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Well, combusting wasn an issue when I was testing the new PDCs a week ago. I guess I should have tried harder. ~~Or done more to put them through their paces~~

Anybody been to the nightclub and have a review of the place, or planning on going any time? I haven't gotten out there yet, so it can't hurt to ask for an opinion before I try. I can't even remember the last time I've unwound.

BARRY

So, I haven't seen you around and this just seems like the best way to reach out; I'm not going to beat around the bush just because I think that it'll be easier not to.

I remember being selected for a mission with you the other day, but beyond that...I can't remember a damn thing. Can you?

LYDIA

Hey, Lydia!

I know I haven't poked you much since talking about your soap and perfume, but I'm more than a little bit curious.... How exactly did you go about getting True Alpha started? You said you'd already done the testing for the soaps when you reached out for a focus group, but how did you start the process exactly? That's if you're allowed to actually say, anyway.

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You know what else we should've tried? They have these carriages downstairs. They look really strange and lack horses. We should've tossed them in the way of one of those. For science.

Honestly, I don't think I ever even got a tour. Those dark days before dear Steve took over the reigns.

I saw the announcement, though I didn't read much into it since I sincerely doubt there's need of charity around here. But something other than jumpsuits? That is interesting...

Though I'd probably have to wear this godawful orange still.

Oh my god you're hilarious. If we're ever chosen for another mission testing PDCs we're definitely testing that one, to see if they hold out.

You poor thing. He's sinced pulled me in to help, so the new people are in much better hands than before, but still.

It's worth it alone just to get to wear something that isn't the jumpsuits, honestly. Plus, it breaks up the monotony around here too.

Orange can be nice sometimes depending on the shade and how you wear it. I mean, as a jumpsuit you look like you're in prison, so I don't envy you there, but still.

Maybe we could even get them to let us... drive? one, over the pdc, for science. [Root had definitely taught her one thing: science was an excellent excuse.]

Yeah I've helped a few times too, though I kind of spaced on the last girl I was supposed to tour around. Emma, I think her name was? When I got here, or was cloned or whatever, things were a bit rougher around the edges. No real tours just, welcome to the world, your memories aren't real, have some drugs, go to work. I'm glad it's getting a slightly gentler touch these days.

I agree, though if I were home going to a ball would be part of the monotony. It was usually because Uther killed someone and felt like a party, so there were a lot of feasts.

I will say, the only thing I miss about red is I looked a lot better in it. Even if it is Pendragon colours. I'd have to get up to Steves level before I had any colours I actually liked. I just... I'm very pale for orange. Or yellow.

I bet you'll look fantastic.

If ever we get to test the PDCs again....I feel like asking now would be a bit too late; that was a missed opportunity.

I haven't given a tour in a little while, but the new arrivals seem to have slowed down too, honestly. I don't think I've met Emma either as of yet. Steve explained a little bit about how things were and everything. Having a friendly face to explain things when you're first thrust into this place really does help.

Uther?

I'm going to bet that we could find an orange that doesn't wash you out. I'm really good with clothes if you want a hand. The colors are specific, but the shades leave a little bit of room to play with, plus, in theory there can be accent colors. Yellow might wash you out with that complexion, but I bet we can make orange work on you.

I'm definitely going to try. I miss wearing something other than the pant equivalent of a potato sack.

Well yeah, obviously... it seems like it would be fun though.

Uther is my uh, King, unfortunately. I am his ward, as my father was his best friend and he died and my mother was already long dead by then. I was ten, he's a tyrant who thinks killing people because of their birth status is the right thing to do. He hates magic and everyone it touches. Long story short, you're not missing anything fun unless you're secretly into that kind of thing.

...alright, we could try. I'd hate to be the only special eating weird wafers that pass for food in her room during ball night while everyone is doing what I can only presume is dancing, if it's anything like some of the acts in the talent show.

Crossing my fingers for that assignment the next time PDCs are updated.

Sounds sufficiently awful, honestly. I'm sorry that that's who you had to deal with and who rules you. That actually makes the Clave from home sound warm and fuzzy by comparison.

Oh, we're going to do way better than try. Not to toot my own horn too loudly, but clothes are one of my specialties. You'll look gorgeous, I promise, and you'll have a lot more fun than eating weird wafer things in your room too. We can even work on the dancing if you'd like.

Uther makes the questing beast look cuddly, and that thing nearly killed Arthur. :/ Of course, you could argue his father has nearly killed him too... frequently.

What's the Clave?

I'm not doubting you. Normally I have no problem with fashion, either, but then normally I have a queens pick of the silks and seamstresses. I'm not so sure my fashion sense is, uh, modern enough anyway.

It's funny, I taught Steve to dance in the early days. It's one of the reasons we became such good friends... I think I might have done him a disservice. I would appreciate that very much, Izzy.

Lovely.

The Clave is the council that is in power for my people back home. We have different Institutes, but they're overseers of the Shadowhunters as a whole.

Then between the two of us you'll look fantastic, basically. And I'm sure I can show you some of the more modern trends and find some sort of compromise that way you're not too far from what you already like.

Well, considering Steve told me he didn't know anything about dancing, from before anyway, you helped him a bit, anyway. And you have something to build from, so win/win.

And you're a shadowhunter? That's not like a witchfinder is it? [Because Morgana likes izzy and that would be unfortunate.]

You could put me in only a silk scarf and I'd still be less scandalised than I am by these goddamn jumpsuits. They must be called that because they make you want to jump from the highest available precipice.

I'd punch him in the arm for saying that but I think it'd break my hand... he's a good guy, very... attentive and easy enough to teach...

This was about me, sorry, I am also an excellent student. My Da was teaching me sword fighting when I was four.

I have no idea what a witchfinder is, so I'm going to assume no. Shadowhunters are nephilim, and we don't hut anybody (despite the latter half of the title). We just make sure that demons, warlocks, and other downworlders are kept secret from mundanes.

You and I are going to be very good friends, Morgana. Also, you could probably work a silk scarf and look great doing it.

I'll show you how to punch before you do it, less damage to your hand that way. He definitely seems like he'd be a student. Once you get passed his humble and shy, anyway.

Please, don't apologize. I'm sure you'll learn easily enough, then.

They... find witches. To kill them, generally. As it's illegal to exist if you have the misfortune to be born one back home.

[But that's a word she knows for once.] You're half angel.

[There's a long pause between that statement and what comes next as Morgana tries to avoid well, doing anything like wondering out loud if maybe she really was going to hell since apparently she'd been chatting with someone who was part divine like she was any old person... After all, she was just Izzy. Wasn't she? Even if she was part angel? How did someone like that even get trapped here?! She swallowed and moved on.]

Depends what you're teaching him, sometimes he gets too shy even to touch...

Yeah, that one is just as unpleasant as it sounds, then. I'm definitely not that, for the record. We don't kill downworlders, any of them, unless they're trying to kill us or mundanes.

[Izzy's not sure if she's picked the right time to come clean about what she is, but what the hell. It's better than hiding what she is even longer. She's tired of flitting under the radar the way that she has been.]

I am, yeah...at home anyway. Here I'm just another clone.

It sounds like you've had a little more experience than me, with our good buddy Steve, and making him uncomfortable.

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[Morgana could comment on the fact she's killed a few men in her day, though none of them were good but her mind is stuck somewhere between Izzy being half-divine and Steve.

Which actually made her wonder what Steve would be wearing...]

What do men wear to formal occasions? And it's... well no he was a bit... it's a long story. [A long story that is turning her red just thinking about it.]

Suits or tuxes if they're going with what is approved formal attire. Dress pants with a buttonup and jacket work too, just depends on the man and what he's comfortable with.

Well if you ever decide to share let me know?

Well, I know what pants and a jacket are. You know I'm half convinced the computer cloned me or brought me here or whatever else it may have done for it's own personal amusement.

I might have kissed him. But you can't tell anyone. ESPECIALLY STEVE. He was so flustered and hover handed and I never kissed anyone before I don't know what got into me. [She knows exactly what got into her.]

Tuxes and suits are just fancier pants and jackets mixed with a few other components. And if that's the case you're in good company because it probably extends to all of us.

Your secret is safe with me, I won't be telling anybody your business. When was this, though?

[Izzy's prety sure she has an idea of what got into her, considering she made out with Steve not all that long ago...]

Oh... Steve would look good in those.

105. I was upset, he came down to my room and took me to his so we could talk, and be safe... I don't know I was holding his hand and then I kissed him and I. No one ever treated me with such respect and care as he has since I got here months ago. I guess I just let myself get carried away.

I'm pretty sure Steve looks good in most things, to be fair.

There's nothing wrong with a kiss. Sometimes it's pretty comforting.

He looks pretty good drenched... he is built like a castle wall. [That she would totally climb. Cough.]

I suppose not... I'd like to think not, but there's this little voice in the back of my head that sounds like my governess screaming about me being a Lady. Or Uther's booming anger exclaiming that Ladies don't do those things!

But I was always bad at doing what I was told.

Castle wall isn't the first thing I'd think of, but I can see it.

Let me tell you a little secret. Women, ladies, can do any and everything that men can do. And sometimes do it better and in dresses and heels.

Plus your governess and Uther aren't here, so their opinions don't really matter. Now you do whatever you want...within the Computer's parameters, anyway.

I believe you, cause Lord knows I've beaten a whole group of warlords while in my underclothes but somehow that seems a lot easier than kisses.

I used to train, when I was a child and my Da was alive. I'm good with a sword, good dancer, good at driving knights wild... not as good as I'd like to be at picking moments of... uh. Intimacy?

Not so much a matter of not believing so much as not being used to being myself without someone waiting to tell me the sixteen ways I committed treason against the crown and human decency that day. Save a child? Dungeon. Wear a tight dress? Reduced to a useful ornament. Manage to fight your way out of the woods in your underwear and want to go back for your friend? Dropped off home and told to behave... Until recently the computer felt like a breath of fresh air, honestly. It may tell me what to do, but it's not on account of my sex.

Sounds like that all stems from where you're from, who you were around. So, I'm sure it will take time to forget it all, and to work toward more of an ease with kissing.

But it also sounds to me like you're a progressive and well on your way too.

One of the few positives of the Computer...it's not completely sexist.

Well as long as I stop kissing my friends who don't feel that way about me I'm sure it'll be infinitely less awkward.

[Maybe. Right?]

Well every thorn has it's rose.

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