A trap
Who: The Rani Ushas and Selene
What: Ushas attempts to incapacitate (not kill) Selene and steal a bunch of stuff.
Where: A lab space in the hellhole known as the infirmary.
When: The day after this exchange
Warnings: Nastiness from the engineered virus.
( Normally the trashing of the infirmary would have bent Ushas seriously out of shape, but she considered it serendipitous this time )
What: Ushas attempts to incapacitate (not kill) Selene and steal a bunch of stuff.
Where: A lab space in the hellhole known as the infirmary.
When: The day after this exchange
Warnings: Nastiness from the engineered virus.
( Normally the trashing of the infirmary would have bent Ushas seriously out of shape, but she considered it serendipitous this time )
But she had vulnerabilities here. Her physiology was merely in a constant state of preservation, not true, magical 'undeath'. She still needed to breathe and, in this dimension, was also still vulnerable to UV light.
There was also something else. Another biological weakness, not shared by either humans or the other vampires. Something which a pathogen could very possibly attack. Something which, here, her darker self had alluded to in journal comments.
"Yes?"
The voice came through intercom. Selene watchful, on the other side of the glass. Three victims she had secured fmor the last port, gagged and bound in readiness to test out the necessary.
Selene wanted something able to be used on human beings. Something specific to their biology. A weapon which could, if ever needed to, be released on mass populations, once returning to her world. The next step would be for use on lycans, but she needed to give Ushas an organic sample for that. This was just the first stage in what she felt to be a necessary step in vampiric supremecy.
"Is it ready?"
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That was a trait this version of Selene had inherited more of from Viktor: A heightened sense of arrogance and assumption that certain aspects of leverage would prevent particular consequences. Otherwise, she might have picked up on an otherwise blatent new verbal clue.
With a swift yank, the glass was slid open and her captives pulled inside. Door closing behind her.
"I assume they're already breathing it in? Or do I need to get them to touch something?"
A quick glance was made at her watch. Selene was a stickler for efficiency, no matter the reality.
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Pythia, she hoped she was right.
She took a step toward the humans; she'd have liked to at least give them a reassuring look, but she couldn't risk it, and her hearts hurt at the sight of fear on their faces. She opened the lid of the isolation dish and set it on the ground before them.
And as she rose to her feet, with a flick of the wrist, she sent the lid flying at Selene's face. It wasn't entirely necessary and was frankly a bit theatrical for her tastes-but with any luck it would speed matters up nicely.
Well. Assuming Selene didn't cut her and the poor captives to pieces in the minutes she likely would have before conking out. This could have been planned better, couldn't it?
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"Tell me what you DID!"
Repeating her demand, one of her two handguns was unholstered from thigh and aimed squarely at the Time Lady's head. Then, realising that a death would do her no good, moved it lower, to abdomen.
"If your internals are anything like a human's, I suggest you start explaining!"
That was when she faltered. A look of nausea both expressed and felt, as the vampiress began to heave... Selene's own species had a very important weakness: To ingest any other food source than blood could stand a very real chance of killing her. She might not have just tried to consume human food, but if something had certain effects on her digestive system...
"You..."
There came the vomit and she could no longer support herself on two feet. Finger pulling the trigger as her vision swam, unable to properly aim.
Her gagged and bound captives, needless to say, began to panic.
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Selene couldn't manage any more. She was on hands and knees, regurgitating her stomach contents of blood onto the floor. Body doing its best to purge itself of what was essentially potentially lethal contamination.
Ushas would need to work fast. Once Selene recovered, there would be only a short period of time before assistance was called and the hunt would begin. There was no doubt the teenage sadist, Ace, was going to be first in line to try and deal with that.
And the look the vampiress shot at her was one of poison.
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The clock was ticking. No time even to try and disable Selene any further; Ushas hustled the captives out of the lab and slammed the glass door behind her, giving the lock a good kick to jam it.
She paused just long enough to grab as much as she could off the open tables-bottles of pills, hypodermics, other items she didn't even look at very closely. "Follow me," she barked at the captives. "Run!"
Next stop, if all went according to plan: the Rani's quarters. Which she hoped like hell she could barricade long enough to get help.
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