Connections (Victoria + Harry)
Victoria pulled a long drag on her cigarette as she leaned up against one of Chicago’s many imposing edifices. She couldn’t quite put a finger on how she felt about the city: on the one hand, it felt a little like New York, with the same tight compact feel, but on the other hand it didn’t have quite the same energy. It was a strange place to her, to be sure.
Of course, she wasn’t there to admire the sights. She wasn’t the kind of person to travel halfway across the continent just to snap some pictures. Victoria was here for business, business with... well that was one of many problems. The group she had been requested to meet with didn’t really have a name per se, nor a clear roster. She’d heard through some very interesting grapevines that the Good Witch Brigade had taken to calling them the Black Hats or Black Council or Black Thongs or something along those lines. Something with black, she was sure of that.
White Council calling the fuckers who don’t like them black, how fucking imaginative, she thought. Wizards had a lot of things going for them, but imagination wasn’t one of them.
Of course, she didn’t quite look like the kind of person who would be working with the kind of organization that had been plaguing the wizards for years, at least not on that particular day. She wore a simple dark pantsuit with a violet blouse underneath, her normally wild hair tied into a pony tail and her feet bound up in heels that gave her a few inches on her fairly short frame. The only thing that may have tipped the observant off about her nature was a small necklace tucked under her shirt, studded with dark runestones and headed with a now rather hidden rat skull pendant. Whatever else she wore, that piece was always constantly about her neck. Even her undead wolf Lassie had been abandoned for this venture.
Subtlety. The secret to success in this business.
So she waited for her contact, her opportunity to extend a tendril of influence into the windy city, looking like a pale businesswoman just waiting for her intern to bring her a latte.