Valentine: ..and then I saw it on the shelf and thought it looked like it might be a genie lamp, so I decided to take it home so that no one else would get it. I never rubbed it to check, but about a year ago it got knocked over and when I was picking it up... well you know how it happens.
Sebastien: Why didn't you tell me about this before?


Valentine: You had enough to think about. It's not that big a problem, something just came up and now I need to hide it somewhere no one would think to look. Out of the house.


Sebastien:Valentine... do you know how dangerous the Djinn are?


Valentine: Her name's Himemiya. She has a crush on Eric. It's kind of sweet.
Sebastien: No, it is not! You can't kill them, you can barely control them, and a single one could destroy the world!


Sebastien: I'll just charter a boat and find a good deep place where the current will take it away from shore into some deep chasm for a few dozen millenium.
Valentine: No! That's really not necessary!


Sebastien: Oh? Because you've made friends? "Hello, I am Valentine of Avalon. You don't know me, but my ancestors enslaved your race and banished them from this plane of existence."


Valentine: OK, she doesn't know about that part.


Ravish: I'm back! Is Valentine here? I saw her car outside.

 

Back in the lab...

Ash: That's the last of it. All the CNS connections have been made to the new body.


Nightshade: Finally! Now wake her up so we can go kick that backstabbing duplicate and my mutinous minions out of my lair!


Ash: Nightshade, I usually let you make your own mistakes hoping that you'll learn from them, but are you sure? There's no telling how much damage was done before I put Beressa's head into suspended animation, and people really underestimate how much of a person's identity is derived from their gender. Doing this could be worse than just letting her pass on.


Nightshade: No, you don't understand! Beressa is pure awesome, and nothing in the world can change that!


Ash: *sigh* All right.




Commentary:

This refers back to chapter 23 or so when Himemiya first came out of the lamp. Fun fact: you can't destroy a djinn vessel, and you wouldn't want to because if you did, the djinn would be free. And pissed. Therefore, most djinn vessels are no longer in circulation and most are in the bottoms of old caves, buried, or the bottom of the ocean.

Next: The New Beressa