Meeting The Princess

JP with Redsword, mdman, Trustno1, Lorem, Jaxx and Cindy

One of Eun-Ji’s illusions was still sitting outside on the porch bench. She calmly watched Ekaterina from the car to the front door, obviously studying her from head to toe. There was no gesture of welcome, other than a polite smile.

The Eun-Ji on the couch looked around to see who was going to go get that, not her. And the one writing in her notepad ignored it entirely, too busy to care at the moment.

“That would be my partner for this case,” Dahlia mentioned. She walked to the door, opened it and stepped back for Ekaterina to step into the mansion.

“Welcome,” Dahlia said, “Ekaterina! You look marvelous, as always! Come on in and meet the team.”

Choi looked at the newcomer gracefully entering. His jaw dropped as he recognized just who this Templar was. How could a beautiful world renowned princess hide her identity.

“As in Princess of Monaco?” he managed to stumble from his lips.

Alyssa got another message, "Princess Ekaterina Malysheva Grimaldi, welcome to the group." Well that almost evened things up.

Ekaterina greeted Dahlia, "Thank you Dahlia. You are so sweet. You look amazing as well." Then Ekaterina looked at the others and asked, " Oh thank you for the introduction. I am most impressed to see reds, greens and blue in the same room getting along. I apologize for arriving late. I had urgent business to attend in Monaco, but I am ready to be briefed on this mission." Ekaterina looked at the others and paused as she looked at the muscular man by Alyssa and then at the others again.

Choi stood and bowed. “I am Choi Yeong,” he announced. He used an open hand toward his associates and introduced them. “And this is Moon Eun-Ji and Master Sung.”

Ekaterina gave a slight bow with her head as she replied, "Ah good to meet you. So is your silent friend a twin or into illusions?”

The two Moons in the room both stood and bowed. One of them sat back down with an expression that read as if it was too early to tell if it was good to meet. The other the writing the woman’s name in the notepad next to Dahlia’s, along with a quick gestural sketch and initial thoughts. She refrained from interjecting, Choi could handle fielding such a question.

Sartre opened the door, not taking his eye off the detective. "Another agent? Let's skip the formalities, we are in the middle of something. Glad you could join us," said Sartre.

"I need the items and books for one reason, the cowboys are playing with destiny. They are dangerous occultists. They're playing with fate." Trudeau smiled at the end of that sentence. Fate brought Prue back and then myself. It's been 25 years.”

"I'm sure you agents are smart enough and I've seen more than the four of us have in all of our time in San Francisco. I just need the documents and the items to look them over." We can finally stop the cowboys from wreaking havoc." Piper, Phoebe, your sister is back. So am I." Detective Trudeau gave a reassuring glance to the hacker. Prue was overwhelmed with tears.

"We can bring order out of chaos. Right? Alyssa Wilson?" asked the Detective.

Alyssa raised a brow at Trudeau. "Let us hope so Detective." She responded. She didn't seem surprised at all that he knew her name. "I say we give him the books. Anything that help us with what is going to happen is good with me." Alyssa trusted very few people upon meeting them, but for reasons she didn't understand she trusted this back from the dead Detective.

Ekaterina was a bit confused by what was going on since she was barely briefed on this mission. She then noticed the section of the room containing an assortment of Starbuck drinks and snacks. Seeing as she was in the dark on this topic she looked around for anyone to speak with as she asked, "Does anyone mind if I get a drink?", while pointing at the coffee and tea. Agent Powers was unsure how to respond on behalf of Alyssa but the interruption from the Princess caught his attention as he replied, "Uh yeah sure. Help yourself." Ekaterina then gracefully moved to get a gourmet coffee and add her sugar and cream. Then she sipped it ever so elegantly in relief from her long day. She loved her coffee and helped herself to a cake pop. She looked so elegant and happy for her snack. Then she watched in silence as the mystery of the mission was unfolding before her.

"Not very prudent of you Alyssa. I've spoken with your father many times. You must understand that quick thinking like that is leading exactly where things are needing to be. Complete chaos. Complete paranoia. Just wait until November, that will be the perfect breeding ground for paranoia. People walking their doors, having fears of turning their firearms against their neighbors." If you think what happened in this city was something. Wait until you see what happens next. Trudeau suddenly shapeshifted into a well-dressed man in a business suit. He looked to be in his thirties.

He waved his hand and a black portal appeared in the middle of the room. I'm sure you've seen one of these before Alyssa.”

Just then; The man in black Emerged through the mansion's front door.