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1Miu Xhlan Rushes out of the company house, her eyes dark with worry as she nearly breaks the door of it's hinges in her hurry. She nearly barells over Cio, stopping herself just feet in front of her the shock of almost rolling down the stairs in a big ball of furr and limbs enough to make her take pause for a moment.
2Cioccolato Stella staggers before you.
3Miu Xhlan: "sorry! I'm in a rush... I don't want to be late... need to..." she pauses a moment, "investigate."
4Cioccolato Stella: "Wow Miu! What's the hurry?" she asks.
5Cioccolato Stella: "Investigate?"
6Cioccolato Stella: "What for?"
7Miu Xhlan bounces lightly on her feet and nods, "East shroud... I ... I got a letter..." she waves it lightly, "something seems a bit off but I need to go." she bites her lower lip and looks past Cio, "I can't keep talking... need to go"
8Cioccolato Stella grabs Miu' s hand. "Miu is everything okay... whatever I'm going with you... somethings wrong."
9Miu Xhlan: "I don't know... it will be if I don't get there in time... at least I think?" she shakes her head and starts moving, "come on then."
10Cioccolato Stella nods. "Okay let's go!"
11Miu Xhlan points off in a direction, "over there... come on" she starts to run
12Cioccolato Stella: "Lead the way"
13Cioccolato Stella: "Is this the spot?"
14Miu Xhlan pauses and looks down at her letter, "... yes... he said he was going to be making his way across here..." she tucked it into her bag, "no... a little further..."
15Cioccolato Stella || Cenere waddles around the group almost nervously... "Cenere... are you alright?"
16Cioccolato Stella tries to comfort the demon brick.
17Miu Xhlan glances up at the thunder rocking through the clouds, "... of course it's thundering... why wouldn't it be thundering..." she huffed softly a little short of breath pausing a moment to catch her breath, "Okay... little... further still..."
18Miu Xhlan: "... this is... looks a bit of a bad place to meet... don't you think?"
19Cioccolato Stella examines her surroundings. " I don't mind but.... Miu you said there was a letter... are you meeting someone?"
20Miu Xhlan nodded her head, "I think so... my late husband... he disappeared some nine months ago... There's a lot I need to tell him and so little time to catch him..." she stops and gasps for breath, "... close... getting close"
21Cioccolato Stella: "Your late husband... Miu...."
22Miu Xhlan: "Zetsumei... he disappeared right after we discovered I was pregnant..."
23Cioccolato Stella shakes her head. "Oh Miu... I'm sorry..."
24Cioccolato Stella: "Do you know what.. you're going to say to him?"
25Miu Xhlan: "... why did you leave me you ass?"
26Cioccolato Stella giggles. "Well that's a start." she looks around her. "But why here?"(edited)
27Miu Xhlan: "... he said he was captured by Garleans... him and his team..." she continued to step towards the meeting place.
28Eliza Stormborne silently watched the two from the shadows, she had expected Miu to come alone, but this will do
29Miu Xhlan: "but it doesn't make any sense... what team... he didn't have a team..."
30Miu Xhlan: "He suffers terrible aether sickness... he can't ever teleport without passing out... but... if he'd been gone against his will for so long he'd have risked it... don't you think? and for that matter... why did non of the mission logs mention him going out?"
31Cioccolato Stella shakes her head. "I don't know Miu... it just doesn't add up.. that's all..."
32Cioccolato Stella questions you.
33Eliza Stormborne takes a moment to load up a simple blow dart gun with a numbing agent. Anyone hit by it would be numbed first and slowly fall to sleep afterwards.
34Eliza Stormborne takes aim at Miu first. She points and shoots with a strong breath at Miu, the dart would aim to impact her chest somewhere. The location didn't matter but she would start to feel the numbing very quickly, but probably think its a bug bite at first.
35Eliza Stormborne loads a second dart and takes aim at Cio, she needed to be quick to stop Cio from reacting
36Miu Xhlan flinches suddenly, at first Cio would think it was a reaction to what she had said, only as her hand reached up to try to brush at the pinch of pain in her chest only she couldn't seem to lift her arm up all the way, "... wha..." her eyes widened as she looked up at Cio, "... C... run..." she could feel her eyes grow hazy and her legs crumple under her.
37Eliza Stormborne took the shot at Cio, hoping to get her arm. It would take the agent longer to put her to sleep but the numbing would be just as effective
38Cioccolato Stella screams and kneels beside Miu. "MIU!" she goes her best pick her up, but feels a bite at arm. Her senses dull and time seems to slow down. "W-what ?!"
39Miu Xhlan isn't asleep yet she's just struggling more and more to move her limbs and her eyes are getting harder and harder to keep up, she tries to cast leeches on Cio just before she falls onto her side, darkness taking her.
40Eliza Stormborne emerged from the shadows with edgey style. She approached Miu and made sure she was immobilized before she gave Cio her attention
41Cioccolato Stella: "W-ho... s-s... there........?" Cio struggles words barely coming out.
42Eliza Stormborne kneeled down over Cio
43Cioccolato Stella || Cenere see's the strange figure and starts charging into her shins.
44Eliza Stormborne stabs the blocks wing into the ground
45Eliza Stormborne: Annoyance
46Eliza Stormborne: Cioccolato Stella, I didn't expect anyone to accompany Miu.
47Eliza Stormborne: However, it doesn't matter.
48Cioccolato Stella: "Cener...e !! Ah..." she glares at the tall hyru. "H-how do.... you -k-know my... name?" it's get harder to remain awake.
49Eliza Stormborne: This girl has something I need, and I aim to get it. You can try to look for me, try to get her back, but Eorzea is a big place with lots of nooks and crannys, places to hide to do dark deeds.
50Cioccolato Stella: "Y-you'll ha... ha.. have to g-get th-..through me..." she reaches for a dagger in her back pocket.
51Eliza Stormborne: Don't waste your time, by the time this sleeping agent wears off i'll be long gone.
52Cioccolato Stella not caring she attempts to stab at the women.
53Eliza Stormborne pulled her dagger out of the bricks wing and put it away. She put her hand on Cio's with the dagger and shook her head "Bravery, or stupidity. At this point you are leaning to the later."
54Cioccolato Stella grits her teeth, the world grows dark around her. "S-shit...... Mi....u...."
55Eliza Stormborne: Try your best, if you can even remember this face, the red mask. You have no idea who I am, why I want this girl, how I know your name or hers, that your leader is a Tynos and Nyscera.
56Eliza Stormborne: With such a information disparity, your chances of finding me are null.
57Eliza Stormborne: Enjoy your nap because you will feel well rested when it is done...
58Cioccolato Stella: "H-how....!?" her body falls to the ground, she tries to stabilize her self. "We...we'll find you! Ahh..... no...noone.. t-takes our.... o-ownnn......" her eyes closes. Cenere runs towards Cio shivering.
59Eliza Stormborne: She isn't "your own" don't fool yourself.
60Eliza Stormborne: She was just hiding away here, using you and your kin for protection, to hide because she is weak.
61Eliza Stormborne: I don't blame her, most mortals tend to believe in "family", that we are stronger as a unit. Yet here I am, with but two darts I have taken your "family" apart.
62Eliza Stormborne: With proper planning, waiting, and execution, there is not threat you cannot overcome. Take that to heart Cioccolato Stella, and next time maybe you won't have failed to notice the assassin at your back for the last 4 days.
63Cioccolato Stella holding on the brick. She looks up. "B-bull.... shit..." she moves her head towards where Miu is, only able to see silhouette. "....Miu...."
64Miu Xhlan struggled to fight the drug, her eyelashes fluttering but it was too strong, unable to move and hovering on the edge, vaguely hearing the conversation going on but unable to open her eyes or wake up.
65Eliza Stormborne shook her head, she put her hand on Cio's forehead and pressed her down against the grass "Rest well Cioccolato Stella, I don't aim to harm you, and in a couple hours you should awaken. "
66Cioccolato Stella: "T-take... m-me.... p-please..." she struggles, Cenere waddling around the two , injured.
67Eliza Stormborne turned her hollow gaze to Miu and she moved to pick up the girl, carrying her gently bridal style "Why should I take you?"
68Eliza Stormborne gazes upon Cioccolato Stella in deep reflection.
69Miu Xhlan could do nothing to stop what was happening, laying limply in her captor's arms.
70Cioccolato Stella begins to breathy heavily trying to stay awake. "T-he fc... I...'ve.. b-been t-there longer..... please..." she grips the grass as hard as she can. the demon brick bumping into her to help her stay awake.
71Eliza Stormborne gazes upon Cioccolato Stella in deep reflection.
72Eliza Stormborne appeared to consider Cios request "I do not care about your company, its members, its goals. They will all survive beyond this, it is not the first death your company has seen, and this will not be another. When I am done with her, Miu will be free to go, I have no qualms with keeping her. However, for this task it must be her, only she can free me from this curse."
73"Cioccolato Stella": "....curse...?" It's difficult to hear anything. Cio attempts to pull herself closer to the masked stranger.
74Eliza Stormborne stared at Cio for only a few seconds before she uttered one word "Goodnight." and walked off into the firest with Miu in hand. She would drop off Miu's link pearl at Buscarons Druthers
75Cioccolato Stella: "Miu.........." she mutters with the last of her strength before drifting off into sleep.
76Cioccolato Stella || the demonbrick takes one last attempt at running into the stranger.
77Eliza Stormborne would kick the demon brick on its top
78Cioccolato Stella || falls on it's back, kicking it's little legs.
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83Eliza Stormborne Had tied Miu down to the chair, she could still move her arms but her waist and legs were strapped to the chair. Khalia had drapped a blanket over her shoulders and placed a pillow on the back of the chair so her head was comfortable. She cut up some fruit as she waited from a bowl she prepared, sugar will help Miu recover from the toxins numbing effect, though she would still not have feeling in her legs or arms for a short while after she awoke.
84Miu Xhlan moaned softly, eyelashes fluttering as she slowly came out of unconsciousness her brain feeling heavy, cold air biteing her nose causing it to crinkle up for a moment. She felt the blanket draped over her and the pillow against her head, and for a moment she was calm but as she tried to lift her arm she realized it was unresponsive, that and the sudden jolt of memory of recent events had her attempting to sit up in her chair with a gasp. She wouldn't be able to pull away though as she drug_
85Miu Xhlan - and her bindings would hold her in place. Violet eyes opened and looked about herself, the location was unfamiliar and panic begun to well up within her chest as her eyes alighted upon a figure that had haunted her dreams.
86Eliza Stormborne placed her hand on Miu's shoulder "Relax Miu. You are in a safe house of mine." she knew her presence would probably just alarm Miu more but it was necessary right now. "Try to calm down. Take deep breaths, try to relax."
87Miu Xhlan struggled back against the woman, the chair shaking and clattering with her trembling, still the drugs and her bindings held her still. For a moment her breathing was stuttered, panicked, it took her some time of trembling and fighting herself as well as her binding before she took in a deep breath and then another, still shaking as she tried to calm herself, "... w... why... I thought you died..." her voice was soft, barely audible.
88Eliza Stormborne: In a matter of speaking I did.
89Miu Xhlan stared at the woman for a long time, she knew this woman's name, always had ever since that day she'd found herself tied down and drugged, "... Khalia... what happened..."
90Eliza Stormborne picked up an apple and looked at it before she took a bite from the red fruit "I was indeed hunted down by Zutsutsu Zutsu and she did slay me." she took another bite out of the apple "But she could not kill me. She tried to cover up the truth like she covered up the truth to you from the beginning."
91Miu Xhlan blinked at Khalia, she was happy to note that at least she could control her eyes and mouth even if the rest of her was mostly unresponsive still, "... what did she hide?"
92Eliza Stormborne: While I did create the Slave's Blood toxin and it was my idea to test it, I informed Zutsu I would need a test subject. She suggested that I use a company member.
93Miu Xhlan sighed softly, "... why am I not surprised..."
94Eliza Stormborne: She instructed me to create a short list of people that the company could "do without" and submit it to her, and at the time, I wrote down your name as a potential one. Zutsu then presented the list to Melodie, who chose you.
95Miu Xhlan stared at Khalia for a long moment, "... that... why me?" she asked looking at Khalia, "why did she choose me?"
96Eliza Stormborne: I don't know, it wasn't my job to question Zutsu and Melodie's decision, I only did as instructed.
97Eliza Stormborne: However the irony that now brings me to where I am today is quite....jarring.
98Eliza Stormborne: I apologize for tying you down, but it was necessary to keep you from waking up and hurting yourself by going into shock. I will untie you once you have become calm.
99Miu Xhlan stares at Khalia, ears perked forward listening but unsure of how to respond, this woman had caused her endless nightmares.
100Eliza Stormborne: I find myself in a predicament in which I believe only you can really get me out of, Miu Xhlan. You ARE going by your original name again are you not?
101Miu Xhlan: "... I doubt you're going to just let me go at this point, for all I know this is just your word against theirs. Did Zetsu and Askaa know what Zutsu and Mel were up too?"
102Miu Xhlan: ".. Yes... I am going by my original name again..."
103Eliza Stormborne: Zetsu and Askaa had no idea. In order to cover up the truth and save face for Melodie, Zutsu threw me under the carriage. Stated that everything was my idea, and as a result I was enthralled, put in a state in which I could not control all of my actions. Rules were established, and if I broke one of those rules I would go into a sort of dream like trance in which I was mentally tortured. Only to awaken moments later.
104Miu Xhlan tugged at her arm trying to make it respond, but it wasn't listening to her, "if this is true, why didn't anyone mention anything to me? Noa was... is my best friend as is Askaa and Zetsu... well... they wouldn't have kept this hidden from me."
105Eliza Stormborne: Because Noa was in league with Zutsu.
106Miu Xhlan shook her head hard, making herself dizzy for a moment, "No! I don't believe you! Noa would never hurt me!"
107Eliza Stormborne: She did not know the idea was Melodie's, but when Noa learned that she had a commanding power over me, she took it upon herself to "educate me" to make me complicit, to be her dog as it were.
108Eliza Stormborne took another bite of the apple "Would you like some fruit? Sugar will help counteract the numbing."
109Miu Xhlan stared at the fruit and pondered her answer for a moment, was it poisonous? what was the point of making her eat poisoned fruit when she was already tied up and bound, slowly she nodded her head, "... what is it for?"
110Eliza Stormborne picked up a handful of grapes. She put down the apple and reached over to Miu, picking one grape up and offering to feed her "The fruit is for nourishment. The vitamins and the sugars help to counteract the toxin I used to numb you. I am not forcing you here against your will, you will be free to go. However, I did not think you'd take kindly to my presence if I walked up to you and asked."
111Miu Xhlan snorted softly, of course she wouldn't take kindly to her presence, still she hesitantly leaned forward to take a bite of the fruit, "... and if I don't agree to help you... you'll still keep me tied up wont you." she murmured around the grape in her mouth.
112Eliza Stormborne: I bet those grapes taste good don't they?
113Eliza Stormborne: Juicy, flavorful, texture...
114Miu Xhlan stared at Khalia, her eyes narrowing to be almost a glare, "... yes... they are nice... why?"
115Eliza Stormborne: Taste, smell, texture....all feelings, senses that mortals feel. Thing I once felt, but no longer can.
116Miu Xhlan blinked lightly at Khalia, "... because Zutsu had killed you? ... how are you still alive?"
117Eliza Stormborne: Due to your "best friends" actions, I was forced into a corner, to the edge of a cliff, an abyss - and when you stare down into the abyss, the abyss stares back, and in my case it speaks to you.
118Eliza Stormborne: I was offered salvation, a chance to escape my thrall, my enslavement - all I had to do was sacrifice one life and my contract would free me from that cursed demon thrall.
119Miu Xhlan: "So you made an agreement with someone that screwed you over..." she tugged at her arm getting a small bit of feeling back, "You should have learned better after Zutsu and Mel betrayed you."
120Eliza Stormborne gazes upon you in deep reflection.
121Eliza Stormborne: In a manor of speaking yes. The primal asked for a sacrifice, Moralee Relen Xiena.
122Eliza Stormborne: In exchange I was freed from the thrall, though now my body has become something...stale to say the least. I no longer feel the taste of anything, the warmth of a hot summers day or the bitter cold of the snow. I hunger and thirst, but I can never quench it, never sate it.
123Miu Xhlan jerked hard in her chair, the wood creaking and rocking back and forth for a moment, "You! I remember now! That's why we had to try to fight to get Moralee free from that thing! You accuse my best friend of betraying me and talk about sacraficing my other friend? WHY would I ever help you!" she pulled at her bindings trying to get loose.
124Eliza Stormborne made no facial expressions to Miu at first and then followed up with one question
125Eliza Stormborne: Then you do not wish to help me?
126Miu Xhlan grew still, startled by the sudden question. She looked away a moment her thoughts racing before she looked sternly at Khalia, "... no... no I do not wish to help you."
127Eliza Stormborne: Unfortunate...
128Eliza Stormborne reached down to the side of the box Miu could not see and picked up something, a folder. She plopped it down on the crate and opened it up "Allow me to try and change your mind." inside was a drawing of Tynos "Tynos, your "lover" right?"
129Miu Xhlan froze, her eyes widening and staring down at the drawing of Tynos, her body felt cold suddenly despite the blanket that had some how managed to stay on her shoulders, "don't you dare hurt him."
130Eliza Stormborne: Love...such a strange thing. Have you ever even felt it? Do you know what it is? It is a mixture of 4 chemicals all released by the brain simultaneously to create a sense of want, desire, in order to produce offspring.
131Eliza Stormborne: I have no intention of hurting him. On the contrary, I want YOU to not be hurt by him.
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133Eliza Stormborne slid the drawing to the side, under it was a drawing of Rhian and her child Addie
134Eliza Stormborne: Rhian Solane.
135Eliza Stormborne: She left recently to who knows where, gone with the child bore of Tynos himself. Now if she were to come back.....where would that leave you?
136Eliza Stormborne: You would be unwanted, used goods, waiting to be thrown out by this filthy duskwight.
137Miu Xhlan winces, an earlier conversation with friends earlier playing through her head just recently, She looked down at the picture of the woman there not understanding what she was seeing until she head the name, cold settling in her chest and growing heavy upon her chest. "She wont come back... he... he told me."
138Eliza Stormborne: How does HE know?
139Eliza Stormborne: Did he kill them?
140Eliza Stormborne: Does he know where they are or why they left?
141Miu Xhlan: "He said she sent him a note..."
142Eliza Stormborne: No.
143Eliza Stormborne: He lied.
144Miu Xhlan shakes her head.
145Eliza Stormborne: The moment that child returns to his life....you will be tossed aside. The only person who REALLY loved you, YOU walked away from!
146Miu Xhlan jerked forward, held back by her restraints, "HE LEFT ME!" she felt herself trembling, tears watering up in her eyes as she slumped back against the chair, "... he... just disappeared without a word... nothing..."
147Eliza Stormborne: Someone out there put their faith in you, and you betrayed it. Hmm, perhaps you and Tynos are not so different afterall, both willing to betray your "loved" ones so easily to pick up the first individual your instincts set you upon.
148Miu Xhlan winced, a tear escaping to trail down her cheek, "... stop..." she whispered.
149Eliza Stormborne gave miu a bone chilling stare
150Eliza Stormborne: The truth is, Miu Xhlan, your world exists as a ploy. You are weak, you have been abandoned time and again, and again, and again...
151Eliza Stormborne: Yet here sits one who wants you, not because of some sexual desire of the mind, but because you are the only way that I can feel....anything again.
152Miu Xhlan winced, practically curling up within herself, "stop!" she cried out, more tears trailing down her cheeks.
153Miu Xhlan: "You just... want to use me like everyone else!"
154Eliza Stormborne stood up, she planted her daggers into the wooden crates top side "So you admit Tynos is using you."
155Miu Xhlan: "No! that's not... not what I said" she struggled to speak, her shoulders shaking, "he... he probably doesn't love me... but..."
156Eliza Stormborne: To him you are but fodder, filling in his innate sexual desire for the real woman he failed to grasp, and the best part is....you don't even know who that is. It isn't Rhian.
157Miu Xhlan sobbed as she looked away from Khalia not wanting to listen to her words, but she couldn't help but want to know, "... who..." she asked softly already feeling her heart cracking at the seems she'd only just recently managed to put back together again, fresh tears spilling down her cheeks.
158Eliza Stormborne narrowed her eyes at Miu "I am a master of information, I dig into peoples lives, find out things about them they never even knew about themselves...."
159Eliza Stormborne: When Tynos was young there was a woman, an elezen of whom he'd become particularly close with.
160Eliza Stormborne: That woman was ultimately wed off to an Ishgardian in an arranged marriage, despite the fact that he loved her and she him. Tynos knew he could never be with his red headed beauty and so he settled for Rhian.
161Miu Xhlan closed her eyes trying to ward off everything Khalia was saying to her, she struggled against her bindings, sobbing softly, "lier..." she sniffled, tears soaking her shirt as she shook her head, "you're lying..." she turned to glare at Khalia, "LIAR!" she fought against her bindings causing the chair to wobble back and forth against but still she couldn't get away, couldn't even knock the stupid chair over.
162Eliza Stormborne: ....
163Eliza Stormborne narrowed her eyes at Miu
164Eliza Stormborne: You accuse me of lying about something like this? What benefit is there for me to lie to you about Tynos, I certainly don't want your sexual attention.
165Miu Xhlan struggled against her bindings, fighting the drug holding her limbs still, "You... you just... want to use me and throw me away... all for your selfishness! Go rot in seven hells you monster!"
166Eliza Stormborne leaned over, she placed her hands on Miu's shoulders "You want to see HELLS, you have NO idea....the seven hells is whre we live, it is why people like me and you suffer constantly. Allow me to show you what HELL I am in now...." she picked up one of her daggers off the crate and rolled down her shirt, exposing her breasts to Miu
167Miu Xhlan jerked back away from Khalia, her back slamming into the chair almost tipping the chair back if not for the fact Khalia had been holding her shoulders.
168Eliza Stormborne stuck the dagger into her chest, cutting around her heart and opening a rather large gash in her chest. The cut....did not bleed at all. She dropped the dagger on the floor and stuck her own hand into the gash, a loud tearing noise could be heard as she pulled out her heart and throw the grey shriveled object onto the floor in front of Miu
169Eliza Stormborne: You want me to rot in the seven hells? I'm fucking in it, and so are you....and your're going to help me escape it, and in exchange you will be free from its grasp as well
170Miu Xhlan eyes widened into big tear filled orbs, scrambling away even further from Khalia trembling and wincing at the sound of flesh sqelching and the shucking noise as the heart was pulled out, "GAH!" she screamed scrambling to get away from the shriveled grey heart laying unbeating on the floor before her, "GODS!"
171Eliza Stormborne: Tell me Miu...do you want power, do you want escape...to make sure that your love is always yours. Should you choose to stay in this gods forsaken realm we call living.
172Eliza Stormborne: If you help me escape.....I will personally give you what you want.
173Eliza Stormborne reached down and picked up the shriveled grey mass and put it out of sight
174Miu Xhlan stared at the ground as the grey mass was pushed away and out of sight, "You can't give me power, and even if I did have power... it wouldn't make anyone stay with me..." she slumped in the chair, tears running down her cheeks freely now.
175Eliza Stormborne pulled up her shirt and covered the new cut in her chest
176Eliza Stormborne: You're right, I can't give you power, only you can do that. What I can do is enable you to have it.
177Eliza Stormborne: As for love....
178Eliza Stormborne: Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Serotonin.
179Eliza Stormborne: Three chemicals that mix together at the same time creates the emotion of "love"
180Eliza Stormborne: It is easy to reconstruct in a toxin, administered through a drink. No odor, no flavor.
181Eliza Stormborne: I have done it many times to get what I wanted.....I can show you how to make it, you're an alchemist afterall.
182Eliza Stormborne kneeled down to Miu as if bowing to her
183Miu Xhlan stared at Khalia, "... I can't do that to Tynos... I can't do that to anyone... not for myself... not for anyone... that's taking away their choice... their will... and who's to say it would make him in love with me and not someone else..."
184Eliza Stormborne: Choice, it was by choice that Tynos CHOSE to use you and throw you away. I don't want to throw you away....I want your help.
185Miu Xhlan: "He... he wont... he... he didn't..." her broken heart trembled at Khalia's words and her cheeks were washed in a fresh bout of tears, "... are... are you saying no one's ever loved me..." she said it softly almost matter of factly rather than a question.
186Eliza Stormborne she did not answer Miu's question "I'm saying I will give you power, whether you like it or not." she walked past Miu to the corner of the room and reached into an open crate
187Miu Xhlan looked over her shoulder, trying to see what Khalia was about to do.
188Eliza Stormborne picked some items from the crate, among them was a rather large syringe and some chemical vials
189Eliza Stormborne put the items down one by one on the crate
190Eliza Stormborne: Simply put, I need your aether.
191Miu Xhlan stared at the large syringe and the chemical vials, memories of when Khalia had used something similar to her once upon a time, "... what..."
192Eliza Stormborne: I theorize that the only way to get out of my current hell is to create an explosion of aether, something strong enough to disintegrate my soul itself.
193Miu Xhlan: "... and why do you think my Aether is some how strong enough to destroy you?"
194Eliza Stormborne: Because you hate me.
195Eliza Stormborne walked back to the crates again
196Eliza Stormborne: By the way, I took the liberty of removing any loose items on you - jewelry, linkshells, that sort of thing. I have sent them back to the heartwood manor in the mail.
197Miu Xhlan struggled against her bindings, her hands somewhat responsive but they fumbled uselessly against the rope, feeling too heavy and unwieldy, the drugs weighing down her limbs.
198Eliza Stormborne took from the crate more rope and several crystals
199Miu Xhlan stared at Khalia, flinching away from her as she draws closer.
200Eliza Stormborne put the crystals on the crate and kneeled down to tie down Miu's hands
201Miu Xhlan pulled her hands away from Khalia, unable to do much though her hands still heavy and body still drugged, "Perfect..." she grumbled.
202Eliza Stormborne: I don't want you to get hurt.
203Miu Xhlan stared at Khalia, her heart felt heavy, she felt herself broken the will to fight back had fallen away in place of it hopelessness and heartbreak, "I imagine this will hurt anyways."
204Eliza Stormborne picked up a vial full of red gel, she uncorked the vial "This is a numbing agent, it is commonly used in surgeries. I will apply some to your arm so you don't feel the needle sting." she then proceeded to slide miu's top down enough to see her arm and she poked around for a vein
205Miu Xhlan winced and pulled back from Khalia, the ropes holding her still but she still tugged away it, "NN! I ... hate... needles..." she shuddered, her nightmares may have featured needles stabbing into her repeatedly after Khalia had kidnapped her the first time.
206Eliza Stormborne rubbed the numbing agent on Miu's vein, it would make it so she didn't feel anything in that spot, a localized anesthetic
207Miu Xhlan trembled and looked away, closing her eyes, she did want to see it... couldn't see Khalia sticking her with a needle again. She whimpered.
208Eliza Stormborne: Keep your eyes closed, you don't need to see this.
209Eliza Stormborne proceeded to stick Miu's vein with the needle and began to draw a rather large amount of blood
210Miu Xhlan closed her eyes tighter, gripping the arms of the chair, crying out as she felt her blood being drawn out of her via the needle, her head felt dizzy as more and more blood was drawn from her, "... don't..."
211Eliza Stormborne: While I was a servant to the dream primal, I learned a bit about aether and its conduits. It is dangerous but I will attempt to bring out those powers using blood magic.
212Miu Xhlan turned to look at Khalia, she felt herself get a little more woozy seeing the needle in her arm and the blood filling the rather... 'large' syringe, "... blood magic...?" she asked, "Tynos said something about that..." her lips felt numb on the very edges, losing blood felt... weird.
213Eliza Stormborne pulled the needle from Miu and dabbed the puncture with a cloth "Blood magic is powerful and dangerous."
214Miu Xhlan looked down seeing blood soak the cloth, "... and you want to use mine..." she murmered feeling dizzy... almost tired.
215Miu Xhlan ||Khalia would find upon examining Miu's blood that there was more aether floating about in her blood than would normally be seen in someone's system.
216Eliza Stormborne picked up a crystal and literally stuck the needle into it filling the hallow shell with Miu's blood "I want to use blood magic to stimulate your aether flow, get the juice pumping faster as it were."
217Eliza Stormborne: These shards were supposedly owned by a blood mage at one time, I can use these to etch pathways for you. Moralee relen's clan use something similar according to her accounts, though this method is more...crude than what she claimed to do.
218Miu Xhlan stared at the crystal as it filled with her blood, her head half resting on her shoulder, the drugs that hadn't quite left her system mixed with loosing blood was making her very... sluggish. "It's not that... slave crystal Moralee dealt with?"
219Eliza Stormborne: Slave crystal? I don't know what you're talking about honestly.
220Miu Xhlan: "Brainwashed her... her old capture used it on her..."
221Eliza Stormborne: I don't intend to enslave you by any stretch of the mind.
222Eliza Stormborne picked up a quill she'd left on the crate earlier and started to draw symbols on the crate
223Miu Xhlan stared at the symbol being drawn on the crate.
224Eliza Stormborne placed the crystal in the middle of the symbols she was drawing, Miu might recognize it if she had enough left in her to recall it was similar to Mordry's mark, at least in design, though lacking a lot of the details.
225Eliza Stormborne planted her hands on both sides of the alchemy circle (huhu reference) and channeled a tiny amount of aether, though it looked like it took alot out of her to do so
226Miu Xhlan blinked as she recognized the symbol being drawn, she would jerk back lightly, useless really in her current state.
227Eliza Stormborne panted and leaned against the crate seeming to tire very easily
228Miu Xhlan: "What is it supposed to do?" she asked as she stared at it.
229Eliza Stormborne took a minute to catch her breath before answering "It will unlock your latent abilities..."
230Eliza Stormborne || The crystal would now be glowing blood red
231Miu Xhlan blinked, violet eyes drawn in by the blood red glowing crystal, "... I don't... understand..." she murmured, "... how..."
232Eliza Stormborne picked up the crystal and kneeled down to Miu, removed the blanket from her shoulders and put it aside for now. Then she made her way around to Miu's front
233Eliza Stormborne: If this works, it will enable you to turn your aether on and off, something of a....temporary state of elevated aether use
234Eliza Stormborne: Doing so for a long period of time would be...dangerous I imagine.
235Miu Xhlan shivered as the blanket was pulled away from her and the warmth it had been offering her was taken away suddenly, she stared at the crystal, "... why... why would I turn my aether off..."
236Eliza Stormborne: You don't "turn off your aether" you just turn off the overpowering part of it.
237Eliza Stormborne: The part I am going to awaken...
238Eliza Stormborne: the part that needs to grow and foster so I can ultimately escape this hell.
239Miu Xhlan blinked violet hazey eyes up at Khalia, "... why?"
240Eliza Stormborne: Because only you can...
241Eliza Stormborne pulled down Miu's top and ran her hand down her cleavage, stopping in the center between her breasts "Here..." she poked the spot once commiting it to memory
242Miu Xhlan jerked back, tugging on her bindings, even as she looked down to see where it was Khalia was poking her, "... the center of my chest? what about it?"
243Eliza Stormborne: It is your core, the entrance to your aether stream.
244Miu Xhlan: "... oh."
245Eliza Stormborne placed the crystal against Miu's chest, its glow seemed to radiate as it got closer to Miu
246Miu Xhlan jerked back trying to fight it, some how she just knew she did NOT want that thing touching her chest, "NO!" she jerked hard on her bindings.
247Random! You roll a 589.
248Miu Xhlan could feel the chair sway, wood creaking as she jerked and struggled away from the crystal and Khalia, but weariness, drugs and blood loss had worn her down and she wasn't able to knock it over enough.
249Eliza Stormborne continued to repeat her chant until the crystal was fully dissolved into Miu's chest, leaving no trace it was there at all. An arcane symbol would appear on Khalia's palm coated by blood red runes and finally melting into a a large letter 'M' on her palm. She panted and had to sit down to recover "It is done..."
250Eliza Stormborne made sure Miu could not see her palm
251Miu Xhlan gasped as she felt the crystal dissolves into her body, eyes widening as it eventually disappeared into her chest.
252Eliza Stormborne panted several times
253Eliza Stormborne: Now you should be able to channel that large aether pool of yours.
254Miu Xhlan blinked at Khalia, "... how do you know about that? ... I didn't even know about it until recently..."
255Eliza Stormborne: I knew about it from back when I experimented on you. I noted it in your logs.
256Miu Xhlan stared at Khalia, "..." she glanced down at her skin where the crystal had disappeared, "... am I supposed to feel different?"
257Eliza Stormborne panted, but started to regain her composure "For now you will need to trigger it with a key term or phrase. Like I said it is a "switch" that you can turn on and off."
258Eliza Stormborne: I imagine it is possible that you will eventually master it in its entirety and will no longer need a word to trigger it
259Miu Xhlan: "... are you saying that I will be able to trigger it... or you will..."
260Eliza Stormborne remained quiet for a moment while she considered how to answer that question
261Eliza Stormborne: It is not my power that will free me from this hell, it is yours.
262Miu Xhlan: "But you have the control over it... you've no need to lie to me at this point."
263Eliza Stormborne smirked a little bit "It is infact, two way. We can both draw from one anothers aether pools now, however as mine is rather diminished and yours is rather full, it is unfairly weighed i'm afraid." she sat back, regaining "It really had nothing to do with giving you power, though the truth is you have alot of it in there, it had more to do with giving me what I crave."
264Eliza Stormborne: Though I did not lie about my ultimate goal, I do want a way out, and I do believe it is through you Miu.
265Miu Xhlan looked back down to the empty place on her chest, "... I see... and how is this supposed to... give you what you want?"
266Eliza Stormborne stared at Miu "Like I said before, I intend for you to be my escape, but you're not ready for that. So until then I need to sate this undying lust I have, for aether. Now, I can feed on yours."
267Eliza Stormborne pulled Miu's top back up and put the blanket over her shoulders again
268Miu Xhlan stared at her, she felt too empty and broken emotionally and physically at the moment to have much of a response, "... I see."
269Eliza Stormborne pat Miu's shoulders
270Eliza Stormborne: You've spent your whole life being used by people, used and thrown out...
271Eliza Stormborne: The people you're with now....are no different.
272Miu Xhlan: "yes... thanks for that reminder"
273Eliza Stormborne: When I am free from my hell, I promise I will free you from yours.
274Miu Xhlan: "By what... killing me?"
275Eliza Stormborne: By letting you kill the ones who would use you.
276Eliza Stormborne: Myself included.
277Miu Xhlan grows quiet and looks away, "... I don't want to kill anyone..."
278Eliza Stormborne pat miu's shoulders a second time and walked around her, leisurely scratching her ears as she did so. She was quite satisfied with the broken miqo
279Eliza Stormborne: Now i'll need you to rest again Miu.
280Miu Xhlan knew deep within, despite everything... she would rather be used than to kill the people she cared about.
281Miu Xhlan: "fine."
282Eliza Stormborne: Your users will be coming for you soon, to take back their tool no doubt.
283Miu Xhlan growled softly, "They're not USING me!"
284Eliza Stormborne picked up a vial of blue watery liquid
285Eliza Stormborne: Keep telling yourself that Miu.
286Eliza Stormborne: Deep in your heart, you know it to be true.
287Eliza Stormborne: That they are using you, that HE is using you.
288Eliza Stormborne: Just to fill his sexual desires for a companion he can no longer reach.
289Miu Xhlan tugged at her bindings, freezing for a moment when she referred to Tynos.
290Miu Xhlan shuddered, the emotional wound still open and bleeding from her earlier torment and she closed her eyes tightly, "... that's... not true..."
291Eliza Stormborne walked around and looked down at Miu
292Eliza Stormborne: The doubt in your voice says you believe otherwise.
293Eliza Stormborne: The truth is....he just wants a woman at his side, just like all his other kind. Duskwights are greedy, filthy monsters that raid caravans and kidnap woman to keep as theirs.
294Eliza Stormborne: When one runs away, he picks up another to replace her. That is you.
295Miu Xhlan clenched her hands together tightly, a soft sob shaking her shoulders, "... please... stop..."
296Eliza Stormborne: Everything he tells you is a lie, everything he wants you to feel is for his own benefit, but he is a fraud and he just wants to hurt you.
297Eliza Stormborne kneeled down "Now...go to sleep." she said quietly as she uncorked the vial she picked up earlier and pressed it against Miu's lips to see if she'd drink it willingly or not
298Miu Xhlan: "how!...MPH!" she was interrupted in her attempts to speak as liquid poured down into her lips, "MPMPH!" she struggled and fought against her bindings refusing to drink it.
299Eliza Stormborne shook her head "Alright, best not to waist." she stopped trying to force feed Miu and moved behind her, put one hand on her forehead and one on her neck. She pulled her head back to force her mouth open easily. She would pour the liquid into her mouth and gently rub her throat causing her to swallow against her will
300Miu Xhlan continued to struggle, tugging at her bindings even as she found herself forced to drink down all of the liquid, "MPH!"
301Eliza Stormborne kept it up until the vial was empty. It's contents were a sleeping agent that would knock out Miu until she received an antidote, which she would leave on the table for when the others arrived. She wasn't all bad y'know.
302Miu Xhlan tried to fight it but she was already so worn out, her head slumped down onto her shoulder as it pulled her back down into the blackness.
303Eliza Stormborne: Shhh, sleep now....rest...
304Eliza Stormborne let go of miu and rested her head against the pillow again
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309(Cioccolato Stella) Cio wakes up head aching, she sees Cenere on the and picks him up. She looks around and doesn't see Miu, she panics and spins in circles looking for her. "MIU... MIU!!!" she screams.
310Cioccolato Stella) She fumbles for her linkpearl while holding Cenere.
311[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "Miu! Miu! Please answer me! Please...." Cio yells into the linkpearl.
312[2]<Vektis Sol> "Vektis is also yelling!"
313[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "Vektis! Miu... Miu's been kidnapped... I couldn't...."
314[2]<Argent Sage> Was it Khash?
315[2]<Vektis Sol> "Oh. Another kidnapping. Khash again?"
316[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "No... some hyur women... tall, red hair, s-she had a red mask... I'm sorry." she let's out a whimper as she starts to weep.
317[2]<Vektis Sol> "So someone we can kill! Awesome! Where'd she go?"
318[2]<Cioccolato Stella> Cio sniffles before she begins again. "I... I don't know... she drugged me and knocked me out... I'm so sorry... Miu...."
319[2]<Vektis Sol> "Okay well, where are you? I can probably track her! Or Tynos cause use his fancy aether stuff because he's /sooo/ special!"
320[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "Somewhere in the shroud.... I don't know..."
321[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "Cenere.. oh gods he's hurt...."
322[2]<Argent Sage> "Should I activate the clinic?"
323[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "I-... I can walk... I have to find her..."
324[2]<Argent Sage> "Don't be stupid, if you're injured get treatment, we have enough hands that she won't go missing for long."
325[2]<Cioccolato Stella> Cio let's out a deep sigh. "R-right... I'm sorry... I'll head home soon..."
326[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "What is going on?! I was in the shower!?"
327[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "I heard quite a bit of yelling, Is it Khash?"
328[2]<Argent Sage> Miu is kidnapped, not Khash
329[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "MIU!"
330[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "What the bloody hells?"
331[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "Then who!?"
332[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "What the seven and a half hells?"
333[2]<Argent Sage> Cio has details, and should be resting. *sounding quite sharp and severe*
334[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "Miu... she's be kidnapped... Tynos... I'm sorry... I tried... I begged her to take me instead.... I'm sorry." she says between whimpers .
335[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "Snap out of it, or I will slap you."
336[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "I don't need your apologies, I'm happy YOU are safe."
337[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "No one person in this company is worth more then another."
338[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "You are all my family."
339[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "Now shut up, and tell me more."
340[2]<Cioccolato Stella> Takes another deep breath. "Okay... Miu was heading to the shroud in a hurry, I decided to tag along, since it didn't seem right..."
341[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "S-she uhh got a letter from ummm an old friend I guess and we headed to the edge of the shroud... I didn't like it, but i followed her anyways."
342[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "The next thing I knew, she fell down. Something bit me... I started to loose consciousness... and then SHE came out of nowhere..." she sighs heavily again.
343[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "Who is she?"
344[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "I don't know.... I couldn't see her... Oh she had a mask... red, again she was tall, also had red hair.. I'm sorry..."
345[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "B-but umm... she did know Miu it seemed... said she "Needed her." or something... Tynos I'm sorry..."
346[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "Do not apologize."
347[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "I will find her."
348[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "Tis not like she is an expert at hiding aether, get healed from argent."
349[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> 'I will set out shortly."
350[2]<Tynervial Rillveroix> "You will show me the place."
351[2]<Cioccolato Stella> "Okay... I'll show you... I'll be home soon..."