Talking to Ben was helping. It throttled down the bewildered terror and made her think. The blankness was going away as the urge to scream, to panic, faded.
"Mostly 'C' with a little bit of 'A' and 'B' thrown in for good measure?" Karla said aloud. "He's gotten to the point where he can make that claim and not worry about being challenged or blamed." Hello, horrible thought. "It also means that my usefulness as either a symbol or a placating gesture is gone. If he's already declared me dead, he has no incentive to keep me alive. What small protection I had against his males is gone."
If the males that had attacked her before she'd come to Fandom hadn't been avoiding lethal strikes--
"He knows that I'd find out about this. It's a message." And quite probably a trap.
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Date: 2010-09-09 07:56 pm (UTC)"Mostly 'C' with a little bit of 'A' and 'B' thrown in for good measure?" Karla said aloud. "He's gotten to the point where he can make that claim and not worry about being challenged or blamed." Hello, horrible thought. "It also means that my usefulness as either a symbol or a placating gesture is gone. If he's already declared me dead, he has no incentive to keep me alive. What small protection I had against his males is gone."
If the males that had attacked her before she'd come to Fandom hadn't been avoiding lethal strikes--
"He knows that I'd find out about this. It's a message." And quite probably a trap.