[the Silas PA turns on with a *pop*]

Your vampire is incapable of telling the truth and will proffer deceit at every opportunity.

I have lupus, they will say. Or porphyria. Or rabies. Do not believe them. Remain vigilant, Silas!

Well, at least if we die trying this, we won't have to keep listening to Radio Free Vordenberg.

You still aren't sure.

I'm not.

Look, I mean it's one thing to know we need the power in theory-

It's another to risk incinerating everything I know about myself.

As though you're the same girl who died at a ball in 1698?

As though I'm the same girl who lived in a grass hut by the river?

Time has already changed us. Death has already changed us.

And maybe who we truly are is what endures, instead of what falls away.

Or who falls away.

Are you really going to forego the pleasure of feeding that gasbag his own tongue

for the matchstick's chance that girl might love you?

I- No one is feeding anyone their own anything. Not even Vordenberg.

Ah, she wakes.

And exactly why does Herr Baron get a pass?

He's been up to no good as much as I was.

We didn't kill you.

That's because you couldn't.

Oh yeah?

Look. I didn't kill you because that's not the world I want to live in.

In my world you don't just kill someone to get your own way.

You're a spoilt little girl.

Oooo. Let's be idealistic. Let's pretend the world is perfect.

You know what the world is? It's a fight to the death. Either you have power, or you serve power.

If you think any other rules apply, they're blindspots that get you killed.

You think you're the first person to say that?

Give up, Laura.

Your news broadcasts won't work. You can't find your roommate. You aren't strong enough.

Give up, give up, give up.

I'm still here.

Do you think you're special?

Silas' first Nellie Bly, or Lois Lane?

Do you think all the girls before you died because they weren't as smart or as brave?

The only difference between you and a long line of dead girls is the fact Mircalla decided to save you.

What do you think happens when she decides to stop?

That's her decision to make.

That's right, darling.

You have a choice to make.

Mattie- I can't.

More fool you.

See you on the other side.

What does she think she's doing?

There are patrols of Vordenberg's mega minions everywhere.

What does she think she's going to go do?

She's going down to the crater to drink the blood of the Old One.

She thinks it'll give her the power to fight Vordenberg.

If doesn't kill her. Or drive her mad.

And you were going to do it too?

I was... considering it.

But I wasn't sure if I wanted to be transfigured into an avatar for primeval forces of death and pain.

Oh my god. She'll raze the school to the ground trying to kill him.

We have to stop her. C'mon.

We have to stop Mattie before she reaches the crater.

Danny and LaF and I don't have to dodge patrols, so we'll head overland.

Carm and J.P. will get as far as they can through the Dean's tunnels and Perry

you stay here in case she comes back.

I'm still not seeing the problem with letting her die.

I'm still not seeing the downside of letting her kill Vordenberg.

Because it's like putting out a house fire with a nuclear bomb.

So let's find her fast, okay?

Uh, Danny?

Can I talk to you for a moment? About Laura?

Ya- yeah, sure.

What's going on?

You know what's going on.

She's got us all headed out there, risking our lives to save some vampire

who would think less about killing all of us than we would about squishing a spider.

Oh come on, Laura's just being Laura.

Trying to do her best for everyone.

I know.

But she never really seems to understand that these are vampires, and not just some

undertanned scenesters with problematic diets. You have to figure it's only a matter of time until...

Until...?

Until she takes the wrong risk.

And I'm just hoping that...

someone is there to help her when it does.

Always.

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