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Max watched Eris with interest once the vampire had rematerialized in front of them. At first, he'd figured the leech was just disoriented after the whole ordeal, but he wasn't perking back up. What's more was Cinnamon wasn't with him, which meant they didn't manage to go in together as they'd hoped. Eris had the coin, so he couldn't be distraught over losing, and given how resilient his clone was to Max attacking it, he doubted clone-Varis could do much better to the real thing.

Assuming Eris followed the plan, the only explanation was that he heard something he didn't want to.

When the vampire addressed him directly, Max curled in a finger, levitating the other half of the coin into his outstretched hand. With a second swoop of his hand, one of his vambraces unlocked and took its place back on Eris' outstretched arm, since Max was pretty sure the vamps would be blind again the moment they stepped out of the clearing.

[color=8585ad]"Gimme it, I'll figure it out,"[/color] Max mumbled unenthusiastically. He was tempted to pry, but with Aaron present, he was pretty much out of opportunities. What he really wanted to do was tell Eris to pull himself together, but Cinnamon reappeared before he got the chance.

...With a sex proposition. Of course.

Varis wasn't stupid, he had to have figured out how the matchups played out by now, and he likewise had to have noticed Eris acting weird. If this leech was half as crafty as he thought he was, this was less a casual fling and more an excuse to interrogate Eris on what he learned under the facade of pillow-talk. And Eris, having no self control, was going to take him up on his offer and fumble gracelessly right into every intellectual trap the Sinnenodel set.

[color=ccff99]"Sure,"[/color]

Idiot. At least he hesitated before immediately jumping at the offer like a sick puppy. A for effort, F for performance. If the actor wasn't, well, an actor, Max would've been concerned enough to start coming up with excuses to delay the leech, but he assumed a consummate liar like Eris could keep his head together well enough for [i]one[/i] night.

Seeing Aaron preparing to leave, Max stood up and likewise pressed his two coin halves together. He pulled on them after the fusion to make sure they really were stuck together, then tucked the coin into his pocket along with the wrapper he'd been playing with. There'd be a buffer period of them walking back to campus inbetween now and whatever encounter Varis had planned for later, which would hopefully let Eris recover and not say anything dumb. In hindsight, he couldn't believe he was actually making plans to protect that horny moron, but this scheme was at least partially his brainchild, and like hell was he going to let some pretentious fuck like Cinnamon outmaneuver him with his dick after it worked out.

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