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WESSEX out of the night that covers me She nods. “Good. And thank you for the slot.” Turning back to the Rathskellar, she leads the way to the warm little bar and then into the Temple, where everyone else has by now dispersed. She’ll have to update Loren on the changes, but that is neither here nor there. “I’m sure I’ll see you again before LongNight. Take care.” And with that, the Wraith moves silently to go and collect some snow moss for the Rath, because she seems to have created more work for herself. {Fin!} ////// And if Wessex is being honest, neither does she; except that she’s the one who arrested the triplets’ mother and so… that obnoxious sense of duty that’s come up recently is there again. Her jaw clenches. “Right,” is all she says, until Remi’s words make her do a double-take. “Ludo did the unicorn thing?” comes out rather incredulously, unable to tell if it was a blessing or a curse for the alchemist and the once-human unicorn. Ludo was an enigma to her, in all honesty. He showed the Ascended her family, but then tells Roana to kill them all. Did he infect Isla, too, as a premature attack on the Ascended? She shakes her head. Can’t be worried about things like that now - it’s all just a distraction. “If you feel the need to endanger yourself this year… be quiet, slow, and dark. They can sense power in a person and are more likely to… be swayed by the powerful, though giving them that kind of credit isn’t exactly right.” A brief pause. “And for fuck’s sake, shut all the doors tight.” She doesn’t want to know She doesn’t want to know She doesn’t want to know. black as the pit from pole to pole i thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul