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After the meeting with Carter, Jack contacts Ritchie again to ask for Arkady’s contact details. Ritchie is able to pass messages to him via an Ancilla in Manchester, but Jack isn’t giving enough time for a reply to get back to her through the route.
Arcady,
I want to meet up with you, Rothschild and Angus. I’ll be at Central
Station, tomorrow, at 10:00pm if you want to hear my side of the story.
Jack
The message for Angus is send through the company used as a front by the Prince for city operations.
Angus,
I want to explain this shit. Please meet with me at Central Station
tomorrow at 10pm with Arcady and Rothschilde.Jack
After that she goes out hunting the rest of the night – she has alot of healing to do after what the Tremere did to her. From her victims, she also steals money and a phone.
The next night, she steals another bike and drives up to Glasgow. She stops on the way to buy some mirror shades at a service station. Once in Central Station, she gets a luggage locker and puts the container of Magnar’s ashes for later. Then she goes to sit in one of the bars that overlooks the inside of the station to watch for arrivals. At 10pm exactly she moves out to stand in the centre of the concorse.
The invited Elders arrived and, with some surprise, Jack learns that Hercule Bastion Rothschilde had picked up the mantle of Prince. Rothschilde’s priority was stability and to de-escalate any agression from anyone in the city, and that included potential problems with the Brujah and the Anarchs. He gave none of that away as the group listened to Jack’s nervous explanations and apologies. Eyebrows were raised as she presented Magnar’s ashes in a tupperware tub; the container having been chosen to underline her lack of respect in Magnar’s actions.
Whatever was said must have been sufficient as she was allowed to live, and to stay in Glasgow, as long as she submitted to a punishment that would be serious but would not result in her death. Seeing few options open to her that would spare Cassidy and save her from running back to her sire with her tail between her legs, she agreed.
Light-headed from shock and relief at surviving, she almost staggered out of the railway station and her first thought was to retrieve her abandoned motorcycle, which was miraculously still where she had left it.
