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[faith_powered]

[It is currently ungodly 'o clock and Kanako hasn't slept one bit. She's also got a wicked headache, after outmaneuvering a business enemy she had gone back to the office to wrap things up. Before leaving the office, she fires off a text to who she thinks is her new secretary]

Mary, I need two copies of the O'Neil presentation on my desk by 9. Book a meeting for me with the execs, mark it urgent. Ideally before noon, I know getting their schedules to align is a nightmare but Harrison can skip the Accruals meeting and I know for a fact that Johnson tends to be out golfing in the morning and this is more important. I'll be in around 7.

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[faith_powered]

[Definite edge in the tone]

Tired and what?

[miraclemiko]

[Oh.]

Cr... afty! Crafty! Tired yet crafty!

[faith_powered]

I will allow it this time since that was a good save. Anyway what were you saying?

[miraclemiko]

[OH THANK GOD.]

So this is actually a super secret network!

I think!

[faith_powered]

Come again?

[miraclemiko]

A super secret network, you know like in the movies? Where a bunch of people get together and talk about weird stuff like powers and aliens and giant monster squids.

[Okay, the last one is an extrapolation of what someone else said, BUT IT COULD HAPPEN.]

[faith_powered]

Uh... huuuuh. Honey, why don't you just head to bed you're obviously not fully awake. I'll be home soon.

[miraclemiko]

No mom, I am totally awake! It's true! Here, read this!

[Kanako gets a text with a link]

See?

[faith_powered]

It's certainly very thorough. Tell you what, I'll believe you if you can prove any of this nonsense isn't some weird game I most certainly don't have time for at 2 AM.

[miraclemiko]

Um, well...

[Oh!]

Echos, right! Apparently when you get the number for this network, you get something as well, like a power, or a vision, or an item, or something like that. Maybe that happened?

[faith_powered]

That doesn't mean much to someone who was at a bar not too long ago.

[miraclemiko]

...Mom, were you drinking on the job?

[faith_powered]

I got a contract out of it so it was company dollars well spent.

[miraclemiko]

Do you need me to call you a cab? You should probably be in bed.

[faith_powered]

Bah I'm fine I'll be home soon.

[miraclemiko]

[Idea.]

Here, I'll write it down for you.

[And on her desk calendar, Sanae's bubbly handwriting starts to appear with a phone number.]

[faith_powered]

Huh. OK I guess you win. What's this?

[miraclemiko]

[Why you gotta be so logical, she was hoping to at least get SOMETHING out of her.]

Like I told you before, it's some kind of secret network. All the people on here had something weird happen to them and got something out of it, like a vision or an item or some kind of super power. I got some kind of vision. Since you're here, you must have gotten something, even if you can't remember right now.

[faith_powered]

That is consistent with the weird images I saw after that negotiation.

[miraclemiko]

Weird images? What did you see?

[faith_powered]

I saw... something. Like a battle. A battle I had won.

[miraclemiko]

[Darn, nothing like what she saw.]

Huh. Well, you usually manage to win battles in the office, so I guess that makes sense?

[If by winning battles she means making grown men cry, then yes.]

[faith_powered]

All in a days work, you know. Anyway, I'm heading home. I have an early morning tomorrow, we'll talk later.

[miraclemiko]

Have a safe trip.

[Please take a taxi mom you're probably drunk.]

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[faith_powered]

[the following night Sanae will find her mother passed at the dinner table]