December 24, 2004Coralis stood in a back corner of a clearing in northern Labrador, waiting for Audrey. She didn’t have her eyeglasses on, but wore her wrist binds and kept her hood pulled halfway below her eyes. She didn’t want to be seen or sensed. She told Audrey where she stood, so she could quickly locate her when getting off the bus.With the tensions rising in her community and her list of mortal foes growing longer, Coralis was worried something would happen to Audrey when she was in town just because of her connection to her. She could protect Frank from her people, but Audrey was a mage: she couldn’t hide her the same way. Lizzy’s apartment was well warded, but protecting her when in transit was a different challenge.A first bus landed and Coralis made a mental note to check with Sebastian, Erik and Henry to get Lizzy’s car warded like Frank’s. A few minutes later, she saw Audrey getting off one of the buses and met her halfway. They were almost at the take-off area when L
December 14, 2004 – 15:00“How about we bury them somewhere remote, far from the human population, and see who comes for them?” said Coralis.“Blue, I thin I understand even more, now, why you rank so high and so many people want you out of their way. I am glad to see you on our side,” said Matasia.“Blue’s plan for the weapons is good. However, there is a possibility you will kill the djinn whose essence is imprinted in their daily batch. With djinn mystical weapon crafting, if done the traditional way, you will find somewhere in this place vials containing essence samples of the one who made their blueprints or who is behind this operation,” said Riwik.“If not, anyone sharing the same bloodline will be able to track them and it’s probably a family operation,” said Whazk.“Make sure that no one touches these weapons with their bare hands. Just in case the plan doesn’t work as intended, we don’t want them to be able to track you down through your essence. Djinn mystical weapons do ab
December 14, 2004 – 03:00Frank woke up to use the bathroom and noticed Coralis wasn’t sleeping beside. He looked at the time as he climbed out of bed: it was only 3 in the morning.“You have to go again?” said Frank, seeing her making coffee. “I swear, you’re just as busy as when you played flyball while working for the EBEE and other side groups.”“Holy gods from above, I don’t even have time to miss flyball and my brain hurts from mind-link overload.”Coralis took advantage of Frank being awake to grab what she needed from their bedroom.“What is it this time? I swear I felt you coming home 2 hours ago,” said Frank, walking out of the bathroom.“I have to meet Alejandro in Greenland to investigate and collect information about a tip DeMarco gave me last night. His superiors received potentially manipulated information about some newly added names that shouldn’t listed. He traced the origin of the file from a location in Greenland, where he doesn’t think has a post office.”“In othe
November 4, 2004“Hey Blue!” said Milkya through mind-link. “Just a quick check-up on what you’re up to.”“I’m taking my mother-in-law to her doctor’s appointment, can’t get any human activities more normal than this,” said Coralis while pretending to read an article in a magazine.She sat on the seat nearest to the clinic entry door, waiting for Molly to walk out of her doctor’s office. Next to her was a table with various old magazines about fashion and cooking.“Good! Are you driving her there?”“No, I never went to get a human driver’s licence. I usually take a taxi or ride with my husband when I need to travel like a human. Today, I’m travelling by bus with my mother-in-law. Her doctor is practicing in a shady area of town and she doesn’t like going there alone. This trip is quite the human immersion.”“Taking buses to travel around town is a good idea. On a bus, you’re invisible to people.”Coralis saw Molly returning to the waiting room soon after she was done talking to Milkya
October 4, 2004She received a branding representing her affiliation to the Shadow Elementals on her right foot arch. Once he was done with the branding, Riwik shaved the hair at the back of her neck to tattoo it, with black light ink, the symbol used to identify themselves to contacts when collecting information.“One last thing, your mind-link. We all live in different parts of the world and coordination is key to the success of our operation. We are all connected through mind-link and only use the hologram to send important documents. I will create your mind-link connecting you to us, and then we will go eat.”“After breakfast, You and I will spar. I want to know how strong you are in combat,” said Whazk as Riwik created her mind-link.She was now officially a member of the Shadow Elemental collective. She was happy about that and felt she belonged, and was where she was supposed to be at this moment, while they were in a civil war against their kind.“We will all spar. Today we tr
September 29, 2004“I think I’m going to join the Shadow Elementals,” said Coralis to Frank over dinner.“You sure about that? Thought we agreed it was best if you just lay low for a bit and help packs with their wards.”“I still want to keep doing that, but it’s like waiting for trouble to happen and you know more will come for me. I’m getting an uneasy feeling about playing defensively instead of going after those who want us down. You know, make a move when they don’t see me coming before they come for me and harm you in the process.”“Can’t argue with your logic there,” said Frank.He didn’t like her joining what seemed to him a militant group. He agreed with their ideology and understood why she wanted to join them, but he didn’t like to know Coralis was going to the frontlines of danger, where he thought she’d be more likely to get killed or captured.“While the world is distracted going after the wrong ones, I think I should help them go after those who should be taken down and
September 6, 2004“You’re thorough,” said Nancy.Coralis was on the way to Winnipeg to attend a practice given by Panjik when her MI6 contact called.“That’s why you liked me in the first place.”“It seems you are becoming a witch-living nightmare. Two months ago, an informant based in Mexico spoke with a trusted white witch there. She said that a coven of witches threatened a local pack of werewolf. The werewolves mentioned your name when the witches couldn’t pass through their wards. The white witch said that the coven immediately left the entire area.”Coralis struggled to stay serious after hearing that, remembering the coven she terrorized with Sebastian when searching for Audrey. An hour after ending her call, she landed by the CMMA headquarters. She wasn’t working for them and was grateful the elders didn’t mind her attending some training sessions, once in a while.While she was sparring with Emery, High Mage Finnas and High Elf Yalor entered the training room to talk to her.
August 15, 2004 –02:30“Well, Blue Thunder, I am glad I came to meet with you here. I will be more than happy to take down Critilla Manana. I helped the Portuguese agents build up her case when she was suspected of decimating and cursing a few clans of elves and enslaving human males to do her bidding. I’m sure someone tipped her off the day we would have taken her down.”“Honestly, there probably was someone who tipped her off,” said Coralis as she finished the elixir."How interesting, you and I are 10th and 11th on the global list of most wanted witches and she's 12th."“Yeah, well, it happens. I will call my mate and Sebastian before I get started on the antidote. When we take down the witches, I will take pictures of their heads off their shoulders and of their burned bodies, as evidence for the person who tipped me off. I already took pictures of the hex body at the morgue.”“While you make your calls, I’m going to fly to the nearest elemental hub to get some drinks, I think the
August 14, 2004 – 20:00“They got informants everywhere!” said Louis.“I’ll go with you,” said Sebastian.“No,” said Coralis, looking at him while glancing at the others. “I trust my contact, but I don’t trust the people she talks to. If this is a trap, they’ll expect you to come with me. I’ll get a scent of what this is all about and will let you know, but for now, I prefer if you stay here to keep an eye on things.”Before taking off to Brazil, she gathered supplies and stopped at a store to buy a disposable camera. On her way there, she received a call from a hologram code she didn’t recognize. She wasn’t anywhere near her home, so she answered it.“Agent Alejandro! What’s up?”“Do not refer to me as Agent anymore. Have you heard from Andrew lately?”“No. The last time I talked to him was when we cleared my name for the Massina murder. Why?”“He hasn’t reported to any EBEE summon since December. I’ve heard through branches that he was spotted and ambushed last week, but he didn’t g