Well, they say that giving something your true name gives them power over you. So the fae usually hide their true identities in titles and honorifics and never really had out their real ones.
[Cami gives a small shrug.]
It's also why faerie do a lot of bargaining for names - or at least that's what the stories say.
("Maybe he's got one then and we just have to find it," Buffy posits, a small plan forming. She hates the research part. Maybe she can put Dawn on it...
As Klaus speaks, she pulls out her phone from her purse.
Do me a favor? Got any time to do a little fae recon? Everything you can find on someone called The Arbiter. I'll explain later.
Also, love you. )
As fun as that sounds, I'll choose to stay off this arbiter's radar.
I agree. No matter what stories you heard, anything faerie is bad news.
[Shortly after, Buffy receives: Fortunately for you, I am currently in the secret warehouse of supernatural research with nothing to do but read. I'll let you know what I find.
Love you too. ❤️
Stefan shakes his head. "I have a feeling we're not going to be so lucky. But we'll be careful."]
("Well, whatever. If they embroil us in the ancient legal mumbo jumbo, then it's probably only fair," Buffy says with a huff. )
If that's how it works. It's admirable to want to meet them in the middle, but I doubt someone as established as "The Arbiter" can simply be influenced by a countersu...ing. ( Buffy abuses the English language. It is not easy to keep up with her. ) But, I agree, more research is needed. And in the meantime, I suggest not worrying so hard over it.
[Of course Stefan is going to worry about it. He's a professional worrier, especially since of the two entities potentially coming at them, he does know the Ivory Tower and their tendency to be vindictive.
But Klaus is right, and he tries to follow the same advice he said to Buffy earlier - it's a problem for another day.]
Would be a shame if we wasted all our time in New Orleans worrying about something that hasn't happened yet.
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[Cami gives a small shrug.]
It's also why faerie do a lot of bargaining for names - or at least that's what the stories say.
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As Klaus speaks, she pulls out her phone from her purse.
Do me a favor? Got any time to do a little fae recon? Everything you can find on someone called The Arbiter. I'll explain later.
Also, love you. )
As fun as that sounds, I'll choose to stay off this arbiter's radar.
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[Shortly after, Buffy receives: Fortunately for you, I am currently in the secret warehouse of supernatural research with nothing to do but read. I'll let you know what I find.
Love you too. ❤️
Stefan shakes his head. "I have a feeling we're not going to be so lucky. But we'll be careful."]
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( She sets her phone back into her purse. )
Look, if we end up in its' crosshairs, then we beat its' system. Do the witness thing.
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[And they don't know what the scale of punishment looks like.]
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( YOU KNOW WHAT SHE MEANS. )
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[Don't quote her on that though. Carroll is the paralegal, not her.
... She may text him to ask later, but not now while they're chatting.]
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If that's how it works. It's admirable to want to meet them in the middle, but I doubt someone as established as "The Arbiter" can simply be influenced by a countersu...ing. ( Buffy abuses the English language. It is not easy to keep up with her. ) But, I agree, more research is needed. And in the meantime, I suggest not worrying so hard over it.
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But Klaus is right, and he tries to follow the same advice he said to Buffy earlier - it's a problem for another day.]
Would be a shame if we wasted all our time in New Orleans worrying about something that hasn't happened yet.
🎀
( And with that, they order, settle in and have a genuinely nice time. While Buffy abuses the English language. )