B-Side

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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Wed Aug 27, 2025 2:52 pm

The moment Katarina closes the door and turns around Ryn is right there, apparently having snuck up, out of sight, while she talked to the reporter.

"That's whose desk I left the name-book on. I recognize his smell." she says, not sounding too happy that he immediately showed up here somehow. Humans were clever but not that clever.

"Neither human nor camera eyes saw me but someone knew to tell him about you."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Wed Aug 27, 2025 6:55 pm

"He has a source. Someone who knows more about this than they're letting on."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Wed Aug 27, 2025 7:31 pm

"None could have followed me." Ryn starts but then realizes something and scowls.

"Rhea!" she hisses.
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Wed Aug 27, 2025 9:21 pm

"You believe your sister would sell you out like that?"

Katarina paused.

"Or is this more some...test, that she is setting for you? To see if you have been...diminished?"
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Wed Aug 27, 2025 10:09 pm

"It's not me she's trying to sell. It's you."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Thu Aug 28, 2025 11:29 am

"Yes, well, I didn't do any actual murdering," Katarina pointed out. "Nor am I the serial killer who has been stalking the shadows. It's merely my reputation that's on the line; it's your freedom."

This was not, strictly speaking, accurate, of course -- accessory and accessory after the fact were certainly charges as well!
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Thu Aug 28, 2025 3:02 pm

"No bars can hold me safe the ones you built around my heart." Ryn says with a kind of heavy fondness settling over the brewing anger in her chest.

"This is no clever-scheme, she's throwing sand in our eyes."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Thu Aug 28, 2025 3:51 pm

"It's less...direct, than I would have expected from your family," Katarina said, trying to remain diplomatic.
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Thu Aug 28, 2025 3:59 pm

"She can't harm you or she would." she grumbles. She doesn't like talking about this though she's never really dwelled on why.

"Mei's the oldest and strongest of us. Rhea the smartest. I'm the youngest."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Mon Sep 01, 2025 3:58 am

"And why, exactly, couldn't she harm me? If all of your oaths have been forsworn, that is..."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Mon Sep 01, 2025 6:29 am

"I broke an oath. They didn't. She harms you and she dies. If not at Mei's hands then at mine. They should be trying to kill me. I don't know why they're not."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Tue Sep 02, 2025 11:01 am

"You're right, you broke an oath. They didn't.

And you're happy, now..." Katarina said, tapping her lower lip in thought.

"This is...playing with their food, perhaps?"
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Tue Sep 02, 2025 2:49 pm

"Maybe. This has never happened. We've never... disagreed. Never had reason to."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Tue Sep 02, 2025 6:23 pm

"So, you have no idea if they are leaning towards angry or jealous? Fantastic," Katarina sighed.
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Tue Sep 02, 2025 6:27 pm

"Probably both but what they will do I don't know. Make things complicated."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Tue Sep 02, 2025 7:04 pm

"Wonderful. Because life was so simple before.

Is there something we can to to...proactively cut them off? Or will we just have to have eyes in the back of our head for both the police and your family for the next while? I do not even know how you lure a fury out of hiding."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Tue Sep 02, 2025 7:41 pm

"They won't be able to turn a blind eye to the evils of man and they lack the restraint you've taught me. Whatever the truth-seeker unearths will draw their wrath."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Tue Sep 02, 2025 8:45 pm

"So, we follow the newspaperman. Secretly. Trying to catch your sisters so we can...confront them? Tell them to leave us alone? See if they can stand The Voice?"
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Wed Sep 03, 2025 2:00 pm

"You're the planner." Ryn says with a small smile. "I don't know. None have stopped us before. Not for long anyway. But neither has any one of us ever been captivated by a mortal so I know you can achieve the impossible."

"If we can kill them we'll have peace for at least a while until they're reborn. The Sirens' Songs of old did not sway us but... things are different now. Breaking an oath made me less absolute and diminishing one of a triad unsettles the others. To what extent I can't be certain. Maybe they can even be convinced that this is good and right but I know even less how to do that."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:11 pm

"Have you ever been in...conflict with your sisters before? Perhaps they are as confused as you are."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:18 pm

"Not like this." she shakes her head. "So they probably are. We're hammers." she tries a metaphor she'd once heard someone at the Agency use to describe her. She's not sure she remembered or even used it right though. Something about nails?
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:41 pm

"And they're afraid I've got you locked up nice and tight in my toolkit. Which is why they'd want to spread the news about you throwing a man out a window.

It's got it's own twisted logic to it."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Wed Sep 03, 2025 7:45 pm

"Sorry. I keep making your life messy."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Wed Sep 03, 2025 8:04 pm

"You gave me my life back. Among other things. Never thing I don't appreciate you," Katarina said, firmly.

"But yes, these were...not the complications I imagined when I came to America."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Thu Sep 04, 2025 3:16 am

"It's a very strange country." she nods and it is still borderline impossible to tell she's making a joke.
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Thu Sep 04, 2025 7:44 am

"With such strange people in it."

"Well. Just because last night was a...disaster, doesn't mean we can not make an omlette out of the eggs," Katarina said, mixing up her metaphors. "There is the trouble with your sisters. There is the nosy reporter, the police, and the investigation into Mr. Rose's early.... check-out time. There is the shattered and flaming remnants of my plan to clean up the label. There's Lucie and Piper floating around, I'm sure upset with my latest pictoral. And there's the various remains and fallout of that particular scandal in the public eye, as well.

We are surrounded on all fronts. But perhaps we can use some of this to our own advantage."

She turned to look at Ryn. "You have enemies to your left, right, and in front of you, coming after you, wanting blood. What do you do?"
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Thu Sep 04, 2025 1:50 pm

Ryn is aware enough to tell Katarina is using a metaphor but part of her still feels the urge to point out she's missing crucial details about the assailants, the terrain, even the time of day.

"If none are weak enough to punch through? Up and over." The possibility of a tactical retreat never even enters her mind.
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Thu Sep 04, 2025 7:12 pm

"A hammer indeed," Katarina smiled.

"No. If you have three enemies, you make two of them each other's problem. You step back, and let two get caught in their own crossfire."
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Re: B-Side

Postby Erynies Adrasteia » Tue Sep 09, 2025 6:25 pm

"I don't think my sister would eat the truth-seeker. And we want him to find the rot... How do we make Lucie-Piper deal with my sisters?"
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Re: B-Side

Postby Katarina Kane » Wed Sep 10, 2025 7:22 pm

"Do we want him to find the rot, though? Because that investigation is also going to lead him to us.

At the very least, he could be bait to draw your sisters out, if we play it right..."
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