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Reese shrank in her seat, looking slightly embarrassed. <span class="mu-r">“No. Well…yes. I…I think it might be.”</span> she admitted. <span class="mu-r">“Mark and Rintrah keep offering to help me get some, but…I don’t like drinking blood in front of other people. It’s gross, and messy, and…I just don’t like the way people look at me when they see me covered in blood like that. Like I’m some kind of dangerous animal that broke out of the zoo.”</span>
You all sat in silence for a while after that, before Madame Webb spoke up again.
<span class="mu-r">“Regardless of how unpleasant it might be, you must take care of yourself, girl.”</span> she advised. <span class="mu-r">“For your sake, as much as ours…”</span>
The true meaning of her words sank in immediately. None of you could afford to have the vamp go into a blood frenzy in the middle of the operation. She’d either kill someone, seriously injure them, infect them with her blood curse, get herself killed by Louise, or all of the above.
Reese’s claws scraped against the wood of the table for a brief second, but she quickly retracted them as soon as she realized what she was doing. She cast a nervous glance at Julia, who was mirroring her expression, and then to Cassandra, who didn’t seem terribly concerned about the state of her expensive table at the moment.
<span class="mu-r">“R-right. I’ll take care of it. I promise.”</span> Reese swore. And with that awkward moment passed, your movie night commenced with a mixture of excitement, laughter and nervous anxiety. The lights dimmed, and the projector kicked on with a quickly formed spell from Nico’s staff.
Just like you promised, you’d prepared a classic from a free movie site that you liked to use from time to time. And when the title of the movie rolled onto the projector screen, the sitting room was physically <span class="mu-s">shaken</span> with the force of Rintrah’s ecstatic, bestial roar!
“Key Largo”. An old film with Humphrey Bogart as the lead actor. You knew Rintrah would flip his shit, but you weren’t expecting this strong of a reaction from him. A mixture of surprised laughs and poorly suppressed chuckles from everyone else followed in its place. With a smile, you got up as silently as you could and went to grab refreshments from the kitchen.
You took it upon yourself to make a few trips back and forth, delivering snacks, pouring drinks and collecting used trash. Tonight, you were going to make sure that everyone, including Madame Webb, had an amazing time tonight. Every now and again, you’d bump shoulders with some of the others on our team. Louise pestered you until you helped her bring out some of Cassandra’s wine. Nothing terribly expensive or valuable, but nothing so cheap that it’d detract from the experience.
The alcohol only seemed to increase the intensity of Moon Knight and Tigra’s flirting, and on multiple occasions, you caught them sneaking away from the group, and was even unlucky enough to stumble upon one of their more intense make-out sessions.
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