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Bella is hanging out in a Jarvis - the familiar one - handwriting a nonaggression proposal-slash-bribe. Has to be handwritten. Damn fussy demons. At least it's okay for her to conjure rather than personally harvesting the weird ink she's supposed to use.

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From:

pythbox

He looks worried.

[I still don't think she's somebody you should be messing with.]

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cross_and_bow

[Why not?] Bella asks. [What can she do? Besides kill or hospitalize a few hundred people. Which needs to stop.]

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pythbox

[She's a hell goddess who was kicked out of her home dimension for being too nasty,] he says. [At least, I think that's it. I've never heard the story straight out. They bound her to a mortal vessel - me - to limit her power.]

From:

cross_and_bow

[How attached are the two of you? How much do I have to worry about you when I'm addressing her?]

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pythbox

[...Uh... what?]

From:

cross_and_bow

[I mean, if she's that much of a package of bad news, are you in trouble if things turn violent, should I try to split you up first, tell me how this works, you appear to be an innocent bystander.]

From:

pythbox

[Split us up? Could you even do that? How?]

From:

cross_and_bow

[I don't know if I can 'till I try. And: magic.]

From:

pythbox

[Stop saying 'magic' like it's an explanation,] he says flatly. [It's not. As far as I can tell, the things you're talking about doing should be impossible no matter how powerful a witch you are. I'm not going to help you if you can't tell me where you're getting all this.]

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cross_and_bow

[I'm not a witch. I'm some other stuff,] says Bella cheerfully. [Glory's from far away? My magic's from farther away. It's a really, really long story.]

From:

pythbox

[There is nothing I want more than to get rid of her,] he says. [But it's just not possible.]

From:

cross_and_bow

[If there's nothing more you want than to get rid of her, you should be all over the possibilities I am offering via fancy offworld magic. Look, how much do you know about demons and so on besides the obsequious kind that do her shopping?]

From:

pythbox

[Not a lot. And you know, I would be all over it if I had any reason to believe you.]

From:

cross_and_bow

[Aw, darn, I was hoping you'd already know about the vampire quarantine and I could tell you that was me. What would constitute a reason to believe me? I can show off some if that'd make things run smoother.]

And:

[Hey, Giles, two things. One, can you please see what there is to see on the subject of a hell god named Glory or Glorificus, her relationship to her mortal vessel, and anything to do with the Key? Two, Soph did not exist until a couple of hours ago, I am the only person unaffected by the corresponding memory-alteration, and there is some interpersonal fallout as a result.]

Edited Date: 2013-06-02 11:32 pm (UTC)

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pythbox

[I don't know,] says Ben. [I'm not sure I'll believe you can split us until I see it. It doesn't exactly help that you still haven't told me how exactly you found me. As far as I can tell, you're just a mysterious voice who's probably spying on me, and it's kind of unnerving.]

[...I'll, er, I'll look that up,] says Giles.

From:

cross_and_bow

[I have a crystal ball. And yes, I can see you, although if you need to change clothes or something I can stop. My cheapest Impressive Magic Trick would, unfortunately, probably scare you.]

[Thank you, Giles.]

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pythbox

[What's your cheapest magic trick?] asks Ben, warily.

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cross_and_bow

[I have an aura of menace. It's very impressive and makes people who don't know better think I'm a hellcreature of some kind. You'd have to really stretch the definition to qualify me as one, though. Slightly less cheaply, I can conjure up arbitrary nonmagical physical objects. Or magic ones, but they're trickier.]

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pythbox

[I think I'll skip the aura of menace, thanks,] he says. [...Look, if you're really who you say you are, I want to help. I just don't have any reason to trust you. I don't even know your species.]

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cross_and_bow

[I'm a human. If you'd be willing for me to put us someplace where obsequious demons aren't going to walk in on us at any moment, I will be happy to turn visible.]

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pythbox

[...Fine.]

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cross_and_bow

Her preselected Canadian wilderness is in use, so this is Nevada wilderness instead. She lands them near her cactus landmark, turns visible, and turns around once, arms out. "This is me."

From:

pythbox

"...Hi," says Ben, folding his arms distrustfully.

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cross_and_bow

"Nice to meet you properly. Welcome to Nevada. I'm not going to strand you here, but in case it makes you more comfortable, there is a highway, three miles that way -" she points. "With a rest stop not far from there. So, yeah, this is me, I'm a human, I'm very magical." She hops into the air and spins around again.