[ elena nods slowly in confirmation. leia put it better than she ever could. ]
That, and - [ there's a small stretch of silence as she figures out what she wants to say. ] They'd just find someone else to blame, to hate, if something went wrong. A scapegoat. [ in chicago's case, it was wanderers like elena. she still remembers her first run-in with the clf, the way they so cruelly tortured an innocent girl and broadcast it to send a message.
vampires aren't the only monsters. sometimes humans are monsters, too. ]