[Hector looks at the sandwich, then slowly picks it up and takes a bite without really tasting.]
It's hard to explain. Before, the creatures I made for Dracula's army were flesh from this world combined with spirits from beyond- necromancy, conjuration, binding. The components colored the end results, and they ended up with dark hungers. The fairy is composed with no such parts to taint her. Her body is conjured, and her spirit is...how to explain it...a piece of my will? We are connected. She has no needs or desires of the flesh to drive her, and could not cause harm to anyone unless I ordered it of her.
[That probably sounds no better to Adrian, but it's the best way Hector can explain it to a non-practitioner. The conjured creatures are no better or worse than the puppeteer who pulls their strings.]
With such a creature, I could pursue Isaac without risking collateral damage on my part. I could try to lure him out, but he knows I will come to him if he stays, so he may refuse to rise to the bait.
[Of the two of them, Hector has never been the more clever or devious, and they both know it.]
A...what? [No, Isaac wouldn't anticipate an alliance, because it has never even occurred to Hector that he could have allies. Even when he was part of Dracula's army, he and Isaac had existed in the same space, but they had never worked together. They were both too much of loners for that.
Adrian had defeated Lord Dracula with the help of the Belmont and the Speaker, true. But the only teamwork Hector knows is between forgemaster and forged. Anyone else who would oppose Isaac would likely kill him on sight. Anyone, apparently, except Adrian.]
...no. He wouldn't... [The cost, he is willing to pay, but the idea itself is too baffling to even be possible.]
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It's hard to explain. Before, the creatures I made for Dracula's army were flesh from this world combined with spirits from beyond- necromancy, conjuration, binding. The components colored the end results, and they ended up with dark hungers. The fairy is composed with no such parts to taint her. Her body is conjured, and her spirit is...how to explain it...a piece of my will? We are connected. She has no needs or desires of the flesh to drive her, and could not cause harm to anyone unless I ordered it of her.
[That probably sounds no better to Adrian, but it's the best way Hector can explain it to a non-practitioner. The conjured creatures are no better or worse than the puppeteer who pulls their strings.]
With such a creature, I could pursue Isaac without risking collateral damage on my part. I could try to lure him out, but he knows I will come to him if he stays, so he may refuse to rise to the bait.
[Of the two of them, Hector has never been the more clever or devious, and they both know it.]
A...what? [No, Isaac wouldn't anticipate an alliance, because it has never even occurred to Hector that he could have allies. Even when he was part of Dracula's army, he and Isaac had existed in the same space, but they had never worked together. They were both too much of loners for that.
Adrian had defeated Lord Dracula with the help of the Belmont and the Speaker, true. But the only teamwork Hector knows is between forgemaster and forged. Anyone else who would oppose Isaac would likely kill him on sight. Anyone, apparently, except Adrian.]
...no. He wouldn't... [The cost, he is willing to pay, but the idea itself is too baffling to even be possible.]