Topic: Family Matters - The Darkness Comes

Lain Amthras

Date: 2008-10-04 00:49 EST
Poster's Note - The following is taken from a log of live play on Oct. 3rd and edited with permission of the muns. Thanks~!! ]

What did It have in mind for this evening.." Certainly not what It received..

"Lain...Lain, there is another idiot below us, do you see her..?" Snickers announce Its presence above as legs swing on either side of the rafter beam and eyes zero in on one chilly patron in particular.

Wyheree briefly glanced upwards, then her attention was back to her drink and her company.

"Lain, she is not on your list. ....Yeah, but she's not one'a th'damned Family. ....Her name is Ravenlock, isn't it.." ....So's mine. Dun' make it special." Its tongue ran back and forth across Its top lip, then It began to gnaw on Its bottom one. Oh, there was so much It wanted to do..."But she's close to them, Lain...Lain, she helps them."

She curled in her seat, taking another sip of her drink - drifting on the waves of conversations.

"Wyh sissy.." It hissed the word like a snake, even spitting like one. "I do not have to honor our deal, do I.." ....No, go ahead. I don't fricken care. ....Good." The shadows were already moving around her, barely noticeable by but the slightest twitch. The oozed and stretched from the floorboards and wavered in whatever breeze was kicked up by passing patrons.

Wyh cast a glance downward now, with a quirk of a pale brow - her hand resting over her heart.

"She...loves...Brian.." Its voice shook as Its eyes narrowed to slits. Dark threads spun over crystal blue irises, turning them inky black. "She...loves...Jewell.." The shadows turned to spikes and shot up through the floor, undulating like angry octopus legs. "But she...hates...him.......We shall have fun, child.." It was paying no attention to any of the others or the fact that Its prey was in the midst of conversation.

As she made to answer Kitty - the jarring of the shadows through the floor caught her attention.

"I wonder what they will say, child. ....They'll want to kill me. ....Good.." A curl of fingers causes the very tips of the shadows to turn to sabers. Thin, sharp, shiny even. "Better run." And they began to fly directly for the Ice Mage.

Kitty looked at Wyh, then her mind flared out to smack incoming projectiles away from the woman. "What the hells?"

Her eyes surged from silver to black - dark streaks dancing through her pale hair as she met the incoming shadow sabers with a wave of killing frost.

"Dun' concern you, chicklette!" It tossed down to Kitty as Its hand shook to keep the shadows stabbing. What shadows didn't get stopped by Kitty got frozen by Wyh, and they stayed that way for but a moment before they broke apart and shattered on the ground. By that time, It had jumped down from the rafters and the furniture around It shook. "Well well.."

Tass' hand came to touch upon Wyh, and she trembled slightly under it - the effort to keep hold of her control evident. "Best draw this back..."

"I remember you," she said to Lain, or what was Lain.

"Schway girl?" squinting at the attacker.

A kiss was blown to Kitty. It wasn't sure if she had been there for the first infestation of the Doll. Shiny black eyes swiveled round and round. "Wyh sissy...welcome hooome.." The sneering smile that captured Its lips only grew as Wyh addressed It. "I remember you too, child.."

"As I recall, the last time we met did not go well for you. What reason do you have to provoke me once more?"

"Is it just me, or has Schway Girl gone completely off her rocker?" to nobody in particular.

"Actually, because of our meeting...you gave birth to me...And your dragon friend. I should call you Mother instead. You underestimate everyone, and you overestimate yourself.." Lain, somewhere deep inside Its head, laughed. She agreed with Kitty. Indeed, she'd gone crazy. But there was nothing she could do about it and really...nothing she wanted anyone else to do either.

"I think it is you who over-estimates..." The chill around her was absolute zero cold. "You are disrupting my lovely time - I suggest you leave, before you do so in pieces."

"Brian didn't think so...Of course, he's not thinking my of anything right now.." thin fingers waved, accompanying the fib. One eyebrow quirks at Tass, then quirks further at Wyh. "Do try to cut me up, dear, I bet it would feel lovely.."

Thicker strands of midnight and black rippled through her hair, as tendrils of the same colors wound over the tops of her hands. "I have no intention of cutting you - that would be too simple, and expected."

"Then what do you intend to do, dear...bark" Like a dog with a shock collar" Sooner or later you will get zapped, but...you might even enjoy it.." Snickering as It watched Wyh's transformation. This was new, unexpected. Entity loved it. One of the best parts of the deal was derailing Lain's Family. One down...a few more to go.

"Have you no idea what it is I endured - what it is I have become?" her eyes flickered silver a moment.

"Pity parties are lonely, child. I don't scare, don't try." Lain was trying to fight her way to the surface, but Entity wasn't letting her. The struggle showed on Its face, and much like Wyh's, Its eyes flitted between blue and black, like a dying light. "Are you a Hero like our fake brother, fake sister.." Do you hold the Ravenlock name on high?"

"I hold the Helston name on high," over to Lain-monster absently. "Does that count?"

"Not entirely." Still staring at Wyh, answering Kitty. Entity knew she wasn't on the list, but he had more pressing matters at hand.

"I am what I am - I make no claims to perfection." The black overwhelmed the silver a moment, glimmering jet in her pale face.

"That's good...because you'd be twice as annoying if you were. Tell me, fake sister, will you protect your fake Family?" It was enjoying this. But then again, It enjoyed a lot of things. So much had changed since his absence, and Entity was slowly making Lain pay for it. It then dropped Its voice to a slightly audible hiss. "Or are you on a quest to prove you're the bigger woman' By mastering that which tempts you to the darkness" You will come crashing down because of it, child. That is a promise."

Wyh closed her eyes, and when they opened, only a mottling of black remained. "I will do what I will do, and at this moment, I will finish my drink and enjoy the company of my friends." With a slow breath, she reached for her glass - taking a long sip of her rapidly-freezing Passion.

"Nnggyah...as I thought. You will become the bigger woman until you can't fit through any doorways. I will love to see you crash and burn, child. Truly relish it. You are missing out on what you could be. A disgusting, fiendish abomination.." Granted, It was only going off of what It observed and sensed, but It prided Itself in being able to provoke things from deep within others. A gift, as it were. And It wanted to exploit that.

"I only see one of those present at the moment," a toss of her still-streaked hair, and another sip of Passion slushie.

"Too bad. Kairee should lend you one of her mirrors.." Licking Its lips, the floor around It rippled and boiled black and It began to sink into Its depths. "Don't keep this a secret, child. Feel free to tell the world.."

Her only response was a glare that would chill a Yeti. But after a moment, she blinks, takes a breath, and turns back to the bar.

It dropped into the puddle of shadows without another word, and when Its form had disappeared, the inky blackness seeped into the cracks and crevices of the floorboards, back to where they came.