Bribery & Blackmail, Juvie Mage Style

[thessalian]

In other news, Windy the Kiddy Mage has just approached yet another Glass Walker minding their own business. This time, however, she said something to the effect of "I want ice cream and I know it's not polite to just ask but because you are what you are you'll get me sweets and we can talk about why I'm not supposed to talk about the things I'm not supposed to talk about".

This convoluted paragraph-sentence-thing basically translates to "Here's how it seems to work. I run into adults who are like you (read: werewolves). The adult in question takes me somewhere where we can sit down and get treats. And then they tell me about how I should keep my mouth shut about werewolves and vampires and such. So let's avoid the ducking and diving and get straight to the lecture so I can have ice cream."

Which is blackmail, and an encouragement of bribery. Which would be fine, if I hadn't read through the threads and discovered that the only person who combined treats with lecture (and therefore gave her the ammo for this recent way of dealing with the world) was my damn character.

I think my poor hapless Caregiver has just corrupted the young.

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[thessalian.livejournal.com]

It would be, if my character had given that character hot chocolate to shut her up. Actually, it was mainly to be nice to the kid and, by taking her into a coffee shop full of witnesses, get the seven-year-old kid somewhere safer than the streets of Haight-Ashbury on her own at eleven o'clock at night. But I suppose at that age, things are misconstrued...