There is, at some point, a response from Dan:
1. I don't think this is a good idea. That's just me. Anyone here ever lived in the mid-Atlantic area? North Carolina, Virginia, even the suburbs of DC are overrun with deer. Why? Things are out of balance: they lack for predators. Maybe it's best to let the vampires fight amongst themselves because it keeps them from doing worse shit to the rest of us: which is probably what is going to happen when one group or another consolidates power and has a chance to turn its focus on the rest of us.
2. The vampires at the club are ALSO careful about not murdering people. For both groups it is a matter of survival: if there are witchhunters there are no doubt vampire hunters, and the vampires cannot hide in plain sight if they are leaving dead bodies laying around.
3. Grace: I am very, very sorry that you were terrorized by that vampire at the park, but killing it will not change that, nor will it make anyone safer. It did not attack you intentionally. When you say "We" want to "do something" about her, that "We" does not include Sera and she is the one it knows and the one it will target. Please be clear about that. Right now, that vampire has not come after Sera, and Sera has not tracked her down and murdered her. Thus: we have established one of those uneasy truces where two predators have a brief fight because one thought the other was prey and was wrong. Now it knows that error and knows to avoid the thing that hurt it in the future. That vampire clearly communicated with her cabal about the witch who injured her. Turn the moment around. If she is murdered, or destroyed, within close proximity to that encounter - especially by magic - her cabal would reasonably assume that the murder was effected by the witch who injured her: and then Sera, and probably her human friends, of which there are many would be in greater danger than they are now because the rest of the beasts would be inflamed and seeking to eliminate the threat to their existence. Sera can take care of herself. I'm more vulnerable. Dee and Rick and Emily and all the rest are even more vulnerable than that. So please: make your choices, but also take care to consider Sera's choices and Sera's agency in this specific matter especially because she is the most likely to face the consequences of any choices, whatever they are.
5. Kalen: I don't know if the trust comments were directed toward Sera but: Sera questioned you because she was confused and concerned and worried and she cares about you, not because she doesn't trust you. I think that people who care about you should ask you uncomfortable questions. BTW: I didn't pass the bits about no one trusting you on to her: it would just hurt her feelings, which I don't think you intended.
6. I don't think you should make alliances with vampires by yourselves. At the very least, this kind of decision should demand a plurality opinion of the locals. What you are considering is dangerous and has implications for everyone.
1. I don't think this is a good idea. That's just me. Anyone here ever lived in the mid-Atlantic area? North Carolina, Virginia, even the suburbs of DC are overrun with deer. Why? Things are out of balance: they lack for predators. Maybe it's best to let the vampires fight amongst themselves because it keeps them from doing worse shit to the rest of us: which is probably what is going to happen when one group or another consolidates power and has a chance to turn its focus on the rest of us.
2. The vampires at the club are ALSO careful about not murdering people. For both groups it is a matter of survival: if there are witchhunters there are no doubt vampire hunters, and the vampires cannot hide in plain sight if they are leaving dead bodies laying around.
3. Grace: I am very, very sorry that you were terrorized by that vampire at the park, but killing it will not change that, nor will it make anyone safer. It did not attack you intentionally. When you say "We" want to "do something" about her, that "We" does not include Sera and she is the one it knows and the one it will target. Please be clear about that. Right now, that vampire has not come after Sera, and Sera has not tracked her down and murdered her. Thus: we have established one of those uneasy truces where two predators have a brief fight because one thought the other was prey and was wrong. Now it knows that error and knows to avoid the thing that hurt it in the future. That vampire clearly communicated with her cabal about the witch who injured her. Turn the moment around. If she is murdered, or destroyed, within close proximity to that encounter - especially by magic - her cabal would reasonably assume that the murder was effected by the witch who injured her: and then Sera, and probably her human friends, of which there are many would be in greater danger than they are now because the rest of the beasts would be inflamed and seeking to eliminate the threat to their existence. Sera can take care of herself. I'm more vulnerable. Dee and Rick and Emily and all the rest are even more vulnerable than that. So please: make your choices, but also take care to consider Sera's choices and Sera's agency in this specific matter especially because she is the most likely to face the consequences of any choices, whatever they are.
5. Kalen: I don't know if the trust comments were directed toward Sera but: Sera questioned you because she was confused and concerned and worried and she cares about you, not because she doesn't trust you. I think that people who care about you should ask you uncomfortable questions. BTW: I didn't pass the bits about no one trusting you on to her: it would just hurt her feelings, which I don't think you intended.
6. I don't think you should make alliances with vampires by yourselves. At the very least, this kind of decision should demand a plurality opinion of the locals. What you are considering is dangerous and has implications for everyone.
But my heart is wild and my bones are steel
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.
- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula
And I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free.
- Phosphorescent, Song for Zula