The Night of the New Year
Jan. 3rd, 2004 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singindemonhqThe Mechanical Minion may be giving trouble. Sometimes I think something ill wished that computer. I should probably go to London and check on the main machine, but this would be a real bad time to be away trying to find a cyberwitch!
I’d do it if I thought Erynne would come with me, but I don’t want her out of my sight, the way things are.
Maybe I pressed the wrong computer button, or something. I’d made a Journal entry on New Years Day, but it hadn’t uploaded. There isn’t really any way I can ask someone else to upload entries for me - well, a lot of my stuff’s fire-walled - and I’d better do that, now.
Firewalled against all who mean harm.
See the words, obey the charm.
Some of my stuff is fire-walled against everybody, now.
Sometimes humans throw a good party. and I got back to our suite late, the night the year turned. It was partly that a Diran that looks like a kid just turned up at the party! (She nearly started a panic, too – they were all on the lookout for a child vampire)
In the normal way I wouldn’t have a use for a Diran. This time I tried to recruit her! It was a kind of impulse, but she gave me some information that could be really valuable. I tried to make sure that Erynne didn’t hear.
Afterwards the Little Wolf and I came back to our room. One of the best ways I know to welcome in the new year involves a happy werewolf and a lot of chocolate-dipped strawberries…
Now that Erynne's asleep I can't seem to stop thinking. The human year of 2003 was - kind of unusual. That may be the understatement of the millennium.
It's around a year since I did an official gig - and then I found the dimensional portal closed behind me. No way home.
My people rate this as a Hell dimension. Operatives get extreme hazard pay for a gig here. It's quadrupled for Sunnydale and the other Hellmouths. (Pay came through on schedule throughout, too - that's made a real difference. I guess it's because they set up a bank account here, though.)
I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't met Erynne. There's ways to kill almost everything that I know of, and it was a near thing for me, a couple of times. She saved me at least once. There's been too many times when she could have been hurt, or worse. That's one of the things that's worrying me now.
Some if it's been bad . Anything could have happened, when the Anasizi stole Erynne's mind. She was stored, somehow, but later her mind was in a fragile, mortal human body - and if that body had died I guess Erynne would have died with it.
That was as bad as the time when Erynne didn't change at moonrise. The Lamia made her bleed. I've never known whether that could have killed her.
(They call what I have Functional Immortality - means I've been around for a couple of score centuries and nothing killed me yet. There are things that would kill me - probably including a few that I don't know about, which makes me careful. Sometimes I'm not careful enough. I'm pretty sure that Erynne saved me, on Arkadia.
There are too many things that hurt me real bad, too. Erynne heals faster than me and she’s strong I guess she’s probably about the same as me, not aging but vulnerable to a few things, maybe some that we don’t know about - and one of the things that'd hurt me real bad is anything killing Erynne, or taking her away. The Lamia looked likely to do that.
It’d be best if the Lamia died – there’ll be ways to kill her, too. There must be.
I don't know what else might harm Erynne. We removed one threat - but for some reason it's been bugging me more since Warfield burned. It was so easy - but I guess the Lamia had weakened him a lot. )
I've never pushed Erynne to invoke me. I couldn’t take her with me earlier, anyway. The portal didn’t work – but one of the things that the Diran told me was that Zranth wrecked the portals to my whole home dimension.
The Diran said that some may be working now, but warded and guarded so nothing gets through. From what I was taught, an operative bringing home a talisman bride will get through if anything can.
I want the Little Wolf safe, with me and safe. In the end I got into a discussion about her invoking me by telling her our marriage might not be loreful, unless she did. She's promised to do it.
I’d do it if I thought Erynne would come with me, but I don’t want her out of my sight, the way things are.
Maybe I pressed the wrong computer button, or something. I’d made a Journal entry on New Years Day, but it hadn’t uploaded. There isn’t really any way I can ask someone else to upload entries for me - well, a lot of my stuff’s fire-walled - and I’d better do that, now.
Firewalled against all who mean harm.
See the words, obey the charm.
Some of my stuff is fire-walled against everybody, now.
Sometimes humans throw a good party. and I got back to our suite late, the night the year turned. It was partly that a Diran that looks like a kid just turned up at the party! (She nearly started a panic, too – they were all on the lookout for a child vampire)
In the normal way I wouldn’t have a use for a Diran. This time I tried to recruit her! It was a kind of impulse, but she gave me some information that could be really valuable. I tried to make sure that Erynne didn’t hear.
Afterwards the Little Wolf and I came back to our room. One of the best ways I know to welcome in the new year involves a happy werewolf and a lot of chocolate-dipped strawberries…
Now that Erynne's asleep I can't seem to stop thinking. The human year of 2003 was - kind of unusual. That may be the understatement of the millennium.
It's around a year since I did an official gig - and then I found the dimensional portal closed behind me. No way home.
My people rate this as a Hell dimension. Operatives get extreme hazard pay for a gig here. It's quadrupled for Sunnydale and the other Hellmouths. (Pay came through on schedule throughout, too - that's made a real difference. I guess it's because they set up a bank account here, though.)
I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't met Erynne. There's ways to kill almost everything that I know of, and it was a near thing for me, a couple of times. She saved me at least once. There's been too many times when she could have been hurt, or worse. That's one of the things that's worrying me now.
Some if it's been bad . Anything could have happened, when the Anasizi stole Erynne's mind. She was stored, somehow, but later her mind was in a fragile, mortal human body - and if that body had died I guess Erynne would have died with it.
That was as bad as the time when Erynne didn't change at moonrise. The Lamia made her bleed. I've never known whether that could have killed her.
(They call what I have Functional Immortality - means I've been around for a couple of score centuries and nothing killed me yet. There are things that would kill me - probably including a few that I don't know about, which makes me careful. Sometimes I'm not careful enough. I'm pretty sure that Erynne saved me, on Arkadia.
There are too many things that hurt me real bad, too. Erynne heals faster than me and she’s strong I guess she’s probably about the same as me, not aging but vulnerable to a few things, maybe some that we don’t know about - and one of the things that'd hurt me real bad is anything killing Erynne, or taking her away. The Lamia looked likely to do that.
It’d be best if the Lamia died – there’ll be ways to kill her, too. There must be.
I don't know what else might harm Erynne. We removed one threat - but for some reason it's been bugging me more since Warfield burned. It was so easy - but I guess the Lamia had weakened him a lot. )
I've never pushed Erynne to invoke me. I couldn’t take her with me earlier, anyway. The portal didn’t work – but one of the things that the Diran told me was that Zranth wrecked the portals to my whole home dimension.
The Diran said that some may be working now, but warded and guarded so nothing gets through. From what I was taught, an operative bringing home a talisman bride will get through if anything can.
I want the Little Wolf safe, with me and safe. In the end I got into a discussion about her invoking me by telling her our marriage might not be loreful, unless she did. She's promised to do it.
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