====== Overheard at the Primogen Meeting 2013.04.19 ======

**Eleanor**: Good evening, Charles!

**Charles**: Do you have a moment, Eleanor?  

**Eleanor**: For you?  I have two!

[Eleanor and Charles duck into an empty room or hallway]

**Charles**: I'm so sorry, Eleanor!

**Eleanor**: *You* are sorry!  Why don't you take better care of your herd, Charles.  Now you've done it.

**Charles**: I didn't know!

**Eleanor**: You should know better by now!  Just as soon as your blood supply shows any illness you need to stop feeding since...

**Charles**: We are under attack.

**Eleanor**: You don't.  Of course we are under attack, Charles!  We are always under attack. 

**Charles**: Leave with me.

**Eleanor**: What?

**Charles**: Let's move away together.  Let's start fresh somewhere else.

[Eleanor scoffs - there is an extended silence]  

**Charles**: I believe that the Tremere can find us a cure.

**Eleanor**: They can't find out how I was infected, Charles.

**Charles**: Just tell them you drank the tainted blood of a mortal.  That is how all us Ventrue got sick.

**Eleanor**: Someone is going to talk.  They will just create a story, Charles.  Someone will know!

**Charles**: They won't, Eleanor.  They...just let me deal with this.  Try to stay away for the most part and I'll find us a cure.  

**Eleanor**: I mean it!  This could be the end.

**Charles**: For us?

**Eleanor**: Yes.  I don't want to see you for a long time now.

**Charles**: What?

**Eleanor**: Go away.  Leave town!  I'm sick of this.

[long pause, Charles sighs]

**Charles**: As you wish.