"Christ on a bike Tiffany, what are you doing?" Jaina yelled to her friend.
"Do you have to say that? That's not even a real saying." Helena growled, her mind focused on the piece of technology in front of her. Jaina couldn't recognize it whatsoever, but then again, she didn't really care.
"I wanted to leave ten minutes ago, I've been waiting outside for forever." Jaina crossed her arms against her chest and scowled.
"You got here two minutes ago, I'm not deaf." Helena just scowled and stepped back, the circular object no bigger than her palm sitting on the cluttered desk. She sighed in defeat as she turned towards Jaina and rolled her eyes. "If you're so impatient let's go."
"Someone's irritable today," Jaina pointed out, leading the way outside. Helena snorted as she grabbed her coat before the two of them stepped into an unrelenting breeze.
"Why did you have to pick today. And why call me about it at three in the morning?" Helena yawned, as if to prove her point. Well, it wasn't gonna work today. There was too much to do.
"Because I found the source of magic." The two of them walked across the frozen grass as Helena pulled out her keys and clicked a button on a fob. The house behind them they had once been inside of was now gone, replaced by an empty lot of dead and dying grass.
"What do I care about magic." She shoved her hands in her jacket pockets, it was unusually cold for early November.
"You know, if you were really my friend you'd actually listen to what I said to you at three in the morning," Jaina growled, giving her friend an angry stare.
"Yeah, you called me, then hung up and disappeared until you said you were coming over ten minutes ago. You haven't been very clear." The pair began heading down the empty sidewalk. The sun was setting and they were in a pretty empty part of town. Helena still had no idea what they were doing.
"Well if you listened when I called you in the middle of the night then you'd know now wouldn't you?" Jaina said smugly, a smirk on her face as she plowed ahead at an unusually fast pace for someone who walked slow, even when she was in a hurry.
"Okay, you've been keeping track of magic readings all over the city since you figured out how to run an Agency computer. So what? They fluctuate all the time - that's the magic of magic."
Jaina gave her an angry stare but explained: "Yeah they fluctuate, but the readings don't stay this concentrated for this long unless something weird's going on. Therefore..." She expected Helena to complete the sentence. She wasn't going to.
"Therefore what?" She said after a lengthy pause.
"Therefore it's something unusual and you can write another paper on it and go back to the big space station in the sky - why aren't you interested in this?"
"You dragged me out of my lab with ten minute's notice and still haven't given me any real explanation as to why."
"Alright, I'll dumb it down for you." Jaina dodged a slap from Helena. "It's an unregistered, unidentifiable magic source. As you know, we are in an Agency restricted zone."
"You're telling me you're dragging me into a potentially dangerous death trap."
"You came willingly!" Jaina said with a big, excited smile. "Come on! It'll be fun!"
"I'm going to kill you." Helena said, defeated.
"Not if whatever is giving off magic kills us first!"
