BURNING AVARINE: INVASION
PRELUDE: Yvenne is the consummate
businesswoman, having set herself up in posh offices in the Tamar
compound. She bounces Dove on one hip as she arranges for massive arms
shipments in the name of the Nevay Corporation.
Vaylen don't get a prelude because Avarine women are bad-ass motherfuckers who won the last Phase.
[PHOENIX
INTERSTITIAL] Phoenix meets with Quinn in Locke's old stateroom. "Since
when are you giving the orders?" "I'm not. He is." Lord Farouk arrives.
Phoenix is undone. She makes excuses, and is thrown against the wall.
"We're coming."
[MARIS COLOR] Maris and her Sodalis find a New
Horizon laboratory under a destroyed temple. When her Sodalis says that
she can bring down the ceiling with explosives, Maris fixes her with a
gaze and her nose begins bleeding, then she silently walks away.
[KESTREL
COLOR] Kestrel quietly slips into Myers' room while Yvenne is sleeping
and has rough, dominant sex with him. Then she slips into Yvenne's bed
and cuddles her.
[MARIS BUILDING (1)] Maris meets Yvenne in the back
room of a bar owned by the Raven Brotherhood. Yvenne shows her images of
Dove, and the wearied Maris smiles. They talk about the future of
Avarine - Maris tries to convince Yvenne to betray Kestrel for Kestrel's
safety (and Phoenix' demise). That doesn't move her, but when Maris
shows her the images from the Order of Inner Perfection eugenics lab,
she is intrigued... "Even as Cotar Fomas, even posessing this
information would land me in the hands of the Inquisition. I should have
destroyed it, but I thought of your problem with Myers..."
[YVENNE
COLOR] Yvenne is playing hide and seek with Dove, when Myers walks in.
When Myers tries to engage them all in play, she has work to do,
suddenly.
[CROW COLOR] Crow and Raven are looking at a beautiful
stained glass image of an island bird. Raven is down on himself for not
living up to Crow's standard, but Crow reassures him that it is
beautiful, and important to show the people of Avarine what is good
about it.
[ALIX INTERSTITIAL] Alix discusses the prospect of bringing
a child - per genetically impossible - into Avarine's war. Maris
reassures him that she is scared as well, but needs to believe that the
river of fire is leading her to have a child with him, and that if she
is killed first, that he will be able to raise it.
[ALIX BUILDING]
Alix and Frost are scrutinizing Yvenne's public record of nobility. They
find reason to be suspicious, but Yvenne is alerted that they were
searching for her.
[YVENNE/KESTREL BUILDING] Yvenne is looking for
very specific equipment for... a "drill" for her "operations." Kestrel
helps her research a good replacement. Yvenne sends Kestrel and Dove
away to find books while she makes preparations for the lab. When she
finds them again, Dove and Kestrel are fast asleep, and she is saddened
as she realizes her work has gotten in the way of being with her
daughter.
[CROW INTERSTITIAL] Crow convinces Kestrel that she needs
to force the Mundus off-world. Kestrel is not concerned about opposing
Maris any more. Kestrel suggests that she will talk to Maris at least
one more time.
[MARIS BUILDING (2)] Maris takes a squad of Sodalis to
the Inquisition ship to arrest Sister Priya. The Sodalis try to arrest
her for blasphemy, but she cows them and tells them they will go after
Priya. "Be not afraid, Sister Barnes. I am the torch of Ahmilahk. All
will be well." She kisses the Sodalis on the forehead, and they fall in
behind her.
[KESTERL BUILDING] The Mundus are assaulting a House
Tamar ally, when the Leviathan swoops in and begins sweeping the ground
with artillery. But the Mundus troops manage to dig in and resist the
assault long enough to survive, and then raze the compound, killing all
military-age women.
[PHOENIX BUILDING] Phoenix leads a playful and
blindfolded Raven to Locke's ship and has him lay down on the operating
table, then restrains him. Phoenix is crying. "I love you the most! If I
don't do this, they're going to kill you." Quinn is there. They fuck up
the hull, Phoenix having lost some of her skill in the change of
bodies. A part of the surgical equipment is jammed in Raven's skull.
Hours later, they stabilize him, but he is in a coma. Phoenix is sobbing
in the corner.
MANEUVER ROLL: Assess vs. Flak, both succeed. In
her work to re-establish the Inner Perfection laboratories, Yvenne finds
a number of irregularities in the Tamar finances, and realizes that
funds are being diverted to store and re-hab a ship whose identification
she does not recognize. She tells Maris, who sends back a message:
LEAVE. TAKE DOVE. COME TO THE SODALITY FORTRESS. YOU ARE IN DANGER.
Unsettled
but not quite ready to kidnap her own child, she goes out for family
dinner with the Tamars. "Look mommy! Birds!" Dove says, as strange ships
emerge into the sky and one of the great Mundus cathedral ships crashes
to the planet's surface in flames.
+Rachel E.S. Walton +Rachael Storey , +Sara Williamson.
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