<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=345578.msg16343344#msg16343344">Quote from: Kunoichi on 20-11-2022, 12:07:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'd say it's closer to finding out that the ordained saint is willingly choosing to work at a strip club and going all the way with paying customers up in the VIP room, but I don't think a devout Catholic would be willing to just go along with that, either, so fair enough. Now that Mephis knows it's an issue, she'll try to avoid subjecting Serana to it as well, so it should be relatively easy to arrange things to avoid trouble going forward.<br/><br/>I'm not at all sure what my next move should be, so any suggestions anyone has there would be helpful. I kind of wish I could just strike Mephis asking for punishment from the record and then continue on as though it never happened, but that would involve completely invalidating roughly the last page or so of posts at this point, so I know it's not an option.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>That's fair. Though it also doesn't help that they just dealt with Buga, who also had a "willing" slave of his own. So the whole "see? she likes it" bit doesn't sit well with Serana knowing Mephis has also been tortured/trained/raped several times to get where she is now. Unfortunately from a narrative standpoint showing someone being brutally conditioned and stockholmed into loving their slave master, and using that as set piece for how horrific the enemy is, makes it weird to then have people in the party who are also slaves who love their slave masters but in their case it's totally fine.<br/><br/>And I think a standard "we should give her some time to cool off" would be fine here. We can skip ahead to them being on working terms when they reach the city and deal with any needed talks later.