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Lenore ([personal profile] beloyaltome) wrote in [community profile] marlowemuses 2024-04-21 09:01 pm (UTC)

Lenore nods her agreement that she would certainly negotiate on his behalf if their enemies reached his threshold, though she still hoped that it could all be prevented before it reached that point.

"Yes," she agreed at the end, a little bit hesitant because she wasn't sure what he had in mind. Though she wasn't yet sure what she had in mind for the whole situation, either. "If you want me to go as your diplomat or your spy, I will. I don't much want to--I mean, I'm terrified of the dangers, if any of my most wild imaginings are even a little bit true--but I will. If I go openly as a diplomat, it would mean not getting past whatever facade they put up, but I could perhaps assess more than that through observation, and it would be good to know what they're openly willing to discuss. If I go in secret, as a spy, I could get quite a bit closer to their secrets, but it makes the situation vastly more dangerous for me."

She had some ideas, but she also instinctively wanted to retreat to cover. She'd been in very unpleasant and desperate diplomatic situations before, but that had always been through necessity, trying to forge the safest path through a dangerous situation. She didn't personally need to deal with this situation. She could decline to do more than advise and remove herself back to Styria. It wasn't her neck on the line, unless she chose to help. Though she did like the prospect of increasing her value to Dracula, she wasn't sure if the risk was worth it.

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