Upon entering her room Agnes took off her wrist phone and placed it on a table by the door along with undoing the empty holster on her thigh and placing it on the same table. The room was large and spacious designed with a contemporary motif with sharp and bold angles, minimalist, and fashionable.
Flash took off his bag and hung it on a rack by the table and he ran around the room in joy as if it was his first time in it but he was just homesick. He settled down and plopped himself onto a large white leather couch, belly down and arms folded along the contours of his chest making himself resemble a ball with a neck and head. A few sparks of electricity sparked from his horns and the electronics of the room came to life along with the large flat screen in front of him. Flash changed the channel to some cartoons and began watching like how a young child would, wide-eyed and slightly leaning forward.
Agnes plopped down on the couch next to Flash and reclined herself lazily, putting her hooves on the glass coffee table in front of her as she wrapped and arm around him, and he leaned into her, "When we get this job done Flash, we won't have to work for a while." Agnes yawned, "The cherry on top of this job? Last sighting is in the Guild Walkway. Thinking aloud here, I think she's going to try to join some no name guild to get herself mixed in with the people so she will be harder to find, and have a group of people to back her up if she gets called out... not a bad plan princess." Agnes took a sip of water and placed it on the arm rest. "I want to say that we can probably spot her out tomorrow and case whatever the place she's staying at after that, give it a week tops, three days minimum... plans might change though is Taikon decides to join us, we'll run it by him tomorrow if he does, hard to say no to easy money for a week worth of just stalking a girl..." Agnes stood up and stripped naked as she made her way to her bedroom and took long hot shower.
As she stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel she could feel a slight prickling pain on her forehead, she held her hand up near it and was surprised to see that the symbol on her forehead was faintly glowing, it was involuntary this time. "Well this can't be good." She walked back to the living room and picked up her bracelet phone and decided to check her missed messages and calls. She opened the hologram display and checked, her heart immediately sank and a twang of panic poked at her. "Ohh... this is not good."
Flash looked at the display ans chirped in happiness as he rocked his head side to side, "Amphy!" he chirped happily.
"No, no, no Flash, Mother does not like to be ignored... 8 missed calls and 5 messages... oh boy." Agnes took a deep sigh as she sprawled back out onto the couch next to Flash. "Can't say people didn't tell me to check my messages. Well, here goes...." Agnes called back and it rang three times before someone answered.
The individual on the other side was a complete contrast in terms of color to Agnes, her skin was like porcelain white and, as her hair was the same snow white as Agnes, but the woman's horns were extravagant, she has four sets of horns two near the top of her head that were spiraled, another set next them that curve upward and outward forming a V shape, the third set were curled in a complete loop then follows the same curve as the V adding to the elegance of the curves, the fourth smallest set were slightly behind her forehead that followed the same V shape as the second set but were only a few inches long, they were a silvery white color with an odd otherworldly faint glow to them. Her eyes glowed a menacing blue, but her overall demeanor appeared to be graduate, serenity, and motherly, a floating complex sigil floated above and in front of her forehead that flowed the same color as her eyes, the complex sigil was constantly changing its shape and symbol seamlessly transiting from one symbol to another. She was beautiful, she stared back at Agnes and smiled softly, the sigil on her forehead changed to the identical inverted pentagram on Agnes's forehead.
Agnes flinched in pain as the symbol on her forehead began to burn a bright red. Flash looked panicked as Agnes writhed in agony holding onto the symbol on her head. "Hello... mo...ther...." Agnes managed to say through gritted teeth.
"Agnes! My lovely dear." her mother tilted her head slightly as she happily clasped her hands together. "Very nice of you to call your mother back!" Agnes's pain dissipated immediately, and she sat back up blinking and trying to regain her composure. She was still seeing black spots in her vision. "You know, your sisters have been worried sick about you, and especially your father. By the way your sister Angel is looking for you, I'm sure she'll get in contact with you soon. So how have you been dear?"
"Angel...?" Agnes repeated as she had mostly recovered, "Very good, as you can see, "Agnes gestured to her room, "Just took another job with a big payout, that starts tomorrow, and Flash is as great as can be." Agnes turned the camera towards Flash. He faced the screen and waved at the woman while excitedly flashing the end of his tail.
"Very good Flash, don't make things too hard to Agnes, and keep her company for me would you?" the woman laughed warmly. Flash nodded and snuggled up closer to Agnes.
"Well mother is there anything else? I've got a rather busy day tomorrow and I'm rather tired tonight, had a long return trip from another job and I would like to go to bed soon."
"Nothing much, just though I needed to check in on you, I never know with your line of work if you're going to be alive or not, Well it's good to see you, you should return to the Pasture sometime for a visit, your sisters miss you an awful lot." Agnes's mother waved, smiled, and then hung up.
Agnes tossed the phone onto the coffee table and stood up stretching, "Well that could have gone worse, thought she would be way more mad than that." Agnes laughed as she walked to her bed room, "Don't stay up too late Flash, we got an early morning bud." Flash waved at her with his flipper. Agnes stripped off her towel and slipped into her silky sheets, completely in the nude and quickly fell asleep.
~Next Morning~
Agnes awoke to the early morning light shining on her through her window. Flash was curled up on his bed on top of her bed, he was still sound asleep. After running through her usual morning routine, including eating a hearty breakfast that was delivered to her room. Afterwards she got dressed and took out the photo of her target and closely inspected it as she waited for Flash. "Long wavy blonde hair, high end clothes, and dark blue eyes should be easy enough to spot out." She looked up as Flash joined her by the door, he was ready to go and was literally shining, electrical sparks surging a bit around his horns. He adjusted the strap of his messenger bag and followed Agnes out of the room.
The two of them made their way to the lobby, Flash handed Agnes the keys to her room who handed them to the receptionist at the desk. "Pleasant night?" the man asked. Agnes simply nodded with a smile. "Very good, her you are." he handed Agnes back the coin she handed him the previous night after the man replaced the room key back into its slot.
"Thanks." Agnes nodded and handed Flash the coin, he carefully placed it in a secure pouch of his messenger bag, then the two made their way to Marrious's desk and waited for Taikon, she wasn't planning on waiting for him for too long. Marrious was waiting attentively, occasionally taking a sip of his coffee.
@Red Gallade