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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-16 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Armand considers some responses, automatic instincts suggesting to him that he ask why Daniel is asking, where did he get this image, and so on, create the illusion of more distance. Knows better.

Not personally. Marked for death on the British Isles for sedition, drew focus as one of the earlier and more authoritative voices under the Conversion movement some years back. Is she still at large?

He is not far. A block or so down, keeping his own tabs after all that noise. Mostly lurking about the minds of Louis' security detail, his assistant, rather than being too direct about it. He is also not calm, replying quickly, but at least the medium of text message affects a kind of neutral monotone.
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-17 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Within the time it takes to write a text message,

She would talk to any who would listen. I recall some pontification while she was active in Kazakhstan and so I presume had the permission or the apathy of the elders from that area. I would guess at the latter.

Not one for allies. Mainly underlings. You're concerned about reprisal?


He should ask. Is Daniel alright. A dimmer voice, is Louis alright. Pure curiousity, is Lestat alright. Glimpses of the three of them sneaking into their makeshift lair, blood spattered but on their feet. Some urgent feeling in him to know more, where knowing serves no other purpose but itself.

How weakened is this little unit? How shaken by the events that occurred? How protected is Daniel, really, if the other two are going to be insufferably self-involved?

But he has already asked a question. He will wait.
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-19 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
A third party with money, then. Access to manufacturing. I would consider the Russian clans, but I would also do so at a distance.

Another message, swiftly after this one;

Or vampire hunters. Why they would work with someone like Eimear, I'm not sure, but perhaps they were stolen from.
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-19 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
No.

Many reasons why this might be so. Armand had, of course, participated in the interview, and falls somewhere between Louis' outright heresy and reckless challenges, and then Daniel's penning of it, and continued promotion, and the fact that he is a vampire is sure to spread in time. And then there is Armand, something of a hapless villain, lending word to the narrative but undermined by its truth.

He expects his status is nearer to Lestat's in relation to the text, more so than Louis or Molloy. But perhaps the ones who are anxious for war are young, or younger. The old ones, those who could meaningfully punish him, still sleeping.

It isn't about him. But Daniel is concerned. Or trying to gather information.

You're going to continue your tour?
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-19 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Several minutes pass before the next message.

I can do some listening, to see if there are any reactions amongst the Many to her death.

Yes, he does consciously type that into a device with a capital M.

Word will get out soon enough, even if they killed all of them.

It doesn't occur to him that Daniel might have cleaned up as well.
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-19 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe they're alright. Never mind that Armand is practically across the street, and can see no other alternative for himself but to monitor the building once the sun rises. He doesn't offer to do so, he just will do it, and then extract further details of Daniel's itinerary from the relevant humans who have it, and consider how best to continue to trail them all.

He expects there will be a narrow window of time between now and their departure from the city, so he texts,

Were any of her spawn left alive that you know of?

He won't be shocked to know that the other two salted the earth, but if one managed an escape, that might be a fun way to wile away the evening.
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-20 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
It is disgusting, and spawn is the correct word. Disgusting to turn so many, to dilute the blood in this way. Worse than weeds in a garden. An infestation.

If it lives, I can extract whatever information she decided it needed to know.
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-20 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
Armand and Daniel, famously just fine.

Stares at this message a moment, the two sentences worth of run up, the query itself.

In what respect?
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-20 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Armand writes a message. Deletes it. Writes another. Deletes this one too. He knows he is overthinking it, a determined pursuit for the clearest and most succinct answer that at the same time assumes nothing of Daniel's motivations, and finally lands on,

They will find it very difficult to do me harm that matters.

Terrible. He sends it anyway.
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-21 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's still dark out, and so Daniel has grace from yet another elderly vampire telling him to go to bed. For now.

?
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-21 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
Impersonal, hypothetical.

Vampires are more susceptible to burning than humans, but in practice, it is a matter of will more than science. It would take a powerful vampire against a substantially weaker one to cause combustion directly.

The function of this hypothetical is ?
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[personal profile] pracina 2024-10-21 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Without knowing exactly the emotion or desire that fuels their ability, then distraction makes an effective countermeasure.

Eimear made this attempt?

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