we start here later

((ooc: yeah, definitely bedtime for me, join you guys again in the morning))

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Reina grumbles as Zaine directs her, not so gently, into the smokers' parlor. "Yeah, yeah, I'm going in, no need to push!"

Zaine lights a cigarette as he holds the door open for all three of them to enter the cigar lounge.

Reina waits just inside the door, awaiting Zaine's instructions.
She thinks to herself: You do this right, or you do this dead, you unbelievably stupid bitch. You should have just asked the boys to take you to the Prince, they coulda done it for sure. Why couldn't I just have been BORN Cam? Woulda saved me a few decades of trouble. But NOoOooOooo, had to get myself hit on the head with a shovel.
She looks for reassurance at Matthew and Sebastion.

Zaine follows the three of them into the cigar lounge. "Why dont i call carter and see what he wishes me to do?...Hes either going to have me bring you or chop off your head either way works fine as fuck for me." He pulls out a cell phone dial carters number and waits for a response.

Carter never answers his own phone. Odds are he thinks the thing possessed anyhow. But one of his ghouls will relay that Carter wishes to meet this new kindred before Zaine does anything rash.

He will be down to the Cigar Lounge momentarily and noone is to be harmed without his word.

Reina taps her fingernails on a table while Zaine is on the phone. When death does not come immediately after he hangs up, she breathes a sigh of relief and relaxes slightly, sitting down near the others.

After a few minutes of whatever discomfort Zaine can inflict on Reina and company the doors to teh smokers parlor will again open.

Prince Carter enters alone, though two suited men can be seen now talking to the doorman and waiting outside.

Carter is a tall man with unruly hair and very pale skin as of late. He is wearing a very buisnesslike suit, all black with not a hint of wear or lint on it.

Carter will frown faintly seeing Sebastion and Matthew tagging along with the new arrival, the former sabbat new arrival...

They will be greeted and politely asked to vacate the domain. Carter and Zaine wish to speak with Reina Privately and they will surely oblidge their Prince...

When they leave Carter will turn his cold eyes on Reina.

This will be her trial, and the excectutioner is already here should she mis-step.

'So, Reina, tell me your story..'

Carter says, taking a seat across from her.  

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"Well, umm, sir, umm, Your Highness, sir," Reina stammers, nervous under Carter's cold gaze. "My name is Michiko Matsuda, but I have been called Reina for the past 60 some-odd years."

She draws in a long, shuddering breath. "I was pulled from the internment camp at Tule Lake one night in 1944, I think, by a vampire I only ever knew as Lovach. I must have attracted his attention somehow, I don't know why he picked me. I wasn't given any choice, you know, none at all. All I remember was being hit on the back of the head with something hard and metallic, and waking up having to dig myself out of my own grave. Pretty standard, I know now."

She looks up at Carter, her eyes shying away from meeting his. "But you probably don't want the whole story, do you? I'll get to the point. I was integrated into a pack in Mexico known as La Mano Del Desierto. For 64 years, I ran with them, doing cruel things because they told me to; I did'nt know what else to do. I found it all unnecessary, and a waste, when all I needed was sustenance, not dismemberment or evisceration or terrorizing people. I mean, I don't mind fighting, but this? Uncalled for. Too much. Too much."

She shakes her head, her eyes haunted by the past. "I confided my feelings to the pack Priest, a Lasombra named Ignacio. We had been close, always, and he didn't seem to be as mindless as the rest. Well, it turns out he felt pretty much the same way, sir. Like a couple of stupid kids, even though we'd been around the block for a few decades, we tried to change the way the pack did things, tried to talk them into hunting just for food, fighting just for territory."

"Thank God the Vinculum was too strong for them to kill us outright, or maybe they were feeling uncharacteristically generous, but they only exiled us, never to return on pain of death. I still don't know why they didn't rip us to shreds and drink our blood and souls down for dinner."

She starts getting a little misty-eyed. "So, Ignacio and I ran, and ran, and ran, taking to the earth during the day, wherever we could. He told me what he knew about the Camarilla; he knew much more than the rumors and myths I had heard before. The more he talked about it, the more I thought, hey, this is probably a better way to live out the nights, let's go find a Camarilla city and see if they'll take us in."

She wipes a bloody tear from the corner of her eye. "I lost Ignacio in the mountains outside this city. We got separated, running from a bunch of Vasjd, the usual nightmare creatures the Tzimisce make out of their ghouls. These were strong, stronger than the one in my pack could make. I don't know if he made it out. I can only assume he was destroyed, or he would have found me by now. He was my only real friend, you know?"

"Sir, Your Highness, I request sanctuary in your city, if you will grant it. I know my story sounds crazy, especially in the light of what I hear has happened here recently. I submit myself to your mercy, and will submit to whatever tests you wish of me to prove my intent."

She straightens up a little, and finally meets Carter's eyes. "I'm a pretty decent fighter, Your Highness, and I'd be willing to fight for this city if you'll allow it."

Reina looks slightly cross-eyed with the effort of not swearing once during this whole speech. She sits in her chair, eyes down, cringing slightly, hands in front of her, fidgeting, twitching on the table.  

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2008-06-29 10:58:42 Radiation rolls 8 dice to Carter auspex lv4 (Diff 5) 4,5,9,7,1, 8,9,6 (5 successes) The roll is at the diff of Reinas willpower,. Carter spent one willpower to try telepathy on an undead mind. With 5 successes he was seeing and hearing all her thoughts as she spilled her guts here.

I assume she spoke the truth, but if not, with 5 successes, carter knows EXACTLY where her words and the truth differ, so please pm me any indescrepancies.

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Carter watched Reina with same cold, calculating gaze through her entire story. Carter is very good at reading people... Someone of his age and position has to be. He expends a great deal of will to pierce the otehr kindreds mind. Watching her thoughts like a movie as she tells her story..

Every face, every place, every tragedy and betrayal its like he was standing right there as it all happened.

He is quiet a moment, processing everything heh as learned. Perhaps appearing as a judge to reina, weighing her words or maybe deciding exactly how to kill her...  

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Reina did not lie. She knows her life hangs in the balance. She waits for the Prince's judgment, having no other recourse.

After what must feel like an eternity Carter will speak.

'I will allow you sanctuary in my domain Reina. It is rare to see someone who can shake off the taint of the Sabbat but i believe you have. You will be in a precarious position here... I would warn you to not reveal your past to others. Even with my approval such a thing wont win you any friends.'

Carter glances to Zaine for just a moment, perhaps to be sure the sheriff heard what he said...

'I assume you know very little of our traditions, Reina?..'

"Oh thank you, thank you , thank you!" she exclaims, a smile finally reaching her face again. "I'll do my best to live up to your gift."

She thinks for a while. "Sir, I think all I know is that I'm not supposed to reveal that I'm a vampire, not to do anything obviously unnatural in front of the humans. I know there are other traditions, but I'm not exactly sure what they entail."

Zaine turns to reina and responds almost robotically

"The Masquerade
Thou shalt not reveal thy true nature to those not of the Blood. Doing such shall renounce thy claims of Blood.


The Domain
Thy domain is thine own concern. All others owe thee respect while in it. None may challenge thy word while in thy domain.

The Progeny
Thou shall only Sire another with the permission of thine Elder. If thou createst another without thine Elder's leave, both thou and thy Progeny shall be slain.


The Accounting
Those thou create are thine own children. Until thy Progeny shall be Released, thou shall command them in all things. Their sins are thine to endure.



Hospitality
Honor one another's domain. When thou comest to a foreign city, thou shall present thyself to the one who ruleth there. Without the word of acceptance, thou art nothing.

Destruction
Thou art forbidden to destroy another of thy kind. The right of destruction belongeth only to thine Elder. Only the Eldest among thee shall call the Blood Hunt."

Reina nods. "Yes, those are rules I can definitely follow."

"And, tell me if I'm wrong, but for the rules where it refers to mine Elder, that would be the Prince of the city I am in, right?" She looks questioningly at Zaine and Carter.

"Thank you for the use of what I guess is your domain, Zaine., and thank you for the hospitality of your city, Sire" She puts her hands together and bows slightly to each of them in turn, formal Japanese style.

Carter nods to Reina's question.

'Though I may not be truly the eldest in my domain, I have ruled here for one hundred and eighty years. The traditions are mine to enforce and protect.'

Carter eyes Reinas movements, his tone making it clear he is not done with her just yet...

'You are welcome in my domain but i have a few questions. Consider this your presentation to the Camarilla of Sanfield.'

Carter settles his hands on the table.

'You mentioned Lasombra and Tzimisce. Which clans blood are you of?'

"I am of Clan Gangrel, Sir, although I am of a slightly different bloodline. I do not have control over animals, and I can't take a hit like the others do. But I can be fast, and I can hide, although I need to get better at that. But I can still do this." Reina spends one blood point for Eyes of the Beast.

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