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[aldersprig]

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Nine
Leander stood still, his hands moving behind his back, his chin up.  He wasn’t meeting her eyes, but he could see Sylviane anyway.  And she did not look like he had just defied her.  

“I just mean…” She faltered and tilted her head.  “Here, come downstairs with me.” She reached for his hand, dropped her hand, and led the way.

Leander followed.  If he tried to gauge forty feet when he couldn’t see her, he was going to get a headache.

Even more of a headache.

She waited until they were downstairs, through what looked like a very well-appointed bar, and into a gym some colleges would kill for, before she said anything.  “Okay, look. It’s your body, and you can do what you want with it as far as I’m concerned. You’re a fae bodyguard. You could look like Poindexter and still kick ass, right?”

“…Right…”  He had no idea what she meant by, well, anything anymore.

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Comments

[sauergeek]

She's really, really new at this. And it sounds like he's recently off a long line of bad masters. (...together, they fight crime?) They're both going to have a lot of work adjusting to each other.

Sylviane might do well to talk with her father about what having a Kept means, even if it's not, quite precisely, her Kept. She does have the same level of order power over Leander as her father would, even if it's not fully unlimited.

...and what kind of idiot would give a bodyguard orders against workings?

[aldersprig]

unless I put something in that I’ve forgotten, he doesn’t have an order to obey her. (If I’ve forgotten that, I need to fix that)

And he wasn’t a bodyguard before, at least not as a full-tme job.

And.... yeah. He’s really raw. And macho enough to not want to LOOK macho

[sauergeek]

I don't specifically recall her being given order power, but Leander is certainly behaving as if she has it.