Triela was feeling better than she had in weeks. Not really good, but better than she'd been in two weeks. She was managing to sit up in bed with a bowl of soup in her lap. She was trying to decide if she was actually going to apologize to anyone. She might owe apologies to a few people, after all, but ( Read more... )

Triela had managed, somehow, to push through class without collapsing, but by the time it was over her head was swimming badly enough that she was having trouble walking in a straight line. She needed to get back to her room for her emergency supply of supplemental Conditioning drugs. Maybe upping her dosage would help things to make sense for a ( Read more... )

Yesterday hadn't been so bad. That trip to the clinic had helped with the headaches and the muscle spasms, so Triela was actually feeling pretty good at the moment ( Read more... )

Triela didn't need much sleep, just a few hours a night, but they were almost always peaceful ones. She didn't toss and turn, or wake up in the middle without some sort of outside disturbance ( Read more... )

Triela blinked as she eyed her arm, then shrugged. "I try not to bleed all over my clothes before a fight," she pointed out in response to Karla's oh-so-helpful advice about activating shields before getting shot rather than after. But she did concentrate and the shield flickered and then disappeared ( Read more... )

Triela had cut herself off mid-quip and now her entire body was tense. Something was wrong.

( ''I'm such a what?'' )

Triela's eyes grew distant for a moment, as if she were lost in memories that she didn't have.

( Karla paused for a moment... )

The portal dropped two blond girls onto a small side street in Europe. "Remember what you promised. No..." One of them trailed off, frowning.

This wasn't the right part of Europe. In fact, it felt... distinctly... Eastern. The Balkans somewhere? Definitely not Rome. Not even Italy.

Not good.

( Karla, having no idea what any of Europe looked like, continued to chatter. )

Triela had tea. Actually, she had a bit more than usual. An entire tea pot and a pair of cups. This probably meant she was expecting company. She wasn't really a tea and biscuits or tea and cake sort of person, so it was just the tea, but she figured her guest wouldn't mind ( Read more... )

The weather wasn't really that big a deal when your body was stuffed with as many enhancements as Triela's was. But it did give her a good excuse to stay indoors. In fact, she'd eaten early and headed back to her room early as well. If she called it a night she could get rid of the heels (which she still wasn't comfortable with) and the... rest ( Read more... )