The Dragon's Trial [ attn: William, Vee, Bertram ]

[Samael]

William, for his part, doesn't need to speak up and chooses not to. His Sire speaks for him in this instant and he's confident that, with Iaona knowing his every secret and Flood and Vee knowing him pretty damned well, they know his stance on the matter. That his glare toward the Brujah is all he offers is mostly because he's mentally exhausted and doesn't feel it worth the time to threaten. Flood has done so, Vee has done so. The giant simply dismisses.

But then come those words from Betram, of consequences. And that's when his head jerks back around. He sees Bertram do that very thing that William did before; Bertram goes red, his eyes locked on Vee. William's Vee. (Technically it is Vee's William, but does it really matter whose is whose at this moment? We think not.)

William has, since his embrace, shown his loyalty to only one on a regular basis. He offered information to Flood on a situation that involved the Lasombra, but because he knew Vee would want it. He worked with Bertram (more or less) because it was expected. Everything he'd done was because he protects his Sire, does his Sire's bidding. He may do them for more reasons now...namely, because he is Sabbat. But the genderless, fey creature who brought him from mortality into the lineage of the Tzimisce is still his first thought at the moment. And someone who stares at his Sire with that level of rage and fury?

Vee has a protector, and William gives an animalistic snarl, gets ready to charge the Brujah in order to intercept with a hand raised high into the air. Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines; someone may die, someone may not. Either way, this could get ugly.

[[Initiative may be wise. William is intending to intercept the tackle and may take offensive action, depending. He has a Strength of 6 atm and will spend two BP to push it higher for the turn.]]