Rendezvous ((D'rorah))

[D'rorah Philosophy]

D'rorah caught the way Kerridon's eyes flinched away from her own as she asked about the others. Perhaps it had been unintentional, but she never knew. There was also, as she had suspected, the possibility that he would withhold information to protect someone else. For now, she wouldn't press the issue. She would be gaining information she didn't previously have tonight anyway, so there was no reason to cause a stir. The rest would likely come in time, she knew. Most likely, Kerridon would take it upon himself to speak with the other... hopefully she or he would be persuaded and that would be the end of the matter.

D'rorah nodded thoughtfully as Kerridon mentioned Tasha Thomas and Paris Nowan. She knew Tasha only very briefly, just enough to know that she was a young Hufflepuff student. Hopefully she could be recruited back... though D'rorah bristled anew at the idea of another young one in their ranks. She had felt conflicted enough when Dylan had brought Katherine Knightswood into the circle of the Lightfighters... and she worried constantly about Cavan. She just couldn't justify the enormous risks that were being taken by the first year students... for the most part, they should just be learning basic spells and magic... not training to fight in a war against horrible creatures from the Shadow Realm. Paris she remembered from their encounter in Moaning Mytrle's bathroom... the girl hadn't seemed particularly remarkable at the time, though she had seemed very keen on asking a great deal of bothersome questions. For the moment, neither one seemed much of a viable threat. D'rorah would simply have to keep her eyes on them to make sure the other Lightfighters were safe from them.

Hearing Kerridon's question as she pondered the information he had just given her, so thought for a moment. "[blue]If you know of somewhere you will be safe, it makes little sense to have you spend the holidays with any of us. In fact, I believe it would be best for you to take your normal holiday routine. It would be too dangerous to your cover to have you spend holidays with us... that is, unless you tell her that you are spying on one of us. But you may then be placed in the problematic situation of having the task of killing one of us... no, I believe it is best if you spend your holidays apart from the rest of us. That is, of course, unless Dark Phoenix finds that you have switched sides. In that case, you must absolutely be with us for your own protection.[/blue]"

[Kerridon Paradox]

Although he had absolutely no idea on how he would bring up the subject of not serving Dark Phoenix to Silren, he knew he would have to at some point. He couldn’t just leave it, although he would likely put it off for as long as possible. If she turned his opportunity down, Dark Phoenix would know he had turned against her. And he might end up fighting Silren. The last link to Taisy, and he might end up fighting against her. That was the trouble with dread... It made you want to not do whatever was causing it, but the longer you left it the worse it got, and then you didn’t want to even more, and it got worse, carrying on in a rather nasty cycle of that until either it was too late, or you got up the strength to face that dread.

Kerridon wasn’t sure if he imagined the troubled look sweeping quickly over D’rorah’s expression and then disappearing again quickly at the mention of Tasha. Had it been there, or not? At the time, he hadn’t had any trouble with recruiting the first year on the basis of her being a first year, and even now had no huge sense of guilt because of it. This war was eventually going to affect everyone in the school, whether they were 11 years old or 18 years old, he was certain of it. Better they be brought to the right side sooner rather than later and find it was too late. Better they know how to fight now than be killed by an enemy they didn’t know existed.

“Neither of my parents’ estates have anyone living there except house elves, and both have various magical protections that will prevent unwanted intruders getting in. It will be safe enough,” he confirmed. Again, the idea of Dark Phoenix finding out he had switched sides sent little bubbles of fear running through him which he pushed away. If she found out, he would deal with it then and there. Not be consumed with dread that would alter his actions and make him more likely to be found out.