(Yosie it's nearly 5 PM where you are) I have no excuse.

leslie: 1?

Leslie 1. How does your muse react to others breaking the law? If they would do it themselves, what is their reasoning?
Leslie has the nature of a Lawful Good character, which is a shame because at her canon point, Lawful has worked out for her approximately never.

This has required something of a shift in her understanding of how the world works, and so while she usually will follow the law, it's less because she thinks it's right and more because, as a child, she doesn't have as much power as she needs with how much the deck was stacked against her.

(The deck being stacked against her is unfortunately often other ways laws can be used, though, so she's fortunate to have gotten the people on her side that she needs.)

So if she sees someone committing a crime, it depends on why they're committing a crime, because with rules and laws having failed her, she's come to value instead an internal sense of what is "right." Which fortunately she's got a pretty good moral compass.

Which I guess is a roundabout way to say that she's had to shift to Neutral Good.

Leslie, 14?

Would she commit a crime? Before people tried to kill her, she wouldn't have, but the lesson the near-death experience gave her was that if the alternative is bad? Let's do crimes.

But she tends to have a bit of a lean towards following the law. Like how she read that a contract is a promise that can't be broken, and she just trusted that's true.

14. How often does your muse think about death? Do they think about it at all? More than a kid oughta, but not, like, all the time.

In Aefenglom, she thinks about it less, because at this point, any of the deadly things out there are not gunning for her specifically, which is an improvement, but she is very aware of her own mortality.

It didn't help that the whole "Rathmores kidnapping and torturing Mirrorbound" affair wrapped up with a trial three days into her arrival, so that might have coloured her opinion of the population outside of the Haven a bit.

And her trauma around fire is that she knows how easily that could lead to death under the wrong circumstances.

But she hasn't thought about other people dying very much, because after months of no further Rathmore-like incidents and being surrounded by a lot of very capable people, everyone seemed a bit invincible.

She got a taste of it back in the memory sharing in April, because she got to see Ozy's memory of when he was mourning his number one wife's death and she got to talk about things that happen after death.

(Her empire's religion probably has some kind of afterlife given it's so based on Christianity that there are crosses in their churches?? But no one has mentioned it despite a number of near-death experiences or information of past deaths so I'm just going with none.)

If she was from maybe...five chapters later? She'd be thinking about other people dying a lot more, because her fears about an upcoming trial lead to recurring nightmares of her good mom getting sentenced to death, but she was just told about those legal proceedings the night before she got to Aefenglom, so she didn't have the time for the worry to pile up.

So if something real big happens around people she cares about, she'll probably end up thinking about death a lot, but so far the worst that's happened for this that she knew in anything other than vampire hindsight is when a few people went off on a ship to fight a kraken where she has no clue how dangerous that is.

My answers feel pretty scattered today, but that's fine.