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[A pause.]

I could talk to Dracula, see if he knows her.

Not a bad idea. I haven't spoken to him yet.

You're friendly with him?

Yeah. I guess I am.

Friendly in just the sense that he wasn't around to dogpile on you? Or actually friendly?

[There's a silence where she presses her lips together, and debates how much to say.]

We talk occasionally. He doesn't seem to hate me.

[that silence, Anita. Lark is all but raising an eyebrow and giving her a 'uh huuuh'.]

You think he'll help us figure out Nadja's fascination with necromancers?

[Get off this scent, hound dog.]

I don't know. But I can ask.

[CAN'T.]

Let me know. I'll keep you informed on Godric, too, but...I don't know how much he'll tell me.

Unrelated: have you spoken to him at all since your first day?

[The hell you can't.]

Just the once.

[When they talked in her barren kitchen.]

I think we're avoiding each other.

Edited (I remembered things) 2021-07-04 03:38 (UTC)

Mm. Yeah he's good at that.

If he won't talk to me about it I have another idea. [he just has to figure out a way to go at it that isn't manipulative because he cares deeply for Archer and won't do that to him.

Why is it so complicated to care about people's feelings.

But speaking of manipulative angles:]

Has Nadja granted any requests of yours? Or have you had reason to ask?

The only thing I would ask for is my necromancy, and that's not happening now. Whatever protection it'd give me isn't worth whatever she might want out of it.

Right. ...We can hope you aren't permanently paired with her and the next warden will grant them. Perhaps I could ask for them back, too, after you're not her ward--I don't know if I'm allowed to now that I am paired but it couldn't hurt to try.

It's something to think about.

I really thought it would scare her, or I wouldn't have brought it up.

What about it might scare a vampire?

[Fuck. Stop being so easy to talk to. And sharp. It's like talking to a cop.]

Legends say necromancers can control all undead.

[Well stop being so interesting!]

Well that's handy. If it's true.

[He doesn't actually mean 'handy'. She says 'legends' which implies she hasn't tried it. Anita is not the sort of person who runs around controlling people, and that's one reason he likes her.]

I'm curious what Dracula has to say now. If there's some sort of pattern to necromancers across the worlds, like there are other similarities.

[Oh buddy, did you miss out on a doozy of a memory, during the flood.]

He already knows. He found it interesting, but he's not gushing about it.

[You showed him that trump card? Anita, you have a bona fide vampire friend.]

I suppose if he isn't threatened by it that's something. Then again, he doesn't seem the type to be threatened by much.

[Don't you swear at her.]

No, he really isn't.

[She knows some things about Vlad, that are his private business. She's much better at not sharing other people's secrets than her own.

That probably says a lot about her.]

I guess you don't get to be a bona fide legend if you get spooked easy.

The lawyer in me has a request: Record your conversations with Nadja.

Okay. How do I do that?

Your communicator can do it. [A quick rundown of the recording function, and how to back it up. Easy! Really!]

[Uuuugh.

She stops him several times, and makes him repeat himself. "What's an icon? I don't see anything like that. Nothing is happening."

She is so bad with technology. It's torturous to give her tech instructions over the phone.]

[Well this was the most aggravating half hour he's had in a while. He keeps his cool because that's his thing but Anita. ANITA.]

Now, to back it all up in case something...

You know what, why don't you bring it here and I'll set it up?

That's a great idea.

[She's already moving, because she wants this thing out if her damn hands before she smashes it.

She has take so many pictures of her forehead and hair. This madness needs to end.]

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