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]

Tea approaches and hands him a spare container of non-sapient-sourced blood.

[burning_gold]

Okay, sure, fine. Nom.

[imeanforever]

"I suspect you won't be satisfied with the answer 'I'm a fairy'?"

[burning_gold]

"You're one kinky fairy," says Zeke.

[imeanforever]

"I'm really not." Sigh. "You may accompany us where we're going."

[burning_gold]

"Why the hell not," snorts Zeke. "Where are you going?"

[eversomuchfun]

"The Slayer promised me an effective ward against sunlight, contingent on good behaviour."

[burning_gold]

"...Seriously?"

[imeanforever]

"Although I do wonder how many vampires I can acquire before this offer dries up."

[eversomuchfun]

"She didn't technically extend the offer past me in the first place, but I see no reason not to ask her what she thinks of an extra," says Sherlock, pointedly without mentioning the Gem of Amara itself.

[burning_gold]

"If good behaviour just means not eating people, sign me the fuck up," says Zeke. "Especially if it gets me out of this kinky fairy magic."

[imeanforever]

"We'll see if I like your idea of good behavior and trust your sense of when to apply it enough to let you go without orders."

[burning_gold]

"...What?"

[imeanforever]

"Left to your own devices you eat people. I do not have to leave you to your own devices."

[burning_gold]

"Listen, can you maybe explain what you're talking about as though you're talking to somebody who actually hasn't ever heard of leafy fairies with crazy hypnosis powers before?"

[imeanforever]

"I have your name. I can tell you what to do and what not to do and there are not alternative options, not if I mean it. I am a nicer than average fairy, but this very niceness is incompatible with you going around eating people now that I can stop you. He's," she indicates Tea, "going around without any particularly intrusive orders on at all, but I didn't catch him about to murder someone, so if you want to get on a blacklist arrangement of orders instead of a whitelist that's going to be a process and if you want to go all the way to trusted to behave without orders at all that is going to be yet more of a process."

[burning_gold]

"...Okay but what, like, is the process, what do I do to prove I'm a good little vampire," he says.

[imeanforever]

"I don't know, I wasn't expecting to acquire another vampire tonight, but here we are. Probably the shortest version would be commanding the truth out of you and then having some extended list of questions about under what if any circumstances you might revert to your old habits, but we're expected elsewhere soon."

[burning_gold]

"Okay, now I'm kind of confused about how hard you expect not eating people to be."

[eversomuchfun]

"If it's so easy why weren't you doing it already?"

[burning_gold]

"...Becaaaaause hunting is more fun?"

[eversomuchfun]

"And so you expect us to believe you will consign yourself to an eternity of the less fun option because...?"

[burning_gold]

"Turns out most of the fun of hunting is not actually in the eating of people? Like, I'm not one of those hardcore end-of-the-world types, I pretty much just want to drink blood and kiss cute boys. Separating the two isn't going that far out of my way."

[imeanforever]

"Then you will not have any trouble resolving a future interrogation to my satisfaction. But for the time being I don't have one mapped out, so you may either stand here immobile until we come back or you may accompany us."

[burning_gold]

"Oh, I'm accompanying you, I'm accompanying you."