Ah, be careful what you say [Active, open to all]

[downtownmia]

Characters: Mia Fey, open to anyone and everyone who wants to come
Content: It's time for some "ice skating". By which I mean, a secret meeting to talk about their predicament and whoever might be behind it. Yes, if you couldn't tell from the tags, Mia was speaking in metaphorese.
Location: Rockefeller Plaza. Mia is sitting on the base of the

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[inthephonebook]

Harry just grinned unapologetically, but took the hint and settled himself down next to Riza. Let it never be said Harry knew nothing about compromise. Plus he was still pretty tired.

Harry smiled at Freudia and said, "Yep, that's me, but don't believe the rumors, I'm not a complete idiot." Her question prompted Harry to smile as he reached over and squeezed Riza's hand. "That's right. I finally managed to get my act together."

Harry mentally kicked himself for forgetting Freudia's help in investigating the mysteries of the city. Looking appropriately apologetic Harry said, "Sorry, I have trouble keeping track of it all in my head sometimes. Thanks for your help though, we need everyone's input to crack that one. If you want, we could talk more after the meeting."

Leaning back he listened to their ideas about the meeting, then proposed his own theory. "It's a couple of things most likely. We've suffered a lot of hits recently, and Mia wants to reassure people and keep confidence high. Moral is more important than you'd think in a time like this, and I bet there are a lot of scared people out there. Zero kind of got shot in the foot by the whole monster thing, though he's taking a bit more flack than necessary, we should probably turn down the rhetoric, but he did make at least one good point, the network has been hacked. Mia recognizes that, and so she doesn't want to talk where prying ears can here."

Harry shrugged when he finished up. "Just my thoughts."

[freudenstachel]

As Freudia thought about the people with whom she now surrounded herself, she came to the realization that she was certain they all had already reached. How strange these circumstances were. But it was best not to concern herself with it at all. She was a different person, anyway.

At any rate, she continued smiling pleasantly. "I would be very interested in that, Harry. There has certainly been a rash of interesting discoveries in the city since the last time we spoke.

"Not the least of which is this Zero character," she continued, directing her attention to the women. "I have my own opinions on him, but now is not the time for that." No sense escaping the fire only to walk right back in. "I certainly hope you all are doing well enough for yourselves, given the circumstances. Optimism is difficult to maintain, but very valuable. I trust Miss Fey to know what to do."

[hawkeye_shooter]

Riza was pleased when he finally decided to sit down, although it didn't really show aside from her posture relaxing a little, now she didn't have to get up and drag his ass down onto the bench. She casually returned the squeeze and nodded to Rosette, "I wouldn't be surprised either, but it wouldn't be unlike Mia to have had a meeting like this in mind for awhile."

Harry confirmed a lot of her thoughts on the matter. She sighed, "The timing was bad on Zero's rally. I also have my own thoughts about him," she replied, glancing at Freudia, "I don't think his intentions were for what happened at the tunnels to happen, but it did happen and he's eventually going to have to show himself again and handle that." She shook her head, "I don't think he realizes that gathering people to follow him isn't as easy as merely being charismatic...you have to have prove yourself a lot before you can gain followers like I believe he wants." Zero worried her a lot, because he was an example of what could happen with the Colonel if he didn't have people around him to check him. Zero was still too new to this place to gain any support without a lot of proof on his part and he was already sliding because of the incident. That might make him more desperate next time and Riza didn't want to think about what that might prompt him to do.