The Roof, Friday evening

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Other people's cognitive dissonance aside, Dinah was finding the latest weirdness totally amusing. Much better than fighting demons or being a vampire. She still had stuff to think over from both those interludes, but at least today was being a good distraction.

Right now she was practicing her air-walking on the roof again, though, and actually doing pretty well at it.

[ooc: totally open, especially to those cognitively dissonant today.]

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"True, but I had fun shopping for bras with Priestly. He's adjusted pretty well." Dinah couldn't help but grin at that. "And Leto was messing with me, making me think he was his sister." She snickered. "Dork."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Oh, he tried that on me, too." And it had worked. Triela was not the best at keeping annoyance out of her voice, no matter how casual she tried to sound.

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"Sometimes Leto can be a jerk," Dinah said, picking up on that, and remembering that Leto had been poking at Triela a while back, and she'd hated it during hormone week. "But that's probably his way of dealing with it, too."

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"Maybe." Triela was not the sort to be charitable. But if she agreed maybe they could talk about something besides Leto.

"You excited for the end of the session?" Someone was subtle.

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Dinah resisted the urge to roll her eyes, then said, "Yeah, I am. We've got the play coming up, if that's not a disaster, and new classes, and a break in there that doesn't have demon-hunting. Plus new kids are always fun. You? Going home any time soon?"

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"Hopefully." Triela smiled ever so slightly. "Intel thinks they're closing in on Christiano..."

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"That's the guy that got away before, isn't it," Dinah asked, eyes narrowing in thought. "You're not going after him by yourself, I hope?"

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"Pinnochio?" Triela made an unhappy face. "No. No one's seen him since the beginning of the summer. Christiano's one of the leaders of a small Five Republics faction."

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Whew. Good. Triela had been *so* unhappy that fight had ended badly. The longer before she ran into that guy again, the better, as far as Dinah was concerned. "Okay, I don't think you've told me about them before. But you'll be going home if they get a lead on him?"

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"If they locate him it'll probably be a three or four fratello job." And Triela was still the undisputed expert on hard entries.

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Dinah looked down at her hands, then sighed. "And you'll be happy to get back to work." She was quiet a minute, then said, "What's he done, that he's a problem?"

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"Do you know much about Padania or the other Five Republics factions?" Triela asked.

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"No," Dinah said, shaking her head. "Nada. So to speak."

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"They're domestic terrorists. Assassinations, public space bombings, extortion and bribery. Real bastards. Christiano heads up one of the Padania factions. He's planned and ordered a lot of those."

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Put like that, Dinah couldn't really object to someone capturing or killing him. Her biggest objection was still that it would be Triela. Although at least she'd been training for fighting more, now. "You feel like you're up to it, with all the extra practice you've been getting?"

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"I don't think it'll come into play. There can't be many people as well-trained as Pinnochio." Triela had never lost a fight before that bastard. And she didn't plan to lose another one.

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"Maybe not, but there's always a chance," Dinah said, still worried. "And I'm glad the other girls will be there to back you up." She sighed, then made a face. "Except of course for the part where I wish the adults would do their own dirty work, but we've had that discussion before."

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"There aren't any adults who can do what I do," Triela shrugged. And... yeah, they'd had it before.

"So..." Triela... master of casual conversation.

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"So," Dinah said, nodding in acceptance. "Anyway. Is everyone dealing better from the vampire thing now, do you think?" She still felt bad about inadvertently freaking out Kate with TMI.

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"I... may not be the best person to ask." Triela shrugged. "It's hard for me to judge stress on other people. Especially that kind."

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Ruefully, Dinah nodded, thinking. "You're good with it now, aren't you. You weren't a vampire."

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"I never really had a problem. I mean... I have the training to do that sort of thing. And I didn't have to shoot anyone I knew."

Though... she wasn't sure whether or not she would have hesitated if she had needed to or not.

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"That's good," Dinah said, more quietly. She sat down on the edge of the roof balustrade, thinking. "No one should have to do that. Not to someone they know and care about."

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"I would, you know," Triela said quietly. "If I got the orders."

Actually... she wasn't as sure of that as she had been when she'd first arrived.

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"I know," Dinah said, nodding. She got that, got the Conditioning, didn't judge Triela for it. And that it was how she'd... well, been raised, too. She frowned. "I do get it. I just-- it's so unlikely to be here, you know? What are the odds, anyone in Italy would want someone here 'taken care of'? Seriously."