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Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

"Ah..." Astra nods slightly in understanding, but then shakes her head, speaking softly, "It won't be safe. Youre a target, and they will expect you to return as much as they expect you to be here now...but I understand you will need to get your things. You will be protected."

She returns her gaze to Bane before turning to Dante, "Didn't I hear you muttering about protecting someone? You can stay here Dante...and send anyone you want in your stead, if you insist." She looks at her friend and advisor with amusement for his want to follow, and understanding as well. She may be more comfortable with him around, but she was not a child that still needed to cling to him.

She looks down and reach to pet Beta and give him ear scratchies, before looking back up at Ash, "I suppose so, he says that you called him here. Subconciously, at least. But I have been enjoying his company, and his insights."

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Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

Astra nodded to Betas words, as did Peter, though it had gone pretty much unseen.

After Ash's question, Chi snirks and then chuckles. Astra doesnt respond at first, instead, appearing confused. "...Yes, you can go home?" another pause, "You aren't a prisoner here. But if you're going, you should try to be safe..."

"I'll take care of her, m'lady" Peter offers from behind her, immediately gaining himself eye contact from Chi, and a twitch of the tail. But the shifter otherwise seems to accept the extra protection. Peter, meanwhile, has no idea of the teasing he had received from Dante earlier.

Astra just nods slightly, before turning to Bane, "...what about locations?"

In the storeroom, now filled with the illusion of normalcy, Jacob slipped into dormancy - now appearing as he was, a perfectly still corpse.

Behind The Light - crawkid/megara

wishing i had that kind of stuff honestly

so just doing some deep cleaning and working on my writing

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sure is, but im glad to have gotten caught up now

how you doing?

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The vampire gives a small 'heh', but also feels comforted by his sire's vow of protection...even if it went against what he had personally planned. Even so, he was not about to argue, and instead finished covering himself with dirt in the hole. Son enough, some people come by with empty boxes to make the storage room look full.

Astra nods slowly, "contractless summoning...." she takes a deep breath, "I see...and did you notice a change recently? It seems to me her magic has stabilized."

Peter looks up and smiles slightly as he hears the other small group come out into the hallway. "My lady, our guests wish to ask you a question."

"Hm?" Astra look up and begins to stand, as Chi brings said group closer until the two combine into one group again.

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Jacob pauses, having started covering himself with dirt already. His lips tic upward in a soft, but wry smile, "...you're too kind for your own good...sire"

Astra hesitates, taking that into deeper consideration. Unable to stop herself from having an emotional responce to the thought that her parents were watching and guiding, her gaze moves up to Dante for a moment. But she takes a deep breath and holds it in for now, looking back at the shadow wolf, "Then...what brings your master to me...to us? We have accepted her as our guest, and we accept her word that she wants to help....but we aren't entirely sure what is going on, or how to help her with some of her problems"

Chi hums and nods, "I haven't seen or sensed her here yet...but she shouldn't be far." He starts walking out of the room and looking around the place. Lo and behold, Astra's group really wasn't that far away from where people were having food. Likely just far enough to have a little privacy.

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"Well yea, I know they're classic movies....I just stopped after the sequel...." He pauses his attempts to make anything happen with his hands and grumbles, noticing that his new friend has turned invisible. But that didn't stop or change the conversation once he realized what had happened. After all, they were in the same situation, just trying to figure out how things work.

It's cool that the guy could figure something out. Whether or not he figured out how to turn back visible was going to be another thing, but it can't be that tough. Or he hopes it isn't anyways. Not that Talon has the ability to turn invisible. What were his skills again? OR...what the game called them...cards?

He'd have to think about that more later- for the moment the old drunk has his attention, as the NPC represents a more tangible form of progression.

"And its anime, not animoo" He says, the last point he wants to make on the previous topic, right before ending it there and speaking up, "Hey old man -"

"Hrg? Old Man?! You fool! Is that any way to talk to someone?"

Talon grins, just glad that at least interacting with people around here will be easy. No need to mentally push a button or anything, like a real isekai, "Oh don't be like that. We- er.." Right, invisible..."Im just someone who got kicked out of his home and I'm just getting into town. I could use some help figuring shit out."

"Well you don't ask for help like that!" yells the man, his mystery bag sloshing as he stands up taller, "No wonder ye got kicked out, your parents were failures."

Ouch. Enough to rankle some people, but Talon was having too much fun messing with this guy to take it too seriously, and just grins, "Oh come off it, and just point me around will ya? I'll pay you as soon as I get some money."

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"Smart" he nods, continuing on the topic of Lilith, "She would eat them."

Adam turns to observe her a moment as the rain lightens up, letting the fog take over. He had told her his real name, and she had revealed her name in turn, but his suspicious nature hardly allowed him to take it at face value. Lucy, or Luci...?

He shakes his head, that's going too far.

"I never told you my rules. Essentially, you will live where I tell you to live, and follow instructions I give you." he pauses, grimacing slightly, "It may sound the same as a cult, but you're in a new dangerous world, and just going deeper down the rabbit hole. You chose this, and that makes me your lifeline now."

He ducks back into the car, grabbing the towel to wrap around her shoulders again, still keeping his voice low. "The owner and managers here all know me, and I have a couple rooms reserved. But I'm still going to need to show them your ID for safety reasons."

And with that, the hunter moves to guide her to the office. With it being so late and so slow and boring, it wasn't long before they were noticed anyways.