Canon is V:TM

[stranger_to_the_rain]

I do appreciate the attention...but...

I think you've really exhausted your tolerance for my family. My family-family. Not the clan. Well, maybe the clan a little bit too.

Anyway...

What was I saying?

No. No. I don't want to be here. Please don't do something rash. I'm not the rash one. It isn't a good colour on me.






I have work to do. It isn't easy pretending to be a fish Malk, you know. Actually, it's rather exhausting.

So...

Comments

[indiscreet]

Something about families is always exhausting, regardless of who's trying to do the tolerating, if you ask me.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Only someone who knew my sisters would be able to say that. In that tone of voice.






That wasn't a pun. You know. "Able." "Abel."

[indiscreet]

You clearly never knew my brother, if you think it's so remarkable I'd say that.
But then, so few people ever did -- he never amounted to much, for all our parents' fretting over his precious education.


...If you must know, though, I believe I have met her, in one version of my own timeline: some happy universe where I actually got myself out of Chicago before the whole thing went even more thoroughly to hell. I think I even worked for you.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Then you're not a bee. I don't let them buzz around my estate.

But what are you?

[indiscreet]

Hardly some bug, thank you very much -- whatever it is you mean by that term.

Daeva of the Lancea Sanctum, sometimes Harpy to the late Prince of Chicago. And Kindred, whatever anyone tries to tell you.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Yes. Yes you are. Kindred. Not Cainite.






You're the one the pirate told us about! Oh, goodie!

[indiscreet]

I confess I was never quite clear on the difference. You've a predator's taint, same as any of the Damned I've known.

...And you met Mina, then, I take it. [ just... casually ignoring how not-all-there this woman is beginning to seem ]

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Oh, yes. She mind-raped the progeny of one of my followers.

With good intentions, I suppose. As far as these things go.

[indiscreet]

[ dry ] Well, Ms. Barrett always was a charming one; I can't say I'm surprised she made such an...impression. Don't bother yourself trying to decipher her motivations.

...What did she say about me?

[stranger_to_the_rain]

What difference does that make? If her motivations shouldn't be examined?

[indiscreet]

Oh, let's just say that I take a sort of amused interest in her antics. And doubtless her opinion of me is interesting. Hopelessly biased against me, most likely too, but one can't have everything.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

All love is unrequited.

[indiscreet]

I wouldn't really call what's between us love, kitten.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Of course you wouldn't.

I did.

[indiscreet]

[ oh, you did not ] Hardly the case.

[ annoyed now ] It's Ms. Barrett who does the whole sapphism thing, not me.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

She does plenty that you do not.

[indiscreet]

And pray tell what that is supposed to mean?

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Protect the book. She helped us to protect the book. Cainites and Kindred would have been wiped out if she hadn't protected the book.

[indiscreet]

The book? I don't know what you're talking about Ms. Seth. [ And why didn't you tell me about it, when I worked for you? ]

[stranger_to_the_rain]

The Book of Nod. The bad people wanted it. Mina and Joseph hid it. And then Mina hid it again.

[indiscreet]

[ Book of Nod? Never heard of it. Still, there's no reason to be impolite -- not when potentially useful information is on the line. ]

Yes, well, she does have her uses. What makes the book so special?

[andifeelfine]

Hm, yeah, I think you're right. Blue's more your color.

[stranger_to_the_rain]

Oh, I never wear blue. Neutral colours. Make it easier to blend. I haven't practiced my Obfuscate enough.

[andifeelfine]

Oh, that's a shame: it would look really pretty on you! But I've always thought that would be a handy trick. Lots of places where it would be easier to go unnoticed these days!

[stranger_to_the_rain]

And yet we use it the most in the darkness.