by Shari » Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:19 pm
It's extremely easy to disappear when you're an alien shapeshifter trained in infiltration, even if you're kind of exceptionally bad at the actual infiltrating part. So when Lippincott took over Shari slipped away. Not entirely, although she'd been contemplating running rather than risk getting exposed by the government, but she'd spend a lot of time around Maldon as a stray cat, bumming stuff from people and just generally falling back into old routines. But she hung around, keeping an eye on things and when the situation came to a boil she made her way around campus in the general chaos, listening to people talk, piecing together what happened and the various rumors already floating around.
Not much later, an oversized otter climbs out of the water and into the hidden passage into the crystal cavern, shaking the water off her shape stretches out into the human shape she'd settled on as 'hers'. The young middle-eastern woman wanders into the cavern proper, gawking at the shimmering crystals, occasionally running her hand over a particularly smooth facet or tapping a shard with a finger as if it was a fishbowl.