[h2][color=00a651]Rebekah Green[/color][/h2]

The Djinn's sudden change in tone caused Rebekah to stop walking and keep a steady eye contact with the shining blue cat. Up until now, Toto had been using formal language, but kept a jovial tone. It was quite a contrast to the deadly seriousness of the new turn in their conversation.

It was a weighty thing, ho hold another's life in her hands, as she now realised she did. Of course she had thought about it in the abstratct, since it really came with the territory of being a superhero, her chosen career path. She wanted to use her abilities to make the world better, to protect people form harm, but to have such responsibility here and now was a sharp reminder of how careful she needed to be.

[color=00a651]"I will be careful then. You have my word as a superhero-in-training that I will strive to protect your life. You can search for a safer place to put the totem if you like, and we'll give it whatever protections we can. For now, I'll put it in the most secure compartment of my bag, with the other things that I really can't afford to get broken."[/color]

She took the bag off her shoulders and dug inside for a moment, before pulling out a thick-walled quartz vial. After retrieving the totem from her belt-pouch, she slowly shrunk it down to a quarter of its original height and fit it snugly inside. The lid was screwed tightly back on and the whole vial went back into a padded pocket near the centre of the backpack where it was held securely by an elastic strap. Surely, there was no way it was going to be damaged in there, not without someone taking the backpack and removing it first.

[color=00a651]"There, does that look OK? If there's anything more you want, say the word. It's your totem, and you're the expert on protecting it. I'm glad you trust me, but I'm more than happy to defer to you on this. Actually, let me return that gesture of goodwill. I'd like us to be friends and partners, so you don't have to keep calling me Mistress or Madam or anything overly formal. You can just call be Rebekah, OK?"[/color]