[quote]…you could easily hide that you collaborated with a demon to escape, you know. If you dropped her and let the Wrack-waste swallow her. There will be awkward questions from everyone: the witch, Uusha, Azazuka. And you don’t even know her name.[/quote]

There is no arrangement of the fates, no weaving they could make, to make that a choice that Piripiri of House Seumul would make.

She's got nothing to work with. Her umbrella is wielded by her captor handily, standing tall upon the broken side of a ship, holding back the tide of wrack-dolls from the sea of Hell. Her knives were tossed aside in the forest among a scaled-swarm, to save Han from the whispering snake. She cannot fight, she stretched honorable surrender to the breaking point even grabbing her umbrella.

But sometimes that's not what's needed. Sometimes you catch somebody unwanted as they fall. You wipe away any drool from their gag, you smooth back their hair and pet their head softly. And you hold them close as they shiver and make muffled whimpering noises. "It's okay." You say. "I'm here. It will all be okay."

[quote]A retroactive rolling of entice nets a 12. Gain a string on the demon maid, and she picks one.[/quote]