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[madaboutit]

Know there's been some talking about Lestat attacking people in the wake of all the Malcolm shit. I haven't heard anything, so I'm guessing my case wasn't an issue or you weren't told about it or both. Lestat assaulted me the one and only time I've met him. He would have killed me except I apparently taste like shit.

I know it doesn't matter now. I've already gotten the talk about giving him a pass cause he was new and there was a flood and he was just acting on instinct.

Just want to be on your list somewhere if I'm not already.

[transfundere]

I was not told about your particular case, no. Thank you for stepping forward; I realize it isn't simple or easy.

But it most certainly does matter, for any number of reasons. He 'deserves' no 'pass' and I don't intend to give him one. Mitigating circumstances do not, in and of themselves, serve as an abdication of responsibility. They are what they are, but he is still the captain of his own soul.

I would offer you what I offer them: the opportunity to talk with him in a supervised setting that he be forced to reckon and face those which he treated as mere sustenance.

[madaboutit]

To what point?

[Sweeney genuinely doesn't understand.]

Found most folk around here that hurt me do it without it being actually about me. So it's not like I take it personally that he was a cunt.

And most don't really care at the end of the day, cause it wasn't about me.

Besides, if I taste like shit, it isn't like he's gonna do it again.

I got no connection with Neal, which sounds like what the problem was with Malcolm.

[transfundere]

And yet, you are hurt all the same. It matters not if the harm was intended, only that the harm was done. And while I will hardly maim him for actions taken under duress or under the influence, to deny that hurt is no gift to him *or* you.

I have been at the mercy of those for whom my suffering was hardly a concern, perhaps not even to be understood so alien was he to my existence. If you do not wish to speak to him, to make yourself and your harm real to him, then I would certainly never force you. It is not your job to help him, to make him realize these things.

But it gave me some sense of having done *something*, of having at least spoken my piece, of making him *hear* me.

I would offer the same to you.

[madaboutit]

[30 seconds pass.]

What am I even supposed to say?

To him I mean

[transfundere]

I cannot tell you what words sit like acid in your heart, or even if they do. I am not a man given to overly harsh words, but I found them in my chest once my tormentor appeared, clawing at my throat in their need.

Regardless of what comes out, it will be entirely appropriate.

[madaboutit]

Ain't ever met a vampire like you before.

[Another 15 seconds tick by.]

And you'd be there?

[transfundere]

I would.

[madaboutit]

[It takes him a full 5 minutes to answer.]

Alright.

What do you need from me?

[transfundere]

I require nothing from you, or rather, you have given it. I will inform Lestat you are one he would spend some time with, as with the others.

Do you have any other questions or concerns?

[madaboutit]

Only concerns are physical and I'm guessing you have that covered.

He's already proven to me that if he wants to attack me, there's fuckall I can do about it.

But I figure you can.

If it comes to that.

[transfundere]

I do not think that it will come to that.

But yes, I can.

[madaboutit]

Then just tell me when and where.

[transfundere]

I or Lestat will be in touch. Thank you.

And as a note, I have not forgotten our deal. Only that our last port was dreadfully unhelpful in gaining tangible supplies that I thought to wait until a better opportunity came about.

[madaboutit]

Yeah. That port was fucking bollocks.

Need more food too.

He better find something better next time.

[transfundere]

True enough.

I thought I ought to let you know that I was able to distill some of the ingredients for my blood serum, which increases the potency and thus decreases the actual volume required, such that I could make a few vials for emergencies. I am still very much interested in further safeguards, but know that at least *some* have been worked out already.

[madaboutit]

Wait

What serum?

[transfundere]

A formulation of my own making, that I could consume less and remain healthy.

Rats are not particularly large, after all.

[madaboutit]

Gotcha

So you can survive on animals?

[transfundere]

I am unsure. At the same time that I was subsisting on rats, so too was I occasionally biting other immortals in the midst of combat. Any who attacked me, I would take from their strength in turn. At the moment, I drink what the Admiral provides.

[madaboutit]

Alright

Just let me know if anything changes on that front.

[transfundere]

Of course.

I will see you soon. Until then, good health.

[madaboutit]

Til then.