[Nexus Alt-Plot] Nothing and Nightmares {Beans & C'nor}

[Lady Serpentine]

Naera smiles as well, returning the hug, and nestles against her, finally letting the emotional barriers she normally has down.

[Beans]

Nycca rubs her back.
You could snuggle between me and Talina, maybe...

[Lady Serpentine]

Naera nods, looking pleased at that prospect.

"Only if you two don't mind, though. I know how close you are..."

[Beans]

It's fine with me if it's fine with her...
She looks to see if Talina's back yet.

[Lady Serpentine]

Talina is indeed back, and nods, slipping into bed on the other side of Naera.

[Beans]

Nycca grins, snuggling close and kissing them both.
Mm, this is nice.

[Lady Serpentine]

Naera and Talina both smile and return her kiss.

"Very."

"Mm-hm."

[Beans]

She blushes and giggles.
You two wanna, um...?
Just sort of wondered, y'know.

[Lady Serpentine]

Talina grins, and nods.

"If it won't cause issues with what you two have, that sounds lovely..."

[Beans]

Nycca grins and reaches for the curtain!

[Lady Serpentine]

Talina and Naera both grin as well, and the curtain is quickly pulled!

Both will do their best to make it long and quite enjoyable; Naera appears to have picked up a few interesting tricks somewhere along the line, probably in whatever she did before being taken.

[Beans]

Afterward, as always, Nycca is fast asleep and nestled close, happily exhausted.
*Poke to Inside*

[Lady Serpentine]

((Sorry, didn't see that you'd posted.))

Talina and Naera are both sleeping as well, probably with Nycca held between them.

[Beans]

((Want this to take a profoundly dark turn? I can do that...))
Most likely, Nycca will wake last.

[Lady Serpentine]

((Depends. What profoundly dark turn would it be taking?))

Then she'll find Talina and Naera discussing something in whispers, so as not to wake her up.

[Beans]

((The organized crime group that controlled the brothel starting to threaten the girls and stuff?))
She listens, pretending to stay asleep.

[Lady Serpentine]

((Works for me. Wasn't that what we had planned for this arc anyway?))

They seem to be discussing whether or not they should make this a permanent thing, if Nycca is okay with that.

[Beans]

Nycca giggles and grins at them.
I'm fine either way...
A package is delivered to the door and the doorbell rings!
She tries to slip out and get a robe on.
You two stay there, okay? I'll be back after I see what's just arrived.

[Lady Serpentine]

They allow her out, and Talina nods; Naera looks like she's going to follow anyway, but the sorceress puts a hand on the Hunterkin's shoulder and shakes her head, at which she sighs quietly and acquiesces.

[Beans]

They'll hear her walk downstairs, open the door, and pull something in. The box has a good deal of weight to it, it seems.

They'll hear a papery sort of ripping sound; she's probably slicing the tape with a wingclaw.

They'll hear rustling as packing material is pulled out of the way.

They'll hear, after a pause, screaming. Terrified screaming.

[Lady Serpentine]

Naera is first out of bed, racing downstairs far faster than one might expect; Talina is fairly close behind her, though the Hunterkin outpaces her by a fair amount - if this is what Naera can do in this bad a shape, she must have been terrifying when she was in peak condition.

[Beans]

Nycca is kneeling on the carpet, her hands stained with traces of dark blood.
In the box is lying a deathly pale redhead, her mouth taped shut.
She is without clothes.
More importantly, she is without limbs.

Nycca is still screaming; the other girls are waking up too, coming down to see what the ruckus is about.

[Lady Serpentine]

Naera hisses, claws sprouting from her fingers, and her face taking on a more bestial cast, especially around the nose and mouth, then darts off to her room, presumably to get something.

Talina, assuming that said red-head is Vo, ignores Nycca for the moment, since she'd just scared, not in danger, and goes to pull the tape off her mouth, knowing that since she's undead, being delimbed doesn't necessarily mean she's dea.

[Beans]

Closer examination reveals that Vo's eyes have been darting around; when untaped, it seems her mouth has been stuffed with a few rubbers, each latex preventative itself having been stuffed with crumpled paper.
Vo makes strained hacking noises, mouthing something about her throat.

Nycca has stopped screaming, as the other girls have begun to tend to her.

[Lady Serpentine]

Talina quickly pulls them out, and then pulls a tiny vial from her bag, and downs it in one gulp; if nothing prevents her, she'll then cast her sight down Vo's throat, looking to see what's wrong with it.

Naera, meanwhile, returns, wearing clothing much like what she wore last night, though her shirt is thicker, with long sleeves, and she has a white cloak with three blood-red arrows dyed onto the back, as well as a kindjal at her hip; unless stopped, she'll thread her way quickly through the other girls, and start sniffing around on the porch, looking for the scent of whoever delivered the package.

[Beans]

What's a kindjal?
-
Vo seems to have more paper-stuffed condoms in her throat and is having trouble coughing them up.

She'll only smell porcelain and steel.

[Lady Serpentine]

A double-bladed short sword (or long knife) with about twenty centimeters of slightly curved blade.

---

Talina pours some sort of slick substance onto her fingers, and goes to reach down Vo's throat to remove them.

Does the scent of porcelain and steel lead anywhere?

[Beans]

Eventually they manage to get her throat clear; she pants, trying to sit up and failing.
---
It leads down the street, in fact!

[Lady Serpentine]

Talina goes to help her sit up, looking rather concerned.

"Do you want some water or something?"

In that case, Naera sets off after it at top speed.

[Beans]

She nods, mouthing out an affirmative.
--
It leads into a parked, open moving truck...
Full of porcelain toilets with steel fittings.