HOUNSLOW TERRITORY CLAIM

[reticence]

As per this month's faction reward, the Hillingdon Clan will successfully take the territory of Hounslow from the Redbright Institute.

Here is how that comes to pass and the agreements made to make it possible...

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[reticence]

Faolan may or may not have colored slightly at the mention of Lancelot in the context of 'you boyfriend'. He's not about to speak up and try and correct the other man one way or another -- maybe he was just making fun of him. Maybe he really meant it. If he did, he doesn't need to know that he's only his boyfriend insofar as Faolan has affections for him and he would like to date him, if Lancelot's 'thinking about it' ever came to a positive answer. But that is neither here nor there.

He doesn't speak up to say that as far as he can do, he cannot act against the Night Council's direct order on anything or else suffer consequences far greater than anyone else within the clan. Instead, he responds to the other man's last point.

"Land," he repeats. "The only land bordering on our own is that of the Redbright Institute. I hope you're not suggesting that we go to war against them...?" God even knows what kind of a can of worms attacking the Redbright Institute might open up, with the monopoly that Sylvia Redbright holds over most of the supernatural city, Faolan thinks to himself. Bitterly.

[dirtyredneck]

He met Faolan's eyes and took a deep breath, then nodded, "If that's what it takes. You got a better idea for gettin' what we need, you tell me."

[reticence]

Faolan raises his eyebrows slightly. He's trying to imagine the potential of Hillingdon standing a chance against Sylvia Redbright and the resources she has at her fingertips. Not only the Institute, of course, but Daybreak and the Council as well and he wouldn't put it against her pulling out all the stops when and where she could.

"We could try a negotiation first," he offers.

[dirtyredneck]

Daryl kept that gaze for a few minutes before he let it drop. A hand came up to rub at his chin.

"You think it'd work?"

[reticence]

Faolan shrugs slightly, before commenting, "Well. It couldn't hurt anymore to try that then it could to start off under the assumption that we would need to fight her. At least we could cross it off if it didn't work?"

He frowns. "Sylvia Redbright is the leader of three of the factions within the city. Right now we would only want to address her as the head of the Institute, but she has the other two in her pocket, and I do not doubt that she would pull on whatever outside resources she could to save herself face if she needed to."

They'd better hope that a negotiation works, considering their own power levels at the moment, in other words.

[dirtyredneck]

Daryl stood thinking about that before nodding. Sucked in a deep breath. "You willin' to do that?" He was asking more than just if Faolan was willing to reach out for the Clan. He was asking if Faolan was willing to stand up to the woman who controlled the council he'd sworn allegiance to. Was he willing to put that on the line. Was he willing to put Hillingdon first and follow through with it.

[reticence]

Faolan studies the other man's face and tries to determine just exactly what he means by the question. Because he knows that he means more than what there is at face value. A lot of conversations with the other man are like that, after all.

After a long moment, he nods. "I am," he replies. "Whatever you might think of me, whatever the rest of them do as well, I am faction leader here. I need to talk it over with a few people first, maybe bring it to the faction as a whole, but. If the clan decides that it's the direction they want to take, then I will do my best to see it happen."