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[She knows that neither of them are the type to hug each other, but there's a moment where Erica almost considers it. Instead, she just opens the door wider and gestures.]

C'mon in. It's kind of empty, but it's clean at least.

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[Cora nods as she makes her way inside. She wouldn't have minded the hug, honestly, but Erica's right - they're not really the type. She glances around as she makes her way inside.]

It's nice. How long have you been living here?

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A few months... maybe longer. It's -- I went home recently, so time still feels a bit disconnected. I was here, but then I was back home and then I was here again.

[She shrugs.] Do you want something to drink?

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[She shakes her head at the offer for the drink, before turning back to her again.]

When you came back did you feel ... weird?

[By weird she means sick. She's trying to figure out if it's something she went through or if it's just the new people that seem to be feeling it.]

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I had been in the vault for months, so I think all of the pent up need for that lunar cycle was just resting in me. Then I came here, and there's no werewolf in me here, so all that energy had no where to go and I think that was the problem.

I was mostly restless, which has happened before when I came back from being home. So, I didn't think it was weird.

[impetere]

[Cora's face falls slightly at the mention of the vault and all that energy. She remembers her particular release, which in the end involved her tearing chunks out of her own brother so that she wouldn't kill someone else. She still hates that loss of control, and she's been trying ever since to claw her way back from that.]

Not the kind of weird I mean. I was ... sick. Kind of like I'd been drowning.

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Drowning? [Erica is concerned about that. She hasn't heard of that before.]

Cora, that's... that's not something I've heard about before. Are you alright?

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[She nods a bit.]

I slept most of it off. The rest of it faded. I'm not the only one though, it seemed to happen to a lot of people who just got here.

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Maybe it's because this whole place seems to be getting worse.

[She sighs.] Isaac is out there now. He's on some quest or something. Off fighting or looking for something. [She didn't want to think about it. She knew it was important though.]

[impetere]

[She nods a bit.]

Do they send people out a lot?

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Probably more than we realize. It's not as though there's a large broadcast that gets announced through the whole city.

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Do the gods or whatever know we're doing it? Do they have to go with us?

[ She thinks it's kind of weird that they would just let them go on their own. ]

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I don't really know. I think Isaac knows more about it. I try to not deal with them.

[She pauses.]

A while back, Isaac was manipulated by them. They made him do horrible things. Him and others and they managed to convince me that I was the one doing them.

[She shrugs.]

[impetere]

[Her eyes narrow a bit at that because that is definitely not a great first impression of the gods. Not that she already has a high one, given her circumstances of getting here, but that doesn't really make it better either.]

Sounds like they have a really great way of inspiring morale.

[Kidnap their troops, take away anything that would make them useful, give them something new they don't know how to use and then mess with their heads. That's a great way to win a war.]

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I think when you start off by kidnapping people against their will... there's only so much you can do to inspire them to fight for your cause.

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[She nods.]

Or wait for the Stockholm Syndrome to kick in.

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Well, I wouldn't say it'd be called that. I mean, I do sort of prefer it here than to back home.

[impetere]

[Cora can see why she would.]

But do you want to fight their war?

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If it means I could stay here... maybe.

[impetere]

[Cora nods slowly. She can't really argue with that logic. And if anything, she wants Erica to stay alive somewhere, even if it isn't home.]

Okay.

[It's not much of an affirmation, but it's something.]

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[Erica nods.]

It's all I have right now.

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No, I know.

[She looks up at her and her face is serious.]

And I want you to have that. I just wish it was more than being stuck in the middle of some cosmic war.

[She deserved more than that. To go from an alpha pissing match to all of this - she deserves better. But she understands taking what you can get better than anyone. Sometimes you do what you have to do.]

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Back home it's in the middle of a kanima war and a power struggle. [She shrugs.]

Everywhere has its battles.

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Yeah.

[But at least the ones back home were theirs. Here it just feels like they're being drafted into a war they didn't even realize was happening.]

I'd just feel better if I was more ... me.

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[Erica wouldn't agree with that. The battle was Derek's. It was what he had put them in the middle of and unprepared most of the time, too.]

I get that.