But how will you know if sniffing won't work

[negotiates]

You know, I'd like to think that I have enough experience with doppelgängers to be able to distinguish them. Even if neither are human.

Elena will have no shortage of volunteers eager to help her. I have my own family to take care of first.

Comments

[negotiates]

Oh, really? I wasn't aware that there was such a thing. [There is no one first vampire in his world. They're a family.]

[primogen_vampirate]

Doctor Mina Barrett, formerly Mary Read, at your service. Primogen of the Circle of the Crone of Chicago, Hierophant of the Valkyrien Amazons, and so on and so forth.

I have more titles than a bloody library.

[negotiates]

Apparently so. [His lips twitch slightly.] I'm Elijah.

[primogen_vampirate]

Elijah? A suitable name, I should say.

Tell me, Elijah, what do you do when you're not sniffing teenage girls?

[negotiates]

I remove the heads of those who fail to show me the appropriate level of respect.

[primogen_vampirate]

Mmm...I like your style. To say nothing of your taste in fashion.

sorry for the long wait!

[negotiates]

I also try to move with the times. [You know. Relatively, for a vampire. But he does look good in a suit.]

:D

[primogen_vampirate]

And you do it handsomely.

I do feel compelled to ask, however, what the appropriate level of respect would be.

[negotiates]

If you could refrain from calling me darling, that would be a start. I don't believe we know each other well enough for that.

[primogen_vampirate]

Oh, very well. What shall I call you?

[negotiates]

By my name, please. Which of your many titles do you prefer?

[primogen_vampirate]

Mina will do. I'm rather fond of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a name for a name.

[negotiates]

Mina. I share a similar philosophy.

[primogen_vampirate]

You are most interesting.

And when a member of the Circle takes an interest in you, that is no small matter.

[negotiates]

[This definitely amuses him.]

You flatter me, Mina. May I ask what kind of interest?

[primogen_vampirate]

Oh, any number of ways. I'm a curious creature by nature. And it isn't often I meet a man I find something to respect in.

[negotiates]

I see. What does this Circle of yours do?

[primogen_vampirate]

The Circle of the Crone? Does our reputation not proceed us? I'm wounded.

We're the witches of the vampire world. Or the heretics, depending on your religious inclinations, I suppose.

[negotiates]

That's impossible. Vampires cannot be witches.

[primogen_vampirate]

Do you require a demonstration?

[negotiates]

Very well. Show me.

[primogen_vampirate]

Let me think. Which one will look most impressive? Cruac can be a subtle art, but there are a few...

Ah.

[A flash of a knife across her wrist. And as the drops of rub blood hit the ground, a barrier of hawthorn begins to rise up like a topiary wall.]

[negotiates]

[Consider him impressed.]

Well. I'd say you've converted me.

[primogen_vampirate]

An interesting choice of words as we are the immortal enemies of the Lancae Sanctum. Or as you might know them, the Catholic Church.

[negotiates]

[That is interesting. He shrugs.] It was a figure of speech. I have no interest in any church.