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[Lily gives a thin smile to the camera, and it would appear she is... in yet another, different place, for about the third time in as many months.] Hello, everyone. I'm sure there's a lot of you still worn out from everything recently, but I wanted to touch base with everyone I could after all of that... and all of this that's now cropping up here.

Here, being Germany. Thanks to Miss Bonbright, we all seem to be pretty set for anyone who's going to stay over here for the immediate future, at least. Winter and I checked in today without any problems, although we're going to be bouncing back and forth a lot to help out wherever we can. At the very least, it's a step up from the shared villas at the Marriott, or having to pay to stay elsewhere for weeks because we were all so paranoid. [Or the fear of returning to her own home and getting gunned down in the middle of the night.] There's a lot to do everywhere, but I think it'll be easier to operate from here for the time being.

At the very least, the general atmosphere feels a little less... oppressive. I only realize it now, but the worse the media has gotten in the States for us, the more it feels like I've been holding my breath every time I turn on the TV or pick up a newspaper. They actually want us to help, according to Julien, so... I say we do whatever we can to fulfill that.

I know people are already talking about hunting down whatever creature may be buried under here, and I agree - we should track it down, but... It feels like there's a piece we're missing, doesn't it? If we incite another fight, we're just going to wind up with this place trashed just like Locke and Vegas. We also need to avoid that. Plus... the last one awakened soon after that mountain rose up, and it looks like we've already got something similar to that with this giant tower. That worries me more than a little. If things happened so much quicker in Vegas than back home, how quickly is it going go here?

Regardless... I should say that I can be very, ah... [A pause.] mobile, after that last fight. If anyone needs anything, anywhere, we can be there. For the time being, I expect we'll be popping into Vegas just as much as helping look into things here, so... if anyone needs any help, or needs to meet up with us, just give the word.

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[She smiles a little bit at that.]

No, I guess I don't want that either. Letting it out is good, but... I can't let it control me.

[Even if she knows a part of that fear is doing just that, even as she says it.]

Right. We have to do a little of both, I guess, like holding it in when we have to and then letting it out when it's safe... or something like that.

...this is tough. And confusing.

It is, and this would be A) why I send myself on a self destructive spiral of ignoring that sort of thing for years and B) why I probably need therapy for it someday.

[A bit more blunt on Lily's end than she normally is with that sort of thing in the open, but eh. At this point, she's kind of admitted all of that to herself pretty readily.] So finding that happy middle ground in important.

...how very honest. I think someone's going to need to set up a therapy program for all of us eventually though.

Doing the opposite's never exactly paid me any favors, so why not? Regardless, that probably isn't too far from the truth.

Someone's going to make a killing off us eventually.

Well, hey, Las Vegas already kinda tried and failed at that, so clearly people need to try it from another angle.

Hopefully with "killing" being less... literal.

...there have already been plenty of people trying that too. They don't count.

I'm starting to get the feeling we're never going to run out of those, as it is.

That is the life of people with crazy powers, apparently. I guess fiction go something right.

I could do without certain things being so true to life.

I would have happily taken all of the frilly dresses and cherry blossoms of some shoujo manga without all of the death and carnage.

As much as I don't like frills and flowers everywhere, I'd take looking sillier than all the rest of you over dealing with this shit.

Well, I can't imagine anyone wouldn't. Still... we've dealt with it well enough, I guess.

As well as we could be expected to be and then some, huh? [ Shrug! Sigh. So moody. ]

A bit. Which is all the more reason for me to want to help everyone else I can.

[Including those who hadn't gone as well, all things considered, by a long shot.]

There's a lot we can't do about the whole... mess... in our hometown.

[Lily seems to bristle a little bit. Certainly, she knows of things that someone wants to do and the likely fact she may have a front row seat for it, but... that's not for here and now.]

Which is why we just have to do what we can, where we can.

[ Marina doesn't exaaactly expect Lily and Winter to go hunting... ]

Which is here, and God-knows-what.

[It's more... "hunter sitting."]

Well, the giant tower reaching up into space is a start.

Right, yeah, that thing's pretty cool. I might check it out sooner or later.

Is is cool, but also scary as hell to know things like that could be pulsed back. I mean, yes - we had a whole mountain pop up in Vegas, but this is a whole other order of things.

Sooner or later someone's gonna get back a second moon and ruin the tides or something catastrophic. Sure.

[Open mouth.

...

Close mouth.]

And I thought I was the pessimistic one.

I am all kinds of doom and gloom when the mood hits me, lemme tell ya!

Clearly. I guess you and Jasmine have that in common, then.

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