Scene 6a Adalade and Lust
~transcript recorded via Kenpachi's Command Link~ (text by OOC Nicole Smith)
Lust, what in the seven hells is going on. Where am I and what's just happened?
My dear, my dear. You haven't missed much. How was your nap?
Bullshit. You kept me asleep and took me somewhere. I thought we had this agreement that you would NOT do this! But yet, it's been happening an awful lot.
Hush my dear Adalade. I know I've reneged on our agreement many times as of late, but I cannot be what I am not.
Jesus, when did you start waxing philosophical?
You simply haven't been paying attention.
Apparently. But back to the issue at hand.
Yes?
Oh my dear god. Quit beating around the bush and tell me who this guy I just fucked is?!!
Oh, him. This is Devyd [last name]. He is a Sidhe.
Yes, I see that, but WHY??!!
That's not really important. However, he is my bound servant and has been such for hundreds of years. Ever since I helped him... part ways from Greed.
You STOLE HIM FROM GREED?!!
You could say that.
You've had this servant for hundreds of years, yet YOU NEVER SAW FIT TO LET ME KNOW ABOUT HIM?! And after how long we've been together?!
I can understand your confusion and anger. However all was necessary to my plans. Besides, how was I to know you wouldn't turn him to your own purposes? He's quite easy to command once you get the knack of it.
That is so beside the point. When I agreed to integrate, you were supposed to disclose everything. No secrets. Every single thing you know. And unlike me, you cannot forget.
A trait I envy you for. I have traveled this place, this planet, this realm for so long that the memories become a burden, a lead weight that seems too much to bear. No purpose other than to bear witness to history that has no meaning and those that I share this existence with subject to their own particular sins.
Is there something else I should know or are you being confusing on purpose?
I do apologize Adalade. If I could exist in this world without needing a corporeal body there would be no need for any of this.
Yes, but my life would have been a hell of a lot less interesting. Besides, it's nice sometime not being totally and completely alone.
Ah the innate selfishness of humans. But I happen to like you a great deal more than any of my previous hosts and I have spent far less time with you in comparison to them.
While we're having this cozy moment of introspection, what happened to your other hosts?
The first few I parted with when they died of normal human causes. Lucretia on the other hand...
Was she the last one before me? Is that why you used her name?
Ah, Lucretia. We had a millennium of joy. It was quite beautiful. But my inherent nature corrupted hers. Not to mention she was a vampire. Her thirst was never ending. We were so in tune with the other towards the end that it was too painful to bear. She was a strong host to be sure. But as I said. My nature corrupted her and she thus became an unfit host.
What is it you're not saying?
I left her. It was painful and horrendous, but it had to be done. She would not die. She was very tough. So very unkillable; and I was not strong enough to stand her in the sun at the break of dawn.
I didn't think it was possible for you to leave a host before they died?
It is a last resort. For when we go, we take the person's mind and soul with us, to be forever lost in the ether of this world. A ghost, never to be reincarnated or taken to a heaven or hell. The body left to be nothing more than a ravening animal. Nothing more than the image of what that person was.
So somewhere there's a ravening, lunatic vampire roaming around?!!!
No, thank god. When I left her, I left her so violently that she sunk into a torpor that will last tens of thousands of years. But for some reason, she kept parts of her mind and soul. If she is awoken early, she will be a monster, but she will be worse in that she will have logic and strategy to aid in the horror and devastation that will be her path to me.
And me!! Because I am where you are.
Yes. That is the unfortunate truth.
So this Devyd and you have been working together awhile?
Not to his knowledge. But I've taken steps today to make him aware. I've been controlling him for years, but he has not known it. Greed never bothered informing the boy that he was no longer master to him and it hasn't suited my purposes to inform him differently until now.
Ah. There's so many holes in all this that I think I could ask questions until kingdom come.
Very possibly.
But, I think I'll let it go at that for the moment. Besides, I think he's coming around. I take it we were pretty rough on him.
As if there was any other way.
There never is. Sleep awhile, eh? It'll do ya good. I got this from here. I think your work is done for the day.
Ah, dear Adalade. My work is never done, but I think your suggestion is sound. As you will...............
God, I thought she'd never stop talking. I've never heard her like this before. But maybe I haven't really been listening. I'll have to keep tabs on that. I'm happy with my existence. And I'd rather not have her fuck it up. We'll see what can be done. In the meantime, I need to mop up this situation and change out of these clothes into something decent!
“Well, hi there David. Good to see you finally coming around. I'm Adalade Corsica, current host to Lust of the Seven. A pleasure to make your acquaintance.”
End of scene 6a