It's easy to track Russ if you've got the nose for it - and, as it happens, Preston does. Even in human form, which is the form he's currently in. He prefers it, and in any case it's easier to communicate; to explain why he's leading the leader of the vampires straight towards the alpha, if any of the Pack wolves come across them and decide to
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At the sound of footsteps, though, and the scents, he whirls, not quite snarling.
He's a little on edge, maybe.
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"We need to drag them all out in public. It needs to be something that everyone sees."
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He lowers his head. "Executing people for stirring us up isn't gonna look real good to everyone else, though." He gives Claire a not-really-a-smile. "Makes us look like animals."
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"Which - does a couple things. The biggest I can think of is set a precedent for murder trials, which, if it's handled right, is kind of big."
He takes a breath.
"The other is letting people see you two working together. Wolf leader and vamp leader."
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"If people are tried for murder."
She pauses.
"It would make being a vampire an unhappy thing."
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She glares at Russ. "Stop smirking. You think you won't go down with this too? Mauling a person? Mauling a vamp?"
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He glances at Russ. "Same goes for you. For anyone.
"We're past the hand-to-mouth, the kill-or-be-killed stage now, or we should be. This city's becoming a pretty good place to live, in parts. So of course someone's trying to fuck it up. Why can't we take the opportunity to make it better?"
His voice, still low, gains animation as he speaks.
"If anyone can start working for that it's you two."
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Claire shifts and cocks her hip. If she can get hers to go along... well. There's something to be said for a law system valuing life.
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"Someones," he suggests instead.
"Panel of judges? Supreme Court-style. Though twelve might be a little much. Definitely three, though - wolf, vamp, unmutated."
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"We'd have to get community leaders together. Figure this out as a city. First, we need to get them, though."
Her smile is grim. Even if she does have one of the judges... It'll make community relations interesting.
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"So who gets to talk to the guys at the shelter?"
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However: "I live there," he offers. Mildly.
(A bass player with a nearly-major in International Relations?)
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