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[ghoulaid]

Things haven't been good since Bromley. Samantha's unhappy, the wolves are unhappy. Nobody's god damn happy, and it's time for something to change. Ghoul doesn't really know how to play the politics game, but he's hoping he can do something here. Since he started some of the problems, maybe he can also end them.

It's an effort that's probably long overdue, but better late than never, right?

He'd gone through all the proper channels for requesting a meeting with Samantha, and now here he is. Waiting for her in one of the newer libraries somewhere in Daybreak territory, seated at a 6-person table inside a private study room. He's playing around on his phone to pass the time, acting like he's not worried that Samantha won't even show.

He wouldn't put it past her.

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[bellbound]

"Fae steal children. Anyone could have told you that. They steal children and sometimes they replace them with one of their own kind called a changeling so the parents don't even know that the child has gone until their son or daughter abandons them." She shakes her head. "Why am I here? If you want to learn about fae, read a book. You're wasting my time."

She stands up, clearly annoyed, and Mogget looks up at her, wondering if it's time to go already. Samantha only agreed to meet him because she thought Ghoul was here on behalf of Katherine. He's not surprised that she would object to having to play teacher to some ignorant werewolf.

[ghoulaid]

There she goes. Being an asshole again.

Ghoul sighs in a very exaggerated, frustrated way as he sits back in his chair and scrubs his hands over his face. "Oh my god, you're the worst fucking person to talk to." The insult is muffled by his hands, but not muffled enough.

He lets his arms drop in to his lap seconds later. Then he casts a sympathetic look in Mogget's direction (no wonder he's such a pain in the ass, if he has to live with this every day), before scowling up at Samantha directly. "I'm not tryin' to learn about fae, I'm tryin' to learn about you." He's been making an effort to be nice. He figured he'd hear her out, get her point of view. Maybe there would be some kind of redeeming quality about her. But she's been about as useful as a wet match so far.

And his temper is quickly getting the better of him. "I'm tryin' to figure out if you've got a reason for makin' the decisions you have. Somethin' more than that generic bullshit you hacked up, 'cause I know you ain't stupid enough to believe they're all demons or whatever. And I thought you would've had a damn good reason for gettin' on the bad side of every decent fae in the city, instead of goin' after only the ones that make trouble." He shrugs. "So I figured maybe I missed somethin', but maybe you are just as psycho as you're makin' yourself out to be."

This is going well.

[bellbound]

This is going excellently. Mogget is rather enjoying it, watching the tirade come out of Ghoul's mouth mirrored by the increasing rage in Samantha's expression. He has no filter and Samantha barely has a filter. It's one of her many flaws.

"Wow," says Samantha, after that little speech. "You know what, I am not going to stand here and be insulted. I'm done with you. Tell Katherine she needs to put a proper muzzle on her dogs."

And with that, she storms out. Like hell she's going to sit here and be lectured by some mangy wolf boy.

Mogget jumps down from the table to follow her, but pauses before he reaches the door, turning around to look up at Ghoul. "Surely even you must have guessed the reason. It's hardly a complex motive."

Why would anyone capture the fae of this city? Why enslave them as familiars? Why use their magic in witches' spells? There's only one answer.

[ghoulaid]

If his eyes roll any harder, they're going to fall out of his head.

That sort of blew up horribly. And maybe that's a good thing. He doesn't like her or what she's been doing, but he'd thought that maybe if he could find a way to tolerate or reason with her, he could work with her more easily. She's god damn crazy, though. There's no ignoring or fixing that.

He watches Mogget trail after Samantha, giving him a flat stare when he actually stops to speak. "Yeah, the reason is she's an official dick. Sorry." Sorry that he's stuck with that, not that he's called her a dick. "Was really hopin' that wasn't the case, though."

[bellbound]

That's not the reason, whether or not Mogget agrees with the sentiment. It appears that Ghoul hasn't learned anything from this conversation, but perhaps he didn't have much of a chance. Either way, Mogget doesn't care. He catches the door with a paw before it closes and slips through to leave along with Samantha.