>>6181582<span class="mu-r">Something about your expression shuts Rezalith up, and as you lean in close you spot fear sprouting in her eyes… Feeling a sensation akin to twenty invisible fingers working your face into a cocky grin, you brush a finger against the devil’s cheek and nod.</span>
“Y-” She stammers, trying and failing to pull away from your hand, “Y-you…”
<span class="mu-r">That’s right, darlin’, you reply in a soothing voice, she ain’t off the ranch yet… not by a long shot...</span>
Trembling like a leaf in a hurricane, Rezalith’s pupils become pinpricks as a low, rumbling laugh claws its way out of your throat! <span class="mu-r">And don’t worry… you’ll be seein’ her soon, you reassure her, REAL soon…</span>
The entity puppeting your body relinquishes control just as your captive devil <span class="mu-i">EXPLODES</span>! Shrieking like a banshee as she violently jerks against the bonds barely holding her down, Rezalith stares daggers at you through wide-eyes as foam dribbles from her gnashing teeth!
“<span class="mu-s">I’M NOT GOING BACK! NOT AGAIN! YOU CAN’T TAKE ME!</span>”
Hey, <span class="mu-i">HEY</span>, you shout as Oti rushes over with a fresh concoction and Volka steps in front of you and TT, cool down, Rez-
“<span class="mu-s">HE’S ALREADY HERE! HE’LL SEEP INTO EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHIIIIIIING!</span>”
An invisible force slams the ranting Rezalith back onto the chair just long enough for Oti to pour the potion into her open mouth! Spitting half of its contents all over the lab, the girl lets out a few more desperate gasps before drifting into a swift, but sudden sleep!
For a moment the room feels like the cave you visited half an hour ago–tense and eerily quiet.
“Well,” Huffs the Chytree as his eyes pulse in frustration, “You’ve certainly treated me to quite an exhilarating evening…”
Happy to oblige, you scoff as you kick Rezalith’s chair, damn it, you didn’t find out <span class="mu-s">ANYTHING!</span>
“Maybe we did…” Muses Tzah-Tzie as she gives your leg a reassuring pat! “She said something about her powers leaving when she teleported here, right?”
“So maybe there’s a way to teleport ‘em back?” Volka concludes as her tail thumps the floor in thought!
“It’s certainly not <span class="mu-i">unheard</span> of…” Snapping an unseen digit, Oti steps aside as two figures with a humanoid gait march in unison over to Rezalith’s resting place–their three eyes glowing like Christmas lights, but bereft of anything resembling something <span class="mu-i">living</span>. “I suppose you could drop by later and speak to it again… I’ll keep it contained for the time-being.”
He’d do that for you? Really? The mage’s eyes flicker.
“I regret it already, but yes,” He replies, watching cautiously as his servants cart the dreaming devil out of the lab, “I’m far better equipped to contain the devil than those Mitaaran fools… should make for an interesting distraction from my other projects, at any rate.”
>CONTD. 