<div class="floatright"><div align="center">Virella</div>(http://i.imgur.com/2qSy9gv.png)</div><br/>If Lilian had even wanted to say something else at that point, she couldn't have.  Cinder had sexually dominated her, and the shape shifter was under her control now, had to follow her directions.  When Cinder told her to shut her cockholster, her jaws snapped shut with an audible clacking sound.<br/><br/>Virella listened to the tirade that Cinder threw out in stunned silence.  Cinder's anger was understandable, but at the same time she felt like there was more here.  Still she couldn't get over the fact that her notes were gone, months and months of research just... gone.  She couldn't think of how to salvage this.  She shook her head and walked over to Cinder and put a palm on the angry elf's shoulder,<strong> "Miss Cinder, I can't say im pleased that my notes are gone, but you've done an amazing job tracking down the theif, which is what I'd hired you to do of course.  I'll make sure that the constabulary knows what a good job you did and sees that you are paid for your time accordingly."</strong><br/><br/>Virella looked over at the naked shapeshifter standing silently in the corner and said,<strong> "But without my notes, I'm set back almost a year.  It's going to be difficult to start again.  I have a proposition for you.  Instead of turning Lilian over to the authorities, turn her over to me.  I can make sure she's well contained and well kept, and would be invaluable in my future research.  You'd have to say of course that the shapeshifter escaped or the like of course.  But I'd be willing to pay...."</strong>she paused and thought for a minute,<strong> "... seventy five platinum dragons, in addition to the twenty five I already promised you, if you'll let me take her." </strong>Then almost as an after thought added,<strong>"and of course keep her existence a secret naturally."</strong><br/><br/>Maeryll, who wasn't usually overly concerned with money as a general rule let out a low whistle,<strong>"A hundred platinum dragons is no chump change."</strong><br/><br/>Virella shot the pale elf a look and nodded curtly,<strong> "No it's not, but I can afford it for a chance like this.  You'd have to stay quiet too Maeryll." </strong>Then turning back to Cinder she shrugged her shoulders,<strong>"What do you say miss Cinder?"</strong><br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">Just as a frame of reference, 1 platinum dragon means 1 platinum coin, which is worth ten gold coins or a hundred silver coins.   A total of a hundred platinum dragons could keep Cinder housed, fed, and drunk, in her current lifestyle, without having to lift a finger for four or five months easily.  It's not a fortune, but 1,000 gold coins is certainly a rather large sum.</div></div>