Lara laughed as she hugged and petted a pup. "A pleasure to meet you
too. Of course she's going to want something! But good deals are about
giving both sides what they want, and you've a few things she does
that you'd be more than happy to give her."
She raised one finger, her gesture stopped by the pup licking it, and
she conceded defeat with a smile. "First she really doesn't like the
board and is involved in a decades long game of high stakes chess with
it. Turning the most aggressive seat on the board into a proxy who
needs to consult with the rest of the pack over major decisions will
be a huge win for her as will someone who isn't reflexively hostile to
her." She was too busy petting the pup to raise a second finger.
"Second she takes the safety of her students pretty seriously, and
more people looking out for them and more she can draw on when there's
real trouble will be useful. And that's just where to start." Lara, as
she was speaking, was assessing, trying to see how sympathetic and how
trustworthy they were, and whether it was worth starting to explain
some of the angle Ella came from to them.
Her smile then turned shark-like. "As for White Witches disappearing,
we're what goes bump in the day to vampires because we've made taking
down some of the most feared vampires in history look not just easy
but like poetic justice. If a vampire gorges on human blood so much
that there's more human blood than vampire blood in their body then it
just takes a small push to become human. And if they are the sort of
jerk that feeds exclusively off young female virgin humans, even if
they don't gorge themselves, then it's not that hard to make them what
they eat. A young female virgin human." She gave a second to let that
one sink in.
She paused. "It's like your brother. If just three members of your
pack who couldn't turn into battle form had been loyal to him
personally as the alpha then I couldn't have done a thing to him with
magic. But as the entire pack wanted to break away I could help that."
"And the party sounds lovely, although I assume inviting my girlfriend
to it might put a bit of a damper on celebrations."
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Date: 2018-06-21 11:37 am (UTC)From:Lara laughed as she hugged and petted a pup. "A pleasure to meet you too. Of course she's going to want something! But good deals are about giving both sides what they want, and you've a few things she does that you'd be more than happy to give her."
She raised one finger, her gesture stopped by the pup licking it, and she conceded defeat with a smile. "First she really doesn't like the board and is involved in a decades long game of high stakes chess with it. Turning the most aggressive seat on the board into a proxy who needs to consult with the rest of the pack over major decisions will be a huge win for her as will someone who isn't reflexively hostile to her." She was too busy petting the pup to raise a second finger. "Second she takes the safety of her students pretty seriously, and more people looking out for them and more she can draw on when there's real trouble will be useful. And that's just where to start." Lara, as she was speaking, was assessing, trying to see how sympathetic and how trustworthy they were, and whether it was worth starting to explain some of the angle Ella came from to them.
Her smile then turned shark-like. "As for White Witches disappearing, we're what goes bump in the day to vampires because we've made taking down some of the most feared vampires in history look not just easy but like poetic justice. If a vampire gorges on human blood so much that there's more human blood than vampire blood in their body then it just takes a small push to become human. And if they are the sort of jerk that feeds exclusively off young female virgin humans, even if they don't gorge themselves, then it's not that hard to make them what they eat. A young female virgin human." She gave a second to let that one sink in.
She paused. "It's like your brother. If just three members of your pack who couldn't turn into battle form had been loyal to him personally as the alpha then I couldn't have done a thing to him with magic. But as the entire pack wanted to break away I could help that."
"And the party sounds lovely, although I assume inviting my girlfriend to it might put a bit of a damper on celebrations."