We Are More Trouble Than We're Worth

We Are The Night session 15...


Laura got Mary somewhere safe... then told her "You need to lock the door."

She stumbled away, looking for blood to get her mind off the scent of Mary's.

...
Michael led the advancing vampire away from Mary's room, and away from prying eyes. As they circled each other, he asked again what he wanted.

"Some want her safe. That makes her death valuable..."

Michael re-broke the vampire's arm, and he ran for it, heading into the quad to force him to let him go.

He turned to go, picked up Laura's scent and followed it... found her following a young couple heading away from where people would see them...

"What are you doing?"
"I... She cut herself. I could almost taste it."
"We have to end this. We have to get away from her."

Even though she agreed, she snarled...

We Are Going To Eat You

We Are The Night session 14...


Mary woke as someone put a hand over her mouth.

"Don't scream. Listen. You can't trust them. Any of them. Even the ones sworn to keep you safe are still monsters."
"And I can trust you?" she asked accusingly as the man let her go.
"I never said that."

He wrote a cell number on a note and left. She lay back, now feeling unable to sleep by day or night.

...
Laura was waiting shortly after nightfall.

"Are you alright? You look exhausted."
"Wonder why that might be..."
"I... We do what we can." She sounded genuinely concerned. Mary pursed her lips, saying nothing. She continued. "One of my... associates believes that you know more about Simon's death."
"So you want to read my mind? I mean, do you go around just doing that?"
"No... It... would be helpful, but I won't push it. But someone else might."
"Who, your Prince? One of the others?"

Laura backed off, letting Mary have a bit more space.

Which is when two snarling vampires burst in.

Laura held one off, the other chased Mary - she ran into the kitchen and pulled out a knife drawer, throwing it all at him. He knocked her down, then Laura came in, teeth bared, moving almost too fast to see, and snapped his neck.


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Michael, meanwhile, was near enough to see the first vampire running off, holding his newly broken arm. He followed him to an alley between two campus buildings and dropped down behind him.

"What do you want with her?"

The vampire responded by snapping his arm back into place and attacking.

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Laura moved to pick Mary up, to get her somewhere safe.

Trying not to look at the cut on her forehead.

We Are Unlucky For Some

We Are The Night session 13...


Michael paused to find an opening to get the vampire away from Steve without him seeing it. After a little while a new song filled the dancefloor and Steve was distracted for a moment - and when he looked back the woman was gone.


"What do you want?"
"Just to remind you all that the girl has too many ties to the world. She's not like us. So easily hurt."

Mary stayed among crowds, spending the night in the campus library, trying to stay awake till dawn.

Laura went to see the witch.

"You told me she doesn't know what she knows. Something important she's seen, that she doesn't realize?"
"If I am right... she knows why her grandfather died."
"Why?"
"She has seen too much. We keep secrets, you and I. And the one she carries could kill us all..."

Mary waited till dawn to go home, fell asleep almost immediately.

And didn't wake as someone entered...