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[morozova]

I know you're not helpless.
I just wasn't aware you knew someone other than Vanessa that knew magic.

[sunmon]

i know i'm not going to win any battles here or anywhere else without strong allies. you might be on your way back to os alta expecting the second army to have fallen apart under my leadership, but i know something about what i'm doing.

anyway, i work at the midnight theater. they do magic shows. i know plenty of people with magic or exceptional power.

[morozova]

I'm well aware of how capable you are, Alina.
I've seen it for myself.

I'm possibly being foolish, expecting something to come of this, but I would rather worry for nothing than pretend that I'm not concerned.

[sunmon]

concerned about yourself, and about me.
but not all the other people she might attack?

[morozova]

I don't know the other people she might attack. ( and is hoping that she'll become the guards' problem sooner rather than later. )

[sunmon]

you shouldn't need to know them.

[morozova]

What would you have me do, then?

[sunmon]

i plan to at least ask around about it.
apparently the sin guards don't care that she posted a corpse to the network, but i'm sure some liers do, and i'm even more sure some of them know what to do about a vampire.

[morozova]

Unsurprising.
The locals here don't care for us. Why would they intervene on our behalf?
Do you know what to do with a vampire?

[sunmon]

do you?

[morozova]

I know some of the old stories.
Decapitation, stakes through the heart.
Fire.
The sort of thing.

[sunmon]

well, i have someone i can ask.

[morozova]

It would likely need to be someone from her world.
It appears there is some variation among the species.
Though removing a head would stop next to anything living, I imagine.

[sunmon]

but you're not removing hers.

[morozova]

Not yet.
She likely has friends that will want to save her. I doubt they will succeed, but I have been surprised before.

[sunmon]

that's a lot of assumptions to defer responsibility.

[morozova]

I prefer to think of it as saving myself from having to hurt or otherwise kill the well-intentioned friends that would get in my way.

[sunmon]

i haven't ever known that to be a reservation of yours.

[morozova]

Are you telling me to disregard the welfare of the people that would help her? That doesn't sound like you.

[sunmon]

i'm questioning your motives.

[morozova]

I want you safe.
That is my motive.

[sunmon]

not some leftover sentiment for your former dominant?
i'm no different than she is. we're both just girls you took advantage of.

[morozova]

No.
The two of you are very different.

[sunmon]

how?

[morozova]

You're more resilient than she is.
More principled.
Even at your worst I doubt you'd hurt anyone that didn't deserve it in some way.