"This isn't the first attack?" Oh no. Oh no. Breathe, Sunshine, it might just be a coincidence. "I, um, don't really read the papers - how long has this been going on?" She's not sure she wants to know the answer, but at the same time, she has to - if the attacks predate her arrival, she's in the clear, all she has to worry about is the tiny, minor, insignificant fact of there being vampires in Darrow. If they don't... she really doesn't want to think about what she'll do if they don't.
Somewhere through the haze of panic she's only barely holding off, she realizes that he'd asked her another question and she scrambles to reply, to keep her accent even. She still doesn't have to lie, thank the gods and angels, because she's pretty sure she couldn't manage anything more than an I don't remember right now.
"I - my name's Rae Seddon. I don't think I've seen anything important, definitely not anyone who looked like a –" she cuts herself off from saying vampire at the very last minute "– like a killer. It's pretty late when I leave here, there aren't usually many people around."
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Date: 2015-07-27 07:02 am (UTC)Somewhere through the haze of panic she's only barely holding off, she realizes that he'd asked her another question and she scrambles to reply, to keep her accent even. She still doesn't have to lie, thank the gods and angels, because she's pretty sure she couldn't manage anything more than an I don't remember right now.
"I - my name's Rae Seddon. I don't think I've seen anything important, definitely not anyone who looked like a –" she cuts herself off from saying vampire at the very last minute "– like a killer. It's pretty late when I leave here, there aren't usually many people around."