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POSTED ON Jan 1, 2024 15:52:03 GMT

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Nenet was more than punctual for her meeting with Marianne Lovelace at the Pokemon Cafe - she had brought her laptop to send off a host of backlogged emails. Laying at her heels was her Yamper, Jupiter, who practically oozed out of the little bed he had scavenged up to lounge on while his owner worked.
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She looks up momentarily from sipping her sugary coffee drink when the the front door of the cafe tinkles - she hasn't been paying attention closely to the time but she's fairly sure the girl she's to meet with is late. Which she's hardly pressed about, but she does love a good teasing when the time arises.
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"Marianne?" she calls to grab the girl's attention in the sea of people and Pokemon; with a little tip of her chin in acknowledgement, Nenet smiles when her eyes lock with the younger woman's.

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- Marianne Lovelace.[break]
- Mission: Bond Bridge.[break]

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POSTED ON Jan 1, 2024 19:52:51 GMT

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"Sorry! Sorry, excuse me!" An anxious voice riddled with apologies carried out with the jingle of the cafe door's bell, resulting in the typical arrival of one hapless Marianne Lovelace as she jostled her way inside. "I'm so late, sorry!"[break][break]

While Neffatari Nzingha could be relied on for her punctuality like clockwork, Marianne Lovelace -- much like a broken clock -- could manage to be right on time about twice a day.[break][break]

With what could only be described as a graceless scoot into her seat, the bespectacled woman sat down across from the researcher and released a pent-up sigh of exhaustion.[break][break]

"Nenet, you wouldn't believe the New Year's Day traffic!" Marianne exclaimed. The tiny Phanpy cradled in her arms squirmed his way out, jumping down to inspect the Yamper underneath the table. "Every Corviknight taxi is taken! And work was so--"[break][break]

Drinks unexpectedly arrived and Marianne blinked, embarrassed as a red blush suffused her already-raw cheeks as she flopped her head on the table in shame. [break][break]

"You already ordered my usual. Oh my gosh. You really are the best, and I am absolutely the worst."

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POSTED ON Jan 2, 2024 15:02:42 GMT

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Nenet merely smiled like the cat who found the cream as poor Marianne blunders her way over to the table, the woman's chin rested on her palm. She gives a playful wink to the waiter as the drinks are left and she exchanges her now empty glass for a full one to take a sip.
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"Hardly the worst," she assures Marianne. She makes a dismissing motion of her hand before instructing, "Tell me about work. Is the first quarter busy? The Observatory wants me doing a class soon if it's slow."
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Meanwhile, Yamper perks a bit at the sight of Phanpy and then lowers his ears as he hunkers down further into the little bed, determined not to share and somehow spilling out even more from its edges in the process. He gives a challenging little huff.

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- Marianne Lovelace.[break]
- Mission: Bond Bridge.

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POSTED ON Jan 3, 2024 7:17:10 GMT

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"So busy! Too busy," Marianne whined, moving to take a generous chug of her latte, only to squeak a bit in protest at the hot, hot temperature. Ouch.[break][break]

She made a horribly graceless face as her scalded tongue attempted to soothe itself, still rambling, "Just, the masquerade event last year led to a lot of donors interested in events this holiday season. So it's been a lot of that on top of our, y'know, actual museum activities."[break][break]

She'd gotten sick last year with the flu after all the prepping and planning, missing out on the night of glamour and dazzlement. For the best anyway, she'd figured. It wasn't like she was the most graceful dancer anyway.[break][break]

Apparently her boss had a great time, though. Maybe too great of a time? Better not to think about that.[break][break]

"Did you visit any family for the holidays? I went to Lilycove to see my mother." A heavy eyeroll accompanied a sigh. "She's still convinced being single is a terminal disease or something."[break][break]

Her Phanpy dauntlessly waddled forward, trunk curiously reaching for this strangely territorial furry friend to say hello.

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NOTES – Mission: Bond Bridge (January).

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POSTED ON Jan 3, 2024 17:10:01 GMT

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Nenet watched Marianne with the patience of an older sister as the younger woman sipped her coffee too soon and scalded herself. Nenet held her tongue, and instead lightly blew on the sugary vanilla monstrosity in her own hands before taking a delicate sip.

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"The funding will be nice, at least," she muses for Marianne's benefit. Her own annoyance bleeding through when she murmurs, "I'm still finding trash from when the Observatory hosted a Christmas party. I hate when they rent the building out."

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She then smiles and gives a little shake of her head. "No. We just did facetime for a while. It's a bit of a hassle to get out to Alola even when it's not a holiday." With an arch of her eyebrow she then suggests, "It might be. Have your eye on anyone?" Grinning like a wolf now, she adds, "Some alcohol and a slit skirt could cure your ailments. That's how my last relationship started."

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As the women talk Yamper gives a mighty harrumph when Phanpy waddles nearer to say hello. He peers, a king upon his throne, and lifts a single hind leg to purposefully, slowly push Phanpy back and away from his bed.

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- Marianne Lovelace.[break]
- Mission: Bond Bridge.[break]

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POSTED ON Jan 3, 2024 19:51:23 GMT

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"Gosh, it's the worst, isn't it? The museum had that problem last year. A little alcohol and people turn into animals!" She was pretty certain, pretty horribly terribly certain, that people had done dastardly, unmentionable things in the museum last year. (Thankfully for Gunner Graves, these suspicions were never confirmed with conclusive evidence.)[break][break]

She attempted to mimic the blowing on her latte, tentatively taking a small sip after and finding to her relief it didn't fight her.[break][break]

What Nenet suggested next, of course, didn't get received so smoothly. Marianne proceeded to choke on her coffee at the mention of 'slit skirts.'[break][break]

"Oh, please no. Let's not put that mental image in anyone's head."[break][break]

How to put this? Neffatari Nzingha was, without question, the most beautiful, most intelligent, most effortlessly cool person that Marianne knew. She was pretty sure that Nenet could walk outside in sweatpants and a T-shirt and someone would offer to let her model for a perfume commercial, and Nenet would sigh and explain 'oh no, she couldn't possibly' because she was about to receive some prestigious reward for research that was about to save the region from its next incoming meteor.[break][break]

Okay. Maybe that was a bit dramatic, but it felt true to Marianne.[break][break]

"And alcohol just makes me sleepy. Or chatty. Or chatty enough I talk myself to sleep. It's like. The antithesis of the things you should do to attract people."[break][break]

She nimbly dodged the other question of 'whom,' turning her attention to her Phanpy being kicked over unceremoniously. "Oh, Barney-baby, are you okay?" she cooed as she righted the little elephant, pushing him back so his flailing four legs found their place firmly on the ground. "Don't antagonize Nenet's Yamper! Play nice!"[break][break]

The Phanpy trumpeted a bit indignantly, hurt that he was perceived as the bad actor here. The betrayal!

TAGS – Neffatari Nzingha[break]
NOTES – Mission: Bond Bridge (January).

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POSTED ON Jan 4, 2024 18:46:54 GMT

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"If I could ban the public from the building I would," Nenet admits with a touch too much seriousness to be considered a joke. She's soon distracted from her loathing of the public as Marianne turns an interesting shade of purple.

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Laughing lowly, she instead gives a little shrug and waves it all away with a simple, "To each their own. But if you want to get your tolerance up I'm sure we can go bar crawling together some night."

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She then looks down towards the ground at the lounging Yamper and the poor little Phanpy being pushed away. Arching an eyebrow at her Pokemon, she has a feeling she knows who the true villain of the situation is given Jupiter's overly contentedly look.

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"Jupiter why don't you go play," she suggests pointedly. The Yamper huffs and flattens himself further into the bedding. Absolutely not.

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- Mission: Bond Bridge.

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POSTED ON Jan 5, 2024 1:32:14 GMT

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"If we banned the public from the museum, I don't think I'd have a job," Marianne mused, taking the comment far too seriously as she leaned back with a hum. A thoughtful sip of her latte served as a pause between her thoughts. "But... it would be a lot cleaner. I think my boss went to your party, actually? GIDEON GRAVES?"[break][break]

She hoped he had a nice time. And also didn't flirt with any terrorists who had a flower shop this time. Not that she wanted to tell him how to live his life, of course.[break][break]

"Ah! Speaking of bars, I heard your favorite one closed down? Howling at the Sun!" Marianne exclaimed, the memory striking her like a bolt of lightning as she snapped her finger. "I know you were super fond of it. Did you want to explore other bars until you find something you like?"[break][break]

Nenet had kept Marianne on a need-to-know basis regarding the saga of Zev Harcourt, and it showed in both her inability to remember the bar's name and her misunderstanding of why the other woman had enjoyed it so much (Hint: it involved slit skirts and alcohol).[break][break]

"Does Jupiter like snacks?" she asked suddenly, aware of the cross look that Nenet was giving her Yamper. "I have, uh, some Pecha Tarts that Barney likes. Maybe they might lift Jupiter's mood?"[break][break]

Marianne waggled it in front of the stubborn canine, hoping to earn some goodwill.

TAGS – Neffatari Nzingha[break]
NOTES – Mission: Bond Bridge (January).

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POSTED ON Jan 5, 2024 10:37:38 GMT

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"It was hardly my party," Nenet scoffs. Her head shakes, and she quietly laments that people were even allowed in the Observatory. "Regardless I didn't go," she clarifies with a shrug.
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She then hums softly as Marianne mentions her 'favourite bar'. Shaking her head, she gives a light cough as she corrects gently, "Howling at the Moon." She then adds, quite bluntly for Marianne's benefit, "My now-ex owned it and we met there to hook up. I'm not looking for another relationship at the moment."
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Which was roughly half the truth, which had to count for something.
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Before she can reply to the following question Yamper has wholly perked up at the sigh of the tart; in the blink of an eye he hauls his paunchy little butt out of the dog bed and into Marianne's lap, all while opening his mouth as wide as possible to try and snatch the tart.
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"Jupiter!" Nenet scolds. Setting her coffee down she tries to carefully extract the wriggling Yamper from Marianne's lap.

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- Marianne Lovelace.[break]
- Mission: Bond Bridge.[break]

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POSTED ON Jan 10, 2024 23:23:14 GMT

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"Oh." Well. She'd gone and done it now, hadn't she? "I'm so sorry, Nenet. I didn't know..."[break][break]

Didn't know Nenet had been seeing someone seriously? Didn't know that they'd even broken up? Hadn't put two-and-two together that Nenet hadn't just become overly fond of alcohol overnight, but frequented a bar because her boyfriend worked there?[break][break]

What kind of friend was Marianne, to not see the rise and fall of this emotional arc that Nenet had undoubtedly been experiencing during the holiday season, of all times?! Oh, she could just kick herself.[break][break]

What a time to put her foot in her mouth.[break][break]

For all her wrongfootedness, Nenet was taking the faux pas remarkably well, even scolding Jupiter the Yamper as if Marianne hadn't admitted the depths of her own poor friendship-maintenance.[break][break]

"Are you doing okay?" Marianne asked her earnestly. "Really, Nenet. Do you need anything?"[break][break]

Maybe a casserole? For some reason when people struggled you always were supposed to get them a casserole, but Nenet seemed too elegant for that.[break][break]

Meanwhile her Phanpy tugged on her skirt irritably with his trunk, upset that the rude Yamper got offered the Pecha Tart but not him, who had been on his very best behavior. Truly they lived in a cruel, unjust world.

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POSTED ON Jan 12, 2024 18:14:24 GMT

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"Marianne," Nenet laughs out, finding Marianne's crisis as endearing as it was misplaced. "I'm fine I promise you. Sometimes things don't work out."
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Her attention is momentarily turned to the struggling Yamper in her lap; heaving a sigh, her voice drops as she scolds the Pokemon until he settles with an appropriately remorseful look. Shaking her head, an apologetic look spared for Marianne, she confides with a sigh, "Puppies."
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"I should get him home," she adds apologetically. "But we should get together again soon?"

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- Mission: Bond Bridge .

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POSTED ON Jan 19, 2024 4:24:35 GMT

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She supposed she had no choice but to believe Nenet. Especially when, inexplicably, the goddess of a woman was trying to comfort Marianne -- really! -- about her own break-up.[break][break]

It boggled the mind sometimes, that such a compassionate and selfless woman existed, while simultaneously was the most brilliant and beautiful person that Marianne knew.[break][break]

Tongue-tied and embarrassed, Marianne was relieved to see the Yamper distracted Nenet's attention from her graceless blubbering again. This time, Marianne relented, choosing to let the subject go. At this rate, she'd only embarrass herself further.[break][break]

"Maybe we can find a new bar anyway," she decided, scooping her Phanpy in her arms. "A girl's night out! You and me."[break][break]

And if they happened to scoop up a new man to distract Nenet, well, that would just be a happy bonus. And definitely not Marianne's personal evil scheme.[break][break]

Definitely, definitely not.

TAGS – Neffatari Nzingha[break]
NOTES – Mission: Bond Bridge (January).

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