I'm very glad I didn't send George and Arthur to deliver the leftovers to Ginny's shelter.  The thought did cross my mind, butÖ  The memory of Joshua's vision disturbed me, and I felt that things had gone much too smoothly.  I'd been convinced all along that some of the people around the party were likely to have been subverted.  I didn't guess that there'd be an attack, not really.  The whole situation simply felt wrong.

I never thought that whatever the Setites had planned might include an attack on the shelter.  No profit in it.  Well, actually, I suppose there is some.  Those youngsters will be quite a bit more vulnerable with the shelter gone.  It's just that that wouldn't merit a near dawn assault by kindred.  According to Ginny, they weren't expecting her, so they must have been looking for me or for someone else they expected to be there.

If George and Arthur had gone in alone, they'd have died.  Unprepared, lightly armed, even against less experienced kindred, they'd have died.  Ginny said three kindred.  Add an unspecified number of ghouls, and my people wouldn't have stood a chance.  Of course, if Ezekiel and I had gone along, the snakes would have died.  I doubt it'd have been easy, but I have confidence in our abilities.

But I couldn't see spending the day at the shelter, and even the slightest delay in the delivery would have stranded us there.  That would have been a breach of etiquette even under peaceful circumstances.  I suppose she'd have put up with it; it's not as if her connection to the shelter were a closely held secret.  My impression is that it was about as public as anything about kindred affairs in Las Vegas.

Sending Sumana with Ehlissa to pursue Nina was clever, I think.  She absolutely must be found, so Sumana can't accuse me of creating the task to get her out of the way, but it does get her out of the way.  Hopefully, the curse will have had no permanent effect on her yet.  She'd not like it knowing that I wish to keep her safe, but I can't help it.  She's the closest I've come to a daughter.  I was never a mother as a mortal and have never felt any impulse to sire childer.

Besides, the two ladies seemed to hit it off well.  I look forward to meeting them again and seeing what bits have rubbed off on each other.  I think Sumana's subtler or at least more refined, but Ehlissa has, I suspect, a healthier sense of self-preservation or at least the necessary balances between living and staying alive.  I wish I could follow along and observe their interactions.  I'll have to ask someone who "Thelma and Louise" might be; I definitely seem to have missed the reference.

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