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Feeling Hell’s heat char your cheeks, you harness what little courage you have and <span class="mu-s">STAND PROUD!</span> You’ve dealt with irate customers before, you can deal with her!
Stepping around Volka as she uses her body to shield yours, you jab a finger in Rezzie’s direction as a bold voice leaves your lips! She talks a big game about being smart, so THINK! If she kills you she loses all that power of hers… and guess who it goes to!
The flames and the tremors falter, if only for a moment. Taking it as a win, you dare to take another step closer to the roaring inferno!
One more soul for his collection, you shout, squinting as the heat claws at your dry eyes! One more slave… just like she was! She can’t hear him anymore? Feel him taking over her voice and actions? Sounds like she should be <span class="mu-i">THANKING</span> someone, not <span class="mu-i">KILLING</span> them!
With a whiplike crack, the flames recede… past the waning fires you see Rezalith again–the terrifying demon giving way to a confused girl!
“Th-that’s not-”
You wanna get rid of him, you interject as you stride over and bridge the gap between you and Rezzie! Just like she does! But you aren’t gonna be able to figure it out yourself, so…
With the last few flames flickering into embers, all that remains of the devil’s temper tantrum is a low groan in the stone around you!
Let Oti go, you conclude in a soothing voice, and we can figure it out. Together.
For a moment, all is silent. From the ashes of the anger, however, comes a small, quivering noise that matures into raucous, derisive laughter!
“You…” Sputters Rezalith as she bowls over laughing, “You’re RIGHT! I drank that potion, lost all that power… and now I’m <span class="mu-i">FREE!</span>” Wiping a solitary tear from her eye, she glances up at you with a toothy grin and the faintest sliver of sympathy!
“You, though… you don’t know how to USE that power… and he can do whatever the HELLS he wants with you!” Another snicker. “You’re <span class="mu-i">SCREWED!</span>”
Well so much for <span class="mu-i">that</span> touching moment. Leaving the girl to her hysterics, you rejoin your teammates and shrug. At least she didn’t kill you! Before you can move to leave, however, you feel a shift in the walls around you! Stumbling around like a hamster being shaken around in one of those exercise balls, you deftly land on top of TT as a resigned groan rings out across the chamber from Rezzie’s lips!
“Fine, he can have his STUPID tower back… probably ugly as HELL anyways.” She hisses, crossing her arms as she appraises you with the usual malaise.
“And we’re… good?” Asks Volka as she helps you and your dainty Durher up!
“Pfft.” Snarls the devil as she paces around her ex-throne. “Do whatever the HELL you want. I don’t care…”
You blink. What’s uh… what’s SHE gonna do?
“Be FREE, duh!” Answers Rezalith with a derisive snort! “Maybe I’ll sack this stupid city… after I take a nap. What the HELL do you care, hm?”
>CONTD.
