Oh DAAAAMN! (SAGA! CISSY)

It felt a little pathetic, she had people for this but she did like to do the sort of recruiting mostly herself. She needed to know more about this man, which sounded more obsessive than she actually was. Narcissa was just tired of the last couple of days and how long everything took. The obvious arrows were pointing at her to be the new candidate but Japan wouldn't be so stupid traditional if it did not trust a foreigner to take their job. She would have to get a double passport, she did not care, she could not return to Barbados anyway, better start to live as a national citizen of Japan... unless that meant she had to pay taxes too... Nah, she was sure she was fine. But to find any distractions, she had taken this job herself, she thought she was already aimlessly following this guy for the last fifteen minutes. He wasn't as stupid as some others she had followed and so on, which was a good thing. She was actually quite sure he had not yet seen her but she was also sure that he knew someone was here. She pushed her sunglasses a little higher up her nose by ticking against the lower brim on the right side and she was just done with it.

What mask or attitude to wear today, was she going to pretend to be an old friend, just be the static person she always was that would just try to get her claws into him to convince him that he had all the options and wealth and favours in his hands if he would work with her. Hm, what kind of guy was he, she tried to think about that day she accidentally met him because she was going out for a drink with Sunaho. She should have paid better attention and stop being frustrated with the whole of Japan in general, it would probably work wonders. She was going to play it differently and see if he recognized her, yes she was rather curious about the intelligence of this man. So she got over at the spot where Blackout was sitting and just took the chair opposite his and just looked up with a smile on her face, he had seen her face already, no need to hide as she had done for some and sometimes she did not have the luxury such as with Sonya or Sunaho... or worse Antonio and Giovanni. It had just been coffee, seriously going to a bar or cafe or even restaurant had been the downfall of her moments to be masked. "Long time no see." She said calmly and ready to analyze his expression for so far as she could do that, maybe tone?

Hm. A little shock, a little shiver maybe? Hard to see when people sat still and had no obvious pupils, but then the jokes came. A little too long, her face was a neutral expression with a bit of an obvious sarcastic smile on her face, at least for this man it was obvious that she was sarcastic. Look at him talk about some old boss, he had been afraid, he had been noticing someone was watching him, good. She needed the stealthy ones, the ones that were aware. She would just watch him, watch him talk and just continue with his little story about his idiot made-up (or that's what she believed) boss. "You are that afraid of her?" Was an indirect question if he had been afraid of her but she wanted to see what more he would tell about this story. She lifted up her hand and asked the waiter for a soda and turned her brown eyes back at Blackout.

She wondered if he had forgotten her name and yet it made her a little more amused, "I think if I would say it out loud, people will run out of this establishment." She looked around, it looked like a fine place, maybe cheap but it was something. "Maybe I should be a little disappointed you forgot." She turned her attention back to the man with a little pout and leaned a bit further back in her chair and dropped the attitude while she crossed her legs and swung her upper leg upside down to show her annoyance and boredom. On the one hand, a talkative one like him could easily distract people but that wasn't what she was after. "You can call me Primrose." It was her fake alias when she remembered June Greengarden or whatever Saturn called herself, her price was probably gonna be a damaging one. "Rumour has it, that you are not that stupid as you now pretend to be and that you are quite handy in a lot of departments, electrics, shadows, fabric, I am just curious." She shut up with talking when the waiter came back and put the soda in front of her, she took a sip with the straw and looked back at her target, well what were his next words going to be right? Hopefully, this wasn't a waste of time, she would hate that, but she needed especially the first... a technician, a hacker, anything like it.

Wait... did he call her the annoying Broad? Simply because she was grumpy about everything? Ugh she could hear Sonya in her mind and she just didn't want to consider the chance, it would catch her heart and squeeze it very tightly. She felt horrible. She felt and that was already an issue. She should not feel anything at all, she should adjust in this case the figurative mask and pretend there was nothing wrong with her or the world. Let this guy make his stupid mind games she would just continue with why she was here, she wasn't going to wait to play the game. He would be a new card in her deck or she would rip the card apart and see what to do about it. God, she was too angry with everything. She could again call it mildly going crazy but she couldn't bonk her head against the table here, she had a reputation to keep up. As Narcissa King but also as Daffodil.

She felt a little twitch in her jaw when he said old friends, his jokes weren't funny. Normally she would not mind to each their own right but it was just... tiring. It was everything that was tiring now, every opportunity that butchered her mentally at this point because she couldn't go home, they still had not called her that she got the job... if they didn't by the end of the week she was going to kill Tomio for impatience and ruining her fantastic plan. And there were the other issues she did not want to think about, god if only she could talk to someone, but that was the whole issue right? The only person she talked to had taken a step too far and just... there was nothing to talk about. Wew, who had known that Narcissa would hate to be all by herself so much? She had never thought that she was a people pleaser or a social butterfly but just being on her own with no one to trust and turn to, was actually heartbreaking. Maybe... just maybe, she should have really accepted Sonya's friend invitation, but humans... including herself, were untrustworthy.

"Well lucky I have the yen to pay for bills." She said, trying her utmost best not to sigh. "But I need your speciality, in all three." She heaved her head a little, trying more for herself to show some arrogance. "I just need to know if the rumours are true, are you handy with computers, hacking oh no such a negative word, computer knowledge or technician knowledge? You are hard to trace so that already answers my second one and that leaves me with fabric, you just answered that yourself. I know a few people here or there, I have a big network that could help you. If only we had a partnership, don't you think?" She did not smile, she did not really give off any expression but well the message was clear, or was her head messed up?

Her game this round, her hand wasn't playing very well. She had put the stack a little too high, the aim too screwed up, it was just her own blinding range that kept on going and rolling like radiation or a huge fire through her. Hanging out with the wrong people, that was what did this to you. She was so tired, but nothing changed and she had a prey to catch, but carefully as if she was a little kitten, with mittens on her paws as to not hurt the mouse she was trying to guide and then catch. She looked at him with an ice-cold look in her eyes. Did he just make her for a fool? She had obviously seen that they were in a bar, but he did not know how the tactics worked. People never realize what they actually hear in a busy tent like this, they would think they heard something bad, well the really bad words she avoided but they would counter and think that they heard the word murder and then look back and hear them talk about the beautiful weather or fabrics or whatever and make sure it was a misunderstanding. There was actually in her honest opinion no saver place then in the middle of the crowd. In a dark alley where there was just them and no other sound, an eavesdropping person was sure that he did not hear the wrong word.

Tough cookie. Ha. Let her laugh, she needed something funny. He was really trying his very best right? She did not say anything and just watched him, the tough cookie. "Probably not, the vaguest information always comes from the most distance friends, don't you think?" She said softly because she felt he was turning paranoia. She let her eyes follow where he was indicating and did that as casual as she did everything. She did not know this person, but it was easily cleared up with the two she did know in this bar. She nodded, "But than the question is if you would not mind working for someone else then you or working with someone else, it's a matter of perspective." She took a deep breath and her eyes switched back to the people that were eavesdropping, seriously, try to be less obvious people. But she did not roll her eyes, she was looking through her long eyelashes at the point before getting up. The yen that was necessary for her soda and his bear and much more on the table, underneath her glass. "You coming for a smoke?" Obviously she didn't smoke but that saved the eavesdroppers for now. It would also show if he had an interest in learning about it or not.

This man was maybe one of the most fascinating men she had met ever since arriving in Japan. Surely she had met quite a few people now and they all had interesting features but this man. He wasn't stupid, he did care and she actually liked the most. She remembered her conversation with Niso which had been really confusing, her amusing conversation with Meltdown who wanted exactly what she had to offer and such. Now this might seem to have gone bad and her jaw so tight because she was annoyed, she wondered if Blackout would offer more when they would be out of this paranoia situation. She had still a bit of drink in her glass and she was sure that the plan was covered up perfectly well, with the yen hidden and it looking like they just took their coats and nothing more, but Narcissa obviously had her bag hidden under her jacket and she walked closer to Kozue, "Oh that you remember. I already forgot." She said as she finally or maybe even before already understood his act. She just simply wondered if it would be gone when they were gone.

She took the cigarette and looked at it, it was definitely tempting to put it in her mouth and smoke. But like a professional, she simply held it carefully between her fingers. She had smoked on parties, with friends back in Barbados, but really smoking... never. It was extra tempting when you thought about it that she shouldn't because of her imagine back at Barbados. Well screw that one, she could not go back anyway. She led Kozue towards an emergency exit at the mall and opened it, knowing the alarm wouldn't go off, at days like this, they wouldn't do it because it would bring panic to too many people, they would switch the alarms on in the evening and help when there is a fire or something but not now. Japan, so careful. She held up the cigarette, "You tempt me." But she offered it back. "Are you feeling better now? Now that our little birds are left in the cafe?" The alley was a small path between two high buildings of the mall, there was a dumpster that peeked into but there was obvious no one here at this point, there was another door at the end from one of the sides, the left in this case and it was closed, they would quick enough see that it would open, so she turned back. "Unfortunately, there are no seats."

She thought about what he said and she wondered, a rival, ha. Her rivals were all exactly where she knew they were. Maybe not physically but she knew who she had to worry about, though Kyoko and Narcissa, they were getting along fine. Was she actually someone's rival? That was a question or was she really just being pathetically jealous and see what that would bring her. How far would that bring her? She did not actually know, she knew everything today and the last couple of days and the few days that were coming were all in the negative sense. She was done, she was so done with everything and it would not end unless she ended herself, which wasn't really on her plan to-do list. She wasn't going to let the world win, who the hell did the world think it was, right? "You are not wrong, it might be something to consider." Maybe her weakness, in that case, had to do with her own spot. The bar where she had established herself as the Garden of Whispers, had a room for her, but it was a villain bar, although you wouldn't say so at the outside. She knew the barman, he was her friend and if she could not talk downstairs he would indicate it to her without many words. She got sloppy out of anger, it was annoying her too. "Eh, maybe I will have them cleaned up but they were not mine." Though cleaning them up or intimidating them would only prove that they had something to hide. It was always a matter of wondering what would be right and what would be wrong.

She watched him carefully with her brown eyes, yea, she understood quickly what he was doing. Now that they could talk freely, she was a little more amused, her anger for the days wasn't gone but a small smile appeared, "Right, what was I getting at." Playing the game he had been playing with her the whole time and she simply looked at him curiously, trying to read an expression or something. "I had you followed a few days, after our meeting at the bar." Maybe that sparked his memory and he would realize her name wasn't Primrose, and that he remembered she was Daffodil. Being already forgotten by people, what did that mean to her really? "Don't worry, they only followed for the basic idea and to make sure you stayed around in town. They didn't eavesdrop, I hate it when people do that, but you might have heard about the Garden of Whispers." It was still setting up shop, it was probably always going to set up and work on expanding but there were important players and she knew gossip had been going around town, how else would Blaire have found her or Cody for that matter. "I am looking for new people though that bring me more than just gossip and you are stealthy, very difficult to track, which is why I came myself." Her specialty, her everything. "I also heard but the flowers were very vague about it, that you have a quirk or something at least, let's call it a talent when it comes to electricity, something about being a technician they said was the best way to describe it. And last," She had been very thorough. "You were speaking about fabrics. I have a friend who might be able to help you with that and besides, I am interested as well, I could use fabrics that would enhance my quirk, but I think I might be too intimidating at this point to even be considered a willing and loyal partner."

Everything was a matter of balance, a scale that no one could see but that could tip one way or the other very easily. Narcissa was always standing there as if she was deciding what would go where, which side would tip or would it stay in balance? She had tipped the scale before, by not doing anything, by being at the wrong spot, wrong place, wrong time, wrong family. But now the scale could not scare her, she was powerful, she felt that she wasn't even sure if she was that but her vanity, her arrogance was definitely convinced. But playing that game, using the right tarot cards in the right order, that's what she was working on, discard pile or not, that was not how it worked, it would always come back and yet, she had not pulled the Karma card yet, interesting. Her game, however, would only show her who the person in front of her was, sometimes this was not surprising, such as Ishtar being the Moon, Wang Ba being Death, ha it had almost killed her, interesting fact. Which card would this man be? But that wasn't it yet, she would see when home and the card would be turned, right now it was just asking this man and giving an important impression so he would not mind working with her.

The whole concept of the Garden of Whispers had to do with the understanding of importance. You had something you need and the Garden and thus the exchange of favours would work in that ay. Miyami wanted to learn Stealth, Narcissa taught her, but she would be her eyes and ears where the ambassador couldn't come. Cody and Niso needed fun work and payment, well she provided and so on. She was glad he figured out her name and that made her smile and look at him, she was also glad to hear that he was impressed. That was the scale remaining in balance, he could be far too intimidated or offended that he was followed, which would have been something bad but no, it was going in the right direction after all. "Exactly, I like how you think." Her cool reaction to Kozue was yet met with a smile, "I just acknowledge that I can't do everything by myself and why try and screw up when there are very good people out there that can do so much better, then, however, the question remains what I can do for you." In this exchange, to build up loyalty but that's what she meant. She heard someone speak about specific fabrics and she would ask the person again, she could ask Sonya about it too and especially if she managed to get Fix, to get some information about it as well, all to provide for the man in front of her.

But she must have giving him something as he was willing to exchange information and she eagerly listened, that was again something very easily spotted on her face and she smiled only more. "Very fascinating." That was another useful quirk and she liked how she managed to find those people and maybe even better to convince them to work with her, Kozue would be the fourth in her list of people she definitely did no longer want to do without, not that he had to know. "Why tell you if I can show you?" Her voice honey soft but if he blinked, he would notice she disappeared. Exactly where she stood, looking exactly like the dumpster behind her, the wall texture everything, there was no one else in this alleyway or so it seemed than Kozue.