((I lost the beginning of the chat because I didn't log it properly. A WINAR IS ME. To summarize...))

David Cohen, the stuttering Ventrue, wanders around the slums, as if he were looking for someone or something. He wanders through Rape Street Park, attracting Reina's attention. She begins to shadow him, but is so preoccupied by her encounter with Zaine and the Prince, and the subsequent impression that Zaine was following her, that she 1) forgets to stop following him when he leaves the park, 2) gets spotted. David confronts Reina. They dance around verbally for a while, "Can I help you?" coming out of both of their mouths. Reina tries to help David, somehow convincing herself he is a professor out to study the social mores of the homeless, and lets him believe she is one of them, lining in the park. She becomes very confused when David asks her if she knows where he can find people with eastern European accents. She thinks he means like Bela Lugosi, so maybe he's looking for vampires?

((Chat log begins))

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:11:59 "Well, can't say I've met many Hungarians lately, but..."

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:12:06
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[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:12:28 ((1 success, Intelligence))

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:12:43 "I think I might know wht you are talking about."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:13:13 Hungarians. Some Germans, Slavs, Lithuanians.

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:15:24 I c-c-could reward you for such knowledge.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:16:22 "Hmm..I am sorry, but I do not know the city very well. I am sure there is a neighborhood around here with people like that. Maybe look up Polish restaurants in the phone book?" Now Reina is really confused.

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:18:24 ::chuckles:: Perhaps I shall. Will you show me more of your park, Reina? ::the Polished English is back::

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:19:11 Reina blinks at him. "The park? Sure. It has lovely condemned buildings and pee smells." She grins

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:21:53 You paint a lovely picture.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:25:47 "Oh, it's a lovely park," she says as she leads him towards it. A faded sign on the fence proclaims it to be the Winter Avenue Park. Someone has crossed Winter Avenue out and written Rape Street on it in spray paint. Reina scratches at the spray paint ineffectually.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:26:18 "The trees are fantastic. It's the people who need a little help."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:27:04 Apparently.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:28:46 She points at a dliapidated school building in the center of the park, complete with rusty playground equipment. "Most people take shelter in there."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:29:06 Is it warm?

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:29:55 "A little warmer than outside in the winter, a little cooler in the summer, I would guess. It's out of the rain, though."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:31:36 ::looks around at the park:: What do t-t-the people need?

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:32:37 "Well, protection from human predators would be a good first. I'm working on that."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:32:49 How so?

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:33:43 "Well, I try to watch out for nasty elements, and get rid of them one way or another. Cops, beatings, whatever."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:34:08 Why you?

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:34:31 "Hmm? Because I can. And someone asked me to keep an eye on the place."

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:35:18 "And I like this little spot of overgrown nature in the middle of the city."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:35:50 How c-c-can you? ::eyes her:: What do you have t-t-that...::nods toward a large man near a trash can fire:: he does not?

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:37:32 Reina arches an eyebrow at David. "Many things. I have all my teeth, for one. And depair hasn't taken me like it's taken them." She includes any visible people in a sweep of her arm.

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:39:38 T-t-two things. One makes sense, t-t-the other does not.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:40:14 "Well, I'm new here." She grins. "It might get me eventually."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:41:01 As am I. What c-c-can I do to help? Sleeping bags, stun guns, food?

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:42:35 "Come back in a few weeks. Once I've tidied up the place a little, I'll see what all is needed. They get food and blankets from some church, most of the time."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:43:04 ::nods slightly::

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:45:57 What is it t-t-that "you" need Reina?

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:46:02 Reina looks up at the sky, observing what stars she can see. "Well, professor, it is getting awfully late. I can show you around more some other night, perhaps?"

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:46:32 Fair enough.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:47:26 "As for what I need? Just my little corner of rejected paradise here, for now."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:48:23 ::he repeats:: Fair Enough.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:48:58 "I'll see you around, then, I'm sure." She smiles brightly and extends her hand to David.

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:50:02 ::takes the offered hand, and it's cold::

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:51:18 David's equally cold hand in hers, she winks at him.

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:51:57 ::smiles slightly:: Good night Reina.

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:52:31 "Good night, professor."

[David Cohen]
Wed Jul 9 0:53:39 ::and off he goes...pauses long enough to stop near a small family...with children...and slipping something into the mother's hand, and he keeps going::

[Reina]
Wed Jul 9 0:53:54 She sits down under a tree and watches David leave. If he turns around to look, she will have disappeared once he turned his back.