"I can read your alphabet but I don't actually know what the letters are called," says Ruava. "Patchy translation charm."

"Jinx?"

Jinx peers at the character on Audrey's screen. "Wait. Ruava, isn't this the tag from that poster?"

She looks.

"...Yep."

"What does it mean, though?"

"Someone took pains to get this to us: I don't even know how I would get a message to my personal tablet without any of my security credentials."

"Someone with a lot of technical skills. So... that pretty much means Jayce, doesn't it?"

"Okay, so why does Jayce want us to know that a mysterious forger of official wanted posters is... in some unspecified way connected to this mess? Probably a threatening way, all things considered?"

"And why didn't he come in person? I'm pretty sure he would have been able to manufacture another excuse..."

"... that's a really bad sign."

"What are the possible varieties of bad, here?"

"Lemme think. If Jayce is getting leaned on, then that means this is fucking politics."

"Big money, big power. One of the families, probably. But if Jayce got a message to us anyway..."

"...Even odds they're going to try to disappear us."

Jinx unholsters her Zapper.

"I don't plan on disappearing," says Ruava. "Okay. Is the 'sneak away' plan still viable or are we in for something more exciting?"

"Ha. 'More exciting.' I can see why Jinx likes you." 

Audrey taps at her tablet a few more times, then frowns. 

"... the security feeds have been compromised somehow: they're telling me I'm still standing at the front desk. So they have or intend to have someone in the building."

"Ooh," says Ruava. "But if they're bothering to veil your watchful eyes they're probably not literally invisible..."

She reaches out to sense all the light she can find. Any suspicious figures in range? Seeing with light-senses is kind of a headache but also fun in its own bizarre way.

There is someone in the hallway on the floor above with a distinctly nonstandard body. It's difficult to tell details through her lightsensing, but it would be hard to miss that her legs have had very sharp edges added to them.

"What are the implications of compromised security feeds? Could they be watching us that way?"

"Not in this room, but they could be watching the halls. And we almost certainly can't trust the elevator."

She recreates the image of the hallway with the stranger in it, complete with stranger.

"... That does not look like someone we can fight successfully."

"Mmm. If I had my big guns I could maybe take her, but..."

"Could we, I wonder," says Idain.

Audrey visibly surpresses a gasp. 

"... you are the- wait, has she?"