#rivervale_lodge

Kerri grins at Edelweiss, and off they go.

Dag mutely offers out the cookie jar to SIv.

Siv takes the cookie, "I fucked up."

"What happened?"

"I saw Tiffany, and couldn't hide my dislike o the bitch" A scowl "Apparently on Samhain I told her to get the hell away from here. Of course THAT part she remembered, at least the message. "

A blink.

"...Why is she a bitch? She's always been nice..."

"She..." Siv frowns "She works for New Agengard. Do you remember?"

"I remember something bad happened there, after the fight... the scary lady took something, but I don't think it was Tiffany who did it..."

"Tiffany isn't scary like that."

"Doesn't matter, she works for the woman who tried to ..." A scowl "Maybe you're better off not knowing, Sorry Dagmar. I shouldn't bother you with this"

"It was Akanthea? The scary lady?"

BOW your heads, Peasants!

"Shhh.."

"She tooks something, and I couldn't stop it... but... but Tiffany didn't. And I mean... I am pretty sure I work for Not-Tanya now, whether I want to or not."

"Keep your voice low, please."

Then "Crap, I didn't think of that way, no wonder you were so angry when the Varich girl arrived"

"If the Varich come and take her - I mean, she's sidhe, right? - I think I'll have to go, too."

"We don't know that, and we'll fight that if need be' Siv says "But you must not mention to any of the grumps, nor Vali that it was Thea who ... tried to take the Kestrel."

"Mom and dad might want to do something about it, and they'd get hurt. Or worse. She'd be in her own hold, right of Demense"

"Thea tried to take the KESTREL?"

Siv nods, dark eyed, "I think of how she tried to seize a part of my heritage, my soul..and ...I'll never ever forget, and I cannot forgive. ANd worse, we were helpless. Oh I never hated no one so much in my life and I realized then and there all the warngiings my mom gave about that skunkmaned bitch were true. We ..we saved her hold I think, and then she rewarded us with mockery and tried to take...or maybe she only played a game. But she threatend the ship."

"Right..." She frowns. "But that wasn't Tiffany..."

Siv frowns "But TIffany works for her.. she is LOYAL to her? And ... Idon't remember htat part so well, but we got here, the Kestrel was damaged, and she was near my mother. How do we know it wasn't some extra threat she was doing on behalf of her dark witch o a liege?"

"Siv...."

"Siv, if I work for a Varich - if I am a Varich - " A distressed look. "Siv, you think I'm gonna hurt Symon, just because of who I work for?"

Dark eyes at the memory "My mother is never more helpless than when Samhain is strong, and to see that ,,symbol of her tabard near my mother I... oh I hated her so much then"

Then she snaps out of it, "What? No.. no"

"But she ain't the Countess."

"I've been blamed plenty for stuff I didn't do. Has Tiff actually done anything, or does she just work for somebody who did us wrong?"

"Stop making sense, please." Siv says miserably "Because if you're making sense than I just .... I nearly destroyed Vali's love life because I was scared and angry"

"So... apologize? Does the Chief know that the Countess to the Kestrel? Maybe she should..."

"NO, did you not hear me? THey must not know! 'Mom and dad might want ot do something about it, and they'd get hurt or worse, and she'd be in her own hold so right o Demense'"

"But.. you might be right about the apology thing" a sigh

She chews on a hangnail, frowning. "I.. I get that... but, I mean, is it really honorable to keep it secret?"

"I mean... like - 'his word speaks only truth.' I don't think the Chief is going to just attack Baltimore..."

"She's not that quick to blow her top, far as I've seen."

A rueful laugh. "Not like me, at least."

A smile "Oh you, you're so much more disciplined than ye used to be."

"I'm trying... It's hard, sometimes." A scowl. "I still get SO ANGRY, and I can't stop it."

Then she ponders "And maybe I"m not as Seelie as I thought, but honor for me doesn't include endangering my hearth and home and family over a slight"

"Well, okay, but... Tiffany might not know what happened, either. I mean, I forgot it was the Kestrel. I remember getting shot... I haven't told Jaymes that part..."

Siv motions the girl to sit down if she's not already " I heard about you and Gerd, a little. Couldn't help but notice Gerd is fine, you're fine, so whatever you did wit hthe anger, you mastered it"

A sigh. "She's just a dumb kid." Flump, into a chair. "I shouldn't have let her get to me."

"I went off before I hit her. She's so little..."

"If... I mean, if I hit a little kid, doesn't that make me just... doesn't it..."

"We both were a bit immature recently sounds like, and mee older than you" She reminds "Just in different ways. The important thing is you didn't hurt anyone you didn't , no matter the temptation. It's our actions and not our temptations that must define us"

A pause "I may have stole that from a batman movie, kinda"

"Batman's okay, too...."

"I'll apologize to Tiffany for real, and maybe to the Hearth" a sigh "I was a bit cheeky."