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Kingsnake brought Thalia back to her room at the Sacramento History Museum. There, she woke her up with a bit of her own vitae, and they talked about what had happened. After expressing some initial concern over Thalia’s decision making, Kingsnake explained from her perspective.
“Javier frenzied over you, started fighting the Talon, and all hell broke loose in there. I was running with Neres and I saw you there on the floor and ran back to get you. Last thing I saw as I was carrying you out was Ernesto Giovanni getting turned to dust with a single touch by that walking corpse.” “Then there was this spreading darkness as we were trying to run, and I think a few ghouls started choking to death. We got to the car, I didn’t know where else to take you, and now you’re here.” She gestures to the room.
Hopefully whatever deal the Camarilla had made with the Giovanni was null and void.
Then, Thalia mentioned a compulsion to meet with Luke alone on the 19th. Clearly the victim of Dominate, a Ventrue signature. Kingsnake went to ask Neres about it, who offered that the best way to cancel Dominate was through another use of Dominate. Neres suggested that Sabirah Tanner might be able to help in that regard.
After reporting back, Thalia flirted with Kingsnake and left to call Kiri to pick her up. This did not go well. Javier was pissed and said she owed him a major boon for having to save her from The Talon, and Kiri was pissed because she actually liked Javier’s plan.
Sad. But expected. She doesn’t want to accelerate her plan, she really doesn’t. How to make this work… hm. “I get that. It tempted me too. But I don’t think killing a bunch of innocent Giovanni, even if it might have benefited us, would have been the right thing to do. And frankly, I have no desire to fight a two front war. You can be mad at me, I get it. It was a tempting offer. But I think that we can end this war without having to work with these kind of monsters. What’s the point in winning this, if we lose our morals in the process?”
“There you go about morals, again. You think the Giovanni are oh so innocent, the incest ghoul slave breeders?”
“I don’t think they deserve to be slaughtered, no. You are right. Maybe I care to much about morals. Maybe we do thing differently. I made a judgement call. Maybe I fucked things up. But I don’t relish in violence like you, okay.”
“You’re on thin ice, Thalia. You’ve gone soft. Jeremy didn’t take LA by being soft.”
“I know. I’m sorry. I- I’ll stop trying to do things my way.”
“Good. I don’t want to hear about another incident again.” She hangs up.
Kiri did not pick her up. She returned to Kingsnake. They talked about the state of the Anarchs, their concerns over the bloodthirsty like Kiri, Olive, and Javier. Then they spoke about religion, and Set, and flirted, and kissed.
The door creaks open near the end of the night. A glowing yellow eye peeks inside. A pause. The door closes.