Today was a bad day for Satori Clare.
She was wandering around the halls feeling horribly bad for herself by this point. She had been working bad to being alright. It was in sight, she had almost forgotten...the pain that came up with Adawulf, just the thought of him. It made her body ache with a phantom sort of pain she couldn't ever numb. All it took to bring the pain full fledged back like it was new all over again was a call from her Step Mother, Anna Tam. That sweet movie star of a woman.
Satori had never enjoyed that woman's presence, her voice, or really even just the idea of her. Normally Satori would just pass up the call, but she had hoped her Dad was on the other end as well, or maybe she just wanted something to distract her. Instead he was nowhere to be found. Perfect. That ruined any hope that this call had of ending well. But for some reason she hoped, prayed, that just this once Anna wouldn't be the bitch from Hell.
The topic of conversation though, was anything but what Satori wanted to talk about. Apparently, she had forgotten to mention that Adawulf (just thinking the name hurt) had been TRIMed. She had spoken of him to her Dad, and had left it opened. The last thing anyone wanted to do during a loss was recount to everyone over and over, though it seemed to always be the case. No matter what kind of loss it was.
Anna had been reading the papers, she had seen Satori and Wulf together in some of the gossip features. The tattoo session, shopping, just out and about. Satori contained a full fledged growl into gritted teeth instead. Anna wanted Satori to make her "proud" which to her meant, marriage and being famous, hopefully marrying someone famous or another Pilot. The woman was still obsessed with controlling Satori's life, even when they hadn't sat down and really spoken in about two years.
The last thing Satori wanted was to make Anna Tam proud. She wanted the exact opposite. She wanted the woman to despise her. To never call, to refer to her as the black sheep of the family. Most of all she wanted Anna away from her father, but from this distance she had no claim in the family anymore really, she wasn't in the house and her Dad never understood what was wrong with Anna.
"Well, Anna he wasn't...my type." Satori wanted to dispel this conversation as soon as possible. She should have remembered that complaining about the man was the last thing she should have done. To Anna, Satori was always the lesser in whatever coupling she was in. She was the one who should sacrifice everything. She gave her full speech she use to give her about movie star's sons she tried to set Satori up with.
"You really should be less picky, I mean obviously the boys are who date you. The scorpion tail isn't something to get passed very easily." Satori felt a rage rise in her she had never felt before, for a brief moment she erupted, spilling every curse and problem she had with Anna into the phone. The sadness was consumed gone, Anna hung up yelling back into the phone.
So now, Satori wandered the halls, avoiding the call she knew she would be getting from her Dad. The circles under her eyes were obvious, she hadn't even bothered to cover them up. She even had her wrist organizer turned off. No communication from anyone but Lantenac. Marshal was busy, as he normally was lately, Lamb was ear deep in paperwork. There was no one to talk to, so she walked.
