Thoughts of an unrepentant serpent. {open}

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"Being preternatural is a very complicated burden no matter the flavor." Sabin said with haunted eyes thought to himself if only she knew what he had to give up because he contracted lycanthropy. The things he had to do because of the beast that hid inside his skin, she would know what complicated really was. He shook his head to clear the thoughts that were in his head. She was the one who needed attention, Sabin did not feel regret as much as he used to.

Sabin could understand her pain, she was much like a new shifter. who slips their skin for the first time. It is in that moment when it truly becomes real for the new shifter. The confusion and fear of the unknown that was what Sabin understood from Esme's eyes.

"Sure sign me up, I am looking for something that would maybe mask my condition for a few days. I am planning a trip amongst the humans and if I could mask the who I am for a few days. it would be really set my mind at ease."

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Esme nodded in agreement with what he said. She'd always been complicated. Magic or disease. It seemed her powers with plants was the reward for the complex disease that had spent so long ravaging her and torturing her. She was hospitalized when the seizures were no longer suppressible with medications.

"I'll pull a few things from the green house Might help you might not I don't know. They are magical fruits and seeds from Acadia. Who knows what they will do."

She studied Sabin for a moment. Right now she had to trust him not to say anything to anyone about her walking though somehow she knew he wouldn't say anything.

" But I have something else for you. A sample from someone. Didn't know what I was going to do with it. But some how I think you'll put it to good use. It's almost Like Katrina showing up. Except with more blood shed."

The sample was blood and decay matter from Casper. She knew nothing about genetics or the cellular level. She knew more chemical based things and herbal structures.

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Sabin smiled as Esme mentioned herbs that might help suppress the snake inside. Sabin had become very accustomed to his beast and as much as it cost he was changed on a fundamental level because of the snake. Even if by some magic he awoke without the feel of those scales sliding in his ribs he would be lost as to what to do as well as still be who he was. The Snake was part of that now, no matter how he would like to lie to himself at times about wanting to kill the snake and return to his family, he would like just to be able to return to the family with the snake sleeping.

"Thank you very much Esme."

She pulled a rotten handkerchief from her purse and offered it to Sabin. Sabin took a step back, not sure how linen could rot. As soon as Sabin could smell the blood and puss on the linen he knew it was death and rot.

"Is this from the rotter that is putting all of us Preternaturals in the city at risk?"

Sabin asked as he was not innocent of using innocents to make a point but it needed to be weighted again the backlash of bringing RPIT in on the scene. To Sabin it was a stupid bit of bravado to issue challenge in that manner.

"Thanks, this will be very helpful. this is actually just what I have been looking for. If only you knew how much I wanted this item."

Sabin was in the market for some vampire genetic samples. he just needed to head to the office to get some more human blood to infect with the vampiric disease that is in this cloth fresh blood which once infected will give Sabin a steady supply of genetic material to play with and the bio data he can gleam from this rotted flesh will be a boon for preternatural science.
Sabin smiled at Esme his luck seems to be changing.

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She merely nodded the less said the more deniability later when he asked if it was from the rotter. "There is a double nature there. A very obsessed person. I think any means is how he will go about it. Sadly I think it might be the only way to remove the current discretely. I wouldn't let anyone trust him. He went from rotting on someone to being normal to picking me up from the floor where I had been spilled from my wheel chair in the chaos. He was stabbed with a silver blade that had no effect on him. I heard one of the people talking about it."

She had no remorse for Casper in this case. Eventually he would face himself. Looking at Sabin. She could hope it would be useful. Sometimes doing the little things were bigger actions than fighting in the battle itself.

"He wants to draw Sion out for the battle he is blatantly flaunting the rules of society so that he can destabilize the power base. Sion however doesn't have the bank roll for it. The Kiss is essentially bankrupt."

She smiled back. "If you need to your welcome to what I have at the store or in the green house though I can only say it would take a lot of research. I don't know how well some of it will work without trial and error. I will gladly give you the notes I have on the plants so far."

She looked up at Sabin. "I need to be going soon. If you need anything you know how to find me right?"

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Sabin could understand Esme's want to get off the street as she would not want to be seen on her feet. Sabin actually wanted to head to the lab to began checking on the sample, Sabin felt like it was christmas because he had some new toy to dissect.

"I have yet to meet any of the new vampires I trust."

Sabin kept to himself the part about him taking part in murdering members of the new kiss. Esme was a blessed outsider to the violent preternatural world that Sabin lived in. She did not need to be a member of his dark world.

"Sion needs to go, however unless this rotting vampire can prove that he is better for us warm bloods, he can expect no aid."

Sabin did not know who this new vampire was, he was not sure he even cared, but in all the confusion as long as the vampires are the only ones dropping dead and not for the morning. Sabin was content to grab some popcorn and watch the fireworks. The kiss being broke could play Into Sabin's hands he just needs to wait until Sion became desperate enough.

"I understand the need that you would want to get going and yes I will definitely be stopping by. I would love to walk a lady to her car."