Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

8th of September 2006 A.D.

Pushing down the instinct to just lay everything on the table and then read the social tea leaves you decide to go with a more moderate approach, after all what you do know about Agent Greene is not entirely flattering. "My name is Molly Carpenter, I am a friend of Harry Dresden's..."

"How old are you?" she cuts you off, the word 'kid' unspoken but heard just the same.

You sigh. "Seventeen, I'm also a Cancer, Type B Negative and naturally blonde. All of that has about as much to do with the reason I am here as my age. Look, I don't know you or how much you know, but I was going to finish that sentence with 'the wizard' and it's not because I make a habit of watching silly daytime television. I want because Harry was framed, but not by any ordinary means. I need help, if you know enough to give it..." You shake your head, the self-conscious gesture as complete as it is calculating. "Now I sound like Dollar Store Morpheus, but there are things I can't tell you unless you know, secrets that would be dangerous to both of us."

Look too in control and she'll think I'm a threat, look too out of my depth and she'll think I'm a liability. So I need to land right in the middle... an asset.

"Yeah..." Slowly, almost reluctantly, as though she has just had an argument with herself and barely come out ahead Agent Greene nods. "I do know what you mean Ms Carpenter." That last part is not said in the tone of a teacher doing roll-call, impressing formality upon the moment to get a hand up, it's more the neutral politeness you would imagine she uses in her job to talk to witnesses.

The glass of sparkling water she hands you enforces the impression, although perhaps she feels that she does better with a glass in hand herself, some place neutral to put your hands.

For your part you mostly go over parts of your story that are official record, like being at Harry's when Wright made the arrest and thinking something was fishy and the security footage from Menominee being the thing that got him off, though eventually you 'reluctantly' admit to having seen the video of her husband's dismemberment at the warehouse and explain that this is what had moved you to action.

"That thing is still out there whatever it is and no one can really catch it. What are they going to do put a shapeshifter on trial? I... know more than a bit about things that can pretend to be human but aren't and that looked like one of the worst, it was playing for the camera, in addition to its broader purpose it wanted reveled in the terror of its actions would breed through the eye of the camera. Not that there aren't... vampires. Do you know about vampires?"

Agent Greene nods tightly, as though she cannot quite trust herself to speak.

"Vampires that feed on fear need to be present to do so, same with dark spirits and fey. For something to gleefully cause terror more broadly it would have to be a wrecker not just a parasite." With utmost care you choose the words to appeal to someone with an axe to grind against the White Court

She takes a sip of water then... "If you do something long enough the mind finds a a way to accept it, embrace it Ms Carpenter. Happens to victims, happens to perps. Just how the human animal is put together and most of that goes bump in the might is really damn human where it counts. I don't know how much you know about Mr Dresden's past associates."

"No offense, but more than I am willing to blurt out to someone I just met."

"On the Sixth of July my husband was staking out Dresden's apartment when he was asssulted by a man matching the description of one Thomas Raith, a vampire and known associate of Dresden. He was later brought to hospital by another of Dresden's assoaciates in what seemed like an obvious warning to back off the wizard, a show of brute strength and connections in the force. I later found out that the reason he was even there to begin with was that he had received a phone call from a friend that implicated Dresden in the Splattercon killings. Said friend just so happened to be going on a fishing trip to Alaska and would be out of communication for the next two weeks. When I got in contact with him upon his return he claimed to have never made the call. He was also suffering from lethargy, loss of focus and appatite, irritability, all signs of someone who has been preyed on by a vampire. At the same time, starting before Howard's funeral even aquientances, sources connected with..."

"They White Court?" you prompt, as one might draw poison from the wound.

"Started hinting at Dresden and Ratih as the true cuprits after all who had escaped justice by means of sorcery. Someone Ms Carpenter had made my husband into a tool, a bomb to use against Harry Dresden and now that are attempting to do the same thing to me. Do not get me wrong I want to uncover who killed my him and why for the sake of justice, but also for the sake of my own survival."

As she had been speaking your gaze wanders out the window, to the backyard, the place Detective Grey had been killed and you ask of the bloodstained earth the question you had come here to ask: Who has murdered a man in sight of his own home here, reveling in pain and agony?

Lost 1 Essence -> Now at 5/12

Seeker broken, a breaking seeks. It twists and it coils like a serpent made of tar, poison that knows that it is poison, a violation of nature pressed upon its forms unwilling, so in spite seeking to prove is only a reflection of its own hateful self. Like a dying gasp on lips from which all agony had been drawn you hear its name: Naagloshii.

You gulp down some water to get the lingering foulness out of your mouth. Whatever that is, and the name is strange to Usum as it is to you, it it near as mighty as Iku-Turso and it is unbound under the sky.

Do you tell Agent Greene about what you just discovered?

[] Yes, she needs to know there's worse than vampires after her

[] No, you cannot afford for this thing, as clever and as wicked as it is, know someone is on its trail and has a name to put to it

[] Write in

OOC: You did not have to trigger IPP or anything from the Skinwalker insight because you got it from the Crown and that is already filtered so as not to harm the user since it is part of the Exaltation.