because the lives of the wicked should be made brief

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[pricetags]

( Getting up from his hanging seat, he slips his flip-flops on, puts on his caftan, and leaves his room. Annie's a few rooms away, so he knocks, lightly. )

An, you in there?

[dupes]

Not yet.

[She's heading back from a meeting with Abernathy, coordinating some responses to some current problems, and was intending to head to bed, but Shep has his "I wanna talk" face on.

She opens the door to her room, before gesturing for him to move in ahead of her.]

Drink?

[pricetags]

Maybe later. ( He shuts the door behind him. ) My sister raised the bat signal. She thinks there may be a way to break our family's curse. My nieces happened to escape it, but, we could put the kibosh on it forever. No more merge. But, we're going to need some firepower.

[dupes]

Well, firepower we can do.

[It certainly to her seems like a curse worth breaking.]

What do we know about it?

[pricetags]

That it's going to take a coven. And, that it's all hands on deck. I was thinking, maybe you wanted to throw your hand in.

( This is him basically asking her. )

[dupes]

Of course. How many do we need?

[She's not sure she wants Serena in this if it's going to be dangerous but maybe Alys? Maybe some of her other witch contacts from Chicago? She has threads she can pull.]

[pricetags]

My siblings are in. And a witch named Bonnie Bennett. I think there are other witches being pulled into this, so, you're mine.

( He winces. )

That came out wrong.

[dupes]

[Her lips quirk up in a small smirk.]

I get what you meant. And I've always got your back.

[If that makes him hers, then she'll take it.]

[pricetags]

Okay. I'll let you know when we're officially in the mix. Might get hairy.

( But having her there and his siblings. Maybe it'll all work. )

[dupes]

I can handle hairy.

[Just wait and see if her family problems start to raise their ugly head (and one day they probably will). While the Chens aren't contending with something as heavy as the Colony, the situation that brought them to the Underground is heavy enough.]

This is a good thing worth doing.

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[pricetags]

And it needs to be done.

( He clinks glasses. )