"...I thought I would get in my teenage rebellion a couple years early," says Zana, weakly.

Imrainai nods solemnly. 

"Put the demon back and we can discuss possible appropriate parental responses."

"...so I'm gonna say no? Because I'm a rebel."

Cam has only read half of this Latin but he has surreptitiously tested something up his sleeve pant leg and thinks he can tie up the ?vampire? if she makes any sudden abusive parent moves.

She nods again. "All right! We can do this the hard way, then."

Imrainai closes the door on them. The door locks, and then there's the sound of a bar closing across it.

- so I think we might've blown 'inconspicuous'.

Yep. I think this binding will let me try the tying her up option if she tries anything else.

Guess that's something. I think if we don't break out she comes back with a handgun and an axe and backup.

I also think I can make you a bulletproof vest? Or is she going to shoot me, because I don't care.

Oh she's totally going to shoot you! And then try to behead you, and then maybe try magic if you haven't by that time demonstrated an ability to rip her to shreds. She's waiting until I grow up to kill me.

How confident are you that she won't hurt you? What does she need to be able to do to perform magic? Do drugs that work on humans work on vampires?

She's totally going to hurt me it just won't be fatal, ability to say words and probably access to spell materials, usually at all yes but inconsistently because they're dead and their blood doesn't flow.

I think I can fill her mouth with caramel to prevent words but the binding looks mostly pretty good on the violence-per-se front so I'm not sure I can finesse drugs unless you want to make a deal about it, I'll take, like, what do you have, title of a book you like, it has to be something but it doesn't have to be substantial.

Zana thinks very hard about which action doesn't lead to her being responsible for demons somehow breaking loose and killing a ton of people.

"I know it's still in there, Zana, last chance!"

"It takes a minute to do the dismissal!"

- if - if I give you the title of a book do you think you can knock all five of them out somehow?

I can try drugs that would do it for humans.

I guess that's -

Imrainai fires on Cam through the door instead of opening it. 

" - so I really liked The Tale of Despereaux when I was eight," she says, a little desperately.

He falls over; for one and a half seconds he has a light purple bruise. Cam can't obliterate the door under this amateurishly conducted deal, but he can do a camera in the hallway, his computer to see the feed, and then the drugs. Distributed to account for the not so much circulation thing if that's real.

"Oh, fuck," mutters Imrainai, who has about a second to notice that something is wrong with her system before she collapses.

" - so I guess you are bulletproof! That's - cool?"

I did tell you, Cam signs. I got her, I don't know how long this lasts if she's a vampire. He turns the computer display in Suzanna's direction.

Cool. Cool. We can just - um, if I break down the door now the others aren't going to be far behind so you should probably -

An axe splits through the door, indicating that the other vampires are going to preempt her on that. The display shows two of them outside.