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

[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?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Any prophecies coming due?" Bella wonders. "- Or it could be something weird and convoluted, like, somebody's geased to protect so-and-so, but doesn't want to do that anymore, so they find something that is technically protective and do that..."

[jellyinthemix]

"I can double-check the prophecies I know about, but I don't recall any that sounded remotely applicable."

[cross_and_bow]

"Have you, like, met Soph. Do you know her. What do I say."

[jellyinthemix]

"I don't know her well. We've spoken a few times. I... have no idea what you should say, I'm sorry."

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay - how do you remember me talking about her."

[jellyinthemix]

"You... seemed to like her, and, and trust her. I'm - I haven't been taking notes, you understand."

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah, but I haven't even been taking memories, so."

[jellyinthemix]

"Yes... I'm sorry," he says helplessly. "I've never had occasion to analyze your interactions from the perspective of 'how would Bella's sister react if she found out Bella no longer remembered her existence?'."

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah, that's fair."

[jellyinthemix]

"I really wish I could be more help."

[cross_and_bow]

Sigh. "Not your fault. Unless you've been making wishes around demons."

[jellyinthemix]

"I try to avoid that."

[cross_and_bow]

"Good habit."

[jellyinthemix]

"Yes."

[cross_and_bow]

"I guess I'll just. Sit her down when Charlie's not home. Tell her."

[jellyinthemix]

"That... seems like it might be best. I don't know. I don't have the answers here."

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah, I'm just - in case I have been mindcontrolled, instead of it being everybody else, seems like it might be worth the extra sanity check."

[jellyinthemix]

He nods.

[cross_and_bow]

And she goes to talk to Soph.

[jellyinthemix]

And Giles continues futilely researching possible causes for an extraneous sibling or a comprehensive memory deletion.

[keyed_up]

Soph is in the library after school the next day, subdued.

[jellyinthemix]

Well, that's awkward.



"Are you all right?"