The sapphire orb turns to look up at Cheshire after the poke. "Don't sell yourself short! You're plenty awesome." She giggles, leaning her head into her side.

"I thought they were a little creepy at first, but now? They've grown on me." She says, then grins at her, expectantly. Get it. Grown on her.

Valerie cackles, reaching around her to cup her breasts. "Hey everyone, welcome to NoWay's channel update! I just came back from a date with Wire Nest where she motorboated me like you wouldn't believe. Surpiiiise."

"Ooh, ooh! You could pass as your own sister, then do some editing magic to make you interact with yourself. That'd be cool, then anyone who realizes or notices, we send them an invite to my magic sub-channel, once it's back up."

She snickers, scootching back to sit into her wheelchair. "Speaking of, if your game, I'll totally need to demonstrate the transformation on camera for it."

"I'll figure out the script when the time comes, it'll be great." She laughs. "...but, for now, wow, you burnt all my energy and I am absolutely starving! We should go for that dinner."

Valerie keeps to her wheelchair for the dinner - well, lunch - trip, wanting to save energy for later. Tokyo is quite the eyesight to behold and it's with wide and delighted eyes that she shares a platter of sushi and takes a few shots of sake in the world's hub of entertainment technology innovations. This is totally worth the hundred some bucks this racks up.

And that night, she gets her day's leg exercise in, setting the pace by riding Cheshire and going as fast or as slow as her libido decides as they share murmured words through kisses and gropes.

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Val spends a few moments in lazy-morning mode, not wanting to let Cheshire go, or even get out of bed, but eventually they have to clean up and part ways. She does helpfully remind her that she's still wearing her boobs, though, just in case she wanted to take them off or anything!

But, yeah, for now, it's business time.

One, she prepares a contract package along with her understanding of the language. When she makes a trip to the assembly to talk to Grease this afternoon, she'll find herself a lawyer to look for any gotchas.

Two, she'll send some emails in Palo Alto requesting apartment visits, especially for that nice one that wasn't far from the workshop-to-be. She'll also draft her notice-of-departure, if things go well, for her current landlord.

Three, she spends a bit of time beginning to write the script for her impending I'm-Back announcement just to squeak the gears loose of rust.

With the computer stuff out of the way, she'll change into casual clothes, then see about heading through her closet to dad's home. She's fired up, got some stuff done, is clean, sexed up, and in a good, well rested mood; she can now present her sisters with the face they got to know all along.

"That was lightning outside? I thought I was just seeing lights in my eyes..!" She giggles, blushing brightly, but then she reaches up to clap at her cheeks to calm herself down.

"Ari, it... was.. amazing! You can consider me a convert, she was soft and big and, and... it was just so sapphic. Jeez... You really went out all out."

She reaches up, needing to fuss with something and it may as well be her own hair. "And Cheshire is really good, like, really, really good. I'm still kind of buzzing."

"It was killing me quite literally, too. I was wasting away and getting fat and moody, and I lashed out at you more than once. But you stuck by me and now things are amazing again." She grins.

With the power of sex at her side, what the hell is she doing sitting in a wheelchair, then? She should be putting herself to work, so she slides on up out of her seat. She considers the wheelchair for a few moments, thinking of putting it into walker mode... but then it'd be a literal crutch, right?

So she'll leave it behind and try her hand without. There's a big solid ramp in the stairs anyway.

"And I feel ready to face and get to know how life changed here too."

Valerie returns the embrace tightly. {And I love you, soul of mine,} she responds in turn. It's still so weird to her to be of a height with Arielle. Years of looking up at her - in more ways than one - has warped her perspective of what a twin is. {You make me proud.}

She takes a deep breath and wipes her eyes before she has to start needing a moment to compose herself. "Right, hahem. I should go see them." She smiles at her, then walks, truly walks, out into the hall.

The stairs... are intimidating, but so long as she keeps a nice, tight grip on the ramp she should be okay. Grip and support, right foot down, left foot join. Shift. Grip and support, right foot, left foot, grip, right foot...

"Good morning," she calls once she stops needing so much concentration and is closer to the bottom.

Seeing Heimarmene - Sariel, Marceline - sitting there brings back sad memories of her ... shell, withering away with little personality, only the occasional flash of life behind her. Now she knows that she was already gone and the only thing she was interacting with at the time was some shell out of Time, something there to explain why things were the way they were instead of what they had been.

But she's alive, and here, and she looks right. And how she speaks... those bring far happier memories!

She beams back at them, then takes the last few steps down to the ground floor. She still walks a bit stiffly, and she knows she must look a little awkward, but at the same time, it's huge progress. "It's still not easy, but after a day of recharging my batteries, I feel pretty wired. The exercise plus the magic helped tremendously. I just need to get some muscle down there and I think I'll be ready to go for actual runs. Or something."

Or dancing. Maybe in private for Ethan as a starting point...? Not in public, certainly!

"Thanks, Jackie. Sorry for skipping out yesterday, but this is the sort of Valerie I wanted to be for you two." She wanders over, sometimes using a piece of furniture to support herself when a bit of ache goes up her thigh.

Wow... school year. She hasn't thought about school since graduating tech college in product development, let alone high school.

"It's pretty badass and cool. I fixed a destroyed truck, I caused a blackout with my willpower alone, then increased gravity to avoid being shot at... all in all, yeah, it's pretty sweet being a mage."

"And really? My Vlog updates are some of my least viewed videos, so it's nice to hear they were appreciated!"

She snickers, giving Ari a smile before she moves deeper into the living room. "And yeah, your soul already knows the way. It's just a guidance to the right doors from there."

Valerie slides down to a seat with them. "Tips on being an angel, huh? Well..." She glances to Arielle, then back to Jackie. "Samyaza, you are a Watcher. This is both metaphorical, and literal. This might sound really weird? But in your most pure state, you are a creature covered in eyeballs.

"High mana and very supernal places will help unlock some of your nature, but you will feed your angelic side by being curious and observing everything down to its constituent parts." She opens her mage sight sight, then opens her hand out, allowing a sapphire orb to open in her palm.

"And it's worked for me, but use and position yourself to be alongside magic as much as possible. ...also, and this is just a pro-tip? Be careful with initiation into legacies. When I became a Forge Master, Arielle turned into Araqiel and forced a sleepwalk. When Arielle became a Kung Fu Magical Girl of Justice, I turned into Araqiel and turned my banner-warden into a Proxima."

"It's... kind of a yes and no on that. If I become an angel, I'd want it to be a ... I guess hybrid? I wouldn't mind having the strange abilities and the memories unlocked, but giving up my human-ness and the versatility of a mage for it, no way. If it comes down to a choice, I'd go for Mage first. Fully transcended archmage, ideally."

She then turns to Chloe and grins. "Physically? It doesn't really feel like anything. I get a bit of pressure of you pushing on my hand, I suppose. But it sees by feeling, so I get this little spurt of 'vision' for each poke. It's a little stra--"

Valerie blinks, turning to look at Jacqueline as this strange moment flows between the two. Some moment in a time before time, in a place before it had been separated by the dark. It's enough to give her a bit of whiplash and falls back into her seat.

"...whoa..." She reaches up to feel at the side of her head, a bit dizzy. "I don't think we're quite wired to process that properly yet."

...but she feels oddly energized by it. Like she was really there in that moment, bathing in the glow of all her companions.

Valerie giggles softly. "You'll get yourself under control soon enough." She then glances to their mother and considers.

"Weeell... We could head out to the diner?" She suggests. "Get a donut, but mainly I'm using it as a pretense to get to introduce you two to Honey. She'd be super happy to get to know you."

Valerie stands up in turn, needing to consider her own feelings. "You didn't say anything for years, and you lied to us to our faces. I'm going to have trouble getting over that," she points out. "You have a lot of making up to do for that.

"...but you were there for us and you still sought us out in the end, and I understand the reason, even if I disagree with it.

"So I want to see where it goes, and I want to get to know you again. Until I can call you mom without having to think about it first." She then steps forwards and embraces her. "Welcome back, mom."

"And.. thanks. For all that things got weird.. you still helped us a lot, and taught us a lot, and I do appreciate that you were there in the end." She squeezes her, tucking her head in and closing her eyes.

After a few moments she draws back, wiping at her face on a sleeve. "And that you're here now."