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"Oh this is insane," She protests "We must stop this eternal war of sun and shadow, the crime to my house, the tyrany your people endurred, it was over a thousand years ago... we must move it to the side, leave it in the past ... we have a greater enemy, the elderr dark... please stop this.. wait, by We do you mean me too?"

"Aye. The kubera wished you safe."

"You are out of the tower now. We must make haste."

"No, first we must save your kithsibblings, I do not like them, but this HUNT will harm the house more than it helps it, annd I am sure you have reasons to see them free"

An ooof as she falls to a lower branch

"My cousins are safe. They will imprison you. They shall kill me. I have no luxury to dissemble."

Zara starts climbing down a drainpipe.

"YOU freed them? It's alarming how poor our security seems to be, but ah? Kudos? " She falls on her ass the rest of the way, "Ow" And gets up to run "Follow me. I'll protect you"

Zara closes her eyes. Lord have mercy. Seelie.

"Aye."

She is.. something else is wrong with this one.. she caught her fall, but.. she seems a bit.. klutzy?

Still, Zara promised the kubera.

And... her cousins are free. Next goal is for her and her own.

And and they clear out, but not before she whistles, and a puppy charges after them struggling to keep up

Lord help us all. Zara keeps running.

And they find the van, a confused man inn the driver's seat. It's Earl! Not sir earl, or even earl the troll.. just a guy named Earl

"My love!" Zara plants a kiss on him, infusing glamour directly.

He gasps "Let's get the hell out of here"

"Aye... in, in." She shoves the clumsy Varich (and the puppy?) into the back of the van.

"Oh whew" She says "yes, ride" She is holding her puppy

"We made it. We won't train nyou to hate."

And off they drive, makinng their way towards the farm

"to whom do I owe my life?" The Varich inquires as she strokes the puppy

"You may call me the Ghost."

"Hunter" Earl says

"And you, Black Sun?"

"Black Sun?" She smiles 'That's what the kubera called me. I suppose it fits for the Obeytanya... those in the house who follow passion more than cold reason in many areas. I suspect the names you give me are not the ones you give those you trust. I am still a Varich. We have centuries of a stupid war between us" she blinks "But if it consoles you? Without my glasses, I'm relatively unsure who you are from here"

Ah, that explains the apparent clumsiness, she's near sighted

"Ah. Perhaps the better for both of us, nu?"

"Are your kinfolk safe? wherrever they are?"

"How came you to be so imprisoned?" Zara extends a hand for the puppy to sniff.

"I believe so. I will risk a scry when we are further away."

The puppy sniffs, and looks a bit spooked, but if Zara is kind, eases it's fear

"I was invited to a hunt by a friendn, she had invitations for two. I did not realize it was hunting training for kithhain, and protested, loudly, annd informed them I would be going to higher authorities. My passions may have gotten ahead of sense, annd when I tried tto free one, well, that was in. Away in the garret with me"

"Feh. As if all Varich must needs be a monolith."

"I know right?" the wilder says with ffrusttration "to have a pattern you must have variety"

"So, how did the manor... acquire... so many subjects?"

"That I don't know in full. Some will always find it hard to get rid of a sluagh, so the program was useful that way .. it maybe when all 15 are questioneed, a rather shameful list will arise"

"The program."

"A popular attraction, then. Feh."

"Would you like me to tell you what I know, or what you wish to hear, ghost? I am using the words others did because it's all I know."

"What I wish to hear would be... not the truth, so. Tell me what you know, aye. Forgive my anger."

"It's.. justified, your anger" the girl blinks with her weak eyes. "the sluagh did not trust me, but through the kubera I was able to learn a bit more about them, what they thought or how they hoped.. I bear no love for your kith, but what they endured no fellow changgeling should. I would apologize on behalf of my House, but that would do no one good... I do apoloize for failing to get word out. One of the cchildligs , a girl, is scarred in mind, phobic. you'll need to see she gets kind hands"

"I shall tend my cousins, aye. And the kubera is why I knew of you."

"Ah, that explains much. Loyal to all varich that one"

Earl looks to Zara "Where do we.. drop her off? As they keep heading east to the farm

"Point. We cannot take her there."

"And I suspect she needs to be somewhere safe from her own people."

"...Dame Claire might have some ideas."