[quote=@Krauxis]
As the girl approached, Chloe held up a massive armored hand in greeting, signaling that she didn't intend to fight. At least not right away. "Hey lady. You're the hound they sent to track me down, huh? Well, I guess you did it, so good on you. Here to take me to jail, then? Or kill me, maybe?"
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Eponine's eyes narrowed slightly as she stared at Chloe.  She spun her hammer around and planted its head into the ground, letting go of the weapon to signify that she also had no intention to fight.  She continued to stare at Chloe, seeing if dropping her guard would prompt the girl to make a preemptive strike.  When no attack came, Eponine said, "Alright Adrian, take everyone and go, and tell the others to stop the search.  Everything that happens from here on out is entirely my responsibility."  Eponine felt that the proposition she had for Chloe was better kept secret; it wouldn't do to have too many people hear about how Maria ordered her to invite an unaffiliated magical girl to Maria's base.

Eponine waited for Adrian and the others to clear off before speaking again, "I am Knight Eponine Hassane.  Procedure would have me...apprehend a non-affiliate magical girl such as you.  As much as I feel compelled to take you down, my lady has taken an interest in you, and I am under orders to...extend an invitation to you to come to her base so that she may speak with you personally."  Eponine spoke slowly and mechanically, pausing to choose her words.  Chloe's tone of voice and posture implied a carefree attitude and lack of discipline to Eponine, who felt a simplistic need to eliminate her; only her adherence to her orders prevented her from violently satiating her visceral hatred of someone she saw as an agent of chaos.

"If you can confirm that you are, in fact, an unaffiliated magical girl, and that you are the one who erected an effigy using an...unused grief seed, then I will escort you to my lady immediately."