The Director“How is my latest project doing in your ranks, Frau Direktor?” Helena has been keeping an eye on the one who now calls herself Frostbite.
Director Snow@TheDirector "You're going to have to be more specific."
@AKAJewel “Miss Raynham, Lieber. Though, I hear she now goes by Erfrierung—ehm, Frostbite. Ja?”
@TheDirector "Ah, yes. One of the nudists." Jessica got up. "Well, I can't imagine you're used to courtesy in this house but Ms. Raynham is a personal favorite. I'd call her a friend if she'd let me. Don't have many of those outside some rather interesting characters. Would you care for a drink? I've got tequila, vodka, and whatever you make appletinis with."
@AKAJewel “Sie ist jetzt eine Nudistin? Hm. I suppose that makes sense; she did escape from Clearview naked. In the middle of ein Schneesturm.
Vodka is fine, bitte.”
@TheDirector "Vodka it is." Jessica poured the woman a sturdy glass. "What is your fascination with her? I have something of a fondness for the young lady."
@AKAJewel “My people made her what she is, Frau Direktor. The Clearview Institute does a lot of work in transgenics. Miss Raynham is a product of one of those projects.”
Helena accepts the glass and takes a small sip. Bourbon is her drink of choice, and to be honest, she loathes the taste of vodka. But The Director is nothing if not courteous. “She is quite the marvel.”
@TheDirector "As long as you don't think you possess some sort of ownership over her. The last people I ran across who claimed ownership over another person got eaten."
@AKAJewel “Oh, no, not at all. Miss Raynham existed before she came to us and she continues to exist now that she’s with you. If anything, her ownership could be claimed by the EDTF.”
@TheDirector "We don't treat people as property. Even when they're incarcerated by us, most of the time. Barring those purple bastards. They know what they did."
@AKAJewel "The Velorians. Ja, I heard about the slight they leveled against you and yours."
@TheDirector "Don't kidnap humans, there won't be no more problems. Or mermaid snack binges." Jess shrugged.
@AKAJewel "Oh, I don't kidnap anyone. They all come to me, eventually. I simply provide them with the means to take on this chaotic und ever-shifting world."
@TheDirector "And I was referring to the Velorians. Not you." Jessica clarified. "As a subject of unwilling experimentations, you'd have been dead long before I shared my vodka with you if you were the sort. Natasha always said you were exactly as smart as you needed to be to do what you did and not get killed by the people you enhance. From her, that's high praise."
@AKAJewel "I'm whatever sort I'm required to be, Frau Direktor. The people who installed me as the head of the Clearview Institute needed me to be a morally mutable yet nurturing maternal figure for the young women I... enhance, as you put it."
@TheDirector "I assure you the only person who was ever nurturing to me who had any hand in my present enhancements was my ex wife." Jess laughed. "Peter was bitten by a spider. My wife was struck by lightning. I have multiple friends who were literally envious when they learned that Blue didn't know how to raise Astoria so she just dumped her on someone who would because their own parents were absolute nightmares. I'll have to read you the file on King Triton some day. That you try matters."
@AKAJewel Helena smirks. "Why, Jessica, are we forging a friendship? I'm usure still how that sits with me. It remains to be seen."
@TheDirector "I'm trying new methods of people interactions. It has been brought to my attention that not only am I not especially... Motherly, but that my abrasive nature is going to harm my child in the future. I've got the name of a great therapist if you're looking."
@AKAJewel “Hm. I wound up permanently rendering my last therapist a child after taking a bit too much life energy from her. Last I heard, she had retired due to no one wanting life advice from a seven year old.”