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Now that's curious. Outside, there is only one wall, and one wall does not a building make. Inside, though... there are four walls, and those four walls undoubtedly enclose a deep, narrow space. The centre of the floor is sunken slightly, two wide steps leading down into the plush carpeted 'pit'. The whole room is done up in shades of red and black and gold, evoking a heavy Asian air. Paper lanterns hung here and there along the ceiling arches provide only a candle's brightness more light than is necessary to see. Just enough light for one to use to avoid the low tables and heavily cushioned brocade chaises arranged in threes and fours around the room.
Dragon-wrapped columns hold up the arched ceiling, faceted-gem eyes glittering in the dim light. A heavy aroma hangs in the air -- smoky, sweet and intoxicating, nearly overwhelming. Ashtrays and sets of curious brass instruments are laid out neatly on each table, and a few of the tables support ornate glass and brass filigree hookahs, some with as many as twelve long, flexible smoking tubes. In the shadows along the wall, shifting forms can occasionally be seen. Presumably they're servants or attendants, ready to see to a visitor's whim and need. Near the back of the comfortable lowered floor, there is a low desk flanked by two chaises, a tiny island of business. It seems to be reserved for someone in particular.
Lysette drifts in, holding Kehari face to face with her, the pair looking very relaxed.
Stat Name____________________ Gender_____ Species___________________________
Kehari[3m idle] Female Black vixen
Lysette Female Striped Hyena
Olivia female sexdroid
Forrest[12m idle] Multiple Miniature Forest
Phoenix[6m idle] masculine h Bonobian anthrodragon
Flyte[4m idle] Female Flyer
Camilla[asleep] female dragon chameleon (azure blue)
Brimstone[Diafeara's] female cat
Untitled Male Canid objet d'art
sabina[asleep] female half feline/human
FF0000[asleep] neuter telepresence robot
Helix[asleep] Male Marozi
---( DownWarp ) ( 8/12 The Heliquary )---
Untitled gives Brimstone a spine-stroke, and smiles at Lysette and Kehari. "Welcome back, dears."
Phoenix purrs dreamily, draping himself over Flyte. "Ahh, yes, that's right. -Certianly- nothing to complain about! You're a -fine- example of engineering and ingenuity, as well as of aesthetic taste and now, I can see, taste of your own! There was nothing in our records about the models made from that sculpture being capable of adaptive thought, from that era. How fortunate and wonderful that you're able to appreciate all of us." He purrs brightly, and then waves to Lys and Kelly.
Flyte murmurs, "Hello Lysette. Hello Kehari."
Brimstone is staring at Un with the biggest, shiniest, greenest eyes ever seen on a cat.
Forrest rumbles a greeting to Lysette and Kehari
Flyte snuggles up to Phoenix, obviously having been enjoying herself with snacks and drugs, but letting herself sober up a bit with foreboding.
Kehari smiles and waves as she goes floating by in Lysette's arms, looking quite relaxed indeed. "Hi everyone."
Untitled gives Brimstone a very strange look, one eyebrow arched. He can't help but smile again when Kehari and Lysette drift past, pleased to see them feeling peaceful.
Lysette eventually coos out to everyone, smiling. "Hello, all." she trails. She drifts to a couch, near Untitled and Brimstone, and almost lays down on it. The gravity broken pair do drift just above for a time, first, though. She smiles softly up to Untitled, and flicks her whiskers to the kitty, too.
Olivia chuckles over Phoenix's reply; a low, rich sound. "Thank you, though I think half your compliment went quite over my head, sweet." She smiles to Lysette and Kehari, raising her hookah-pipe in a vague salute.
Phoenix laughs at Olivia, shaking his head dismissively. He -is- high, after all. He wiggles and curls a wing over Flyte lightly, like a blanket.
Lysette's bright and presently violet eyes touch on Olivia for a moment. And to the droid, she sighs softly, pleasantly, and waves. The half machine hyena's tail clicks at her side, her eyes narrowing pleasantly in response to her, though for the moment, she is a little quiet.
Brimstone swishes her tail at Lysette and Kehari, but it currently staring at Un intensely, purring. After a while, she leans forward and rubs her cheek over his chest. There, he's hers!
Untitled smiles, and lowers his hand to rub firmly over the top of Brimstone's head, between her ears. He doesn't have the heart to tell her he isn't readily scent-markable.
Torque steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Olivia's lidded gaze clears a bit as she meets Lysette's eyes. She smiles, something unavoidably sensual in the look, along with a simpler warmth. "Hello... you're the new proprietors, yes? Congratulations."
Brimstone purrs. Not content with that, she proceeds to pace back and forth on the statue's lap, rubbing him with her entire side.
Kehari gives Lysette a kiss and gently extricates herself from the hyena's arms, dropping the tiny distance to the couch and getting to her feet where she starts to walk around a bit, as if she's looking for something.
Untitled giggles softly, and holds a hand against the top of Brimstone's back, letting the kitty rub her back against him, too, as she walks back and forth.
Torque smiles warmly as he meanders in, waving his paw happily. "Allo folks, how goes?" He asks in a conversationaly booming tone, seeming quite jovial himself as he walks in.
Untitled fingerwaves to Torque with his free hand. "None too badly, thank you!"
Lysette eventually drifts up.. "Mm, I'm defacto care taker, dear. I just want to see this place in pleasant spirits all in all, that's my real job." she offers, smiling. "Its for my own enjoyment, in that way." she grins just a little lopsidedly. "I'm Lysette Baden Mitza, though, yes.. You are?" she chuffs, watching her mate walk around slowly.
Purple_Hase steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Purple_Hase bows to one and all.
Untitled wiggles fingers to Purple.
Purple_Hase says, "Hi, Untitled sweetie!"
Flyte nods to Purple..
Purple_Hase blows a kiss to Phoenix.
Kehari looks pretty confused, actually. She's glancing around, looking over the tables, walking behind sofas...
Flyte fweeps and hugs her tail after looping it around Phoenix (beside her). She looks increasingly uneasy, despite having had serious amounts of intoxicants.. perhaps she's getting clear headed now.
Brimstone is the happiest cat /ever/. She waltzes about on Un's lap for another long moment, and then drapes herself over one of his thighs.
Purple_Hase glances over to Kehari. "Have you lost something, ma'am?"
Untitled smiles at Purple, and synths, "It's good to see you again." Blinking his LEDs a bit, he looks over at Kehari, brows furrowing slightly. Still petting Brimstone...of course!...he synths to the vixen, "Do you need help with something, Kehari dear?"
Lysette in the haze of the moment, doesn't manage to talk to many. The caretaker of this place allows her few words with Olivia, but her attention is, unavoidably, on her mate. Purple eyes slowly turn green, and a slow breath comes, but no words.
Phoenix hisses and belatedly returns the kiss to Purple, waving, blissed out on the couch with Flyte. He looks obviously high.
Purple_Hase says, "It's good to see you too, Untitled... and Flyte, of course..."
Olivia smiles and waves to Torque, but otherwise stays as she is, reclining on a chaise lounge and smoking contentedly. "As it should be," she sighs in reply to Lysette. "I'm Olivia. It's delightful to meet you, Lysette." Her gaze tracks Kehari as she wanders, but she lets the others speak up in her stead.
Purple_Hase blinks over at Lysette... "Oooh, she looks blissed."
Kehari murmurs, brow furrowed, "I don't... I feel like I lost something, but I can't remember what..."
Purple_Hase giggles. "My, everyone's gotten fucked up... perhaps I should as well!"
Echo steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Purple_Hase winks at Phoenix, giggling.
Torque chuckles as he settles down and smiles to Untitled. "Gerat to hear. Seems like a nice buzzing time here. Which works well for me. " He sits back into a chair and cants his head one way. "I hate it when that happens. Losing stuff and forgetting what it is."
Echo ambles in and looks around. "Busy house tonight."
Forrest says, "it certainly seems to be so"
Lysette's ears rest back neatly a moment. She turns to Olivia, though, and nods softly.. "A pleasure.. I know in the future.. we'll have much to talk about. I'm sure of it, honestly.." she smiles faintly.. "For the moment, though, I am of a mind divided." she trails.
Untitled gives a quick nod to Echo, his attention mainly on Kehari. "Here in the Heliquary, dear?" His eyespheres whirr as they refocus on the spot where he saw Kehari with Lysette, earlier in the evening, trying to pick up anything significant around that area...
Muse steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Muse enters, keeping to the periphery.
Flyte whispers, "Com channel; highly private: Are you sure you're going to be able to handle this?" to you.
Olivia shakes her head, still smiling. "Nothing to fret over, sweet. Take care of her. And you."
Kehari frowns and puts her hands on her hips. "This isn't right," she mutters, glaring angrily at points on the floor.
Purple_Hase licks her lips and smokes at one of the hookah pipestems.
Untitled's LEDs flicker in their dark orbs as they rove from point to point, trying, without success, to see what Kehari's seeing.
Purple_Hase's smile slowly spreads wider.
You whisper, "Com channel; highly private: Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." to Flyte.
Flyte's fields glow warmer around the edges, away from Phoenix, her data-traffic spiking as she 'thinks' hard on something.
Phoenix squints over Flyte at Kelly's confusion, blinking a few times as he starts to clean himself up. "Whassah, Kelly?"
GrayZero steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Lysette's tongue lulls softly.. and she nods to Olivia.. "I'm doing that right now, in the best way I know how." GrayZero steps in with a curious look on her face.
Flyte whispers, "Com: I admit to imprecise and philosophically questionable wording; nonetheless, you understand me. I am extremely dubious about this whole plan as well you know, but I will not interfere unless something goes drastically wrong."" to you.
Purple_Hase tokes lazily, watching the strange goings-on.
Torque bobs his head and stands up, looking about on the desk for one of his favorites. He finds it, a small bottle indeed, and goes back to sitting, taking a small cordial glass and filling it from the bottle. The liquid is odd in that its like a flow of very very small ball bearings.
Kehari angrily waves a hand at the floor in front of her, sort of staring at a point in front of her. "This! This, it's not right!"
You whisper, "Com: I can only second guess my mate so far.." to Flyte.
A small dot of something shows up on the floor where Kehari's looking.
Phoenix strains upwards slowly, to look over Flyte at the spot on the floor. Then he looks up from the floor to Kelly's face, without moving his head, and back to the floor. Blink at the dot. "What the hell?"
Untitled rests his hand on Brimstone's back, letting it settle there, still, for a little while. He cocks his head, looking first to Kehari, then down to the spot she's looking at. LEDs flash slightly as he sees that dot...funny, that wasn't there a moment ago. "What IS it, dear?"
You whisper, "Lysette through the coms, there is an open query that you can respond to, to express further details of what is not right, if you take the opportunity. Its not forced." to Kehari.
Olivia nods to Lysette, shutting her eyes for a moment. "If I can be of some help to you, just let me know. I'm a good listener and a warm body..." She trails off, eyes on the sot like everyone else's, though she seems quite unruffled.
The dot fills out, becoming a mass of tangled strings of light, waving softly in an etheric breeze. Echo.
Brimstone crouches, the energy in the room making her nervous. She huddles in Un's lap.
Kehari doesn't even take notice of Echo. She's busy looking at the floor. That angry, upset look on her face begins to soften. "Oh. No, wait..."
Untitled feels Brimstone tense, and hooks his arm protectively around her.
sabina has connected.
Lysette doesn't get to respond to Olivia, but its not a rude gesture. She sits up, her dull green eyes simply watch, her ears rest back, and there's silence for her. There's the slightest narrow to her eyes which twinges her expression, though its hard to read.
Purple_Hase arches her eyebrow...
Kehari whispers, "Kehari thought everything was wrong, but now perhaps it's not..." to you.
You whisper, "Lysette echoes - what is right?" to Kehari.
Echo flicks out little bits of sparkly nothing, which vanish a moment later. Then moves on, re-taking vulpine form. Apparently, this was easier than moving through the crowd.
sabina stirs slowly, gasping softly and stretching on the couch. Yawning and slowly coming back to life. Tail giving a little flutter and flick, a heavy gag strap still mounted just at the base of the dildo.
Phoenix blinks slowly and stares at Echo, canting his head slowly. "That's new." He mentions, finally. Smoke and haze cling to Forrest as they slip outside.
Flyte fweeps softly and hugs against Phoenix. She doesn't look stoned but she does look sad and very thoughtful.
Echo pops up a ghostly tendril next to Phoenix. "Only in one sense," it says to him.
Echo seats herself beside a rabbit.
Kehari murmurs, realization slowly dawning on her face. "No, it's right... Oh, here it is-Z!" The vixen suddenly drops to her knees, one arm wrapped around her middle, the other holding her off the floor, grimacing.
Phoenix squawks at the sudden tendril, staring at it for a few moments. Then he peers at Kelly as she drops. "Oh, gracious. Kelly?"
Olivia doesn't seem at all offended by Lysette's preoccupation. She does watch the hyena, still calmly smoking, as if trying to provide an example for the edgy gathering here of what this place was intended for. When Kehari falls, though, she shifts, sitting up, smile vanishing.
sabina slowly sits up, kitten ears perked, head tilted slightly in curiousity. Mewing softly, listening to the voices. "Mistress Kehari? Is everything alright?"
GrayZero, uncharacteristically enough, doesn't appear to react at all.
Lysette's eyes twinge, and for a moment, they touch a violent blue. Then, they settle, they record, they illuminate Kehari, brightly. She gestures to sabina, opening a link to her, letting her see all she sees..
Untitled lifts Brimstone swiftly, though carefully, as always, and settles her over his shoulders, behind his neck, boa-style. He rises quickly and hurries over to Kehari's side. "Love?! What..."
sabina squeaks and gasps, suddenly seeing the violet tinged world of Mistress Lysette's sight. "Hello Mistress Lysette.... what's going on?"
Torque drinks down the curious liquid/solid, tilting his head a bit as he looks to Lysette, very concerned, glancing back to Sabina and Kehari with a bit of a shrug.
Brimstone isn't offended. She merely scuttles over to where Flyte is, crouching on the flyer's lap.
Kehari grits, obviously in pain, speaking through clenched teeth. "...s'coming..." she growls quietly, hyperventilating through her nose, the one hand on the floor slowly curling into a clawed fist.
[OOC] Untitled put Brimstone on his shoulders...assumes she hopped down?
Lysette's head remains perfectly level. "It is." she responds, both to Kehari and to sabina.
Flyte hugs the kitty and Phoenix. She seems uncharacteristiclally calm.
[OOC] Brimstone says, "Yeah. Sorry, misread."
You whisper, "Lysette's thoughts touch - 'don't get washed away in the tide', a careful caress, a kiss.." to Kehari.
sabina slips from the couch, trying to rise and go to Kehari. But the move is not easy, legs hobbled, looking through anothers eyes. Squealing out and flopping face down onto the floor with a breath stealing squeak of impact.
GrayZero hrms. "What is?" This asked in a monotone, without any other apparent reaction.
Purple_Hase smiles and shares her pipestem with Echo...
Lysette's view remains uninterrupted, though she slowly shifts over. She reaches behind Sabina, and grasps her leash, slowly pulling her upward, to her feet again.. "Stay, girl."
Leviathan-chan steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Untitled drops to his knees, his lamps pulsing bright-to-dark blue in a steady cycle. He says nothing, but doesn't back away...he stays right there beside the changing vixen, heedless of the threatening look of that claw.
Echo accepts a few puffs, wrapping an arm around Purple's waist.
sabina squirms, pulled upright by the leash, gasping softly. Bleeding from the nose and mouth, struggling to stay upright, but pulling towards Kehari at the same time. "She's hurt Mistress! We have to do something..."
Kehari's eyes flash open and she stares up at Un with wild eyes. "Get...back..." she whines, panting heavily, little beads of silvery-blue sweat starting to pop out all over her face.
Lysette pulls sabina closer.. "She's been hurt for some time, sabina.. Stay back, and be quiet at my side, that's an order.."
Untitled creeps back slowly, his lamps pulsing a little faster. Conflict is evident in his features; he's clearly reluctant to leave Kehari, but can't remain unmoved by that wild, passionate plea.
Flyte clutches Phoenix' knee firmly, a sign of her distress and the way she's forcing herself to stay out of this.
Olivia's gaze is veiled and calm, moving from Lysette, to Kehari, to sabina. "I'll take care of your pet for a spell, if you wish," she offers Lysette in a low voice.
sabina stumbles and whimpers, still trembling, blood dripping to the floor below. Breathing erratic, sobbing softly. "But... Mistress..." Voice soft and breathless, the pains of hitting the floor so hard making themselves slowly known.
Torque stands up, walking over to Lysette and sabina, still watching Kehari, ears folded against his head. He just seems very worried about Kehari in a general level. But not about to interefere.
Lysette's tail curls with a click to her side.. "Olivia, you can help me with her wounds shortly.." she responds, her fist tight on the leash as she keeps sabina from wandering forward, the girl grappled tightly to the ground. "sabina... I know. Please."
Phoenix squeezes his wing around Flyte tightly, nuzzling at her cheek. He, too, is fidgeting back and forth impatiently.
Kehari folds around her middle with another shout and flops over onto her side, curled up in the fetal position and shaking like a leaf, bumping into one of the low tables and making the tall hookah there rattle on its stand.
sabina swallows softly, head lowering a little. "The wounds will be fine in a moment Mistress." Whispering softly, watching intently through Lysette's eyes. The bleeding already slowing on it's own. Swallowing softly and whispering. "What's happening to Her Mistress?"
Purple_Hase's eyes flick to Kehari, her brow furrowing a bit, but she otherwise betrays no reaction.
Lysette's stance remains unnaturally strong. "We're dreaming, awake, sabina."
Olivia hooks one ankle around a leg of the table Kehari struck, and pulls it carefully away from the vixen. Echo' steps up beside Lysette. "I'll help with her wounds now," says the tall horse. His hands are glowing.
Untitled falters, and falls back onto his rump, lips withdrawing, shiny transparent teeth forming and revealing themselves beneath. He flinches as Kehari bumps against the table, as if pained by the impact himself.
sabina mews, brow furrowing. "No, i know dreams Mistress, and this is awake." Pouting slightly, soft lips pursed. Tail flicking slowly side to side, the gag strap fluttering softly.
GrayZero seems to be suddenly there, behind Untitled. She places a paw on his shoulder, not saying anything. Echo kisses Purple's cheek.
Lysette doesn't nod, her head remains perfectly level, mechanically so. One wonders just how far she's retreated into her dataself for this. "Certainly, Echo, be discrete about it." she nods quietly. "You misunderstand me, sabina. But we are in dreams awake, right now."
Kehari unfolds in fits and jerks until she's laying on her side, then throws an arm out to the side and flops onto her back, eyes wide open but unseeing as she starts to convulse, hands curled into fists.
You whisper, "Lysette datasends : sabina, I mean to say, this is the result of all of the dreaming you and her have committed. This is the dream's product. This is its expression." to sabina.
Kehari whispers, "Kehari is... not changing, and still as addicted as ever. At least, her body's makeup isn't changing. Her imilexene infusion, however, is churning through her like a tornado. Something big is about to happen." to you.
sabina inhales sharply, head shaking slowly. "But they were just dreams Mistress! Not real, i didn't cause this, please... please Mistress i didn't mean for it to happen. It was only a dream." Twisting around to face towards Lysette, tears slipping out from the hood slowly. "i didn't mean for this to happen!"
Untitled seems paralyzed, his LEDs staring frightened blue fire at Kehari, but for the pulsing of his lamps, which grows random, uneven. His muzzle hangs slightly open, not a sound coming from the canibot. To GrayZero, however, the statue is not quite so still; his substance crackles for a moment at her touch, a mild painless shock, like licking a small battery terminal, and his nanomaterial trembles all across his shoulders, developing small, blunted, goosebump-like nanospikes.
You whisper, "Lysette records everything. Through her, she still whispers.. ~Through the expression, don't lose sight of self. Do what you need to, don't let it be too strong.~" to Kehari.
Kehari whispers, "*pain*pain*pain*pain*pain*pain*" to you.
Flyte murmurs, over and over, apparently to herself.. "She does not want help, she does not need help, she does not want help.."
GrayZero keeps her paw on Untitled's shoulder, otherwise watching with an expression of, if it isn't impassivity, is a rather remarkable imitation thereof.
Purple_Hase squirms at the kiss, and giggles.
Lysette finally gives a wince, but its before sabina's words hit her.. "Its not your fault sabina. There is no blame on your part. There is nothing you've done wrong."
Echo' moves to kneel before the servant, hand reaching for her face, to turn her back toward him. He whispers, knowing who hears him. "Sabina. Your focus should be on me now."
sabina falls silent, nuzzling against Mistress Lysette. Head buried against her shoulder, watching in silence.
Brimstone creeps, stealthy and uncertain, from Flyte's lap down to the floor and over to Un, crawling into his lap and going very still and soft and warm, there to comfort him.
Olivia gets up from her chaise to perch on the end of Flyte and Phoenix's instead.
Kehari utters a strangled cry and bows back on herself so hard she only touches the ground on the back of her head and her heels, arched in the air and drumming her fists on the floor. That cry suddenly becomes a full-throated drawn-out shout as her body bursts with thousands of fine strands of liquid silver-blue that splay out, curl around her, begin to cover her.
You whisper, "Lysette leaves little parts in the pain, her access to your dataself allowing her to digitally lick you, in a sense, a moment where a words pass through without interference.. ~Hold on love. The world that surrounds you cannot take all of you, even if it grasps you.~" to Kehari.
Flyte murmurs, "So it begins."
Phoenix chirps in acknowledgement to Olivia as she moves over, nodding absently to something unheard. He tucks his snout onto Flyte's shoulder, wincing. "Mrowp."
Echo' tries again. "You who are called slave, listen to me. I cannot help you otherwise."
Lysette's head never moves. Her ears don't either. Her hand strokes under sabina's chin, though, as it remains wrapped in the collar.
Untitled's hand moves...only his hand moves, spreading out over Brimstone's back, fingers splaying. Only the ghostly grey vixen can feel how much harder he's shaking.
sabina squeaks softly, turning back to face Kehari, though the view remains the same. "It's.... she.... that's what i saw Mistress! That color, in the dreams that was..." Stammering, almost babbling, pausing a moment, head turning towards Echo. "Ummm, have we met?"
GrayZero retains an impassive look, although her grip tightens slightly on Un's shoulder.
Kehari's arch sags and then peaks again. Is she trying to fight it? Is she under some effect? Is it just reaction to what she's going through? Regardless, she thrashes about on the floor as the silverblue filaments envelop her and melt together, forming a liquidy cocoon that begins to change shape, details rising to the surface.
GrayZero retains an impassive look, although her grip tightens slightly on Un's shoulder.
Flyte murmurs, "Biotechnology at a level essentially indistinguishable from nanotechnology."
Echo says, "Some prions are like that."
sabina squeaks and shies away, shivering. "That tickles! Stop that... i'm fine really. i heal very very fast and... who are you?" Brow furrowing, tail giving a sharp flick, slim hips cocked slightly to the left. "Don't worry about me, heal Mistress Kehari!"
Flyte sighs and snuggles close to Phoenix. "This is no prionic misfold. This is deliberate, obviously. Only one faction does such work."
Lysette's hand slowly strokes sabina's chin.. "I know.. Please, calm, kitten.."
Phoenix nods. "Only one."
Lysette chuffs across to Flyte. "Its just her imilexine." she comments, quietly.
Echo' says, "I cannot, child. She chose to drink the trap, and Lysette chose to let her."
sabina nuzzles into the caress, kissing Mistress's palm softly. "She's turning into a buggle Mistress. i mean, not something to be that calm about. Did you give her any of the... umm, stuff." Facing Echo again, glisten latex features pinched in worry. "Who are you?"
Kehari's convulsions begin to slow, that high arch in her back beginning to relax. Her cocoon's surface begins to change color now, silver-blue darkening in some places, lightening in others, odd protrusions forming along her torso. In between breaths, her shouts of pain start to change tone, becoming cries of pleasure.
sabina tenses slightly, then relaxes a little, brow furrowed deeply. "And what do you do Echo, aside from general reverberations i mean." Whispering softly, trying not to think about it, ears perking slightly as the cries change tone.
You whisper, "Lysette's datatouches, a lick, a trail.. ~The other side of the same coin can drown, too.. Drift, and float above, rather than indulge..~" to Kehari.
Olivia watches, calm and passive to the point of seeming doll-like. Her pose is even like a doll's ankles demurely crossed, hands on her knees as if someone posed her that way, eyes distant and glassy.
Echo the fox sighs and rubs Purple's belly. "Some people just shouldn't."
Torque's tail swishes slowly as he takes another shot of what ever it is he's drinking, still not speaking. Just watching and being there. Totaly at a lost of what to do or say. He touch's Lysette's back. Just finding a ground at some point, stroking Lysette's back, caressing lightly. Not saying a word.
Kehari whispers, "*good*good*good*good*good*good*" to you.
Phoenix slumps a little and winces as the pitch and form of those cries change, muzzle slumping a little onto Flyte's shoulder.
Flyte looks at Lysette. "Externally, sure. But we both know more than that is at work."
Flyte sighs and shivers.
You whisper, "Lysette words yet wash away a moment of the pleasure, to leave their little whispered mark in the storm, unavoidably seen." to Kehari.
Lysette's fur bristles below Torque's touch, but its not a bad thing. "Flyte." she simply responds, a murmur.
Echo' looks to Kehari, then back to Sabina. He whispers back, "I exist. I learn and grow. I am a healer and a warrior. I touch possibility."
Purple_Hase says, "Just shouldn't what, Echo?"
Flyte rubs Phoenix's shoulders and commiserates with him, her expression hard to read, she nods to Lysette. "I'll be quiet and wait."
Kehari relaxes in steps as the change takes her quickly now, that surface now beginning to solidify into an outline very much unlike the vixen's normal form, colors and lines sharpening.
You whisper, "Secure Datasend: I have access to her entire self. Her internals are completely in tact. I can verify this. There is a vixen under there. Don't drown in bad thoughts." to Flyte.
Echo says, "It varies, bunny-love. Depends on what they've been doing that's bad for them."
Purple_Hase shivers...
sabina sighs softly and giggles. "Nice line Sir, the poet warrior, a little bit bad but if a girl takes the time to get to know you she will underneath it all your sweet, witty, sensitive, caring. A little bit daring and a lot to love hmm?" Left eyebrow arched slightly. "Why is it i am hearing you in two places Sir?" Tail coiling around Mistress Lysette's wrist and tugging softly.
sabina whispers, "~Did Mistress give her any nectar?~" to you.
Kehari-tkxi settles to a stop, and opens her eyes.
Echo' grins. "Because I am in two places at once, young fighter."
Lysette's hand pulls down on sabina's collar lightly, and simply, she watches..
You whisper, "She just licked my clean prior to this." to sabina.
GrayZero says simply, "Hello."
Keharit'ciatn
About five and a half feet tall on plantigrade legs (slightly taller if you count her segmented antennae), this sleek female looks like some bizarre fusion of mammal and insect. Gleaming plates of black chitin cover her buff form from head to toe, interspersed with thin slices of smooth lustrous black satin-finished rubber in the creases where her body moves and flexes. A fine pair of beetle-like antennae rise attentively from her head where ears might otherwise reside, each white and shiny-clean. A curved facetted flange of pale icy blue chitin sweeps back and down from the top of her head, a solid shield that splits into several vertical fingers near the end to guard her head and neck and to protect the pale blue rubbery cilia on its underside, gently moving in the space between flange and body. Solid, featureless sky blue eyes gaze from a sharp, angular face. Her muzzle looks vaguely vulpine until she opens her mouth to display an insectoid maw with black articulated teeth and a crimson appendage that's half forked tongue and half proboscis. The most prominent features on her face, however, are the pearlescent silver tribal chitin markings that start at her nose and wrap around her muzzle, sweeping up the left side of her face and bracketing her eye before disappearing into her headflange.
When she moves it is with a dangerous, almost predatory, grace. The smooth mech-organic lines of her shoulders sweep into slender arms that suddenly turn from black to white near the middle of her foreamrs, ending in buttery-smooth rubber palm and pads, sharp-clawed fingers and a long white whip-like antennae that extends from the back of each hand. An additional set of identical arms sprout from the sides of her torso, just under the upper set. Thick plating covers an athletic bosom and sweeps down her svelte torso and narrow wasp waist with no mammalian navel between the dark bands over her stomach, making her look almost bulletproof. Her hips look streamlined, with a smooth curve that only further accentuates her thighs, only a long patch of which along the inner side appears rubbery-soft and smooth. Shapely legs change color to white at mid-ankle much like her arms and end in articulated four-toed feet, three toes out front and a single toe to the rear as a heel of sorts. Small bettle-like wings are folded behind her, the membranes clear and black-veined, mostly concealed under black chitin wingcases. A slender crease in her chitin is the only thing that might hint at a sex opening but her armored ass is perfection given form, firm rounded cheeks moving under flexible segments. A long insectoid tail, with the end dipped in white like her hands, trails away from her rump and ends in a blunt point with a small crease at the tip.
Carrying:
Kehari's Collar(#2118C)
Echo says, "You weren't expecting it, dear hologram?"
sabina giggles now, nose wrinkling, the marks of dried tears on the smooth latex. "Do i look like a fighter Sir? The most i do is fight for breath in the middle of... ummm forget i said that."
Phoenix stares, eyes wide, at the 'new' Kehari. He bites his lip and shakes his head a little, eyes travelling slowly from feet to head. "Oh, gracious gods."
sabina whispers, "~Good, i think it has something to do with this Mistress, i think it helps somehow.~" to you.
Echo' says, "In the middle of deprivation and torment, I know."
GrayZero closes her eyes. "You do not want me to answer that question. Not now."
sabina scowls cutely. "Has someone been talking about me? i am really not.. ummm, i am a victim of circumstances Sir. i am NOT a freaky kinky person or anything really."
Untitled whispers something under his breath, his voice thick with static. At first, it's so quiet as to be audible only to GrayZero and Brimstone, but as he repeats it, stunned to near mindlessness, it grows louder with the repetition. "Oh, systems, no; oh, systems, no..."
Flyte can barely bear to look. It is, in fact, worse than she thought.
You whisper, "It surely opens her up to this." to sabina.
sabina whispers, "~i'm scared Mistress, the dreams are coming true. Dreams don't come true, they're not real!~" to you.
Echo''s expression shifts to one of warning. "I know that much already."
Kehari-tkxi slowly curls to a sit and then rolls forward to her feet, arms akimbo, limbs and fingers flexing as if newly emerged from a cocoon and trying to dry herself.
sabina nods slightly, frowning, watching through Lysette's eyes. Sighing softly, half expecting what Lysette can see.
Torque smooths the bristled furred some, still silent as he takes a deep breath in, ears still relaxed against his head. Slow, warm gentle, he just strokes Lysette's back.
sabina mews softly, breathing shallow. "She's beautiful."
GrayZero's eyes seem to flash.
Lysette's hand pushes up on sabina's collar finally. "Please, please. Be quiet." she finally chuffs.
Kehari-tkxi hisses, "Well, this is different..."
GrayZero breathes deeply, settles down behind Untitled and wraps her arms around him, attempting to provide at least some support.
sabina quiets for the moment, lips pursed, brow knitted. Tugging softly on Mistress's wrist, as though it reassures somehow.
You whisper, "Don't make this worse for me. These dreams are not natural. You knew that." to sabina.
Kehari-tkxi looks up from her self-examination and turns around, slowly moving those solid blue eyes to each of you in turn.
Brimstone trembles in Un's lap, likely only in response to his own reaction.
Flyte meets Kehari's gaze for the moment that is required, and not a millesecond more or less.
Lysette's own eyes rest a solid, unending blue, illuminating her muzzle, and constantly, Kehari-thxi.
sabina whispers, "~i knew, but i didn't KNOW Mistress. That's exactly who i saw in the dream!~" to you.
Kehari-tkxi whispers, "~I'm here, love.~" to you.
Phoenix grimaces a little, biting his lower lip with a pointy canine briefly as Kelly's gaze passes over.
Untitled fades a little further as GrayZero's arms surround him, only the barest, feeble flickers of blue escaping his framework. Finally, some movement: his eyespheres whirr and pivot in their sockets, tilting upward, locking on Kehari's face as her eyes wander throughout the crowd...
Echo' ignores Lysette. His focus is the victimised creature behind the latex. "She is Neke, or will be when the process is complete."
sabina swallows softly. "Hi Mistress Kehari, ummmm... nice shell." Whispering just loud enough to be heard. "And the colors... wow, very sexy! If i hadn't seen it before... errr, umm is it comfortable?"
You whisper, "Lysette shivers through the link.. ~And so am I.. You won't lose me.~" to Kehari-tkxi.
Lysette would look up to Echo, "This is complex, Echo. Please don't narrate."
sabina turns slightly towards Echo again. "No, she's not, and is at the same time Sir. i saw it."
Kehari-tkxi's gaze settles on sabina last, and that hellish mouth grins with far too many teeth. "It's my own body," she hisses, almost a throaty purr. "Of course it's comfortable..."
Lysette quietly shivers, but this is prior to Kehari-tkxi's words. They don't draw a reaction, surprisingly.
sabina tenses slightly, squeaking at the sight of all those teeth. "Ummm, well that's very good Mistress. i mean it looks rather comfy, if a bit hard and segmented and buggley. So... you have an exoskeleton now, umm. Having always been an endoskeleton myself that must be very different."
Torque's ears perk as he sees the transformation in completion, now understanding in full detail something, that look of ephiphany on his muzzle. HIs nose twtiching a little. Still well beyond words, his fingers just smoothing over Lysette. Then hold, feeling her start to shiver like that.
The horse hesitates, analyzing many possibilities. Then throws a punch. Casual, but with the force of a leaping elephant. "Do not order me, slave-maker. Of course it's complex."
GrayZero still has an impassive look. Therefore there could have been no twinge of a smile at the horse's words. Surely not at all. You're imagining things.
[OOC] sabina says, "Umm who just swung at whom?"
Lysette trails, "Echo, the semantics of this obscure the reality for you. And I don't care presently to explain. I'm respecting you. Please, give me my bounds, and lay into me when I'm not already on the floor, so I have a chance." Jantl'qa steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Kehari-tkxi takes slow steps towards the latex catgirl where she's huddled against Lysette, one foot in front of the other. "Mmmmm... Would you like to feel-" Whatever else she was about to say is cut off as two hands swing up to catch Echo`'s fist.
Jantl'qa blinks, disoriented slightly by the sudden lack of noise as he enters, and flys straight into a piller, "oof"
[OOC] Lysette says, "I thought it was a verbal punch?"
[OOC] Kehari-tkxi says, "It said he threw a punch. o_o"
[OOC] Echo says, "I'm letting everyone else decide the semantics of the attack. Your reaction determins the reality of this one. :)"
[OOC] Lysette says, "Crud. Well, I can include that catch, then."
[OOC] Lysette did not expect an actual punch, so on that level, it doesn't happen. If someone else does, and wants to catch it, go for it!
[OOC] Kehari-tkxi says, "Nah, I'll repose. Easier that way."
[OOC] Lysette says, "Or rather, I would not expect."
[OOC] Lysette nods.
sabina squeaks seeing the punch, and Kehari's reaction. Twisting round to scowl at Echo. "Some healer! Paging Dr Pugilist your mother called and she is very embarassed!" Left foot sort of stomping for emphasis. "Be nice to Mistress Lysette, She's having a bad night..." Turning towards Kehari again, nodding slowly, anger rapidly fading at the sight of her. "Yes Mistress... i would like to feel, umm you."
Kehari-tkxi takes slow steps towards the latex catgirl where she's huddled against Lysette, one foot in front of the other. "Mmmmm... Would you like to feel how good it feels?" (for log surgery later)
GrayZero says softly, "She has earned her burden; it is no excuse."
Olivia stands up, graceful and unhurried. She straightens her dress, reclaims her cigarette-holder from one of the tables, and heads for the door at a liesurely saunter.
sabina swallows softly, left eyebrow arched. "You mean having an exoskeleton? Oh no Mistress, it looks terribly difficult to... clean."
Kehari-tkxi chuckles softly, surprisingly musical considering what her voice sounds like now. "No, my dear. Allow me." She bends over at the waist and picks up sabina with four arms.
Lysette's tongue lulls behind her teeth. "Ill informed hypocrites. Just what do you actually know?" she comments quietly.
Flyte murmurs, "See you later, Olivia."
Olivia waves vaguely on her way out.
Echo' snorts. "My mother is dead some thousand years. She made her choice when I was still learning to walk. And as I said, I am a warrior; you, dear misled child, are the one whom I choose to heal." He stands. "But yes, explore the results of others' interference in your life. Feel her fully, and know the names of those who have caused this."
Smoke and haze cling to Olivia as they slip outside.
You whisper, "Lysette datasends: ~I don't want her to go to the Ovon. But I'll give a moment.. explain?~" to Kehari-tkxi.
sabina squeaks, scooped up into the air. Tail slipping free of Mistress Lysette's wrist in the process. Squirming a little in Kehari's grasp. Panting shallowly and whimpering. "Would you like to feed a little Mistress? Or... ummm, please don't bugify me!"
Flyte murmurs, "Echo, others are overly vague and perhaps over diplomatic, and frankly, after seeing what happened tonight, I have no cause to be."
Untitled's dying light suddenly leaps up beyond normal levels to something far beyond, a room-flooding solarflare...of virulent blood red. He clutches Brimstone protectively as he scrambles to his feet, whirling to face GrayZero, his upper back and shoulders erupting in wicked-looking, gleaming glasslike spikes. His shoulders broaden; his upper body curves forward, the canibot taking on an appearance far less elegant, far more feral. He stares at GZ with still-blue LEDs, lip curling in a snarl. His teeth weren't that massive before...
Brimstone squawls, digging her claws in and clinging to Un.
The horse drops out of local spacetime as if his reality has melted from the inside out.
Kehari-tkxi whispers, "~I'm taking her to the Ovon.~" to you.
GrayZero frowns. "You misunderstood me."
GrayZero continues under her breath. "hardly shocking, as if I speak clearly I may violate Her will, but still regrettable..."
Flyte has no target to speak to now; this makes conversation difficult at best.
Lysette rolls her shoulders. "And I'm half a billion years of dust and grime, Echo, and that's a non argument. Listen to yourself, rather than conclude as you have - conclusions come when you're tired of thinking."
GrayZero twitches.
Kehari-tkxi smiles down at sabina, shiny white claws curling and tickling against her glistening black skin. "It's not my intention to... bugify you, dear kxlt't-tchr'p."
You whisper, "I don't think its good for her to end up there. But I will trust you. Just tell me why?" to Kehari-tkxi.
Lysette all the while, looks distant, seeming to be playing through dataspace, or something like it.
Flyte murmurs, "Lysette, you, sabina, and Kehari-tkxi have much to discuss. If Echo is going to be a persistent problem, I suggest privacy; your departure may be more efficient than argument."
Kehari-tkxi whispers, "~She will be fine. I'm taking her back with me as a bargaining chip, a peace offering to try to stay in Atcinna's good graces, or soften the blow of her ill ones.~" to you.
Flyte murmurs, "I will attempt to calm the situation with Untitled and GrayZero to avoid further unpleasantness."
Leviathan-chan cringes at Sabina's squeaks for mercy, the sound digging deep into her conscience. She pads over to a few feet of Kehari-tkxi and exhales sharply... "Scuse me! Could you try that on someone else? You're scaring the crap out of her."
sabina arches and moans softly at the touch, squirming uselessly in the powerful hands. "You really are beautiful Mistress, just like i saw You!" Seeing myself, held in those hands through Lysette's eyes. Head tilting slightly. "But not as big as i thought either."
Untitled's hold on Brimstone remains strangely gentle all the while, the statue's arm wrapping her against him, protective even as his body heaves in this lycanthropic shape. He pants hoarsely, hunched in front of GrayZero, only half as tall as he would be standing straight...and slowly, he begins to filter slowly back to blue, shrinking into himself, his lines withdrawing and softening into his more familiar shape. Looking diminished even beyond his physical transformation, he raises Brimstone a little, and rubs his face against her, letting out a tiny electronic sob into the feline fur.
You whisper, "Lysette trails. ~I could put up a show, or I could simply be dejected - what's the best for the play? ~" to Kehari-tkxi.
sabina mews softly, head turning towards Leviathan as far as the collar allows. "It's ok really, i was just surprised and all. Mistress will take good care of me."
Flyte murmurs, "Untitled, why don't you come sit with Phoenix and I."
Phoenix lifts his free wing, as Flyte finishes speaking.
Kehari-tkxi whispers, "~Get angry at me when I break the news to her. I'll flee, but don't chase.~" to you.
GrayZero shakes her head. "There's no situation between me and him to worry about. It's between me and..." Now she turns to stare at Lysette, eyes flaring. There's a sudden fire in them that was never there before for a few seconds... then it dies, and she relaxes. Slightly. "But I will not violate Her Will."
You whisper, "In so much as I can, I will." to Kehari-tkxi.
GrayZero's hand goes to her pendant.
Kehari-tkxi whispers, "~*nod*~" to you.
Flyte murmurs, "Those of us who have some clue what is going on can actually discuss it with some modicum of privacy and dignity."
Leviathan-chan shakes her head at Sabina's statement, eyes closed. "This isn't a good situation for you."
Kehari-tkxi fixes Levi with those empty blue eyes. "You have no say in her treatment," the buggi hisses.
Kehari-tkxi hisses, "sabina is mine."
sabina giggles, relaxing in Mistress Kehari's grip, tail caressing the hard chintin and softer rubber segmentation. "It's the only situation for me Sir."
Brimstone nuzzles desperately at Un, licking at his ear-bases when she's within reach.
Leviathan-chan just stares at the half-Kehari creature, unbelieving. "And what claim do you make to her?"
Flyte murmurs, "sabina's willingness to be owned, primarily, Leviathan-chan."
sabina arches a little, exposing the collar to view. "They bought me silly."
Kehari-tkxi just grins that diabolic grin at the fishgirl.
GrayZero speaks without looking at anyone. "Flyte... if I may ask a favor, please make sure Un stays well. I fear I may have compromised my ability to offer support with my earlier comment." She glances 'upward' briefly. "I did not do as well as I ought; forgive me." This not apparently to anyone in the room.
Lysette breathes slowly.. "sabina is Kehari's domain, for what that's worth. We got her contract from the Architects, so noone else could lay such a thing on her without the block it provides." she trails.. She comes slowly to stand. She doesn't seem to focus well enough beyond the former vixen and the armless cat.
Purple_Hase says, "Hm."
Kehari-tkxi looks around the room one last time. "And now, friends, I depart."
GrayZero nods.
sabina twists back around, leaning forward, trying to nuzzle Kehari-tkxi. "Actually Mistress, i didn't notice before how much of You is rubber. It looks stunning with the sleek shell... Where is Mistress going?" Brow creasing deeply, little face pinched in cutely.
"Home."
Untitled doesn't go anywhere for a while. No further sounds escape his lips, but he continues to rub his muzzle against
Brimstone for a time, quiet and otherwise still. Eventually, he does raise his head, first to give GrayZero a look of...not anger, but confusion. Total, helpless uncomprehension. Slowly, he turns, and makes his way stiffly across the floor to where Phoenix and Flyte are settled. He hesitates for a moment...but at the sound of Kehari's words, that hesitation fails, and he falls back onto the chaise, landing in a somewhat ragdollish, but upright, position. Brimstone is not overly jostled.
You whisper, "Lysette begins to doubt her ability to act angry at present - or else she will break down terribly." to Kehari-tkxi.
Phoenix drapes his other wing around Untitled's shoulders, and rests it there, squeezing.
Kehari-tkxi whispers, "~*cringe*sad* I'm sorry love, but you must, even if it comes to that. We must be convincing...~" to you.
Flyte lowers her head.
sabina nods slightly and swallows. "Home, with Mistress Lysette and myself yes? Home with the warm baths and the thing, and the bed..." Nodding again and again, tiny head movements snubbed short by the tall collar. "Not home with the vines and the silk slaves and the screaming sounds."
Purple_Hase frowns a little, seeming a bit sad as she draws lazily on her hookah.
GrayZero is no longer doing a good job of appearing impassive; indeed, it looks as though it's only some kind of supernatural will that keeps her from exploding.
Echo nuzzles into Purple's shoulder.
Flyte murmurs, "...Lysette, Kehari-tkxi, you will not get the peace you crave here. An aura of incomprehension has draped over this place.."
Flyte murmurs, "You best give tempers time to cool and understanding to dawn on those blighted with willful ignorance. And if you need me .. you know how."
Kehari-tkxi smiles and noses sabina sweetly. "To the Ovon, my little kxlt't-tchr'p, and you're coming with me." Lysette's fists draw a little.. "Don't take her there.. You know what they'll do.." a quiet growl lulls on her muzzle.. "If you do, I won't make it worth it for you.."
GrayZero says very slowly, jerkily. "It's... not... incomprehension..."
You whisper, "Lysette's going to make sabina orgasm. Don't interfere. Act pissed, you might *actually* be." to Kehari-tkxi.
GrayZero says very suddenly, "I have to leave." She... vanishes.
GrayZero has left.
Untitled shivers softly at the touch of Phoenix's wing, but he doesn't protest. He looks very, very dazed.
Echo says, "What was the price of her contract?"
Phoenix nestles it close around Un, and squeezes Flyte with the other, rumbling softly in his throat to both.
sabina nuzzles back smiling and nodding, then stopping. "That's a really bad idea Mistress... Ummm, you escaped me from there remember? i mean not to argue with my Owner and all but, but..." Breathing becoming sharper, swallowing softly and mewing. "You are serious? Mistress is going to the Neke and taking me? i..." Breath catching sharply, a tiny whimper melting into the squeak it accompanies.
Echo says, "And how are you going to pay it now?"
Kehari-tkxi's claws tighten around the catgirl and she draws sabina close to her bosom, protective as she backs towards the door. "She is mine," the not-vixen hisses. "I own the majority percentage. /You/ are the one that rejected her gifts."
sabina squirms a little, struggling to breath as Kehari-tkxi squeezes tighter. "No need to fight over me, i am reusable! Please Mistress, maybe we need to discuss this a little with Mistress Lysette? We could take a bath and..." Tail coiled around one of the hard shelled arms, tugging softly at it.
Lysette's eyes quietly flicker. sabina suddenly loses her sense of sound, and its replaced as Lysette grins slowly, faintly.. "Regardless, you remain mine.. and so it follows.." she trails, walking forward a pace, two..
Leviathan-chan ponders violence, but just sighs and slumps on a chaise. "I guess the honeymoon's over."
Flyte murmurs soft words to Untitled and Phoenix (and probably Brimstone).
sabina squeals out, lost in the silence suddenly. Head turning side to side slowly, nuzzling against Mistress
Kehari-tkxi. Mewing and gasping out. "Why is everything so quiet? What happened? Mistress?" Pressing against Her softly, heart hammering.
Untitled curls in on himself, holding Brimstone a little tighter...
Echo says, "I suppose I could be vindictive and invoke the backup system, but weapons don't work in this place. Useless anyway if I don't want to invest quite some time in prehistory regenerating withered paths."
You whisper, "Lysette blacks out your sound, but your sight remains. Suddenly, you hear the voice.. "sabina.." then another. Kehari's. "sabina.." Images change, the both of them stand before you.. "You have permission to come the moment you're able.." one says. Then the other. The words seem utterly true. The reality seems persistent. And suddenly, there's a click.. and a shock.." to sabina.
Kehari-tkxi backs away just as quickly as Lysette advances, weaving around the low tables. "I am yours no longer, hyena. We could have gone together, but you did not listen to my wisdom..."
Brimstone mewls quietly, still and soft in Un's arms.
sabina whispers, "sabina stammers, even in the link. ~Mistress? i'm confused, what's going on? Are you coming with us? But... i... if... Why can't i hear anymore? Mistress i need permission when i have to come, i...~" to you.
Lysette seems distant. There's a sudden click, a hiss of sound. "Lockout, [bits of data, static], vibrate, one hour, unlock [static and code]"
Jantl'qa settles himself near the top of the pillar and watches, eyes wide as he tries to comprehend what's going on
Echo says, "And here I was looking forward to several hours of a nice drugged-out fucking." She sighs.
You whisper, "Lysette smiles warmly through the link.. "You have permission to come.." says one voice. And as if through Kehari's link, the same comes to you.. "You have permission, sabina, I promise.. Come, its important.."" to sabina.
sabina whispers, "~Yes Mistress, thank You Mistress!~" to you.
The belt that sabina wears suddenly draws in on itself. A sudden series of click, and the girl is impaled by a dildo, the shield over her clit released, and it vibrates, and it lulls back and forth with a sudden shock of speed.
Untitled's ears flick as Phoenix and Flyte speak quietly to him, and to each other. He says nothing to either one, but his tail does vibrate slightly...
Lysette stays where she is, grinning lopsidedly to Kehari, drifting in the air.. "Trillions and trillions, but you're the only other person in this world.." she comments, her eyes narrowed, a deep, almost black blue..
Leviathan-chan's eyes fly open at the scene. "That's one *hell* of a negotiation tool", she mutters under her breath.
You whisper, "Lysette whispers through the link.. ~Good girl.. come for us.. its important, its very important.. I will explain everything to you, when it is okay to, sabina.. but do your mistresses good, don't hold back! I wish it could have been different, but don't hold back!" to sabina.
Purple_Hase snugs up against Echo's side, making soft noises.
sabina gasps and shudders, slim hips bucking forward as the belt leaps into action. Clenching down tightly on the dildo and mewing loudly in pleasure, head arched back, screaming out, moments away from a massive orgasm. Swollen breasts heaving, brow unfurrowing, sobbing frantically.
"Feline child, your limbs have been stolen and bound to uselessness. Discard them and become serpent, fanged, awakened. Merge with your ecstasy and become."
Lysette at this moment, jumps towards Kehari! It doesn't look like she'll land, or the like, but action must be taken now or else her arms will be around her!
Torque shakes his head... Taking the bottle he's been drinking out of and drains the rest, still silent as he watches this play out. Hackles risen, but thats the only sign he's even acutely aware of whats going on. He can't act. He won't act, he knows its not his place. It'd only do more harm then good. So he just stands. Being strong. Being like steel.
Kehari-tkxi screeches and hisses menacingly at Lysette, dropping back a few more steps. "Foolish bitch! Do you know what you're ruining? Days of masterful work!" That insectoid scowl turns to a smirk, then an outright laugh as she stands up again. "A victory, but not the war, oh no. I'll let her have her fun. One last time for old time's sake, eh? I can Sing her right back there in half the time. Hah!" She leaps nimbly to the side and lets the ballistic hyena sail past, into the corner. She strikes up a cheery bit of song and strolls out with her squirming, orgasming prize. "It's showtime for dry climes / And bedlam is dreaming of rain..."
Kehari-tkxi offers to let sabina walk along with her.
sabina comes hard, sobbing and convulsing sharply, spasming again and again. Writhing in pleasure and nuzzling Mistress Kehari-tkxi softly. Panting and shuddering, arching as another wave of intense ecstacy breaks free inside. Tail gripping her arm, shuddering and screaming out, gasping breathless and coming.
sabina decides to walk along with Kehari-tkxi.
Lysette of course, drifts right to the corner, and grapples right back. "Then leave, and lets start the war, as it were.." she trails, a small grin touching the corner of her maw.. "Good kitten.." she coos out to sabina.
Kehari-tkxi whispers, "~I love you, my light. I will take care of sabina as best I can...~" to you.
Kehari-tkxi pays neither Lysette nor anyone else any mind. She simply walks out.
Smoke and haze cling to Kehari-tkxi as they slip outside.
Kehari-tkxi leaves, with sabina walking along with her.
Flyte whispers, "Com: Was that part of the .. plan? I'm so confused." to you.
Untitled calms, little by little, but it builds with time. He slumps a little deeper into the cushions, and nuzzles down into Brimstone's fur. "Thank you, dear heart..." he whispers.
Flyte mutters something under his breath and helps Phoenix with the business of trying to comfort Untitled.
Leviathan-chan says to nobody in particular, "I can't decide which one is more manipulative."
You page, "~I will be with you in so much as I can be.. I'm sure sabina will be as comfortable as possible.. Brighten my day by winning this with me..~" to Kehari-tkxi.
You whisper, "Com: This was an act. It was a hard act.." to Flyte.
Phoenix rumbles, "Everyone's manipulative," as he rolls over a bit, to cuddle up to Untitled more closely, nuzzling along the glasscanid's chin."
Echo says, "The Architecture is pretty good at it, but the Neke have been around longer."
Jantl'qa flits down to one of the tables and peers at a hookah curiously, "anger cause pain, Pain make for more anger. Ending not."
Flyte brbles..
Kehari-tkxi pages, "~Brighten all our days, dear heart. I love you.~" to you.
You whisper, "Com: Kehari retains herself fully, though she remains addicted to honey of course, and compromised in that way." to Flyte.
Leviathan-chan says, "Echo. Does she really intend to 'free' Sabina?"
Untitled's tail bristles again, nanospikes rustling...
Torque takes a deep breath in, walking over to Lysette again. He offers his paw to aid her up, of sorts, though she shouldn't have problems with it. Its more of a gesture. He's still oddly silent, for what ever reason it may be.
Jantl'qa chirps, "why so much anger?"
Echo says, "I doubt it. I may accept the idea of freely given submission, but I don't think that applies in her case. All I can do is help Sabine grow, really."
Purple_Hase sighs...
Lysette grapples up to the ceiling, her fur quietly bristled. "Now, forgive me for parting, but I leave you all to indulge the social winds of gossip and blind speculation.. A number of you truly seem to enjoy such things, after all, and perhaps its suiting, though I'd like not to judge so harshly.." she offers, smiling slowly, her eyes closing.
You whisper, "Lysette touches you thought dataspace, if you can hear it?" to Torque.
Lysette reaches down, and touches Torque's hand, her eyes quietly closing a moment..
Phoenix rubs at his eyes a little. "I ought to get going." He mumbles, after a few moments. "I've had a looong day. Today was my hatchingday, too, by the way." He chuckles and nuzzles at Flyte. "The Bonobians threw a little party for me before I popped in here, earlier. I'm just, wiped out. 'Specially after that."
Torque whispers, "Torque responds. He seems to be senstive enough to it. Just a light touch back." to you.
Flyte murmurs, "I didn't konw that love.."
Leviathan-chan crosses her arms and hmphs. "Judge what you like, lady."
Flyte squeezes Phoenix. "Now I'll have to get you a gift.."
You whisper, "Lysette whispers through the link.. ~All of this, tonight, was an act. For your benefit, I tell this to you, because I don't want you to worry. The worry of everyone else is important, though.~" to Torque.
Purple_Hase says, "Awww, Phoenix! I would have made you something special!"
Untitled raises his head, touching his nose to Phoenix's cheek. "I wish I'd known," he murmurs faintly. "I'd have wished you a happy one, when it was more appropriate..."
Flyte murmurs, "Goodnight, Lysette."
Echo says, "I thought Phoenix already was something special."
Lysette rolls her shoulders, "Flyte, I wouldn't mind seeing you. And Phoenix. If you'd not mind coalescing with me?"
Phoenix giggles and nuzzles gently at Flyte, rumbling and nuzzling about, smiling a little to all the sudden well-wishers, blushing. "Mmph. Thank you..." He purrs faintly, nuzzling at Untitled gently. "I appreciate it."
Lysette coos, "And you too, Untitled!"
Phoenix earperks a bit to Lysette, chirping quietly.
Purple_Hase giggles at Echo. "I meant it in a different sense."
Flyte murmurs, "Is there time tonight..? Phoenix?"
Torque's paw curls about Lysette's paw, holding gently as he remains very very silent, fingers brushing slowly as he bows his head, seeming.. Rather sorrowful. But he perks up some as Lysette perks up aa little, taking another deep breath in and hackles smoothing out. Listening, watching, wordless still.
Untitled nods slowly to Lysette, and synths weakly, "That'd be good..." He cradles the sleeping cat against his face for a moment, and adds, "I have to take her home, but then...I'll catch up...?"
GrayZero steps inside, bringing a momentary burst of sound with them.
Leviathan-chan pads up the steps to the door. "I wonder what Charm is doing... oh, hey GrayZero."
GrayZero steps in, looking as though she's greatly aged. But she's breathing slowly, calmly.
Torque whispers, "I see. That was quite a show... I had a feeling something wasn't quite right though. I'm glad you told me now though... You need to tell me about this later, I'm going to guess. The Neke Ovon... Oi..." to you.
Flyte murmurs, "If Phoenix is not too exhausted, we can meet in our usual spot in the Orion.."
Phoenix rumbles softly and rubs at his eyes again. "I actually ought to get going." He smiles apologetically. "Tomorrow, dears."
A tendril pops up beside GrayZero. "I'm sorry, ally."
GrayZero speaks softly, generally. "I... feel I should apologize for my earlier anger. It was not necessary, and I worry I may have unduly affected things here."
GrayZero glances towards the tendril.
You whisper, "Lysette touches through dataspace to you. ~There's information that can help you understand better what happened here tonight. But, it can't come out until later, when all will be known. If you would like the knowledge, as it will help you to deal with the stress of the night, I can offer it - its offered only with the acceptance that it cannot be freely shared at present.. if that burden is greater, than.. don't choose it.. but, I'm offering that.. you seem dearly hurt, and.. it might not have to be so.. I'm sorry to have subjected you to this.~" to GrayZero.
It vanishes when looked at directly.
Phoenix bobs his snout at Purple. "Absolutely, dear. No worries."
Lysette dips down.. and for a moment, hugs Torque tightly.. She kisses his cheek softly.. "Now you understand why I've been so backlogged.." she whispers. "I'll see you all at the Orion.."