[Sodium_noir] Hell is Other People

[Mara Ravenclaw]

Montoya, Mara
A Ventrue and a Brujah
The Sinclair Mansion
  
>"They are an enigma to me Mara." He replied. 

Mara turns toward the Prince again. There was an old saying 'know your enemy'.  So she had made it her point to learn as much as she could about them in Seattle, even going so far as to read the annual reports they sent to her.  

>"They have their hands in so many pies is it? yes, so many pies. Aggressive in business unless it touches on one of the .. well on a company owned by a Vampire or one of the other creatures who share the shadows with us. That damnable Ravnos has some insight into the human magicians and he told me that Melcom seem just as 'gentleman;y' in thier refusal to go after them. He also suggested something similar for the Transport unions in the Industrial area and it is Gothams worst kept secret that the Lupines have a hand in that!"

Mara nods politely in answer to his question.  That much was very true.  Seattle, Gotham, all over the world, Melcom had their hands in a lot of pies.  "Then they are courteous here."  Mara replies, switching again to Spanish.  "LSS suffered a few retaliatory evictions before the city was kind enough to sell us a building."  More to the point, they were kind enough to overcharge them for the run down structure.  "Nor was I the only one."  During Melcom's 'Revitalization' plan for part of the Seattle, more than a few vampires lost havens due to eminent domain condemnations.  The City took property from the land owners, paying only a pittance in return, and then turned around and practically gifted it to Melcom.  She'd helped fight the battle, but the court just wasn't on their side.  Small wonder there were now plans to try to get a measure restricting such land grabs on the ballot for the 2008 election.  

[but then again, that might have been a TAG]

"All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allen Poe 


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