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"Angel is NOT our enemy!" Trisn yelled, "He helped save our lives."
"To impress a girl, we have all done the same. Angelus is the greatest enemy of the clan and that will not change," the clan leader said calmly.
"The girl has great power to sense the evil in things not human. She trusts Angel and she did not trust Angelus when he lost his soul. She said there was a difference," Wensil said.
"He and the girl saved our lives!" one of the warriors from the mission added.
"It was a trick, so we would let our guard down. Why kill a handful of gypsies when you can get them to let their guard down and kill the whole clan?" the leader replied.
"He was honorable to our dead. He could have hidden him and Beshok would never have been given his final rites," Trisn shot back.
"What does he care for a dead body, as anything but a way to gain our trust? To trick us?"
"Yanna trusted Angel to the very end and fought to bring him back. He saved her life, before he even knew she was a gypsy. She sent her friends and family letters telling how she could not understand how are greatest enemy could be someone so nice. He fights the vampires! He does not feed with them!" a man shouted, coming forward. There was a chorus of assentive murmurs from around the campfire.
"Sit down Kental, before you bring more dishonor upon your family. Your sister was lucky she died when she did, else your family would already be thickly coated with dishonor," the leader ordered, "You forget. Angelus was the one that killed your sister."
"Angelus killed Yanna, not Angel! Angelus is a demon and Angel is a human soul! The council MUST come to acknowledge that!" Trisn cried.
"Trisn's right! Yanna was not bringing dishonor upon our family, she was trying to set right a wrong this clan started long ago. It was her clan that betrayed her, by not telling her the curse could be broken. She was betrayed! Not the Clan!" Kental cried. A loud chorus of shouts greeted his cry. Everyone had been upset that she had not known the curse could be broken and died because of it and there was great discontentment among the clan because of it.
"That's enough!" the leader bellowed
"NO!! The soul has been restored capturing the demon in a souled body thereby torturing him. Angel, the soul, has saved the lives of our fellow clans men and is happy! My friend Angel is happy, and the demon Angelus is being tortured by being trapped inside of Angel! By hurting the soul of Angel, you help our greatest enemy! I will not stand by and watch it happen!"
"Then you are disowned from this clan, for taking on our greatest enemy as your friend. It is ruled that Buffy, Willow, Giles, Xander, Cordelia and Oz are officially friends of the tribe and not to be hurt in anyway. Angelus however is still the greatest enemy of this clan. Any who disagree should leave now with Trisn, to save themselves the dishonor of being disowned later," the leader ruled. About 2 dozen people got up and left with Trisn, about a quarter of the gypsies there. Kental, Jer, the first mage, Gilt, and all the warriors from the Sunnydale excursion were with him.
Wensil stepped forward into the firelight. "The young girl, Buffy, has great power and she sides with Angel and she trusts him. If this clan attacks him, she will defend him and the clan will become her enemy. I pity anyone who would have her as an enemy, for they will surely regret it in the end. People of the clan have always joked that my choice in the politics of the clan is the only thing that stays the same. I am changing them, because of this girl. When magic speaks, I listen and obey. You would do well, to do the same," Wensil said, before he turned around and left. Three of the four mages left, followed him.
"Well, those who would have turned against us have left," the leader said addressing the remaining gypsies, "and now only the true members of the clan remain making us stronger. We can no longer harm Angelus through his friends, but he is still the greatest enemy of the clan. So we must find a way to torture him. Any suggestions?"
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