by Victoria Sheridan 6th September 2020, 9:52 pm
Once the fury had subsided Victoria felt that she might have made a mistake by acting the way she did towards the irascible librarian, but it was too late for apologies now. Victoria had made her stance plain and clear. She was not going to apologize for putting that hateful harpy in her place. Someone needed to do it because if word got around to the townspeople that it was OK to abuse Sabertooth members because the wind shifted in the wrong direction, the dog chewed up the morning newspaper, or just because they felt like it, the younger members of Sabertooth would always be abused by the townspeople.
Originally Victoria had planned to fling books at the librarian's head to give the latter a well-deserved taste of her own medicine, but thankfully she had exercised just enough restraint to avoid doing something that violent.
If the librarian had just limited her censure of the Sabertooth quartet to telling them to be quiet, Victoria would have complied and let it go at that. Throwing the book was what had set Victoria off. That and the look of contempt she had given the quartet.
Victoria had seen that kind of look far too many times on the streets of Capital Crocus. That look that told her she was not a human, but a thing. Something to be chased away from the "good" people of Capital Crocus, something to be shoved back into the bad part of town and forgotten about in the hopes it would just go away and die. Victoria hated those looks.
"I might have overdone it just a little. I also cost us any chance of getting library cards any time soon, if ever." Victoria said to the others. She looked at Sybil and felt that the comment would not be amusing to a bibliophile like her, so the brunette did not repeat it. Poor Sybil probably felt embarrassed that someone had defended her in such a fashion.
"Maybe I went overboard, but I don't regret it. I'm not gonna stand for anyone abusing Sabertooth members around me." Victoria told Sybil, Renji, and Velvet. She was not trying to posture or look cool. She was speaking how she really felt. The brunette did not have an official rank nor official sanction, but she did not need either to defend her guildmates from people who thought that it was OK to abuse Sabertooth's younger members. She then shifted gears to the topic of helping Renji find Sybil.
"Renji's telling the truth, Sybil. Renji needed help finding you and I offered to help, but I didn't know what you liked to read and there were so many magic signatures that I couldn't pick you out." Victoria said to the bespectacled guild member.
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