses in the style of today, but also has a good amount of pants and shirts to wear; she will normally wear a dress, especially when the day will likely be spent in the office or for a formal occasion. In a dangerous situation, however, she would rather be caught dead in trousers. Regardless of what clothes she wears, Perry presents in a feminine manner through makeup, accessories, mannerisms, or the way she fashions her clothes. Thus, anyone interacting with her would likely know how she would like to be referred to, regardless of her clothing.

Perry's prosthetic leg is held to her body by a pelvic band similar to a corset around the hips. With an above the knee amputation, returning her gait to a functionality previously known to her has been a long process of trial and error. With the recent loss of her old prosthetic, she has had to relearn walking on the new one, which requires the use of a wooden cane. The prosthetic is made of wood and leather that fits over the socket of her remaining thigh. It is articulated at the knee, ankle, and toe and achieves the walking motion via catgut tendons attaching the foot and knee. The ankle joint uses a spring-hydraulic mechanism that takes in impact during the walk cycle or any landing on the leg. The leather and wood must be kept clean and become very uncomfortable when wet, especially from sweat. Unlike her old leg, this one is not modded to have secret compartments like her previous one.

#### Radiant Consumption

Scorching golden light emanates from within Peregrine’s skin, burning her and all who stand too close. Her veins, arteries, and beating heart radiate crimson light that glows through her now semi-translucent flesh and tissue. With every beat of her heart, the red glow travels from her chest outward like lightning from a dark cloud. A golden crown resembling twining bramble vines grows out of her head, becoming a thicker, more-visible band.

The ends of her extremities darken to black at the tips and fading up the limb; this gradient is the only part of her body that remains entirely opaque. Atop the darkened gradient is a pattern of black rosettes, like a jaguar’s, that shrink in size as the gradient on her limbs fades. Claws extend from the ends of her fingers.

Like her blood vessels, the sclera of her left eye become a deep crimson and her iris and pupils condense into a vertical line reminiscent of a cat’s. The other eye is glows yellow gold in the iris, which is surrounded by a tiny silver chain shape. A black halo resembling an obsidian mirror hovers behind her head and her height increases to 6'1"; behind that halo another shimmering gold halo gleams with rays, creating the effect of a solar eclipse behind her.

Two pair of spectral wings blossom from her back and spread outward, reaching out to near twice her height. The marginal covers of her original wings are darker in color than the primaries and secondaries, though many red, orange, and brown colors are sported throughout the arrangement. Ribbons of red lightning crackle through the feathers. These wings split at the base of the humerus to create the second pair of wings which resemble an eagle's wings. Her wings are spectral are not flight-capable without additional magic expenditure.

### Personality

 — Luc Lonetree and Luis Cavalier, at several separate times, reassuring Perry about one of her fears.

Perry, when not faced with awkwardness, is a talkative individual in a conversation; if there's silence, she wants to fill it. Luckily, she is aware of the room and is able to become silent when necessary, except in scenarios where she is driven to extreme emotions, which remove any careful filter.

She has shown to be afraid of going into, or staying within, dangerous situations such as the Nocturne Order attack in *Party Crashers* or the Mocking Hound nest in *A Bold Bluff.* Despite this fear, she goes into these situations anyway, most notably crawling into a vent duct likely infested with Hounds to grab Sinola Derúd in *Friendly Fire.* When questioned why she followed Lucero Lonetree into the basement of the De Soto Manor by Detective Monterrey, Perry claimed that she "couldn't just leave the guy to go down there to die," and that "they had a job they were hired to do." One of her personal mottos, told to her by her mother, is to “do what is hard because it is right,” which informs her decisions from mid-battle to political activism.

She seems to sport a belief in the "tit for tat, eye for an eye" adage. Whatever is done to Perry, she means to exact in the same amount, as is what is right and fair, such as attempting to kick Luc's feet out from him after Luc near-fatally slashed her to death.

## Abilities

### Healing

In *A Bold Bluff,* Perry attempted to heal the corpse of Jameson O'Reilly before she realized the voice was a ruse by a Mocking Hound to lure her and the others into the office. She has since used this ability many times on Luis. The magic functions by using electrical impulses to magically stimulate one's cells into accelerated healing. Since consuming the Blood of the Son, her healing ability has increased in power and effectiveness.

### Telepathy

Perry is able to invade the mind of another person over short distances and for a short time. This ability is relatively harmless, as whoever she is speaking to mentally can choose what they wish to share — that is, if she is not further enhancing the ability to dig deeper, against the target's will. Perry dislikes doing more than skimming the edges of someone's thoughts and emotions without asking permission and has only done so to Bounty Valiente, who was masked and attempting murder her at the time.

### Sorcery

Perry's bloodline allows her to manipulate magic in ways other kinds of casters cannot. When she uses these powers, her celestial form tends to peak through, either in an obvious glow of her heartbeat and veins, or her eyes will convert to her red cat-like eyes. She most often manipulates her inner magic silently, casting spells in secret and without components, which has no visual tell. Another power extends the effect of her magic to a second target, most notably when she bestowed wings onto Daia and Luc at the same time, or many times she quickened the pace of two allies. More seldomly used, she can cast a spell more quickly and attempt another tactic at the same time, or changes the elemental effect of a spell.

### Vehicle Handling

Perry owns a Oldsmobile 43A, brown-red in color with a black convertible top, maintaining a stock appearance of the model. There is a single bullet hole in the back of the car. The car is modified to have storage compartments in the roof lining, engine compartment, wheel wells and under the floor boards. It also has a stronger-powered engine and more stiff suspensions for bearing weight. The lights of the car can all be turned off with one switch. There is enough room for five comfortably, though one seat is usually taken up by personal effects. There is evidence of many repairs to the car, but it is well-loved. The car is her baby, but she will obsess over a new or fancy-model car when it presents itself.

In *Benefit of the Doubt,* Perry's car had several windows broken and the nearly ripped off the door and top. The damage devastates her, as the vehicle is both part of her hobby and one of the only things of real value that she owns. Despite this, she is willing to let the Oldsmobile be driven in the Headrush, a race between the small teams formed of the gangs of Santa Corazon, as well as let Luc be the driver.

## Relationships

### **Lucero "Luc" Lonetree**

She and Luc often clashed with each other, but she grew to know him better as Luc talked to her. In return, Perry shared secrets she never willingly shared before: when and how she realized her abilities as a sorcerer and where she practiced her magic. Perry knows she can trust Luc with anything and Luc has earned the same oath Perry gave to Daia (*I would do anything for you*).

In Toll the Dead, Perry was adamant about keeping Luc included in the deal she made with Isabel, to have him receive any information she was willing to give them. She was also curiously hopeful that Isabel toying around with her blood would help Luc with his terminal illness. Whatever bad blood was between them, it seems to have been put aside; whether that be from the talk they had or the trust Perry simply has to have in Luc because of the secrets he holds or the danger they go in together. It has not been evident how affected by Luc's admittance to very likely dying soon she is.
In For the Last Time, Perry and Luc got into a scuffle when Luc handed her a *So You're Questioning Your Sexuality* magazine. Once the fight was taken outside, Perry hinted that her initial slap was more motivated by an "inexplicable" annoyance that she has for Luc. Once they were publicly reprimanded, Perry then admitted that she gets angry at Luc because seeing him reminds her of guilty feelings she has because she told the Wolfesbane agency all she knew about Luc's ichor work so she could have amnesty in the agency, which resulted in Luc losing a great deal of his work to combat his terminal illness.
After that admittance of guilt, there was some tension between Luc and Perry as the other detective was rightfully mad. Luc, ever the gentleman, did not allow this to make him ignore his duties as a team member.
When Perry was knocked unconscious in The Weight of Your Sins, it was Luc who crawled through the rubble as soon as his eyes opened as he gazed upon Perry: impaled in the chest on a huge stone, bleeding from a wound on her skull, and her prosthetic crushed flat. She was dying. Knowing each second counted, Luc broke his arm to administer a healing tonic to her and continued to rescue Perry by carrying her (arm broken) out of the Undercity, talking with her all the way so she stayed conscious. The job was done so well Perry did not want to be taken from him by the medical team.

If Perry did not think she owed Luc one before, she does now. And it was uncomfortably comfortable being cradled in Luc's arm for so long.

When she performed as Maya Merlo, Perry directed a wink as she sang "*hay un ave que gime noche y día / que solo un ángel la pueda consolar*" (There is a bird that wails night and day that only an angel can console), breaking the wall between her as a performer and he as a mere audience member. The song also contained the lyrics "*yo seré peregrino de tu amor*" (I shall be the pilgrim of your love) and "*yo te daría mi sangre de rodillas*" (I would give you my blood on my knees). Interpreting these lyrics, the pilgrim line places her firmly as the actual and metaphorical singer as it references her name, Peregrine. The final lyric of note, of course, *coincidentally* parallels her real blood donation to him.
In *Your Girlfriend's House is Haunted,* Perry cast *Haste* on Luc by smacking his ass, shouting, "get 'em, cowboy!" which finally spurred Luc to ask Luis whether or not Perry was hitting on him.

Perry proved good on her self-promise to do anything for him; in *Under Pressure,* despite having a hold on her magic less-and-less in the wild magic zone of the Ethereal, continued to use her magic at its height to protect him. When he was swallowed by a giant Husk, she conjured tendrils of flame to tear it open and release him. This proved quite the sacrifice, as the tendrils strayed from her control, striking her in the face and melting her left eye into her skull. When they returned from the Ethereal, and Perry into her material body, her left eye was left blind (though intact). When asked by Coraline what happened, Perry claimed that it had been "worth it."

On her way to living addiction-free from activated ichor, finding life outside Wolfesbane in her local theater community, and finally having the self-confidence to take no shit, Perry finally had her head on her shoulders where it belonged. After Luc returned to Gods' Grave alone and nearly died, and nearly died twice more in the Hunter's attack, she came to the conclusion that she was close enough to the breaking point of being competent enough for a relationship and running out of time to let him know she wanted him. Luckily for her, Luc's brush with death cleared the fog of confusion in his own mind — with a kick into action from Luis, the two confessed and kissed at last.

After her death and rebirth, Perry became afraid they would have to separate because of the echo of the Son in her mind. With assurance from both Yohan and Luc, however, they resolved to continue the relationship to whatever place Perry felt comfortable going. For Perry, of course, that place was all the way - and she would admit to being in love to Luc once the dirt settled on Luis' grave and the storm was calm enough that she could open up her feelings.

Luc has lived weeks past when he expected his end to come, allowing the two to adopt a dog named Chichi and move in together. Now having different jobs, they spend much less time together - but Perry cherishes every second of the ticking clock.

### **Luis Cavalier**

Perry felt she could gel to Luis comfortably: both were alleged charismatic extroverts and both on equal footing in terms of physical and magical intimidation. Luis saved her life directly after being downed to a shotgun, and indirectly saved her by healing her wounds before she reached that point. Perry likes him, as it is hard not to like someone who literally takes away your pain. Perry biggest problem with him was Luis keeps all of his knowledge in that big red book of his and forgetting to let the rest of them know. But, hey, maybe she should be tuning into the guy's radio show if she really needed to know. Other than that, Perry imagined seeing her and Luis develop a friendship based on a mutual love and interest in the various magical arts.

In For the Last Time, Perry admitted, in tears, that she "cared about" Luis and did not want to be reassigned to a team without him on it.

Perry almost drove herself mad waiting in the Hellmouth for 8 hours—when she saw him alive, she was overcome with relief and overwhelmingly warm feelings and attempted to hug him. Perry was hit with Dissonant Whispers for crossing that boundary. And though she still cares for Luis, he has lost Perry's trust. After his actions in The Weight of Our Sins, Luis can no longer be trusted to hold the needs of the group above his own. Their relationship is damaged now, but it is not irreparable at this point. It's not like Perry has never hurt Luis, after all.

In *Under Pressure,* Luis was revealed to have been a liar for the entirety of this working relationship. In the Ethereal, argument the nature of the crimson string tethering Maurice's domain to Coraline's house, Luc forced Luis to show his hand by threatening to severe it. Maurice channeled magic through Luis' body to freeze Luc, nearly asphyxiating him until Perry promised they would do no harm to the cord. The three of them entered the red door, where Luc and Perry learned Luis had made a pact with this creature, one opposed by Isabel, one putting undo pressure on the Ethereal and trying to summon *"The Child"*, one willing to sacrifice the two of them if they stood in the way. All this, and Luis never thought to tell them anything himself — even about his past, where he lost his little sister.

Luis is at rock bottom and has a lot of problems: worse still that he can apologize for the results of his actions but remains defensive of taking those actions in the first place. He makes excuses. He doesn’t *boldly lie,* just *omit* like everyone does. He finds nothing wrong with manipulating people. He’s a little newscaster, in charge of the story she gets to know - it makes her furious. There is a saving grace for him, however, that he reminded Perry "the ex drug-dealer" Eckhardt how terrible she was compared to now and how far there still is to go. While he must earn back her full trust through change, Luis is her friend, and he deserves a second chance.

Thus, she extended a chance to him, adding management of Luis' condition and worries to her own pile of concerns. But once again Luis cracked under stress and the pressure to upkeep his masculinity in working alone, though this time his misdeed was a normal and mortal sort. Luis cheated on Coraline and, when Perry confronted him with all the wrong decisions that brought him to that big crime, he told her to mind her business — when she had told him she was there for him when he really needed. He told her he had a right to have as many secrets as he pleased — despite promising honesty to her. Luis admitted to spying on Coraline through the mirror they had, and something about the culmination of it all uneased her. When Perry thought of Luis, she felt sick, anxious, and unsure if she could forgive him again.

She knew he loved her and would do anything for her — an excellent friend in that way. Perry wondered if he would take it too far and decide what was best for her, making decisions behind her back, consorting with dangerous sorts in vain attempts to protect her, leaving her to confusion and hurt in his wake. At worst, once she had the hunch Coraline was really the Raven Queen, Perry feared Luis would betray her like many have. When Luis died to Bounty, aka The Stalking, their relationship had stagnated there as a purgatory of friendship to evolve or end.

Regretting how she let them grow apart after all they had been through together, she wrote a long letter and promised to find his sister.

𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚜𝚘, 𝚜𝚘 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚢, 𝙻𝚞𝚒𝚜. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚜𝚘 𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚢. 𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚌𝚔. 𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚋𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚍. 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚜𝚘 𝚊𝚠𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚞𝚋𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚔𝚜 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚠𝚊𝚢.
𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚠𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝟸𝟼𝚝𝚑. 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚜𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝.
𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚢 𝚘𝚛 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚊... 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝙻𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕𝚝𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙳𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚎𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜. 𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜. 𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚜, 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚜.
𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝. 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗...𝙻𝚞𝚌 𝚜𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝.
𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚝, 𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝? 𝙸𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍. 𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎. 𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚍𝚘 𝚜𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝙸 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍. 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐.
𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜. 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝙸 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚍. 𝙻𝚞𝚒𝚜, 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚊 𝚋𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙷𝚎 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚍! 𝙸𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙲𝚊𝚕𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙷𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙳𝚛𝚞𝚐 𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚕𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚑 𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚖𝚢 '𝚘𝚍𝚍𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜.' 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚞𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝙲𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚐.
𝙷𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 Adán. 𝙸 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎. 𝙷𝚎 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚢𝚎𝚜. 𝙷𝚎 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚠: 𝚖𝚢 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍. 𝙸 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚙𝚒𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝙽𝚘𝚠 𝚊𝚖 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚒𝚐𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚢... 𝙱𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚢𝚘𝚞.
𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚙𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚍 𝚞𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚊𝚋𝚒𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚎, —𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚙𝚒𝚍, 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢. — 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎. 𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚢, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚛𝚊𝚙 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚕. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚍𝚘 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞, —𝚈𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚘𝚝, — 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍. 𝙿𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜. 𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖. 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚛. 𝙸𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢 𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚜𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚢 𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚜𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜, 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚢 𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚢 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏. 𝙷𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚙 𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚖𝚎. 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚎, 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚗, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚞𝚕𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎. 𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞.
𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚁𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚀𝚞𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚘𝚛 𝙲𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚎𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑. 𝙸'𝚟𝚎 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚢𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚢 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚙𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛. 𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚜 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊𝚜 𝙸 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚍 Adán'𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚎. 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞. 𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚕𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚢 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠.
𝙸 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝. 𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝙾𝚛 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎. 𝙼𝚊𝚢𝚋𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚟𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚖𝚊 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚜.
𝙸𝚏 𝙸 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚖𝚢 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚔 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑, 𝙸 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚁𝚘𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚊. 𝙸 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚒𝚝. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚍𝚘 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚘𝚛.

𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚘, 𝚜𝚘 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚎. 𝙸 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝙻𝚞𝚒𝚜 𝙲𝚊𝚟𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚛. 𝙸 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚊𝚕𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜.
𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍,

𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚎

In the months after his death, her dreams sometimes convinced her that Luis had dug himself up out of his grave and stumbled onto her doorstep, ready to repair their friendship that had been so on the rocks. As it drew nearer to a year, she began to forget more of the things he did that, truthfully, pissed her off, and settled into a rosier memory of him. Harmless, since he would never come back like she sometimes dreamt. Then, on the anniversary of his gruesome death, she dragged Luc to where they buried him. While she cried, Luc noticed something disturbing about the site - someone had been there. Someone had dug from underneath the ground. Luc dug up the grave and they saw his body, save for the severed arm, was gone. Perry wondered why, if she had been right about his resurrection, was she not right about his return?

### Antonia “Tonya” de Anxida “Sinola Derúd”

When they met in *Friendly Fire,* Perry and “Sinola” were not sure of each other. When Perry was fatally wounded, Tonya defaulted to leaving her that way, asking Luc if she should even bother healing Perry. Their relationship as friends really started in *What a Way to Die* as the difficult fight with the Sandalphon spurred them both to dip into their powers and reveal to each other that they were both Aasimar. Following that, Tonya introduced Perry to Sid, and they began to train together when scheduling permitted. Perry is immensely grateful for all the information Tonya has given her to find out more about herself, Nephilim, and Aasimar.

Tonya was one of the most elated when Perry debuted as Maya Merlo, a display of acceptance that soothed much of the anxiety Perry may have had when figuring out what was the best for her. Tonya also displayed incredibly ride-or-die levels of friendship while defending Perry from her kidnapping by DCA agents and especially by bringing her back to life with her ancient heirloom vial of the Blood of the Son. If Perry were still in the headspace of feeling the need to repay kindness, she would think it was impossible — but her friendship with Tonya is comforting and strong enough that it sustains itself with ease. Easily, Tonya is one of the people who could ask Perry for *anything.*

The biggest favor Perry is doing for Tonya is continuous: accepting the role of Queen’s Aid, and sitting on Congress to be the “voice of her opinions”, since Tonya is not a fan of her birth-job. Tonya seemingly trusts Perry to influence policies for her, waving her off when she checks in to verify an opinion. This trust is something Perry is determined never to abuse.

### **Daia "Diamonds" Palomo Rosales**

Perry met her during their time working for Isaac trading ichor, munitions, alcohol, and other things. Whatever their relationship was, they certainly rose above coworkers. Perry feels comfortable calling Daia at 4 AM when she's afraid, had an awful day, and needs someone to talk to. Perry referred to Daia as her "girlfriend," a girl that's a friend, when telling the story of their encounter with a blue drake. Perry has promised Daia that she would do anything for her, and means it.

Perry nagged Daia for many phone calls to convince her to leave the ichor trade and move to Santa Corazón with her mother, and convinced her to visit in October. While in the capital, Daia was invited to attended Perry's stage performance, and was told of Perry's plans to transition sooner than others. Trying to fulfill Perry's wish for her to move nearby, Daia joined the Angels gang. Due to the gang's involvement in the sinister sides of Activated Ichor production, Perry has grown weary concerning her, though was assuaged when Daia promised it to be a temporary measure until she found her real, legal calling. In a final attempt to convince Daia to ditch the Angels, Perry confessed to being the sort of person those people target: someone born with magic. Daia did not relent, but promised to look out for her while she was there and prevent Perry from falling victim on her watch. Maybe that can be enough.

### **Isabel Montemayor**

In the initial meeting with Isabel, Perry attempted to reach out to her as she believed she was some sort of scared, lonely creature. Far from the truth, perhaps, it turns out she is a mad scientist who turned herself into a beast for unknown reasons. Due to her hostile tone, outright admittance of lies, and condescension of Perry's ability to comprehend the reality of the mystery, she does not trust her. For her own reasons, however, she has agreed to let her activate "what lies within [her]," even as Luc was yelling at her for even considering it. However idiotic and monumentally consequential her actions may turn out to be, Perry was at least keen on getting information from her, "increments for increments."

Isabel, however, failed to give Perry any of the things she asked for and seemed, from Perry's point of view, to be moving the goalposts of their agreements: she refused to give Perry any of the information she wanted until Coraline Poe's concert was stopped, despite Perry having taken the energized ichor as Isabel had wanted.

Still, Perry held onto a hope they could have a working relationship; she sent Montezuma to find Isabel, desperate for help after a tunnel had collapsed on the three detectives and left them injured. The respect Perry carried for her vanished the very next day when Isabel had not visited her in her need. No, worse, as Luc let slip in the morning: Isabel visited in the night and broke their agreement without speaking with her. Worse, and worse, Isabel touched her sleeping body — "not like that," Luc said at Perry's horrified expression. Still, Isabel's clear disregard for her personhood killed any remnant of hope. Months later, when Isabel is brought up, Perry colludes on suggestions of a "weekend project" where the detectives plan to track her down and subdue, or perhaps, kill her.

The politics of whether or not they should work alongside Isabel, however, may shift, now that Perry has found the opposition Isabel aligned against. At this time, Perry seems to be sympathetic to her - seeing that she is suffering for her misdeeds and had the best of intentions. Perry has extended a helping hand, should Isabel "do the right thing," admit her wrongdoings, and help Luc from having her same fate. As Isabel once did for Perry, this consideration appears to be done because of the relationship Isabel has to Perry's mother, Michelle.

As this working relationship continued, the both of them refuse to express care for each other or deny it outright. Perry describes Isabel as rude and horrible company, but is willing to hear her out on matters of Archons and arcane as well as her mother. Isabel claims not to care for Perry while she acts concerned for her at the same time: making sure she is given water and ordering the boys to retrieve it for her, listening to Perry's wishes in some matters they disagree, and finally becoming upset to have missed the invitation to Perry's performance in *El Fantasma de la Ópera.* Isabel became comfortable enough with Perry to inform her of her “regrets” and desire to take a vacation, since it had been months since the last sacrament. They kept light contact until, mysteriously as she appeared, Isabel vanished.

## Biography

### Backstory

Through the dangers presented by working as a detective for Wolfesbane, it came to light that Perry is an Aasimar and Sorcerer, and usually kept that reality a secret — even to her long-time best friend, Daia. As she told Luc, "I don't make a habit of telling people who are in the business of selling blood like mine what I am." It is no secret that Perry is addicted to Activated Ichor, a drug that provides magical abilities to those not normally inclined (an aid often used for the creation of warlocks). She claimed to, or at least had a self-denial of, only consuming ichor that is mined from the earth rather than made out of another person.

In *Toll the Dead,* Isabel mentioned knowing Perry's mother—she did not appear to know anything about the organization or her mother's whereabouts. After the apprehension of Cristían Vasquez ("The Sword"), Perry let Luis know more about her mother so that Luis could help her search for the answers Isabel would not give. They went to the Congressional Library together and recovered the file of an enlisted soldier between 30-1300: Cisco, Michelle. They learned she was moved from Fort Isabella to work with Dr. Montemayor, then was sent to Sacre-Coeur before going Missing in Action on April 3rd, 1295. Perry believes that is the same day she remembered a thunderstorm around her childhood home. Luis' memories presented in the Ethereal Plane revealed what happened on that day, corroborated by Isabel: Michelle stopped a ritual to Magus by the Nocturne Order because she believed it was related to the rise of the Dark Apostles. She saved Luis' life, but all suspect it cost her own.

Perry has since revealed, in drunken conversations and otherwise, that she stopped going to school shortly after her mother's disappearance, since her family found her making money to be a higher priority. She related to Luis about drinking at a young age, around 12. At 17, Perry was introduced to activated ichor by her friend Adam. Soon after, she joined a mob within Thunderbird City (Corona Sagrada).

### Campaign Arc One: Birdsong

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They continued on their journey to save Santiago and found a strange sight involving three corpses, two vampyre-like creatures, and oozing piles of Activated Ichor. Luckily, the crew was able to free Santiago from the Ichor and kill the creatures. Unfortunately, they were punished for failing their initiation by being added to the "Dead Pool", where they get the least-desired and often most-dangerous cases in the Agency.

Luc, Perry, and Luis followed clues and codes to Emmanuel Zaragoza's apartment. There, Perry used her familiarity with hiding illegal substances places to fish out where Zaragoza would hide something, which lead to finding a safe containing the man's journal. From there, they went to the suspect's favored bar, the Peace & Quiet.

They cross the chasm to find a Rookery shrouded in darkness, lit by red emergency lights, entering at the second floor. Large, heavy furniture and lockers blocked the only stairs down to the first floor, and the elevator was dead. On the third floor, Luis was lured to the restroom by a scream and found no one there but was attacked by something that promptly crawled back into the vents. On the fourth floor, they found offices for four people, one of which was locked. From one room, Perry stole a poster of the anatomy of a Drake; in another, they discovered evidence of drug trafficking, notably Sorcerer's Flesh. Perry was highly disturbed by the nature of this drug's existence. The owner of the office's voice came from behind the locked door and Jameson O'Reilley asked for proof that they weren't the doglike creatures that could mimic human voices.
Despite having this warning, the team was not perceptive enough to fear that this man's voice would also be a copy. Perry entered the room first and attempted to heal the man with her natural ability, not realizing in time that he was merely a corpse. This mistake cost her severe injury. The creature left through the vents again and they began searching more quickly for a way to get information out of this place and go. This led them back to the third floor, in the barracks, where they were attacked again while attempting to open a safe. Luis was knocked unconscious and they all ran into a small room and barricaded the doors with beds from the barracks.
After a short rest, the Hounds appear at the windows of the small room and stare in with bright beady eyes. Luis and Perry talk to them and convince them to let them live longer to teach the Hounds to use the radio equipment on the 4th floor. Unfortunately, with the power off, they are unable to show them and after Perry tells them she needs to access the basement to turn on the power, they declare her a liar and begin to attack. At this time, the gondola is moving as a figure approaches the rookery.

Perry, Luc, and Luis run down the stairs while the Hounds are distracted by the newcomer and reach the 2nd floor to see Sinola, the barmaid that pointed out Zaragoza to them, entering the door. As Perry shouts for her to run for her life, a hound leaps out of the closet and drags Sinola into a vent.

The lower pair, completely separated from the other two and what struggles they were going through, began working through the steps to jump the generator. They took sweet time balancing ichor reactions and activating a car-engine-like device before meeting their match with four heavy switches on the wall. They attempted many many times to pull two switches each, Perry even helping Sinola with Mage Hand, but ran out of time to try undisturbed as creatures emerged from vents in the rooms connecting to theirs.
Seeing one of the creatures coming up the left hallway, Perry disguised herself magically as a Mocking Hound and used Minor Illusion to make one of their mechanical washing machine sounds to convince the real Mocking Hound that she would *take care* of Sinola. Unfortunately, her ruse also convinced the creature in the right hallway, which happened to be Luc Lonetree, wielding two machetes.

Luc rushed the "Mocking Hound" and speared it on both blades, knocking Perry unconscious and dispersing her magical disguise. As Sinola reluctantly revived her, Luc elected to slap Perry — resulting in the two tussling on the ground in front of her. They were only interrupted by the final remaining Mocking Hound. Once it was killed by the three of them, they retrieved Luis from inside the elevator shaft, turned on the power, finished gathering the information, and set about going home on the subway.

Perry got off a stop early to get her car and returned home to write the report for their adventures, leaving out the part where she used Charm Person and the part where Luc almost killed her. She gave this report to her handler, Detective Monterrey, and the RPD (who knows to try and apprehend Manny if he shows up at the coffee shop. Luc and Luis slept in and missed the donuts she brought.
After that, they began following leads about attendees at the original party they were hired to look into. They went to Dr. Aurora first, at her place in the Academy. The other boys convinced Perry that he looked like a student, which he was a little bashful about, but successfully got her office hours from a real student. While Luc interviewed her, Perry and Luis fed a suspiciously large flock of ravens.
They went to famed singer Coraline Co's hotel to talk with her, and Luis got into an interview easily. Luc and Perry watched more ravens, this time wary of feeding them.
They went to the Palace to try and set up a meeting with the various politicians at the party, and there were ravens. Hundreds. One landed on Perry's car, and when she tried to shoo it off, it rippled like a mirage and spoke:

The sound of a washer and dryer.

She wakes up to see a bar has been pulled off her bedroom window and the window is ajar. She closes the window and investigates, finding the skinwalker woman that broke into Luc's house climbing around in the corner of the living room ceiling. She opens the window for her and she points at the typewriter. Her body collapses inward as she turns limp and falls out the window. An owl flies out from her back and her human body rapidly decomposes like a videogame NPC.
The message on the typewriter: *Keep Away, Pajarito. You Meddle in Affairs that Do Not Concern You. Only Death Awaits.*
The next day, she tells her partners about the night occurrence and they determine she is warning them, not threatening them. With that settled, they resume their task to talk to the politicians. Unfortunately, something has the security tense, and they have to sneak in as assistants. Perry convinces Guard Captain Anixida to talk to her and supervise talks with the others. They are able to draw that Minister of Coin Arthur McKendrick and Cristián Vasquez are both shifty and strange, according to the others. These two figures, and Vasquez's mother Guadalupe, in turn point the finger to the DeSoto party's head waitress, Bounty Smythe.
On the way out, they see commotion and, at closer glance, note that the Queen was missing for 24 hours and has just returned.
At the DeSoto manor, they receive a call from Det. Perez to come talk to Manny, who did go to meet Perry at the coffee shop. When they meet him, he acts out of it, with hazy eyes and a strange fedora with a raven feather. They talk to Captain Hernandez and Manny, and retrieve valuable information about taking out the Nocturne Order. More notably, though, the skinwalker woman returns in the form of a dog.

They apprehend her and "adopt" her through Hernandez's forms, but she gets away when they get outside. They track her in Perry's car across the city, and watch her fly across the lake to the Cicitlahuacan ruins.

They are allowed in (Perry pays the park fee anyway), but Deputy Tores follows them around. This results in the group hamming up Luc's ability to track, playing on a stereotype, which is enough to convince the deputy to let them look around after dark. They have to, of course, file paperwork at the station.
In the night, they stumble upon a giant lizard and flee from it. Tracking Isabel from the future site of the concert, they run into more signs of large reptiles, though these are Basilisks. They run along Isabel's trail into the deep part of the Anovan ruins.
They pass traps and puzzles and they find the corpses of the Wolfesbane agents who were sent on this mission. Luc and Perry both offer up their blood at different times; Perry seems to believe hers is worth something. It is given to the shrine of what may be a goddess. Isabel's notes and papers lie strewn about.
In the final chamber, they find a large room with architecture resembling a rib cage. On the floor is a sealed door with a tarot card resting on it, impaled on an antler. On it the words "Do not follow, Pajarito. -W" are inscribed, addressing Perry. Perry takes it, conjuring an explosion that knocks out Luis until she scrambles to revive him.

The door, once opened, reveals a long descent through ancient bones of strange creatures. They dive in.

While trying to sneak past the blind Mictlani, bells are tolled which summon more, making the creatures more powerful. Perry, trying to give Luis room to run and Luc room to sneak by, triggered another bell. She went to Luc, grabbed him by the shoulder, and said, "I'm so fucking sorry," as her eyes glowed red and her pupils narrowed to slits. Peregrine revealed herself to the boys as an aasimar, which they reacted with surprise, confusion, and a promise to keep is secret. Perry and Luis got into a mild argument about Luis keeping a picture he sketched of her in that form.
Through more skeletons and N.O. agents, they finally reached Isabel, who dangled information before them in exchange for making deals. Isabel revealed that she knew Perry's mother, after Perry noticed her repeating a phrase her mother had often said in parables; they had worked together once. Wanting to know more of her mother's last days, Perry attempted to settle a deal with Isabel. Perry and Luis both took up her offer of Energized Ichor and information, but Luc, knowing her manipulative nature, abstained.

Upon finally exiting the ruins, the group stood in the sunlight and saw thick clouds of ravens over the city. Perry, turning to the other two, said, "I've got a lot to process. Let's go drink," heralding their next move.

At the beginning of their "guys' night out," Perry was reluctant to dance rather than just drink—she used to dance, but has not attempted to since the loss of her left leg. With enough inebriation and pushing from her pals, she entered the dance floor with Luc and suffered no incident of embarrassment. A small return of normalcy was returned to her then. If the rest of the night had gone well, this revelation would have improved her mood the rest of the night; potentially the week. At Coraline's penthouse, however, a conversation with her and the other two Wolfesbane boys clicked the synapses in her brain about the reality of sexuality. At least she was spared gender at this juncture.
Perry, through a mind-link, asked Luc what "gay" meant and how you would know; the answers to those questions seemed to send her into a state of distress and she excused herself to the bathroom. There were two men in the bathtub making out, which made her freak out more — a catalyst for following a woman onto the balcony to shoot up Activated Ichor with her.
As the two of them went out, Perry heard music of Coraline Poe's playing and her memory cut out.
The next morning, she woke up in her home. Through phone calls with the other two, they learned they had all lost their memory at around the same time.
Those events of the night had frazzled her: a concoction of the truths she knew about herself falling apart and the frightening loss of memory increased her desperation. Perry retrieved the pure Ichor that Isabel gifted her, considering it as she sat on the bed. She eyed her scarred thigh and gently touched the healed burns and remembered what had saved her. She drank it. Immediately, she felt an intense pain and a sensation like her body wished to invert. The pain increases to a peak — it recedes. Her body tingles from her core outward. She feels stronger. Checking her appearance in the mirror, she sees the tips of her fingers have begun to turn charcoal black, as they did in Radiant Consumption.

That day, the detectives turned in their reports of the past days and planned a siege on the Nocturne Order in the next week. Luis met up with Sinola, who told him she was returning to the Undercity to track down a frightening bird creature that had appeared to her when she was performing an autopsy on the Mocking Hounds. The detectives remembered seeing the same creature at Coraline's penthouse when their memory cut out, and it goes black a second time. The four of them begin their venture back into the Rookery.

The darkness soon became overwhelming, smelling of rot and decay and mold. Talons scraped on the rocks around them, followed by sounds of flapping wings and bird calls. The detectives, and Sinola, were accosted by these flying creatures, and only the practiced Sinola was able to keep from slipping on the rope at some point. One creature managed to knock Luis totally off the rope, sending him falling to his doom.
Perry immediately unclipped herself from the rope and fell after him, diving to reach his level in the air. She then held onto him and waited until they could see the ground, then pulled a dark feather from the nape of her neck and used it to cast *Featherfall,* saving Luis' life.
The ground trek the next day was uneventful. The cave echoed with cawing and squawking and above their heads hundreds of ravens roosted, but did not acknowledge the group. They looked upward vacantly. Their day ended in the four around a campfire in a gravelly cave. The detectives crafted a ghost story based upon a real death, which Sinola disliked, since they were lying about a real man's death. She then told a *real* ghost story about a man, a little girl, and a giant skeleton in the woods; though she admitted details about the scene were a bit embellished. But the story was real.
The next day, they were accosted by Mocking Hounds and Echoes, ravenlike mimic creatures, which severely injured several of them and caused more than a little drama. Perry was especially injured when the plan was abandoned, requiring healing from Sinola, which allowed her to notice that Sinola's veins raised from her skin when she performed the magic.
The fight was also bad enough that Luc reached into more power available to him (Blood Bargain of Sacrifice), causing his veins to turn black, spreading from a place on the side of his neck toward his face and arms. His eyes, too, clouded over entirely pitch once the black veins reached them — then began to cry red blood. Sinola, in an opposite energy, wrapped a Mocking Hound in ethereal golden chains from the vial on her neck, which also spread golden light throughout her veins. After the fight was over, she was standoffish and rude to Luc, not trusting what she had seen. Perry was excited about both transformations taking place, though she did not understand where they came from.
When they were finally nearing their destination, creeping along a narrow tunnel, red light suddenly poured through. Accompanying the light was the dreadful song: *I Only Have Eyes for You.*
The four woke up in cylindrical cages, hanging 30 feet above a ruined stage floor and a huge hole. Morning light poured in through a hole in the ceiling. It appeared to be an abandoned theater. In a fifth cage sat a person in bright white robes and an owl mask. Once Perry was awake, she used her telepathic ability to awaken Luis and Sinola, who believed the nest was under the National Theater — though that theater was not abandoned. Inside the hole there was a circular chasm with a gargantuan version of the Echos sleeping.
The Nocturne Order agent, once awoken, claimed there was an angelic creature that fed his men to the ginormous baby bird below. Perry promised him freedom for information and learned that there were levers on either side of the stage that would lower the cages. She then teleported from her cage and went offstage, lowering Sinola first.
Before she could lower anyone else, the *angel* appeared: a large humanoid creature with ginormous raven feather wings. Sticks and spirals of barbed wire and glass pierced its wings to reinforce them. Its main body was narrow and thin, almost skeletal. The legs did not end in feet, but sharp points that stick into the ground. Its skin was black, charred, oozing and burbling. It had long limbs with sickening claws and tubing that wrapped up and around the creature to its head: an old phonograph. The flowery brass head played music ambiently. It is called Sandalphon.
Perry, holding true to her promise, granted the agent the freedom he desired and lowered his cage, drawing the ire of the Sandalphon. It ripped his cage open and fed him to the Echo below immediately; Perry did not appear to feel bad about this.
The Sandalphon, then, seeing Perry and Sinola absent their cages, released a warbled cry. It looks offstage, where it must have known the switched to be, causing Perry to feel as if she was noticed. She attempted to teleport away again, into the audience, but was followed. The fight then progressed between a battle of Perry and Sinola staying alive long enough to release Luis and Luc and attempting to kill the creature.
The fight ended with a combined blow from the transformation trio: Perry, in her angelic form of Radiant Consumption, cast a ball of exploding lightning and struck the flying angel in the back; Sinola, in her own angelic form of six silver and gold wings donned in eyelike patterns, and a five-crowned halo, pulled herself into the air by chains around the Sandalphon and sheared off one of its wings with her cavalier sword; it then fell to the ground, landing before Luc, who had turned his machete cold as ice and his skin glowing warmly, as if with a fever, stabbed the revealed one-eyed oozing skull inside the phonograph, killing it.
Only after that did they finally manage to lower Luis' cage to the ground. After being distracted for a moment, all three healing-capable members healed Luc, who had been on death's door. They collected a few trinkets from the Sandalphon's hoard.
Perry questioned Sinola about her angel form and learned the terms Nephilim and Aasimar for their kin, as well as hints as to where to look for more answers. She also told about the Angel gang in the Undercity, which apparently had a Sorcerer farm and the tendency to convert Tieflings and Aasimar into Activated Ichor for drug consumption.

Luis shattered the cave wall to bury the baby bird thing alive, which conveniently made a ramp out of the theater. At long last, they climbed — Luc carried Perry out as she struggled on her prosthetic limb, having fallen twice that day. They came out across from the National Theater to an overcast day, noon, Monday the 29th of June.

In the night, Isabel returned, more haggard, to Perry's apartment. The two spoke of their deal in further detail: the changes Perry may experience from taking Archon's blood, and Isabel's demand that she apprehend Coraline Poe before her concert. Then they would talk about Michelle.
The next day, the Wolfesgang prepared for their confrontation with the Nocturne Order in their Undercity location: Hellsmouth. Before they could get through the lobby, however, Luc approached Perry with a helpful pamphlet titled *So You're Questioning Your Sexuality,* as she had requested. Embarrassed and repressed, she rolled it up and slapped him with it, initiating a brief scuffle between the trio both inside and outside the building. Fortunately, they were able to pass it off as young men doing young men things and were not arrested. Unfortunately, Monterrey informed them that their continued work at Wolfesbane was now hinged on the success of this one mission and that, regardless, they would all be reassigned separately at its conclusion.

In the aftermath, the three had one last personal meeting before heading out, confessing their affection and friendship in a secluded conference room. Finally, they moved on, accompanied by Monterrey and seven others, to descend the entrance to Hellsmouth and the Crystal Chapel.

 v We descend the sewers, which do not smell great. D'Monty is just goin', no map. Luc notes that he is not going the wrong direction but is not sure about that fact. Then he goes the wrong way and listens when Luc tells him such
Perry slips and both of the Lu Crew go to catch him and Luis wins.
 v The leader of the hexagonal room is stressed out. Lt. Mathers is a wizard? Warlock? Cleric?? His leader is dealing with gangs and the Sword up his ass.
Lt. Mathers vs Perry WIZARD DUEL

As most of the NO are killed, the fight stops. There's the sound of music: I Only Have Eyes For You. Nearby, infrastructure collapses and we hear galloping hooves and static and washing machines. There's a cacophony of sounds. Perry and Luc feel/hear a massacre outside as they barricade in the office. But they do not hear/feel fighting. Something sniffs the door, but moves beyond. We are like that for eight hours. Luis and D'Monty see the Mocking Hounds and Echoes clawing at people while the song plays on for hours. Then, they see her. The bricks around her decompose. She's eight feet tall, floating, clothed in a beautiful black gown. Her feet are avian, retrograde, clawed; her hands are clawed. Her skin is copper toned, corrupted by black tendrils and feathers. She has two large black wings, writhing like they are made of creatures - beaks and echoes emerge from them. Echoes sink into the heads of NO, changing their white masks to black, becoming an army. The most disturbing is her head: disconnected from the body, a raven's head, bright red and dripping blood. She is an archon: The Raven Queen. And then she is gone.

Spooked by this encounter and the sight of many adversaries at the Chapel, Luc and Perry were in agreement on postponing the mission to another day, to the dissension of Ferguson and Luis.
Luis began to get on her nerves once Perry and Luc had decided to come back to the Undercity another day, fearing the Nocturne Order remnants and the Raven Queen's minions swarming the Chapel they were meant to go toward. That, and there was Ferguson, the teenager following them on this mission.
Despite the seemingly incredible risk to their lives moving forward and a hard attempt to convince Ferguson to abandon the mission, Luis began to encourage going forward because of a personal vendetta. The results of this verbal fight were that Perry banned Luis from a stolen truck's cabin and Luis neglected to give Luc and Perry magical protection from damage while he gave it to Ferguson. Even still, there was more evidence of Luis lying or obscuring information.
When the Raven Queen's minions finally realized the Wolfesbane crew was wandering the Chapel and began coursing into the room. The agents, in a panic, took leave down a hidden tunnel. Unfortunately, some monsters had gotten into the room before they could close the stone door and the makings of a chase were present. In an effort to protect them, Luis tried to collapse the doorway, but instead collapsed the entirety of the tunnel above them. All were knocked unconscious, but Perry did not wake up on her own: Luc had to break his arm to save her life.

Had the mission gone successfully, Perry may have had to let go these issues and let Luis claim his told-you-so's, but it ended in disaster. A disaster that Luis caused; not that Perry is aware. At the end, Monterrey lost his life and Perry lost her prosthetic leg and nearly died. Luis must work on his trust issues.

 v Luis puts a tomato on Perry's car floor
 v Waiting for us: Tall, slender woman wearing a cap similar to a train conductor hat and a long coat. She's got a wheelchair for Perry
 v She DOES take us to a real hospital, emergency wing
 ○ "Keep this guy away from peepers"
 ○ She and a nurse exchange aggressively. She gets back in with an attitude
 ○ DeSoto couldn't reserve a room
 ○ We're going to the Vasquez estate, NOT a real hospital :)
 ○ Vasquez estate is very pretty of course, being a rich person home
Perry sends Monty to find Isabel
 v Perry is 11 years old and walking with his mother. It's hot outside, but he doesn't mind. Something she says is muffled, like she is under the water. He can see his father on the porch with another woman. She's pregnant. Perry's mother is wearing her fresh recruit jacket. She cries into her hand, like static, and it rises. She drops Perry's hand. The sun seems to be pushing him down and shadowed figures surround him, and (people I know who they are lol). They watch, they're maybe pushing him, maybe grabbing him and he goes down into the dirt: they become skeletons in the god's grave. He's forced into the earth but still feels the sun's rays. He feels claustrophobic from the weight of the planet. His wings sprout and the hands stop, the pain stops—then human hands tear at him, increasing the pain tenfold. They want bits of him. The men slice down into his chest and drink the blood from his chest. Luc, Luis, Diamonds are watching Perry is in the suffering zone and Luc is happy about it. Mouths open and split down the middle and their proboscises latch onto him and drain him from all his blood. His mother is still weeping static.
Luis runs into Guadalupe, in bedhead and a nightgown. She's on crutches and has only one leg. Her dog is her service dog? It also stares at Luis. It WILL get pets from him.
 v Perry doctor visit
 ○ DeSoto refers to a wheelchair as an "apparatus"
 ○ He does not handle the cleaning of the wound well
 ○ There was a sliver of rock still in his chest, most of the damage was to arteries and veins. Perry needs a transfusion, but his skin is healing fine
 ○ Perry also sees the little dog
Perry thinks that getting activated ichor blood transfusion is going to be a good idea
 v DeSoto comes to us with dark red splotches on her shoulder and arms. Pulls out three manilla folders. We're all fine with our medical history bared to each other
 ○ Luis: Building a cast around his ribs, full chest cast. A few ichor stim gels to regrow bone tissue, minor surgery to align bones and check for bone fragments. (He will have two levels of exhaustion). They might insert a metal plate under the skin to protect his ribs. Underarmor. Gonna take 12-16 weeks to heal from this, but he can resist attacks better. But his bones may fuse permanently to it if he takes the stim gels as well. (Plus 2 AC with vulnerability to force and bludgeoning damage)
 ○ He goes for the metal ribs
 ○ Luc: His arm just needs a cast, but he cannot use it for a month. Fracture on the radius x2 and ulna. Mobility within a month. Or, they could put metal pins into his arm, but it restricts muscle grasping, thus he will have trouble holding objects (CON save when you take >15 damage from an attack).
 ○ He goes for the cast
 ○ Perry: The hole in his chest is not really fixable other than stim gel. Likely he will have a gnarly scar and feel sick guaranteed. Good news is Juan says they can pay for a new limb. Can be like the old one or CUT OFF MORE OF YOUR LEG.
He does not go for this
 v PEWWY: DeSoto is across from Perry's bed. He has recovered surprisingly well.
 ○ Are you an addict Pewwy?
 ○ Your body produces a good amount of activated ichor. Good time to quit.
 ○ For someone who injects, your body has a pretty natural acceptance of it.
 ○ Perry appears to have ingested a level of potency unfound in natural sources. The trace appears to be in all three of us. Was it during a mission?
 ○ Perry claims unconsciousness could be the cause of this source
 v Perry is NOT having a nightmare. He has a dream, maybe 11 years old with his ma. Nothing horrible happens, she does not cry but stands stalwart and brave and unfurls wings from her back (electric) and her face loses definition, all of her blurring, and Perry feels a wave of strength, confidence, and safety. He also unfurls his wings. He has a good dream that makes him feel refreshed.
 v Luc meets Isabel and Monty in Perry's room as he sleeps. She is gashed, and she has dropped pretense of civility. She is unhinged. She calls him by his deadname :(.
 ○ "This place is tainted with dreams"
 ○ She was so worried to hear about our accident :'(
 ○ She goes and drags her nail across Perry's body and Luc steps forward.
 ○ "Defensive of your little pet?" "This thing on the bed… friend? Coworker?" "People like us keep people as pets… they are cherished members of our family. But they will always be weaker. Less knowledgeable. Only living in a world a couple rooms large. We know the truth and the panes of reality pushed upon us. This little bird is nothing more than in your cage. You can pick him up, or leave him, but he will be in that cage no matter what."
 ○ "Don't mistake my words for respect, I am speaking in literal terms. Bitch."
 ○ "He will always have the comfort of flesh, of health. People like us don't. That is what I'm speaking of." "You know very well the sickness I speak of"
 ○ She touches perry AGAIN. She came to tell him he failed his mission, for the time being. But there are 12-14 hours left on the timer. But there has been a security raise around Coraline Poe, so it would be difficult to take her.
 ○ "I came to tell him about his lack of ability."
 ○ Isabel approaches him, and she smells groddyyyy. She leans in, "Inform him and the other associate that our deal has been revoked. Tell them why."
 ○ If we don't take matters into our own hands, she will.
 ○ Perry has a few favors from her, by blood. He cashed one in. She will not kill Coraline Poe. The consequences are all Perry's.
 ○ "For those so close to death this domain is not pleasant to stay in. I suppose you will learn why."

 v We shall wake up on Friday

 ○ It's Perry. I think I'm gonna make Perry really upset.
 ○ "Especially Perry" - Luis
 ○ "You're a little more level-headed sometimes" fuck perry gang damn
 ○ "I'm on shits row" - Luis
 ○ Dr. Montemayor was saying nice things about Perry… "he ate it up. He ate it up." Last night she showed up and said not nice things about Perry.
 ○ Luis implies Luc was in Perry's room to… sleep…
 ○ "She's a horrible, horrible human being and she's not even that anymore" - Luc
 ○ They plan to let him eat breakfast before they deliver the emotional bomb
 v Guadalupe had to get the dog out of Perry's room. The dog gives Luc that weird feeling again.
 v "You two have some weird connection" - Perry
 v Luc drops the secrets about Isabel:
 ○ Roughly accurate about controlling beastly people. Into mad science stuff
 ○ Luc worked with her under false pretenses. She lied about the purpose of the research, but he discovered it through HaPpEnStAnCe
 ○ Mention of the Bandera strategy?
 ○ Well, Isabel was mainly researching this strategy, which was a myth for creating spec ops for military tasks regular humans cannot do. Special AI injections to create sorcerous powers in people, and tieflings, and aasimar.
 ○ If she has a special interest in you it's not for good reasons
 ○ Luc attacked her because she may as well have killed him when she saved his life
 v Luc and Luis mention how the dog freaks them out, Perry informs Luc about the "meeting"
 v Luc DOES mention to Perry the Isabel touching
 v Luis and Perry question why Luc cannot go to a doctor anymore even though he has a terminal illness
 ○ He loves doctors
 ○ Perry asks about Luc's good doctor and she's probably dead oof
 ○ Luis starts going on about his dad's big breakfasts? ? Every morning? Luis has a mom, dad, and himself. He does not explain the hangover cure
 v Luc notices there's a weird time distortion
 ○ "Isabel said something about this place being bad for people being close to death"
 v The office Luc was in is Vasquez's office
 ○ Map of the national park
 ○ Crownsguard in tactical uniform are around
 ○ Current strategy: We wait at a boat (there are minis for us: bird, tree, sword). We wait while the zeppelin broadcast and monitor the situation, gather reports from NO movement. They will likely
 ○ Poker chip with the letter A, a zeppelin mini with a heart and NWS
 ○ Vasquez calls Perry crazy. Someone helped Vasquez in battle?
 § Luis only backs Perry up after Luc steps in to defend him
 ○ Perry mentions Coco, Vasquez mentions she used to be called the "Raven" and this may be a fanatic fan. This was a rude name. Vasquez thinks it’s a powerful caster who has gone crazy being stuck in the Undercity and had a connection to her
 ○ The alpha team will take care of remaining agents if there are any.
 ○ We are being given lead manacles, which will prevent him from casting. He will then be taken to an asylum.
 v Perry feels sicker as time goes on in the truck……
 v Perry get's shot in the shoulder right off the bat. It goes all the way through his shoulder. Luis then has to push him while he burns his shoulder closed
 v An owl darts toward Coraline and is attacked by ravens and goes down
 v Perry heals Luis: his eyes click like a camera, his sclera turn jet black and his irises become bright gleaming red. The same happens on Cristian and he looks horrified, like he has seen The Devil. He does not fight at all as Luc cuffs him, and all his magical abilities fade. He collapses and cries like a little bitch. He was at 1 hp.
 v The concert seems to have been fine. We escort him to the van (thrashing and screaming), the ravens lose interest and return to being like normal birds or fly off. We see David and Guadalupe. When she sees him, she almost loses it but manages to hold it together. She moves over to Cristian, in the van, and she promises him the help he needs. He calls her a whore and says she "betrayed him" and she slaps him. He calls her dirty and says he won't respect "people like her." She then accepts the situation at last. Also Huesito is here.
 v People came out all the way from the colonies to see the show. 380,000 people, a lot of money raised.
 v Perry tells Luc a little about his mom: she disappeared, she was on the side of the Republicanos, and she told him the motto as one of the last things she said
 v Perry feels a little bit better once getting back on the Vasquez property
 v Perry dares Coraline to attempt to throw Luis into the pool. They both fall in. Oopsie. Luis dares Perry to steal Luis' hat. He lets it happen. Luc's bandana is from his mom sad face uwu. Coraline was once expected to sing but she was able to be self-expressive because people could trust her to do it. Sacre Coeur has music on every street. Luc is from near Post. Coraline asks if he's been to Archway, and he has. Her dad is from Archway. It's where Luc spent his years 1-10. Luc's first kiss? He worked on a ranch 6 years since 10, the ranchers had a daughter his age, they grew up together, she was mean to him 5/6 years, but then things turned around. She trusted him with her secrets, he did the same, and one night she took him to look at the harvest moon and gave him a kiss at 16 years old. WHO ARETHE CRIM E BOYS LUIS. In his hometown, he was a young scoundrel listening to his parents gossip and left the house, heard some drama, listened in to that HOT GOSS. He immediately wrote this down. Does it again. Collects any gossip he can find. Eventually kids found out and they all started a reconnaissance gang to collect and share information: The Rats and Mice. Perry went to school until ~11 and then entered the workforce. Coraline asks about the names of the R&M: Oscar (good kid), Lucas (parents were cops), Victor, Lina, some others. EVIDENTLY THIS REQUIRED A DECEPTION ROLL AND HE FAILED. Luc worked at a ranch because he had nowhere else to go and also needed money. When Coraline was young and on the streets, building her brand, and saw many kids, living in crooks. She saw a sketchy looking, peering constantly, girl whose name started with an F. She started a nasty rumor about Coraline. Luis is from SC and left because, when he wasn't doing crimes, he liked to listen to the radio from Santa Corazon and thought it was incredible that he could hear someone thousands of miles away. Perry comes out to everyone, and then comes out to Coraline again as an aasimar. He regrets it instantly. Perry dares Luc to YEEHAW as loud as he can. Coraline asks Luc his relationship status. He was set to get hitched with his gal, she got into trouble and had to move away to the city (THIS ONE), and they never wrapped things up and he has a reason to not go looking for her at this point because he's siiiicckkk and doesn't want to involve her with him until he's better.
 v Luis invented the chicken dance to make Perry laugh and it worked
 v The bloodglass is glowing red under the floorboard. It has an internal structure of light, like a beating heart, and looks somewhat stronger. Looks like Perry and also how it did in Luc's vision. Luc observes it more closely and deduces that the glowing is from being activated again (ritual?). The obsidian is not like normal obsidian, extraterrestrial. Likely a reaction from the Coraline concert, or Isabel did something. To know how to attune to it, he would need to find someone who knows traditional magics (clerics, druids, maybe wizards, some warlock maybe, magic from strangeee dreeaaamsss).

As we all go to sleep and drift into dreams (soft jazz, ranch and a mountain, a desert drive). And then each dream is pierced by a tremor; the dreams feel filled, as if they were never alone there. Every dreaming creature feels an eye open: bulbous and gazing.

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### Campaign Arc Two: Ghost Story

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In July, Perry called "Diamonds," her friend Daia Palomo Rosales, begging her once more to come live in Santa Corazón and abandon her life in the ichor industry. She agreed to visit mid-October.
Soon after Luc's arm was healed, he bought a motorcycle. Perry, a mechanic-fanatic, was excited to see it and Luc offered her a ride through the hills outside the city. Afterward, Luc invited Perry inside for a taco dinner where Perry offered her blood to repay Luc for turning him in. After Luc made sure this wouldn't harm Perry, or their relationship, they struck a bargain to trade blood for regular dinners together. Fortunately for Perry, Luc's experiments on the first sample of blood proved it to be no more special than normal ichor, as well as being natural, not experimented on as he had feared.
During this three month period, Perry and Sinola regularly spent time together to train their abilities as aasimar. Sinola shared her hard-gotten synthetic archon's blood with Perry so that she could also grow in aptitude, which she told her was appreciated greatly. In their first lunch meeting, they discussed Luis' strange phonecall to her, which Perry explained as having been *her* idea and *her* fault. Despite convincing her, she continues to be distrustful of Luis, though will tolerate him some.
Late July or early August, Perry delved into the queer scene Luis and Luc had introduced her to, on her own time. It seems that, after some period of investigation or experimentation, Perry joined the drag queens in the area and developed a performance and personality as Maya Merlo, who would debut mid-October.
In the middle of this period, Luis came to Perry suddenly with a lead for information toward the whereabouts of her mother, Michelle Cisco. The two traveled to the Congressional library and sneaked inside without an appointment with the help of an eclectic janitor. They stole her file, which revealed the different stations she was assigned, when and where she began working with Isabel, and when she was considered Missing In Action.
At the beginning of October, Luis spotted a strange new shop nearby Wolfesbane and convinced the other two PIs to shop there with him. It turned out to be a magical item collector called the Reliquary, owned by Mary (?). The items were expensive, thus Perry and Luc promised to come back and Luis took on a loan.
Finally, mid-October, Maya Merlo's performance came. Perry invited Luc, Luis, Sinola, Coraline, and Daia to see "him" and did not tell them she would be performing as anyone but Peregrine Eckhardt. Following the performance, they were all supportive (or confused) of Perry and encouraged her to continue to wear her dress as they had a post-show dinner. Luis, in particular, related to Perry's new look to when he "cut his hair the first time," and Perry told him that this performance was "test-driving the car before you buy it," confusing Luc as to her meaning.

Perry continued to wear the pearl jewelry from that night into the next day, as they returned to work and chose their new case *Trust Busters.* Though Perry has not yet told the other two, she has decidedly figured out her identity and would soon be changing much about her life going forward (say trans rights).

 v Luc meeting Sinola
 ○ "So they picked the job I'm bad at" - Luc
 v "We're stupid. Perry, you're not stupid" - Luis
 v Luc decides that the other two think they aren't smart enough without him, so he decides to go to let them prove themselves
 v Monty hates the raven's presence. There's some beef there. Perry has a glove for walking with Monty out
 v Congressional Library Learnings
 ○ Perry opens Luis' notebook given to him and flips to a page, where Luis has noted that THERE'S NOTHING INTERESTING HERE :(
 ○ Late 50s/early 60s man with liver spots, big bushy moustache like a broom on his face, balding a bit, fancy and formal representative garb
 ○ Calls the monopoly bill Republicano trash, filling their own pockets instead of the pocket of GOD
 ○ Calls Rubio a competent politician, he doesn't hold a grudge, he seems nice enough. But his policies are too extreme, too secular (that's not what the country needs right now), he would rather mold us off of the colonies. But we are the HOLY DOMINION… we are pentarchic… He wouldn't be a good secretary or consul, but he's just a senator ruining one state (Costa Verde). He's done great things for Buena Suerte. He's fine but naïve. (According to detect thoughts, he wasn't lying or really thinking hard about the answer)
 ○ Believes Rubio is not going to vote YES on the new bill because he is a civil rights activist first and politician second, third one third. Maybe he's a man third. He believes the people should be represented. The people and the 5TK are the two souls of the country.
 ○ Tell the publisher one thing: People don't care about politics. We should bring back, what was in his day, little excerpts from the gospel in that section of the paper.
 ○ He goes to the Grande Cathedral for mass.
Luis laughs as Perry drags him out
 v As we are sitting in front of the Consul's office, we see a soldier walk through the hallway (crownsguard) and then more and more follow until there is a precession. In the center is David and a smaller woman with straight, dark black/dark brown tipped hair, caramel brown skin, black dress and gloves, black masquerade mask, stocky frame, she's the fucking Queen.
 v Perry waves at David and the procession fucking stops. The queen made direct eye contact with Luc and she had hazel eyes. They went wide, then back to normal, then she pulled David away and they continued.
Hot dog fight for lunch
 v Stalking Senator Miguel Rubio
 ○ He drives to the palace at around 8, spends time in office or senate floor, eats lunch with Alvarez, workshops with others, drives home at 6. Thursday, drives to a small office building in Plaza quarter at 6am, meets with myriad of politicians, goes to the palace, has lunch with senators, has a meeting with a bunch of commissions. Home is empty 8-6, office 12-1.
 ○ On Friday, as we break into his house, we notice there are a lot of folks around wearing pinstripe suites (could be Moors?).
 ○ Luis finds a picture of an 18 year old woman who looks happy, smiling, on a backdrop of an ocean. Looks like an older picture by a couple years.
 ○ Luc finds crumpled bills, a budget book, and a receipt for a fast food restaurant in the trashcan. He finds a payment to a man named Sal Gerana, 10 gp monthly, entitled "weekend."
 ○ Luis finds that whoever owns this bookshelf is a huge fucking dork. Poetry, law, history, fantasy and sci fi novels. Fantasy Frankenstein. Dork.
 ○ Under the bed, he finds 30 gp, a revolver and 6 bullets, collection of photographs, half filled out Wolfesbane job commission, and an address book.
 ○ We should buy a camera
 ○ Depicts a person on street corners talking to various people making some kind of trade. Job commission seems to be commissioning a task of retrieving an important item. Willing to pay for agents to collect an item of a specific value from the…..
 ○ Perry rolls with advantage on this photo and fucking fails. You dumbass
 ○ Luc notices that this person is dealing drugs, activated ichor, one of their hands is very familiar. It looks like Perry's hand. Perry receiving from drug dealer. Perry then remembers that the Angels are the primary dealers for people on the streets. It's aaallll connneccctteeedddd
 ○ As we leave, Perry purposefully has Luc catch her from the balcony rather than try and climb down. But the gutter broke.
 ○ Perry distracts Senator Vega, despite not needing to, as the boys break into Rubio's office.
 ○ Luc finds only a day planner in the locked cabinet; a meeting at 4 with the Scientific Officer, known for theories on the ethereal. Picnic at the cemetery tonight. These two things repeat every Friday. I's are dotted with hearts…
 ○ Luis's crackpot fear in this beautiful office: he had a friend/daughter/relationship/girlfriend, who died of too much drugitis, and he's been visiting her grave every weekend. Luc remembers that Sinola said at the farm that Gerana has had to rent and sell land, including an old house and a cemetery.

 ○ Luis shouts out about his dead sister. Luc and Perry get nothing.

* I Only Have Eyes for You plays and Perry shuts it off. In her distraction, she sees a dude who looks sick, in tattered clothing, but vaguely guy shaped. Perry Tokyo Drifts to a stop on a natty 20. Barely tap the guy and he crumbles. The girls start yelling and Perry exits the car and smacks him in the head…
	+ We see a dead man. He's completely clothed, showing no skin, wearing not a hood but a potato bag with a face drawn on it. His chest is opened, full of straw and corn husks. It's covered in black fungus.
	+ It lifts its arm, launches three vines of cornstalk, and stab into Sinola's arm. There's waves of movement in the cornfield.
* 10 foot road, 10 feet until the ground turns into canal, 10 feet to the cornfield. 30 foot arena. Sinola is being grappled, Daia is sitting in the car. Sinola rips free, thorns in her arms, and the creature starts calling out. Perry hastes her.
	+ The scarecrow's cobby arms break out of their gloves, but the kernels are more like thorns. It dents Perry's car. She hates that
	+ A scarecrow runs on all fours and crashes into the driver's side and shatters the window. Another comes on the roof. The one hitting Perry opens up its flower face and spores her :[. The spores burn on contact with her skin, since she's an aasimar and they don't fuck with necrotic damage.
	+ Once all the gals are in the car, Perry steps on it, but can't shake the two SCs already on the car.
* The Gal Mobile is around 1000 Coco's driveway. Two figures try and make a run at us from the cornfield. The more damaged Husk sails over the car, the other one rams into the car and takes heavy damage, becoming the most damaged Husk. It screams and tries to attack Perry again.
	+ It spores at all of us, and large amounts of mold get into Daia's mouth. She's coughing and severely injured. Perry is becoming more affected. Sinola is too sexy to be harmed by this
	+ For her turn, Daia drinks water to try and expel the mold growth
	+ Sinola puts her hand over Daia's mouth, liquid gold forms over her face and heals the wound and expels the mold entirely.
	+ Perry forces them to run again, and as they return, shakes one off and the other latches onto the back of the car. As they are screeching, movement is in the cornfield, about 4 more figures.
	+ Perry throws a pistol at the middle of the car. Sinola catches it and says "Hell yeah, Rad Catch"
	+ Perry tries to stop and launch it off and fails, sending it off with a DW. Two more leap out and latch on, one is in the distance, and one behind attacks.
	+ Daia gives Perry permanent ear damage as she fires right in front of her face. But she fucks up a potato bag! It's all plants and fungus babey.
	+ The one on the back climbs onto the roof and rips through the roof. It then rips open the convertible roof to a permanent convertible.
	+ Golden liquid coats Sinola's sword and reaches into the husk as she stabs it. It coats the Husk, glows, and explodes outward in a shower of light, killing the roof boy. She remembers she has been Hasted this whole time and attacks another, hurting it substantially.
	+ Perry runs to the door, which is ajar, and opens it. She feels some relief, but not much, because the Husks are moving and she is severely injured. Then she gets stabbed into an inch of her life. The gals run in. Perry tries to close the door, fails, tries to DW, and fails again.

Coraline looks, becomes steely faced. She extends her hand toward the Husk and it flies backwards, as if pulled by a tether and bursts into little husks. "Come into the threshold," she says. They try and ram into the flimsy door, but it does not budge at all.

* + Luc and Perry go for the northern bedroom. Luc gets in first and sees the Husks climbing a tree, and will get there before she gets over.
	+ Perry fails to ward her door
	+ Luis runs into the same room and is ready to help, sees the husks and regrets dashing
	+ Perry gets eviscerated. Slash, slash, chest ripped open, forced onto the ground. Ouchie ouchie
	+ Luc fails his WIS save to not be distracted and bothered by this. He takes an AOO to come over to her and administer a health tonic
	+ "Should I heal or kill—?" "WARD! WARD! WARD, YOU DINGBAT!"
	+ Luc stands up from healing her, facing the Husk. Perry, weary and injured, sits up and coughs out the words, "Get 'em, cowboy," and smacks Luc right on the ass, Hasting him. His body starts vibrating, almost blurring his form to everyone else, and he proceeds to eviscerate that Husk right back. It's MINCED. To the tune of 48 damage
	+ Perry tells Luis to jump out the window when he asks how her day was
	+ Perry is informed about the Ghost Lady and the Ghost plane
* Everyone slips right into the right pronouns for Perry. She doesn't show it for the rest of the night but it feels nice and makes her happy
* Bed situation: Perry/Daia, Sinola/Luc, Coraline/Luis, Rubio
* At the strike of midnight, we hear the sound of soft sobbing. Well, Perry doesn't, because she's sleeping. Lu crew sees a woman sobbing in the fountain.
* Luis sees Coraline holding the Ahui back as it tries to climb into that plane. "Hi honey, go to the master bedroom!" He goes into Perry and Daia's room, he sees a woman with a detached eyeball and flowing hair (TIMER GOES OFF AGAIN???) who is grabbing at Perry's face. Another being apparates in the corner of the room (because of the timer??), dressed in Republicano garb with a blasted arm and face. He goes "you're not… one of us?" Burned man starts going for Daia. Luis gets back to the real world and sees neither ghost.

 v Luc comes and shakes Perry, her nightmare of her being accused by people, she moves to a cold white room and is being dragged into a sterile metal thing and she's in a white jacket with her arms behind her. She's hooked into a device, there's a horrible burning sensation like she's being electrified. As she's shaken, she feels like she's going through a normal dream and this hell. She wakes up, but she doesn't vomit, just has a headache.
 v Perry wakes Daia up with a mind link and shushes her. Her face is really red and flushed. These gals follow Luc and they're all fucking SILENT. Luis and Sinola are not in the bathroom. Luis imagines the door, Sinola can't see it, he has to physically grab her hand and put it on the handle. They topple through the door and into the bathroom, the door closes. Luis vomits into the bathtub. Coraline is in the toilet reflection and has stuff to keep her from tracking us but it's in the office.

* Daia, Perry, and Luis are going to the office. Perry fails the stealth check, which causes Luc and herself to be injured. She casts Fly on her two pals. Luc sprouts bat wings and Daia sprouts blue dragon wings. Luc activates a bloodhunter thing, giving him the black veins. He looks super fucked up. He flies over and picks up Perry… bridal style. uwu
* The Husks fail to use their infesting attack on Perry and Luc, Daia tries to pick the lock and succeeds with Luc's pick. Perry holds onto look and gets all snug so he can shoot some husks and help Daia
* We fly back and get onto the balcony, getting back into the house safely. Luis feels his head for a fever when he sees Daia and Luc with majestic wings and Perry being held. Luc ambiently held her for a bit and then remembered what he was doing when Coraline instructed the casters to form a circle. We all circle, and feel dew forming on us which steams off and rises off the salt circle. Forming from the smoke, is the outline of Coraline and Rubio, who veil out as the incense floats out. There's a stillness. They're here. All the sicknesses went away.
	+ Coraline says we're all safe from Her for 24 hours at the least. Don't take any showers in holy water.
* We're like "let's go to sleep" and Rubio is like "ONE MOMENT PLEASE. QUICK QUESTION. Two of you motherfuckers were at a cemetery tonight and I need to know who because I know Her hunting grounds and one of you lead her here." Cemetery snooping is an insult to the dead and also I'm the proprietary of that land and I need to know about it.
* None of us snitch. Sinola turns to him… and the door closes.

* Perry and Sinola play chubby bunny with the muffins
* Perry and Daia look at the car. They find some basic tools, nothing great for mechanics. Perry manages to fix the door, the roof is able to be closed back on, but without flame can't seal it. They drive into town to find a mechanic
	+ She offers to help but he's like I need money bitch
	+ We walk out and see Guadalupe enter the Sheriff's office
* Perry and Daia go shopping, Perry gets regular clothes pretty easy
	+ Pencil thin greeter lady. Assumes it's for Daia. Yoikes
	+ Daia has a job trial at 5 for the shipment. It doesn't seem overboard. They seem like they ship guns actually. Perry is skeptical of it but Daia thinks it seems nicer, community, put together, genuine sense of helping people and not just illicit shit.
	+ Perry says be careful, she says "okay mom"
* Sal Garena's trial will be on November 2nd. The town wants him out and will send Angelica upstate to an orphanage.
	+ You wouldn't normally be immediately executed, but there's a good chance he will be because witch.
* (Perry maybe did a little joyriding in Coraline's really nice car)
* Luc reveals his birthday is November 1st
* Perry swaps rooms with Luc so he doesn't have to fight a conquistador.
* Perry calls her dealer to set up a meeting
* She wakes up to the sound of a motor and sees a van driving past. In the distance, there's a scarecrow that gets off its stick. The van stops and more husks are coming. The back door opens up and 7 people exit, all in armor with bright red handkerchiefs. They raise their hands, punch, shooting flames, surgically eliminate each one. She sees that they have red wings painted on their back, and someone familiar is in the van. A man with glasses on.
	+ Santiago, McKendrick, Rubio, Perry's Dealer, and also Isaac

Perry hoped that the chapel would make her feel pleasant as it did with Sinola, angling for any hints as to her celestial origin. Nothing of the service sparked the feeling in her — but she felt a flash of it when First Lady Guadalupe Vasquez sat on their pew. The mystery surrounding Perry's connection to the Vasquez Estate grows.
Following the service, Perry distracted the congregation as Luc and Luis crept back to the basement to search the archives. What started as greeting each member spiraled out of control until she had drawn a crowd piling her in offerings of cookies and an offer from the Bishop to join the church choir, which she accepted.
Afterward, Luc, Luis, and Perry went to Garena's farm to further investigate the Husk situation. Investigating the oddly-placed book on the hidden altarpiece, she found a label ending in "SSIONAL LIBRARY" partially scratched out in the end of it. Excited about her investigative prowess, she abandoned the boys to search remnant Husks for the keystones, which would be in a summoned creature, mentioned in the book. Finding the husk bodies too charred by the Angels gang, she pulled them apart and searched for a sample of the fungus piloting the creatures.
Perry successfully found a sample of the fungus; unfortunately, she made the mistake of collecting it with her hands, surprised to find it embedding under her skin. Her attempt to expel it from her body by igniting her Radiant Consumption backfired as the magic fungus fed on her magical blood and climbed further up into her arm.
Panicked, she returned to the boys and explained her folly. Luc figured out her ailment was related, but not exactly, the zombie fungus of lore. Fortunately, it was less aggressive than the titular cousin. Nevertheless, he and Perry rushed to Luc's home to his alchemy kit to concoct a tonic to stem further infection.
During the car ride and conversation with Luc, Perry has learned that the fungus grows uncontrollable when she is angry or particularly stressed (she slapped Luc and broke one of his tools despite not wanting to).
Their conversation furthered her stress as facts came to light: she could not use magic, which would feed the fungus, nor appear as an aasimar, nor, most unfortunately, take any doses of Activated Ichor. This placed a time limit on finding an expert to cure her: by Tuesday afternoon, Perry would begin having the beginnings of hard withdrawals.
Despite the stressing news, the pair went forward without Luis to follow Perry's dealer for information. The deal was seamless as always, but their stalk was ruined by the appearance of Miguel Rubio, who alerted the Angels Gang incidentally to his presence when he attempted to break into one of their equipment crates. Luc, ever the hero, felt the need to step in to help him — squeezing Perry's hand to reassure her before he did.
Though their official timer is called on Tuesday afternoon, Perry's tumultuous state may end her sooner. Only a few days ago, her hope was starting to soar after further finding herself, finding acceptance in her friends, and solving easy cases. Then, scarecrow monsters assaulted her and destroyed her beloved car.

Still she tried to keep from slipping, making small romantic gestures towards her crush, and giving into the ego of the choir — and contracted a relative of the zombie plague when getting too excited about solving the case. A creeping fungus which ruins everything for her: not only does she believe the physiological stress of withdrawals will kill her, her last days she will be unable to de-stress with her addition or perform her magic. Now, happiness feels so far away.

Perry then checked in at Wolfesbane to question Sinola, but spoke to Frieda and Gomez instead, as her friend had taken a brief leave of absence. They traded information about the Angels Gang, then Perry managed to find Sinola on the phone and gather the rest of the information she wanted. She gained a new worry over Sinola's well-being, but tucked it aside in an act of trust in her. In other bad news, it seemed as if their office had been searched for reports, though Gomez assured her that it had been Wolfesbane executives.
Further, a brief talk with Daia in Perry's apartment added another layer of complication. Daia is hooked on Activated Ichor now, having started the habit when Perry left because the Corona Sagrada was then out of practitioners in a difficult economy. Daia did, however, promise Perry that her stint at the Angels would be brief until she could save enough money and find a real job to move her family down to Santa Corazon.
The Wolfesgang, once together again, followed the lead from the library to the house of a man named Hernan Castillo, in Flores. He was not home, and the group planned to wait until he was, until the child who had opened the door revealed his father had not been home in awhile and he had been eating dry spaghetti noodles. So, they convinced the child they were friends and searched the house for food and leads, discovering there was barely any food and copies of Perry's Wolfesbane reports hidden in one of Clemente's toy trains.
After Monty failed to procure groceries, the trio exited the house to retrieve adequate nutrition for the five-year-old themselves. Unfortunately, upon return, Hernan had beaten them there, unknowingly to them. Perry walked to the door with groceries, alone, and was yanked inside, trapped behind a slammed door.
As Luis lost his mind with worry and Luc hid his worry deep down inside to maintain a facade of calm, Perry verbally argued with Hernan, convincing him to let her bake cookies for Clemente and to let one of her friends inside. Luc was allowed in, and the two managed to pry the truth out of Hernan as a team: he was hired by the National Economic Association to hide her files and to plant the book from the Congressional Library inside of Garena's barn, allegedly using the reports to know where to go.
Luis sketched their faces while they were inside, afraid they would never come out and he might forget what they looked like. This earned a lot of love points from Perry.
After giving this information to Sheriff Marston, Luis returned home and the other two went to see Dr. de Soto, who told Perry much the same about her condition as was already known: she could recover with no long term effects, so long as she avoided extreme stress and did not cast any spells for the next week.

Unfortunately, Rubio wanted to move his ghost girlfriend two days from then, Thursday, and Garena was scheduled to be tried and potentially hanged on Saturday. Her job may just kill her yet.

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### Campaign Arc Three

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Afterward, she continued investigating the colonial Department of Counter-Aggression at the library and by capturing the text imprint of the Nathaniel files. In summary, Perry learned that the DCA's witchfinders have been legally permitted to hunt sorcerers over country borders and do so with frightening brutality and success. Wolfesbane and the Najaliscan government had also allowed the murder of her potential grandfather to be covered up and forgotten before there had been an agreement between the countries over the witchfinders' authority. Now it seems she is too powerful a mage to be offered anything other than death from the DCA, especially after killing some agents and letting one escape, and that the laws of her country would not defend her. She was born to be detained and inherited the crimes of her family line. Coupled with Wolfesbane's willingness to stoop to bribery and blackmail of senators to make money — and the transmisogyny coming from some coworkers — her opinion of her workplace has soured sicker than vinegar.

The nightmare of a day culminated in Luis calling her during her rehearsal to tell her Luc was in the God's Grave, fighting skeletons, an hour away and in danger. By the time she knew, and by the time she could comfortably leave her second night job, Luc was already on the way back. Had something happened fatal to him, there would have been nothing in her power to do to help him. Then Luc told his partners he quite possibly had only six weeks before his illness was too far progressed for his survival. And finally, the trio was attacked by the morning-news Serial Killer of late, who almost took Luc's life the second time that night. With Isabel's help distracting the Hunter, they managed to get away, but seeing as they were likely "the targets of the next ritual" by archons, it would not be long before she would be fearing for her life and her two friends once again. Just how much can a girl handle?

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## Impressions of Perry

♡ “ ...Low-level drug addict. ” — Sinola, describing Perry.

♡ “ You, though. You could do something; you're *special*. I could activate what lies in you and make you powerful, akin to a god! And if not a god, a god-slayer... You could stop all of this. You could grow back your leg. ” — Isabel Montemayor, to Perry. Paraphrased.

♡ “ Clumsy lad. ” — Luis, talking about Perry.

♡ \* *Gestures at the top of her head, like a hat, and at her chin, like stubble. \** — The first first-floor receptionist, describing Perry.

♡ “ The ganglier one. ” — Singing Superstar Coraline Poe, describing Perry.

♡ “ Scraggly. ” — Perry described in the eyes of a raven.

♡ “ People like us keep people as pets… they are cherished members of our family. But they will always be *weaker,* less knowledgeable*.* Only living in a world a couple rooms large. We know the truth and the panes of reality pushed upon us. This *little bird* is nothing more than in your cage. You can pick [her] up, or leave [her], but [Peregrine] will be in that cage no matter what. ” — Isabel, to Luc, as Perry slept peacefully.

♡ “ This one is delusional, you may want to have [her] checked out. ” — Juan Vasquez II, Secretary of Congress.

♡ “ They're weird...Tough and abrasive, to be expected with Wolfesbane crew. Hard job, hard people. ” — Sen. Rubio, talking about Luc and Perry to Luis.

♡ “ They're so *stupid.* ” — Luis, talking back to Senator Rubio.

♡ “ Divine... " and with " ...the voice of an angel. ” — the Bishop in Flores.

♡ “ Crazy white lady looking for a charity case. ” — Hernan Castillo, yelling at Perry for snooping in his house after she yelled at him for snooping in his office and offered to feed his kid.

♡ “ ...your favorite person in the whole world is Peregrine Eckhardt. ” — Luc, telling Sinola something only he would know.

♡ “ Your aura is... flowery. It's nice! ” — Bounty after the first day of tech rehearsals.

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