yeah that happens if you turn into a vampire

[cross_and_bow]

(prologue)

Bella slips into the school by a side door; she just saw a thing and she thinks she's seen it in a book before and thinks it's supposed to be mostly harmless but before she wakes Giles up over probably nothing or kills a likely neutral demon she wants to check.

And she pushes into the library.

Comments

[thisvorlunatic]

"But yes, it was very awkward."

[cross_and_bow]

"In the nobody's-dying, do-not-have-to-prevent-more-people-from-getting-surprise-mindcontrol-siblings scenario what actually concerns me isn't that she exists but that she is going to expect some shared history with me I can't hold up my end of, which seems like the part you would not have run into."

[thisvorlunatic]

"...It's... sort of similar to a problem we've had," says Miles. "Mark knows me a lot better than I know him. What with having been forced to obsessively study my life history. But yeah, it's not quite the same thing."

[cross_and_bow]

"Well. Fuck."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah," agrees Miles.

[cross_and_bow]

Here's the butcher shop.

"Thanks for vetting her, anyway."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Welcome. Anything else you need from us in the near future?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Probably not. I'll see if I can conveniently nab you a phone though."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Thanks. We'll be around, I guess, here or at the school."

[cross_and_bow]

"Yep."

[thisvorlunatic]

"See you."

[cross_and_bow]

"Bye."

And when they are out she drives to the library to look through books and figure out what the fuck.

[pythbox]

The books do not seem to know what the fuck, or at any rate they don't have better guesses than 'a wish demon, maybe, but who the heck would wish for this'.

[cross_and_bow]

Bella doesn't know what bunk she'd be in. Soph's probably already asleep.

She goes home and crashes on the couch.

[jellyinthemix]

Giles spends the next day interrogating every available book. Unfortunately, he just doesn't have enough information to ask the right questions. Maybe-a-wish-demon remains the best going theory.

[cross_and_bow]

"Is there a wish demon hangout somewhere I can go shake down for confirmations-or-denials...?"

[jellyinthemix]

"...I really wouldn't recommend it. Dealing with wish demons is a dangerous business. Their power is usually limited to carrying out wishes made by mortals, often ones who have no idea there is a wish demon present, and only within a specific domain - vengeance demons are the kind I'm most familiar with. But that would still mean that if you annoyed a vengeance demon, she could erase you from ever having existed the next time someone made a wish of which that was a plausible side effect."

[cross_and_bow]

"Bleah. My powerset is stupid, Giles."

[jellyinthemix]

"I can't argue with that."

[cross_and_bow]

"What do you think of Miles's idea that I was supposed to remember her, she's new, and somebody wanted me to protect her?"

[jellyinthemix]

"It... seems plausible. But I have no idea what manner of wish demon would take that sort of thing as their domain. And if it wasn't a wish demon, I have no idea what it was."

[cross_and_bow]

"Witches can get really freeform, right? And scale things up if they work in covens?"

[jellyinthemix]

"Yes. But who or what did a large number of powerful magic users want to protect so badly that they turned that person or thing into your sister?"

[cross_and_bow]

"No idea. I'm not sure to what extent it makes sense for her to simultaneously be some thing. Is there a class of things that takes well to being turned into people?"

[jellyinthemix]

"Not as such, no... if she was a person beforehand, though, she is now a different person. At least, so one assumes. Your vampire friend indicated that she didn't seem to have any awareness of her circumstances. Who could want to hide badly enough to erase their own memories, their own identity? And what would she have been hiding from?"