blood sweat tear

[imeanforever]

He's moving her to a different court to see if it'll improve her attitude. She's allowed to fly. It's been a long, long time since she was allowed to -

She is only allowed to fly to her destination, not anywhere else. She notices that she is not where she should be, that she cannot progress to where she was told to go, and she careens out of control when her wings won't flap anymore, and she crashes.

---

with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[eversomuchfun]

"Honestly, this is vastly more benefit of the doubt than most sane people who have heard of vampires would give me," says Sherlock. "Leaving aside the question of your ownership rights."

[imeanforever]

"How nice."

[eversomuchfun]

"As a vampire I unhesitatingly admit that eradicating all vampires from the face of the earth would be a net benefit even if you counted the deaths of the vampires themselves as undesirable, which most people don't."

[imeanforever]

"Well, I do. Mortality is tragic in general."

[summa_iniuria]

"I have no settled opinion on the tragedy of vampire deaths. Like he said, the math works out either way. But I also have no problem with making an exception for well-behaved vampires."

[eversomuchfun]

"I'm positively angelic. I don't even eat people."

[imeanforever]

[summa_iniuria]

"Sure," says the Slayer. "And you want the Gem of Amara because...?"

[eversomuchfun]

"Because it would make me immortal, obviously."

[imeanforever]

"It would be inconvenient if he died on me."

[summa_iniuria]

"What do you need him for?"

[imeanforever]

"Native guide. Is this a social conversation or are we still trying to talk our way out of a fight?"

[summa_iniuria]

"I think your vampire is maneuvering for my assistance in retrieving the Gem of Amara. I'm not currently interested in fighting either of you but I'm going to be a harder sell on finding the Gem and not immediately destroying it."

[imeanforever]

"Because, what, you value the option of being able to kill him without having to steal from him first?"

[summa_iniuria]

"Granting for the moment that he's completely innocuous and it would be very helpful to make him in particular immortal, someone else might steal it from him, and the Gem of Amara is famous for its ability to turn ordinary vampires into huge problems. I don't like huge problems."

[imeanforever]

Sigh. "Why do you even want her help? How helpful would she be?" Promise asks Tea.

[eversomuchfun]

"She's doing late-night research in the library where all of the useful books we've been reading are kept. And she's the Slayer. Slayers come with Watchers, who are members of an organization known for having a lot of useful books, among other less relevant characteristics; it follows that her Watcher is probably the librarian and very familiar with his useful books. If she asks him where to find the Gem of Amara, he'll be able to locate that information in his own library much faster than I can if it is there at all. That also goes for anything else we might like to look up."

[imeanforever]

"So you want his help, not hers."

[eversomuchfun]

"You could put it that way. I also want her open cooperation in the endeavour because it would be inconvenient if she decided to destroy the Gem rather than let me keep it."

[imeanforever]

"And that seems like something she's likely to be able to do."

[eversomuchfun]

"It would be inconvenient if she sought to, regardless of whether or not we could successfully prevent her," he says.

[imeanforever]

"Fair enough. And it would be awkward to just store you in Fairyland indefinitely since we don't have animals."

[eversomuchfun]

"Yes."

[summa_iniuria]

"I am open to being convinced that I should let Mr. Holmes have the Gem of Amara," says the Slayer.

[imeanforever]

"You know better than I do how you're planning to prevent someone from stealing it from you," Promise tells Tea.