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Jul 1, 2025 1:20 pm

Jul 1, 2025 1:20 pm

- Benji -

There is some more talk among the guards, they don't sound overly confident in their understanding of your story, but they agree to let you in to see the boss.

"Are you armed?" One asks, stepping forward to where you can see him. He is your typical sewer-dwelling vampire, ragged clothes, unkempt hair, and nails more like talons. "You will need to give me your weapons."

He holds out his hands for your sword, unless you try to obfuscate and sneak the weapon in without them knowning.

• Do you want/try to keep your pet rats a secret?

What do you do?

Jul 1, 2025 1:35 pm

Jul 1, 2025 1:35 pm

Emma instinctively glanced at the couch that Sarah used to claim as her bed, before forcing her eyes back to Pers

"I’m fine. Everything’s fine" she tried to keep her expression steady, but she couldn’t keep her voice from shaking. She breathed heavily, before changing the subject, trying to steer the conversation away from her own mess.

"What about Benji? Has he contacted you?" Benji was a sweetheart, and always kind to her. She believed he too was dead, but if Pers survived somehow, then perhaps he did too?

Jul 1, 2025 2:28 pm

Jul 1, 2025 2:28 pm

Persephone's eyes narrow."So... where are David and Sarah?" Persephone's concern is obvious, but now it mingles with suspicion.

When Emma mentions Benji, though, Persephone sets that aside momentarily and says, "You... you don't know what happened to him? Oh, Emma, we have to go back! We can't leave him."

She shake her head in disbelief. "So... So you just thought he and I were dead? And, you ... didn't try to find us? Emma, look, I can tell you obviously have a lot going on here at home, but... but what? You found your own way out and just... left us behind?"

Jul 1, 2025 2:53 pm

Jul 1, 2025 2:53 pm

Accusing Emma of anything was never going to go down well. But right now, in her vulnerable state, her reaction was even worse. her head snapped up, and her eyes narrowed, her chest inflating with righteous indignation:

"What did you expect me to do?" the frustration just spilled out of her once she started "You think I should’ve just walked back through that portal, if it was even still there? Fought a horde of demons with my bare hands? Or maybe gone to the police and said ‘Oh, hello officer, a cult tried to sacrifice me in an underground murder maze, and by the way, my vampire friend is still trapped in there?" she paused, only to draw a breath, her nostrils flaring

"I barely made it out alive! I'm not strong, like you, or Benji. I escaped by the skin of my teeth and I didn’t know where you were, or who to turn to. What exactly was I supposed to do, Pers? Tell me!"

She crossed her arms tightly over her chest, breathing a little bit too fast. Her anger was real, but the real reason she lashed out at Pers had little to do with being accused of leaving them behind.

Jul 1, 2025 4:43 pm

Jul 1, 2025 4:43 pm

Persephone recoiled from Emma when she became angry.

When Emma had finished her tirade, Persephone sighed. "Calm down, Emma. I can tell you’ve been through a lot. Now, are you going to tell me what’s going on with you or not? And I swear to god if you say you’re fine I’m leaving."

She stepped closer to her friend, looking at her with kindness.

Jul 1, 2025 4:51 pm

Jul 1, 2025 4:51 pm

She forced herself to breathe, her chest rising and falling a few more times until her shoulders finally dropped. Turning her head away from Pers, she looked at the now empty couch:

"Nothing’s wrong" she said, but she still struggled to breath "I just… had to throw that skank out into the street for making a move on my husband. And now I’m standing here, imagining all kinds of things that might have happened while I was away at the Lanesborough"

Her arms were still folder over her chest, even tighter, as she kept her head turned "I don’t want to talk about it"

Jul 1, 2025 5:05 pm

Jul 1, 2025 5:05 pm

Persephone's mouth dropped open. This was not what Persephone was expecting to hear; she had imagined the two of them having a fight about what Emma had gotten up to this weekend, not what David had!

She nodded, acknowledging Emma's request, and said, "OK, we don't have to talk about it. But..." And she wrapped her arms around Emma and gave her a hug, whether or not Emma returned it.

Jul 1, 2025 5:16 pm

Jul 1, 2025 5:16 pm

She merely nodded when Persephone wrapped her arms around her. She still breathed heavily, but then she left herself lean into it, resting her forehead against her shoulder and returning the hug before gently pulling away. "Everything is so fucked up. We're lucky to be alive..." or maybe luck had nothing to do with it - at least as much as Pers was concerned. She said her 'patron' brought her back. Does that make her essentially immortal? "You ARE alive, right?" she gave her arm a short squeeze, just to make sure her mind wasn't playing tricks on her "How is this even possible?"

Jul 1, 2025 8:14 pm

Jul 1, 2025 8:14 pm

Persephone held Emma close, tears flowing from her eyes. After a few more moments, she blinked away tears and pulled back. She laughed at Emma’s question and replied, "Ha, yeah, for better or worse, I am alive. Again, I guess. I died, Emma. But my patron owed me a favor from the job I had done condemning a man to damnation, so I guess the patron sees me as an investment? I met him, or some weird version of him that he thought I would be comfortable with? He appeared as the Dude from Big Lebowski… It was surreal."

After a moment more, she added, " but I am fairly sure I’ve used up all my favors. If I die again, I am dead for good. Unless… Well, unless I keep doing work for my patron."

Persephone looked away, ashamed—she knew deep down that she wanted to do the work, because she wanted the gifts that her patron could grant her, in principle at least. But she also knew that hope was a lie, and her patron would exploit her just like her old bosses tried to, or worse. Still, she had to admit that the desire was there…

Jul 1, 2025 10:56 pm

Jul 1, 2025 10:56 pm

Benji willingly hands over his sword. He doesn’t like carrying it around much anyway. It’s heavy and cumbersome and he’s sure it wouldn’t do him much good against a whole den of feral vampires.

The presence of the guards is somewhat puzzling to him. He hadn’t expected the sewer vampires to possess the wits to establish any kind of formal hierarchy at all, but perhaps he’d misjudged Alasdair. Maybe, when his humanity deserted him, it left behind more than a feral beast? A mad king of sorts, perhaps?

In any case, these guards seem surprisingly well-adjusted, despite their ragged appearance. He wonders why they’ve chosen to serve Alasdair down here, rather than one of the more powerful vampire lords up on the surface where prey is far more plentiful. Maybe he sired them himself? It could be that those imprisoned humans were intended not just as food, but also as potential new vassals for Alasdair…

Jul 2, 2025 3:55 am

Jul 2, 2025 3:55 am

"Did he make you a new body? Or is the old one still out there?" curious, she presses her finger against Per's arm, feeling the tautness of her skin. There were so many questions she had, and some of what Pers said sounded incoherent, but she decided to shove them aside. The less she thought about the implications of what Pers job for her patron entailed, the better. "Pers; do you have any way to track down Benji? To know if he's still...alive? I mean, not dead?"

Jul 2, 2025 4:10 am

Jul 2, 2025 4:10 am

Persephone shrugged and said, "I think it's the same body. Here, look." She was wearing casual chic--a pair of wide-leg jeans, an oversized cream colored button down, and a comfy charcoal-colored cardigan, with some brown urban walkers. She slid off her cardigan and unbuttoned her button down, opening her shirt to reveal the black lace demibra and the modest but ample bosom it contained. She ran her finger across the dozen thin white lines on her skin, across her breasts and sternum, and said, "These are the places he stabbed me. They feel like very old scars, almost faded, but they definitely feel real. I don't know how, but... yeah, this is my body. The same one that got ... murdered. Sacrificed to feed his hellhound, I think. That's probably how he keeps the thing under control. Sacrifices."

Jul 2, 2025 4:23 am

Jul 2, 2025 4:23 am

Unembarrassed by Persephone's bare skin, she traced the thin white scars with her eyes, and then with her fingertips, lightly brushing against one of the faded lines across her sternum, and over her breasts. "This is unreal" she muttered "I remember seeing that hellhound too… down there. And if he sacrificed you to feed it, he’s going to need another victim sooner or later."

She didn’t want to say out loud that they had to stop him, because she wasn’t sure they could. But she would definitely be happy to see him dead for what he did to both of them

Jul 2, 2025 4:37 am

Jul 2, 2025 4:37 am

Persephone buttoned up her shirt and looked Emma in the eye. In a deadened voice, colder than Emma had ever heard Persephone speak, she said, "I'm going to hunt Choudry down and kill him. And he won't be coming back."

Jul 2, 2025 4:47 am

Jul 2, 2025 4:47 am

"Good" Choudry deserved worse than death for what he has done, and she wagered it wasn't just to the two of them. If only she could be there to watch when it happened, but she didn't want any trouble with the police over him. "He won’t do it to anyone else."

Jul 2, 2025 1:14 pm

Jul 2, 2025 1:14 pm

Persephone nodded and held Emma’s gaze for a moment, acknowledging the seriousness of what they’ve just said. Then she softened and said, "Ok, now that that’s been addressed, what I can I do to support you? And after that, what are we gonna do to find Benji?"

Jul 2, 2025 1:43 pm

Jul 2, 2025 1:43 pm

"There is something, now that you mention it" she looked at the bedroom as bit her lower lip, trying to make up her mind before finally turning back to look at her "I’m so tired of hiding the truth from him. About everything I’ve seen. He would never believe me if I told him demons exist, or vampires. He would think I’m crazy. But if he sees it with his own eyes…"

She paused, considering whether to let Pers complete the thought for her, before saying it out loud.

"Can you… show David what you really are? Like you showed me. Just once. So he knows it’s real"

Jul 2, 2025 3:09 pm

Jul 2, 2025 3:09 pm

Persephone frowned at Emma’s request. She replied, "Emma, I… I don’t like to do that. But… ok tell me, do you want to prove something to David, or do you just want me to scare him? And, well, do you know for sure he has been unfaithful? And… have you been? No judgment, mind you!"

Jul 2, 2025 3:27 pm

Jul 2, 2025 3:27 pm

The mere suggestion that she might have been unfaithful to David felt like a slap in her face "I would never!" Didn’t Persephone know better than that? She told her about stringing Henry along, about making him sorry for dumping her. But she never crossed that line. She didn't even ever let him touch her!

"It’s not about that" she breathed to steady herself "He’s my husband. He deserves to know. I don’t want to keep secrets from him"

Jul 2, 2025 3:42 pm

Jul 2, 2025 3:42 pm

Persephone apologized immediately and said, "I’m sorry! I wouldn’t think you had! This weekend was… well, it was something, that’s for sure. But yes, ok, I’ll tell him. Where is he?"

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- Delirium
  
  Emma
- Drgwen
  
  Persephone
- oopsylon
  
  Benji
- Verrain
  
  Malachi