Lets get sketchy?

Mark is about to ask exactly what his brother speaks of when he stops dead in his tracks and gapes at the winged woman before him.

To have suddenly grown wings like that… To suddenly no longer be quiet . . .human in appearance had been known to unhinge more than one witch or wizard, what with their EVER so important mania with Blood purity and such.

To suddenly appear to have become (in some way) the very thing that she had been created to fight? Especially . . .

Well, before Mark had thought that his dear brother was just being overly cautious with this “insanity” stuff. He was no expert in psychology, but he would have to admit that Cornelius might have a point here.

He had had a high enough security clearance (and luck) to have heard a few things about that disappeared NERV facility in Japan. While not EVERYONE who worked there was a nutter, a lot of the important people within had . . . Problems. Especially the Pilots for various reasons (especially the Second Child) but also the Command staff as well, and leave at that.

This? Well, it could have pushed Rei Ayanami (or whatever she called herself now) over the edge into a very strange place indeed.

‘We must be cautious,’ Mark chides himself, forcing himself to regain his composure.

Rei, meanwhile, has gone through her own bout of shock. Meeting a UN official (of it’s military branch) had been LOW on her list of likely scenarios she’d partake while visiting Hogswart.

‘Perhaps I misinterpreted what exactly Professor Snape meant by “interfering Muggles getting underfoot‘?’ she thought to herself in a very bemused fashion.

Apparently when he’d been ranting about them, the Muggles in question hadn’t JUST been the ones of SEELE who’d done such terrible crimes to keep the Wizarding World from aiding in the Angel War. Oh, she’s sure he’d meant them but now it seems he’d been also talking about the man before him.

And he has questions about me, NERV, the Bastard King, etc etc…

Sigh, maybe I‘ll luck out here. . .at least a little bit?

“Is this thing working right?” I ask right after reinitializing the Japanese/English tranlation portion of my universal translator. Would have done the English dialect interpretation feature but the blasted thing was a total loss. The other wasn’t too far gone and I believe . . . It worked.

If I had the super fast (tunnel carpal syndrome inducing) typing speed of say, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi, I’d have this thing back up and running like a dream. I’m not here. I am I.

. . .

Unfortunatley that means that while not shoddy workmanship, it was a rush job (and drew more than a little bit of odd glances from my Auror escorts), but I believe . . . No, I HOPE that I was able to do a good enough job at getting the OS system built up again to make it work, even if a little.

Must make it a habit to either carry backup copies of the OS system to something that has never failed for even the shoddiest of those Star Trek Redshirts out there since the days of Captain Archer (pre-Kirk times). That or just bite the bullet and get the clunker (but much more rugged by design) Military issue unit.

…

No, I had to get this one because it was more authentically pleasing!

Sigh.

I hate having to mindspeak with just anyone, you know, just to be understood! Bloody! The mind should be a private place and I’ll tell you that I’ve had MY mind poked and probed (copied) too many times for me to EVER be comfortable with mindspeak.

A lot of my family thinks nothing of it but I fear I’m not them!!

As it turns out it does work well enough , even if there is not only a slight electronic twang to Rei’s translated voice, but for SOME inexplicable reason Rei’s voice comes out sounding like the English voice actor who did her anime’s voice in the anime.

Oh, that and because of the special chameleon feature that allowed a speaker's spoken words to appear to match lip movement was still on the blinks Rei now had a tendency to appear like she suffered from a bad voice dubbing (i.e. like one would see in old kung fu movies).

Go figure. At least Rei's translated voice has emotion in it, quiet unlike it had been in the cartoon.

“First, let me remind you that under the UN charter I am not under your authority being that not only was NERV a separate . . .,” Rei begins, putting up a confident, relaxed attitude that belayed the truth.

She’s quiet ready to shoot he way out of here if she must because this has all the earmarks of the garden path to either her arrest . . . Or execution. Yes, dear folks, she fears that Fudge and the rest . . . Had betrayed her trust.

She’d halfway expected this when it turned out that the one who’d put all those Aurors and then the Order of the Phoenix on her case had been a Minister of Magic named Cornelius Fudge. Both the literary one and the real life one had proven LESS than trustworthy….

She calms down somewhat when the others here reveal that her fears are wrong and they have agreed to set up a Barrier (as she requested) at the location where her companions are.

Rei senses that there is more to this than a mere granting of her requests because they believe everything she has told them thus far (not that she’s told them everything for fea of being thought mad). However, she feels that they ARE going to grant this request. Perhaps as to humor her enough to see more about her to better weigh her?

Hm, well truth be told she HAD been less than forthcoming on certain key things. Even such little things as location and just who her companions were.

Well, let us just say that just as the Harry Potter people here are being cautious, so too is Rei. Not saying that she’s being paranoid (and paranoia is SO very habit forming), but if nothing else the slight tingles she’d felt of SOME kid of alien magic’s was any indication caution was called for here.

She wasn’t sure how they’d managed it (getting around the wards she had upon herself and the “high tech” effect of her gear). It wasn’t like Snape had had enough time to assimilate the book on useful wandless magics.

‘Ohho, ancient magic,’ Rei smiled suddenly, remembering her Hogwarts lessons. ‘Well, there is an easy counter to that! To just throw off the lockon it had you just . . .’

1. Snape, who’d been looking at Rei oddly ever since having learned of her true origins, gives her an even odder look as she begins to pace all OVER the room…

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