Anna Jørgensen/Anna's Life

## Early Life

Anna grew up as a simple girl in Norway, having no particular excitement in her life other than the occasional hunting trip with her father, or getting to drive her car. When one day she felt estranged from her former friends, Anna decided to try a restart, finding a new life somewhere far away from home. Soon after, she found herself on a flight to Los Santos.

## Civilian in Los Santos

After Anna arrived in Los Santos, she went around aimlessly doing simple civilian jobs like towing jobs and deliveries, trying to make a bit of an income for herself to afford her first car, the Sentinel Classic. During this time, Anna met many people who she quickly forgot again, but also found a few friends who she still retains today, like Miles Lewis and Zane Jackson.

Hanging out with Anna, hearing how much she enjoys driving and seeing her drive his Mazda RX7 quite skillfully, Miles tried to introduce her to the Underground. Very reluctantly, she agreed to be a passenger during a few races, often seeing him struggle trying to correctly control his car, and at times thinking she could do a way better job herself. After hanging out in the scene more and more and meeting multiple influential racers, most notably Octavio Stenberg, Miles decided to gift Anna her first phone dongle together with Octavio. A few days later, multiple months after moving to the city, Anna decided to join her first race, starting in the B-class with her beloved first car.

## Lilac

Anna quickly made a name for herself in the, at that time, fairly large B-class racing scene, placing in the top 3 in the majority of races, and finding great joy in finally being able to utilize her driving skills. She made friends with and impressed the appointed Enforcer Jesse Reed, aswell as top racers Chad Brodie and Bryan Chapman, and even cultivating a small fan club led by Tallie Marks and Werner Stieglitz. However, after only a few short weeks of racing, Vinny Pistone, also a racer and Enforcer, made her an offer: Vinny felt that Anna's talent was wasted, and offered her a vin-scratched Feltzer to make her join the thriving A-class racing scene. She accepted the offer, essentially graduating from B-class racing to join the big leagues.

At first, Anna struggled to adjust to the faster speeds of the Feltzer. It took her another few weeks to once again become a top racer, dedicating herself to becoming better daily. Regrettably, with the disbandment of the Midnight Club, racing died down considerably. Still, Anna continued to race with her friends in the scene, later acquiring an Elegy for herself to not have to fear losing her car at any given moment. During this time, Anna would also find her first employment in the city as a mechanic at the Tuner Shop, becoming a coworker to many of her friends.

## Anna in Exile

Considering the rise of a scene for S-class racing, Anna felt a bit down, as she was forced to borrow cars and often had no access to one, missing out on races and hanging out with her friends. After trying out many different cars, she decided to enter the interest list for the AMG GT Black Series, liking it the most after getting to borrow it from Miles Lewis. Not long after, Leslie Lingberg approved her for the purchase, after having her friend Victor Fittipaldi vouch for her.

At this point, Anna realised her fatal mistake: She only had $250.000 in her bank account aswell as the outstanding loan for her Elegy, which required her to spend at least half of that. Thinking herself short on time and desperately wanting to prove Miles, who has become notorious for being in extreme debt constantly, wrong, in that a high amount of money is indeed earnable by sheer dedication and willpower, Anna decided to enter a life as a hermit to earn the needed amount. Armed with a hunting knife, a rifle, a spreadsheet, camo outfit and without eyebrows, she ventured to a hunting ground near Fort Zancudo, only hunting for the next 5 days and making a total profit of $650.000 with the help of Kalliope Grey, Rooster's Rest and the Harmony Repairs Garage parking lot.

Returning to civilization afterwards, Anna took out a loan from Fast Loans employee Layla Lockhart to buy the AMG, after having to dodge her fellow loan officer Kevin Ram, who was also on the interest list for the AMG. She ended up in a grand total debt of $1.050.000, having to pay $80.000 weekly, still dedicated to pay it off, and imbued with the vigor of finally owning her desired car.

## An Upstanding Citizen

Only a few days after buying the car, Anna received devastating news: Her friends Adam Peterson and Jesse Reed got into the slowest car accident in recorded history, which somehow lead to the car exploding. The two of them left the wreckage with severe burn marks, which had to be treated in the ICU for a day. Hearing that they wanted to steal a bank truck only a few hours after leaving the ICU, Anna, as well as Jesse's girlfriend Cora Star, was determined to help them, as they were barely able to walk and jumped back to doing dangerous crime instantly. During this heist, Anna successfully saved Jesse from a police officer trying to arrest him, as her car was the only one with still intact tires. This has been Anna's first excursion to the world of non-racing related crime, the impacts of which remain to be seen...

However, the weeks after this incident went quite well for her. Her continous efforts working in the Tuner Shop, often times holding it down completely alone or together with only one or two other mechanics, got recognized by the management, as her boss Jesus Antonio Lopez Contreras promoted her to Lead Supervisor. She was expected to fill the big shoes of Isaac Wagner, who was essentially Jesus' right hand supervising the mechanics, but has left the city.

Her private life also made an upswing. Throughout the weeks of working at the shop, Anna has grown increasingly closer to her coworker in the marketing department, Kalliope Grey, eventually ending up in a romantic relationship with her. Often tagging along for races, and spending more and more time together, the two of them contemplated buying themselves their first own apartment, free of the shackles of the infamous Alta Street apartments and government housing. Only a few days later, Kalliope found and bought an apartment, costing $270.000. Ironically enough, this apartment would be Apartment 1, Alta Place 1, as one can escape Alta Street, but Alta will always follow you wherever you go.

## On The Run

One particular day, after an 8 hour shift at the shop, Anna went upstairs to take a break, resting her eyes for a while. As she returned to conciousness, she felt herself getting punched by an old looking man wearing a katana on his back, asking her about a person named Earl, who owns a Bugatti. Anna didn't know any such person, and told him as much. As the man left, he told Anna to inform him, if she does get to know something. Not knowing who this man was, Anna asked him for his name, to be able to inform him. He introduced himself as Mr. K and then left the shop in a white Buffalo.

20 minutes after Anna's encounter, while chatting in the shop with her friends, Anna notices the very same white Buffalo driving near the shop, and then pulling into it. The driver then yelled that he was coming for Earl, and the next moment, a thrown explosive detonates in the shop, leading to a chain reaction of multiple cars blowing up, as well as over 7 people getting injured, notably managers Chip Wheeler and Armando Hernandez. Another one of the victims was a customer named Cece Beyond, who later passed away from her injuries, leading to a possible charge of first degree murder in this incident.

After a short interogation with the police, where Anna purposely withheld the Mr.K's identity, as Chang Gang, the gang he is part of, is a major investor of the Tuner Shop, wanting to first consult her managers before saying anything else. In the meeting that followed, she got strongly encouraged to tell the police everything she knows by Chip and Armando, after they told her a few details about Earl and a few of the more secret inner workings of the shop. However, Chip knew more than he let on, as he got informed by Douglas James, an employee of the shop as well as a Wu Chang Records manager, therefore affiliated with CG, about the true nature of the incident: Mr. K and Chang Gang wanted to enact vengeance on Earl, assuming that he is affiliated with the Tuner Shop, after he informed the police about the boost of a 2022 G-Wagon by CG, the contract of which he himself handed to the gang, a few hours before the explosion.

Anna then told the investigator Demi Black everything she knew. After the fact, she thought things off in the following meeting. Douglas constantly pulling Chip aside, and everyone else telling Anna, that she just made a terrible decision, despite the fact that everyone pushed her to do it. Feeling betrayed by most of her colleagues, and sensing that her life was in danger, she left the shop together with her girlfriend Kalliope to hide for a few days, hoping that things would blow over, but sensing that alignments of people in the shop would not allow this. She got proven correctly just a few hours later, as she got informed by her boss Jesus, that members of CG where looking for female employees at the shop, and later even being contacted personally by Ramee El-Rahman over phone.

After a few days of hiding and multiple close calls with encountering gang members, Anna and Kalliope were sick of people constantly looking for her at her workplace, possibly endangering their friends, and disappointed by the response of everyone involved with the shop bar Jesus, who provided her with information and help whenever possible. Because of this, Anna tried contacting the member of Chang Gang, who she felt was the most approachable, and who she had positive interactions through a car sale as well as working together as the main supplier of the shop, Flippy. Flippy tried to convince her, that the easiest and probably safest approach to have a talk with the group, as being found randomly would prove much worse, than her coming to talk. Anna agreed to his line of thinking, still fearing for her life, as the meeting was set.

Together with Kalliope, Anna arrived at the base in Little Seoul, and then got taken to Maldini's Pizzeria, another business owned by CG, to get interrogated. She then laid out her side of the events in front of the group of over 10 people in the room, promising to never again speak to the police concerning CG incidents, and avoiding all further cooperation in the ongoing investigation. In the end, Mr. K decided to spare her life, under the condition, that Anna confirms the identities of the other people involved in forcing her to testify, namely Chip and Armando, as well as making sure she understands, that Kalliope would not survive another such incident. They then left together with Flippy, making sure to thank him for likely saving their lives.

Somewhat relieved, or at least not feeling hunted at every passing moment anymore, the pair returned to work at the Tuner Shop, working their shift as they would any other day, and telling people asking only minimal information. When Anna got another call by Officer Black, she clarified that she doesn't want to assist with the investigation any longer and then hung up. The atmosphere towards her in the shop turned hostile, as she had more conversations about how she should do her work, than with people being relieved that Anna returned safely, leading to Anna calling Harmony Manager Jackson Wilson to look for another job, which he offered her multiple times in the past.

A few hours later, Chang Gang again entered the shop and kidnapped Chip and Armando. Afterwards, Anna and Kalliope left the shop once more, this time not out of fear of being killed, but rather out of the feeling of not belonging anymore, as people turned on them, thinking the pair is at fault for Chip and Armando getting taken. As a result of this, Anna quit her work at the Tuner Shop. In the following hour, she was called down to the Tuner Shop and, after telling her side of the story to him, formally fired by Tommy Cruizer, who talked about the previous events with Chip and Armando.

Weeks later, as the court case grew nearer, Anna was called to the courthouse for her sealed deposition. During the 2 hour long interrogation, she gave a completely different testimony than in her initial statement: She defused the assault charge by testifying it was only a simple slap instead of Mr.K punching her, explained her resignation at the Tuner Shop as extended disagreement with management, which prompted her to quit as well as get fired, and confessed to perjury, now saying that the man never actually gave his name as Mr.K, but rather just sounded like him, and that she made it up to try and serve her own kind of justice for CG, as she already heard so many stories of other people who got screwed by them. Officer Demi Black asked for the witness to be treated as hostile at multiple occasions during Anna's testimony because of it being so different, but the judge never gave in to the demand, as she was still cooperative in answering questions.

After Anna's defusing deposition, as well as Kalliope's a day later which went quite similarly, the case was dismissed by the prosecution, due to no hard evidence being left after the main witnesses for the main charges effectively denied testifying against CG, as well as the court being stacked against the investigators, as the defense was putting up a variety of experienced old judges and lawyers in the meantime. With this, Anna could now finally go back to her old life in earnest, without justice for Cece Beyond ever being served.

## Finding Inner Harmony

Only a day since her ties with the Tuner Shop had been cut, Anna went to the Harmony Repairs Garage and got hired by Jackson as a mechanic. Even after working there only for a few hours, she felt that Harmony might be more of a family than the Tuner Shop had ever been to her, once again having high hopes for her future. Kalliope soon followed her there. After several days of integrating into the Harmony work environment, Anna was approached by Mike Wadum, Chas Diaz and her boss Jordan Walker to join their group as a driver for an S+ boost. With no prior boosting experience whatsoever, she responded to this offer with her usual apprehension, believing herself to be a subpar choice for the job. However, after their consistent reassuring and with a hope to impress and help out her new Harmony family, she was goaded into accepting the position in her first ever boost. Faced with a relatively modest police response and with both the hacking and driving going smoothly, the group had no problem securing the Dominator GTT for Chas, to Anna's great relief.

The day of her first boost, Anna also joined the third qualifier tournament for the "Street Born Survivor" Tournament hosted by Marlo Stanfield, after being unable to join the first two. In the four qualifier races, averaging 16 racers per race, she finished first, second, first and fifth (third by standings due to prior qualifications), securing her invitation to the $2.000.000 prize pool tournament together with Titanium, as well as $100k for winning the qualifier tournament.

After Marlo got caught by the police during the fourth qualifier tournament, Anna and Jesus met to further discuss the founding of their own racing crew. During the following talk, she learned about one of Jesus' biggest secrets: he is actually able to not only understand, but also talk in english, something that only trusted people know. He also talked about the history of racing, the mystery of the puppets, and reminisced about his past with Mary and Eddie, working in the old Tuner Shop.

In the end, the two of them decided on the name and theme of their own racing crew: Prism, a crew that will be recognizable by their use of white neons and xenons, but otherwise completely different colors on their vehicles, to showcase the whole color spectrum, just like a prism would, the namesake of the crew. Jesus would be joining the crew under a seperate alias, now named "Souls", coloring his Challenger Demon white, speaking english and covering his identity by using a voice changer. Potential other recruitments were also discussed: Anna's girlfriend Kalliope "Firefly" Grey, her friends and Femly associates Griffin "Ninja" Hughes, Cora "Star" Star aswell as her boyfriend Jesse "HIGHNOON" Reed, and Jesus' fellow HOA member Gumbus "Sp0ilerAl3rt" McGoo.

## Wanted

During a racing tournament hosted by Titanium, which Anna joined, his Nissan Skyline R34 got disabled. As the race already gained a lot of heat by the police force, it was impossible to repair the car or recover it, prompting R3dD3vil to destroy the car with an RPG and downing several officers as well as destroying multiple of their cars, to hinder them from finding out Titanium's true identity. Anna herself was overwhelmed with this sudden escalation, tried to warn the officers from the incoming show of force to no avail, and then opted to assume the role of a scout as she got shot at by several members of the force, while several other racers together with members of Hydra Gang went to save R3dD3vil, whose car was afterwards disabled and who was shot down and cuffed by the police. During this ultimately unsuccessful operation, Aleksander Sazkaljovich held Anna up to gain an additional vehicle, her AMG GT Black Series, which was quickly disabled by the police. However, due to an extreme amount of chaos and downed people on both sides of the law, the vehicle was not impounded, and no further investigations were conducted regarding her.

One day later, Mary Mushkin approached Anna together with Goofy to oversee a handover with the police, after her interrogation and the seizure of her possessions. While waiting around for orders, they talked about the events of the previous day and how Goofy got caught without anyone to help him after he saved the cuffed AP. This made Anna realize once again, that she feels powerless without any weaponry bar her vehicle, later making her go to the gun range to get some practice as well as buying a Glock, after the additional danger of BSK hunting down Harmony workers for chopping unarmed also suddenly appeared, which later lead to Kalliope getting shot multiple times.

Anna then put her thoughts into actions: After a day of non-stop police chases, during which she pitted interceptors to help others escape, picked other people up without even knowing who they are and escaping chases multiple times, her AMG finally got enough heat for her to be able to control the flow of a chase, making her the target after simply showing up, and making her able to achieve her goal of selflessly helping her fellow racers and friends. However, this did not come without its obvious drawbacks: During the last chase of the day, after making a U-Turn to escape the cops, her vehicle got spiked, making her unable to escape without the help of others. AP was the one who helped her out and extracted Anna safely in the end, but they were unable get the car out, which marks the first strike on any of Anna's cars. Nevertheless, she did not regret any of her actions, and rather lamented her unsuccessful escape, thinking that she needs more practice.

## Ember

Before a race on Militant Maneuvers, part of the Midnight Racing League hosted by Marlo Stanfield, a few weeks after the Street Born Survivor tournament, Anna got a call by Meelo Graves, telling her that the cops have already been informed of the race, and are probably waiting for it to start and chase the racers down. As always, she was not turned away by the heat, and after arriving at Fort Zancudo, searched around for Interceptors. Eventually, together with Meelo, she found a whole squad waiting on a nearby hill: Officers Casterman, Snow and Greenway in 2 Interceptors, with Fury and Lawson waiting hidden nearby in seperate cars. After a short talk, Anna gets out of her car, and gives Snow her Lilac car plushie, with the words "This is the closest you're gonna get to catching this car", starting a chase, and after looping around the airbase followed by the police force now joined by Air-1, also the race.

The race finished in second place, down to 40% fuel, the chase began in earnest. Due to the sheer amount of backup on the police side, Anna was never able to shake off her pursuers, as she was unable to use the time window of Air-1 refueling, eventually ending up in the city in a smoking car with low fuel, as AP crashes into her head on, finally disabling the car. As they were already communicating and next to each other, Anna then got picked up by AP while on foot, once again tasked with saving her. The chase resumes, now with a Demon instead of the AMG being pursued. During this chase, AP suffered from the same issues, also unable to shake the pursuers, until Lawson manages to pit the Demon onto the railing of a bridge, and getting the vehicle thoroughly stuck. The racers abandon the vehicle, this time with backup being far away. After Anna managed to break cuffs 3 times, she finally got caught by Lawson on the fourth attempt, as Meelo arrives at the scene only a few seconds too late for a pickup.

After getting transported, Anna meets AP again in the cells, before being moved to interrogation. There, Fury questions her about the racing crew Yokai and its members, to which she gives no information. Finishing up the interrogation, Anna tells Fury all about how she is going to abandon the street racing scene, now that she has gotten caught, but will probably always be speeding, before she gets sent up to prison for 20 months as she was generally cooperative.

Thinking the issue over for a few days after leaving prison, still a bit lethargic after the shock of getting caught, Anna decides on a new course of action: As she already had the dongle and assumed the identity of Lilac for almost half a year, she will retire Lilac, instead assuming a new identity to stay hidden from the police again. The outfit now mostly black with orange accents, and the race cars painted in orange as well, she will assume a new dongle name to terrorize the racing scene once more: Ember.

## Of Myths and Legends

At the payouts of a Rags to Riches race on Febuary 13th, a car that has never been seen before, a Karin Previon, showed up, the driver demanding Sport and Ember, who came 2nd and 1st in the race respectively, to follow him. Arriving at a location near the oil fields, the driver of the Previon exits the vehicle, a dark skinned man, wearing a tank top, a fisher hat and an AK-47 on his back, introducing himself as the Puppet Earl.

In a lengthy monologue, Earl explains a variety of things happening in the future: He mentions a new type of boosting, a convoy of a competitor which will hold certain car parts such as bodykits and new rims for cars, which he wants Sport to hack, as well as another Puppet, D.K., coming to town, introducing the arrival of drift kits for cars in the city, and lastly mentions the Puppet Razor, who is the one giving out boosting contracts, and how he will allow the transfer of vin scratched cars for a fee of GNE in the future.

Earl recognizes Ember's skill as a driver, being one of the best racers in the city, and wants her to get into boosting to further his needs, and use Sport's already known skill as a hacker, having boosted over 15 S+ boosts at this point. To do this, Earl gives the two of them a test: They are offered a boost contract to a Previon, the same car Earl drove, with the limitation that only the two of them are allowed on the job, without any outside help. After a bit of deliberation, and getting offered to drive the car for a while, they accept the mission.

The boost itself plays out relatively flawless: Followed by Interceptor drivers Faye and Casterman, assisted by Espinoz in Air-1, Anna manages to drive safely for the time that the tracker is enabled, as Sport fails only a singular hack before disabling it, before getting dropped off at his car to escape. Now lifted from the weight of her passenger, Anna ditches the ground units, and then using multiple Air-1 escape strategies that Sport taught her beforehand, at first rather unsuccessful, but in the end managing to escape the police force. They meet up again and scratch the car for Sport, before parking it at the Richman Hotel, and now await further instructions from the Puppet.

## The Lightpole Incident

Due to complications with the train, having not seen Anna for over 2 weeks, and distraught by a deep sadness, Kalliope thought of a drastic measure to fix the problem: As she couldn't do anything about getting to see Anna, at least she might be able to feel less sad. To this end, on Febuary 27th, she contacted Roman Shacks, known to perform less than legal operations on patients willing to take a risk at Humane Labs and Research, to install a microchip in her head. After the chip was implanted, Kalliope was able to turn it on and off at will, making her more indifferent to commiting violence herself, as well as achieving the desired effect of feeling less sad.

In the following weeks, a transformation took place in her: Kalliope was now engaging in boosting with her colleagues at Harmony, dressed in clothes colored all black, bought a Hakuchou and shot Johnny Sinner for pulling out a knife at Harmony, every one of those actions never seen before in a normally rather meek woman, who never resorted to violence before.

The next time Kalliope saw Anna, she told her all about what she had done. Anna then contacted Adam Peterson, who was going through a very similar process with his girlfriend Mary Mushkin, and got told to remove the chip as soon as possible as it might kill Kalliope later, which could lead to the loss of her memory. To prepare for the potential side effect, the two of them made a memory album, so that Kalliope would never forget Anna, no matter what happens.

A few days later, when Kalliope was especially bored, she decided to try her hand at parkour, trying to land on a lightpole, and failing so miserably, that she hit her head on the the pole as well as on the Harmony parking lot, damaging the chip in the incident, and ending up in the ICU for 4 days. In the end, afflicted by severe pain, Kalliope made the decision to remove the chip through surgery together with Anna. The operation was successful, Kalliope did lose some memories due to it however, and is now in the process of trying to work it all out, together with her girlfriend, whose memories she still retains.

As a result of the incident, the relationship between Anna and Kalliope was strained, Anna unhappy about the decisions that her girlfriend made during the time, feeling like she has to constantly keep watch over her, Kalliope unhappy about her girlfriend not being by her side all the way. After some talking, the two of them decided that both should put more effort into the relationship, and started hanging out more, as well as starting to boost together for Harmony Imports, as a team of driver and hacker.

## The Cherry on top

During a time of relative safety from the police, Anna raced as Ember and boosted as Civilian without putting much thought into her own security, something that the formerly very paranoid Anna would have never dreamt of doing. As is always the case, the unexpected strikes when you expect it the least: On March 31st, during a 10-Yokai, basically the only involvement of police in the racing scene during the time, in a chase of Bakeneko, Raiju got tazed and caught while refueling at a gas station, only acting as a intercepting vehicle. As a result, the radio frequency got leaked, which only got discovered several minutes later, without anyone being able to remember what exactly was said during the time. Anna, reminded of her false sense of security, decided to change her alias and optic once more, this time going by Cherry, dressed all in red.

In her civilian life, several changes took place: Anna got fired from H&O Exports, where she held the position as rental manager, being able to rent out high performance vehicles for $5000 to $20000, together with every other employee, as owner Otto Delmar saw the cars being abused for high profile crime after a investigation was started into the business by Jim Underwood. Anna later got rehired, as the rental contracts became obsolete and the business became more closely tied with the state. Meanwhile, her girlfriend Kalliope got promoted to Dodo Express Manager, making income for the pair much more stable. This enabled the possibility of buying a bigger house, which they ended up doing, as they acquired their "forever home", 1121 North Sheldon Avenue, as well as another AMG for Anna's collection, with the A45 being imported into the city, which Anna bought a week after the shipment arrive.

After the period of drought regarding the police response on racing, another upswing took place, as races now faced a response of multiple interceptors every time they do respond, often leading to multiple arrests per race again. Anna managed to extract herself from multiple of these situations, but only one mistake is needed for a downfall. On March 13th, after running Final Destination, Pyro was chased by multiple Interceptors piloted by Joel Garcia and Jaryd Peak as well as Air-1 by Skye Faye, Cherry following, intercepting and picking them up. After a chase totalling 65 minutes in length, the red S2000 was spiked, and both Cherry and Pyro were tazed and cuffed as they were trying to set up another pickup, resulting in another alias being burned.

## The Pit Stop

After the initial idea of having a business front for her racing crew to gain access to a garage stagnated, Anna settled on doing small orders of repair kits and harnesses to the occasional customer to convert GNE profits into money. This changed, when she got approached by Jaylen Carter about the business, who offered her a few perks in exchange for co-ownership of the business: Full access to the H&O bench to lower prices, a possible storefront in Little Seoul, and access to Jaylen's existing connections. For Anna, this offer was one she essentially could not refuse, as it was the first ray of light to make the business into something more. She agreed to the proposal, and gave Jaylen 50% of the business.

Following the agreement, Anna, Jaylen and Kalliope worked together to hash out prices, as well as the location of the storefront, and how to manage the supply. After a few weeks of waiting, they ended up getting a storefront in the desired location right next to the Little Seoul gas station, which was approved by Mr. Kebun as the business would fill the needs of a general store for all things car related in the area, and it was then decorated by Carmella Corset. Since then, there has been a stable cashflow with regular bulk orders, as people are still discovering the business.

## Anna Jørgensen-Grey

After a few setbacks in their relationship due to the later dubbed "Chip Incident", both Kalliope and Anna worked hard to mend the relationship. Together, they started boosting as a team, woke up next to eachother more frequently, and generally spent most of their time together from that point onwards. In total, this heralded a second honeymoon phase for the pair, culminating in both of them thinking about marriage, and having talks about shared bank accounts and last names.

In the end, however, Kalliope remained a relatively shy person who lacked the confidence to propose, especially after she felt like she constantly made mistakes, which pushed Anna away from her. This lead to her talking to Anna's best friend, Miles Lewis, to gain the confidence she lacked and for advice. Miles, true to his character, proceeded to tell her inspiring words, such as "Marriage as a concept is kinda just like, weird." and "You are really gonna lock yourself to one person, no bitches?". Needless to say, Kalliope proceeded to take matters into her own hands again, and invited Anna to watch the sunset and sunrise on a watchtower on May 1st, trying to gain the confidence in the moment.

Night came, and the sun rose, the two of them in eachothers embrace, Kalliope trying to muster up the confidence all the while, to no avail. As she thought that they will simply leave without Kalliope achieving her goal, Anna spoke up, sensing that Kalliope was worried and nervous about something. In the end, Anna was the one to propose to Kalliope, who obviously ended up accepting. The wedding took place on May 14th, with most of their close friends, as well as people who helped the pair along their way being invited, and with Isaac Wagner, the person who first got them to meet at the tuner shop, being the one to officiate the wedding.

## Prism and the Shadow Member Richard

As the weeks passed, Anna and Kalliope became more and more invested into running their business, with demand increasing daily. In turn, this meant less time to spend at their other hangout places or jobs, culminating in both of them getting fired from Harmony by Jordan Walker personally, when they stated, that they will not be putting in more work at the garage anytime soon. Seeking a new home for their crew to repair cars at, Anna asked Mary Mushkin for a favor: Offering a more lively tuner shop, with both Yokai and Prism using it as the mechanic shop of their choosing, in exchange for a return to their old workplace. As Mary never had any issues with Anna and Kalliope back in the day, and missed their presence at the shop herself, she gladly welcomed them back.

A short while later, the SRU ramped up their investigation into racing crews, with SCU members joining the cases. In particular, Prism became the target of Claire Everly, mostly assisted by Lydia Vale and Sexton Hardcastle. As the leader and one of the most selfless members in the group, Anna made sure to turn up the heat herself, trying to pick up other racers, using multiple Prism-affiliated vehicles and getting herself a warrant. On one of those escapades, things took a more drastic turn: During a chase focusing Souls in his Prism livery Demon, Richard O'Conner (ever since this incident a honorary Prism member), who was helping out as interference, gets pitted at high speeds by Alex Suarez, and decides to shoot him over it, earning Prism aggression and the focus of the SRU over other racing crews, becoming a priority target.

To make matters worse, the Demon disables, and gets taken into police custody. As Jesus is clean, he thinks of a plan to explain his car being used in the race with the livery. He tells Anna to shoot him in Paleto, then leave the scene and get rid of the gun. The plan is executed, and Jesus tells Everly about how he got shot by a local and then bled out, with a random guy he doesn't know taking the keys to his car, and him not knowing anything that happens afterwards. As this story contains multiple holes, considering other Prism members were helping the Demon evade, Everly decides to mark the crew as even more aggressive, and Jesus as a target of the investigation.

A few days later, after a series of unfortunate events, Anna finds herself disabled in the A45 and full Prism gear in front of Suarez' favorite spot in the city, Ottos Autos, when the previously mentioned officer rounds the corner and places her in cuffs. After a unsuccessful rescue attempt by Daryl Dickinson, James Thompson and Jesus, Jesus finds himself similarly in cuffs, eroding the basis of the previous story even further. Both of them high value targets, Jesus and Anna then get interrogated.

During the investigation, Anna admits to being the founder of Prism, tells the investigators about the group structure, and mentions other racing crews that have evaded investigation until now, before getting let go with time served. In Jesus' interrogation, he further denies any affiliation with the racing crew and argues that he was simply passing by and ended up in a brawl by chance, seeing as he didn't even have a dongle on him and was dressed in his HOA kuttes. Due to his previously clean record, he wants to fight the charges and possibly even sue, considering he was almost starved and hit while cuffed.

In a small silver lining, Richard was placed in custody by Suarez another day later and denied being involved with Prism, potentially taking a bit of aggression of the case. However, the heat did not die down, as Anna was getting into multiple SRU chases as the priority target, even after her arrest.

## What lies at the end of the rainbow

As time went on, and Prism remained focused on staying solely a racing crew, some members of the crew became increasingly dissatisfied. In the end, this development culminated in Star and Cayde leaving the crew, and Anna taking a break from the city in general. When she eventually returned, Anna found that there was not much left of the crew. Members were either on a break themselves, or left for various reasons, some of them to other crews. Anna decided to call a meeting, where she ended up resigning from the role as Prism's leader, and gave everyone else the chance to step up to the title. As nobody wanted to carry the crew on without Anna, Prism was effectively disbanded.

In the time between Anna's return and Prism's final meeting, she had multiple conversations with members of each different racing crew: She talked with Nomad from Redline about the death of Douglas James, and became more intricately involved with the crew when Cora Star approached her with a job offer for her old position as rentals manager, after H&O was given over to Tony Corleone and rebranded. When Anna returned to racing, and mainly mingled and raced together with Vendetta, she was formally invited to join Vendetta (for the second time), if she wants to. She was also invited to private races and outings with Yokai, found herself enjoying her time with the group, and eventually was also invited to join Yokai by Shinigami herself.

After Prism disbanded, Anna continued to thrive in her newly found position as a lone wolf, choosing to hang out with whoever she wants to, and helping anyone in need, without taking sides when it comes to conflict. Eventually, Anna made the choice to join Yokai. In another heartfelt talk with Mary, Anna made her intentions of finding a new family and group to belong to, as well as taking on more of a teaching role, clear, and both of these wishes are fulfilled in Yokai. She was then invited to join as a full member, together with her wife Kalliope.

Anna found her bearings in Yokai quite quickly. Meeting some old friends and making new ones came easy to her, and she found great success in being a teacher for the newer Mikomi in Yokai, with all the driving experience she can pass along as one of the most experienced people in the racing scene. Just like everyone else in Yokai, Anna took on a new persona and alias that she has to protect upon joining: Yosuzume, the Night Sparrow, a yokai that is not dangerous by itself, but serves as a warning, indicating more dangerous yokai nearby