It's not the trap most people expected.




One problem I found with the current line-up of Juniors is that they have no natural "sensible one" - no Ham-Boy or Glory to say, "Wait up..." Not even a spiffy. The only one who might play that function is Vespiir and she's too busy being the newbie who isn't sure of her place yet.




You may recall we had some conversation about Vespiir needing training? She has two issues:

1. The traditional lore and training that the one or two Caphans in a generation with this gift receive from Caphan spiritual elders are not available to her, since she's a female and her power therefore clearly comes from evil spirits.

2. Having spent so long supressing her power (for self-preservation), Vespiir holds back; maybe even she thinks its bad deep inside?

Vespiir's training is further complicated because she's been brought up to treat everything a male in authority tells her as if it was true and to behave as if she believes it completely. So even if, say, Vinnie was to talk with her about her gifts, she would agree with him completely out of respect for him and a general duty of obedience even if she didn;t understand or believe what he said.

The same is probably true of the "high women" of her new Clan, especially Miiri and Hallie. Vespiir was a pleasure slave of a provincial clan, effectively "middle class" where Miiri and the Lost Treasures were all of noble strains. Miiri's birth-sister is literally royalty. Most of the LL females and associatesseem like very senior lemans (e.g. Yuki) or Earth's equivalent of slavemistresses, organising others after winning their way to secure maturity. Citizen Z terrifies her because she can "see" her link to Herringcapr Asylum.