soon you'll see the sky fall

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[uniquelyvulnerable]

( Who's calling? What happened to just handing the phone over? )

Hope's uncle Elijah.

[eredite]

Oh hey, we haven't met yet.

[Is she going to milk her still fledging relationship with Rebekah for this stall? Yes, yes she is.]

This is Alice. Earp. I'm John Henry's daughter?

[uniquelyvulnerable]

( The name Alice sticks more than Earp and much more than John-Henry. But. )

Doc Holliday? ( She's succeeded in distracting him. ) You and Hope linked up?

[eredite]

[It's kind of weird to hear a thousand year-old vampire using the phrase "linked up" but that's neither here nor there, and she doesn't intend to derail him so much he catches on.]

Well, sort of. I'm Lizzie's roommate at NYU. So when she introduced me to her sister, I met Hope too. She's great. We've been getting along like a house on fire. Without actually setting a house on fire.

[uniquelyvulnerable]

( Elijah, while in his suit, has always been the brother that's taken to modern vernacular.

Elijah looks to Cami, asking this: )

And, in not setting your respective houses on fire, did you set the city on fire, Alice?

[eredite]

What? Us? No. No, no fires here.

[Bonnie may see a mild look of panic on her face.]

Just some ... regular, traditional college fun.

[uniquelyvulnerable]

( Elijah can feel something fidgety in her tone, but not why (9). )

When the Saltzmans and Hope got up to trouble in Prague, they spun a yarn about drinking. Have you been drinking, Alice?

[eredite]

That feels like a trap.

[She's just going to keep dragging this stall out for as long as possible until either Josie wakes up or Hope reappears ... or Bonnie takes the phone from her.]

I don't think trapping me into incriminating myself is a great way to start off our step-niece and step-uncle relationship here.