Leave the whole world blind

Caissa had the money that she needed in savings: Mr. Volkov made sure of that. She had the design more or less worked out in her head. She knew how the magic needed to go together for what she wanted. What she didn't have was someone to put it all together for her. She would have done it herself if she could have. She was pretty sure she could preform surgery on herself.

But that wasn't possible. And with the Japanese man on the space station not dealing with magic and now Donny Damascus not dealing with something so finely tuned, she was having trouble recalling who else could help her.

That was until, having a smoke after leaving Damascus Arms, Caissa saw someone who jogged a whole lot of memories really quickly. One of the Oricenta, she could tell. Airda Leizu? That sounded right. The flood of memories that came back to Caissa gave her a general impression, but that was all she needed. A skilled technomagic engineer. Related to a doctor. And part of a family with some questionable dynamics from what little Caissa had actually seen in public.

That last part might not matter so much: but Caissa was still willing to leverage it if she needed to. Putting out her cigarette, she closed the distance between the two of them. She was all smiles as she cut Ade off from wherever she was going, the scarred side of her face unconsciously showing less so as not to be too off-putting immediately.

"Heeeeeeey, you're Arida Leizu right? You do, uh... acting through Theia, yeah?"

Caissa's lips pressed together, her smile drawing thinner and a bit more menacing as they did. She turned and stood more to Ade's side, both to force the Oricenta's gaze to follow her and to obscure herself a bit from any nosy individuals who might be able to read lips. "Granted, I only know your acting stuff in passing. What I really know about you is your work with magitech. From what I've actually managed to see and hear about, you're insanely talented. That voice modulator mask? Absolutely genius."

She gestured to the obvious scarring on the right side of her face. "I'm a demon and I got summoned a few weeks back by some hack witch. She didn't like me getting snappy with her, so she threw boiling water on me. Left me blind in this eye."

"So help is exactly what I need, actually."

"I need my eye, Arida," Caissa said matter of factly, her good eye's pupil dilating with the sudden rush of excitement she felt. "I can't go to a doctor: they don't do after market modifications and they couldn't manage the delicate work I need done even if they did."

She crossed her arms and shifted her weight to the side. "I can pay; money isn't an issue."

"Fine, we can walk. But I do have to apologize. I'm getting ahead of myself. I don't just need the eye put in: I need it built in the first place. And for the specific needs I have, I need a magitech engineer."

As they walked, Caissa pulled up the plans that she had drawn up on her phone. An eye with a USB port attached to the optic nerve. Typical magitech functionality to let the eye see; likely something Ade would be at least passingly familiar with if she was interested in magic prosthesis at all. But more than that: a space for storage and magic circuits that connected that storage to the USB for... some purpose.

"I have perfect memory, which is nice. But I can't exactly use that for anything that requires I provide evidence for what I'm saying. I want to be able to show when I tell."

"Arida, if I wanted a bunch of really incriminating questions asked of me, I would have gone to a surgeon and then the therapist they referred me to. The money I'm offering is for parts, labor, and discretion. Much easier for you to be discrete if you legitimately don't know the answer to questions."

Caissa grinned a bit, clicking her phone screen off before Ade could see any more of the schematics. The change in posture and tone made it clear that Ade was interested in working on the design.

"But no. I don't have someone to install the eye or the socket. I'm sure you can manage if you really put your mind to it."