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[MrVoid]

"About tomorrow, even if there isn't a villain attack, your other personality could still make things troublesome.  If there is a problem and she does come out, or if she breaks out anyway, I want to know what her price is for behaving herself."

((Waiting for me to post about what?))

((What Steven has done for the past few days, and his intentions with regards to tomorrows ceremony to induct a large number of new protectorate members.))

[RangerCado]

Selina closes her eyes and then snaps them open again, visibly paling.

"...o-o-o-o-one c-c-c-cut... fr-fr-fr-fr-from y-y-y-you... i-i-i-i-if sh-sh-she c-c-c-comes out..." Selina is shaking, trying not to freak out. Not!Selina was going to behave in the hope of more deals, and was always looking for ways to mess with people within those bounds.

[Unholy_Pariah]

((Waiting for me to post about what?))

((What Steven has done for the past few days, and his intentions with regards to tomorrows ceremony to induct a large number of new protectorate members.))

((Oh he wandered off into the city after the fight, he doesnt even know about it.))

[MrVoid]

"From me?"  Elena had expected, should such deals continue, that this was eventually going to be put on the table, so soon however was a surprise.  She quickly settles her face to a more neutral expression, "I could do it," and she could, "but it's you who's paying the price Selina, could you forgive me if I said yes and, if you failed to contain her, did it?"

[RangerCado]

Selina gulps, shaking even more violently. She manages a slow nod, clearly still experiecing shock froom the revelation in the first place!

[RangerCado]

((i gotta go to bed now. night!))

[MrVoid]

Elena bites her lip in consternation, "That was a question that I had hoped you would spend a bit more time thinking about.  Maybe bargain a little, and pay attention to exactly how she phrases things.  The way that you said it seems like she had no limitation on how long or deep or where the cut was going to be.  The rules need to be clearly defined."

[RangerCado]

"O-oh... I..." Selina looks down in worry. She wasn't good at this was she. She closed her eyes again and opened them, skin paler still, and shaking.

"...f-f-f-f-five i-i-inches l-l-l-l-long... a-a-atleast... a-a-a-a-and... q-q-quarter inch.... d-d-d-d-d-deep a-atleast..." Selina gulps, the description putting her t just about the point to drop down, curl up, and cry for a bit.

[MrVoid]

Elena sneers a bit, but chooses a softer approach than what her gut reaction told her to take.  "It'll be alright, especially if you keep her down.  You were introduced to terrible things at far too young an age, and I'm guessing that it didn't last long enough for you to develop any skill at bargaining with the crazies.  So... Selina, how about a bet?  Is there anything that you would want, from me or from her, as a prize for keeping her down?"  Elena had played this game with her family, they would always cheat, but she doubted, given the crazy one's choice of rewards, that not-Selina had the creativity to plot things out that far.

[RangerCado]

_{"...I just want to feel safe..."} Selina is very quiet now, fighting back tears it seems and trying to keep everything bottled up. She had always done this out there, when things got really bad, when she felt she couldn't go on. She always tried and tried, but it would always come out later. More hours of lost sleep, more nightmares... she just had to make it to the next day, thats all she could do.

[MrVoid]

That didn't sound like a gambler upping the ante.  Elena hops off of the bed and kneels by Selina's stool, "I can do that, you know.  It'll be fake and only last for a couple minutes tops without me refreshing it, but it'll feel right, and give you a feeling to work towards.  How badly do you want this?"

[RangerCado]

Selina stared in horror at what Elena just said, backing away in fear! Was she offering her drugs!? A way to cope like all those promises on the street!? She had stayed far away from that, seeing the end affects and even getting attacked by a couple people needing drug money! And Elena was trying to get her into them!?

[MrVoid]

"Nonono... Selina, please." Elena is visibly hurt by Selina's reaction, "I wasn't suggesting using my power to control you. Just to make you feel safe.  J... just forget that I said anything."  So, she was just like everyone else. No matter how hard Elena worked, or how good she was, there was always that fear.

[RangerCado]

"...y-y-y-y-y-your p-p-p-power...? n-n-n-n-not... dr-dr-dr-drugs...?" Selina is ghostly pale, but is trying to calm down. Had she misunderstood the first time?

[Nicholas1024]

After a few hours of rather extensive training and experimenting, Abel was back in his apartment, staring contemplatively out the window.

"Analysis paralysis. Perhaps an overused turn of phrase, but I think it's apt. There's so many options… so many things I could do with this, and yet I find myself unable to decide, to choose how I want to proceed.", he mused. "Regardless, there's no hurry. I think I'll attend the induction ceremony coming up, perhaps glimpsing the future of the protectorate might give me a clue on how to dictate my own…"

With that in mind, Abel began preparations for the ceremony… not to join in, or to crash it, but merely to watch and observe, as an ordinary civilian.