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"As long as the people I'm with are happy and taken care of, that's all that really matters."
Casey takes a moment to ponder your words. You really, really do wish you could mindread her.
"Don't forget: We love you. It may be a foreign and unconventional business decision in the City but remember that you are loved."
"I'm always here for you. :)"
"Sometimes I wonder how much of that is genuine and how much is just your, I dunno, bee drone whatever programming."
[MERCURICAL? + OPTIMSTIC SPIRIT] "I'm as real as people think I am." She smiles. "Mind if I sit here? I wish to hear the funny voices on the radio."
You smile back. "Sure. Hey, uh, thanks for checking up I guess." You shrug. You're the one who usually does that.
"I have to keep my relevancy somehow, no?" She plops down by the sidewalk right by you. As if by pure luck, tat's when the radio signal finally tunes to something.
>+0.75 (+0.25 from BLOSSOMING HEART) RAPPORT with CASEY. Now at 4.75/7!
>75!
"Ah. Ah. Ah." Naomi's voice crackles to life over the radio. "Testing. Do you copy, over?"
"Copy." "Copy!!!"
"I see you have another person listening in. I think I recognize that voice?"
"Hiii!!!" Casey waves at Naomi despite the fact she couldn't possibly see that. "I'm Casey Smith. Nice to meet you!!!"
"Ah! It is you, from the facility. Are you doing okay, dear?"
"Yep yeppie yep! I'm having fun with my friends!!! You???"
"I am doing well, Casey." You can almost hear her how wide Naomi's smile is. "What a ball of energy you are."
"Regardless, I assume you have a reason to contact me?"
"Two reasons. One, does the name OCEP ring a bell to you?"
"I." You nearly lost the signal with Naomi right then and there due to a sudden rush of interference. Casey isn't responding much better than the radio. An odd distant look has crossed her eyes.
The signal soon recovers, "I do not recognize that name. I presume you are asking due to their ties to my organization but <span class="mu-b">I have never once heard of that name in my decades of experience.</span>"
"I'm not hiding anything from you. <span class="mu-b">It sounds familiar</span> but my mind...my mind is <span class="mu-b">unable to recall where I heard it from.</span>"
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] Antimemetic? You could be unaffected because you're more anomaly than SHIFTer.
[PERSON OF INTEREST] If even Naomi can't recall it, either the Spooks REALLY don't want anyone to know of it or it's an inherent aspect of the OCEP.
"Plastic." Casey cryptically whispers. "Manifestations of the City."
Okay. Best to change the subject.
"Also, uh, that spook I asked you about. Got her codename of Lapis. Apparently I managed to win her trust. Heck, she showed me her face."
"Interesting," Naomi almost sounds eager when the conversation shifts. <span class="mu-b">Maybe asking Alexis about the OCEP would get better results.</span> "I'm an exception, of course, but there's only two reasons a Spook would show you their face."
"One: You're about to die. My comrades would do this all the time to gloat."
