Quoted By:
Actually, you reply as you shut the office door behind you before approaching Mina, you wanted to critique her latest comedy routine–that joke about telling everyone she ordered Tina to kill Hank? It <span class="mu-i">sucks!</span>
Mina doesn’t look impressed. “Poke at my decision all you like, what’s done is done.”
Sure, you sputter, but <span class="mu-i">why!?</span> She’s sitting on a mountain of evidence pointing at her dad and Rivka–what the hell does she or Darren have to gain from dropping <span class="mu-i">that</span> bombshell on everyone?! There are some pissed-off survivors here, y’know!
The heiress nods her head slowly as she takes a seat on her father’s ornate wooden desk. “Do you like this office?”
Wha-y-yea, you stammer incredulously, sure…
“I’ve always been more partial to modern design, myself. All of my father's holdings always seemed so gloomy to me. Like a vampire’s castle.”
Crossing one pale leg over the other, the girl looks at you with her perpetually-hard stare. “He might as well have been one: dabbling in the arcane, hiding behind his army of foot-licking sycophants… molding Darren and I into his fell progeny… an entire kingdom built upon a foundation of deception and intimidation.”
Mina pauses to throw a book on the arcane across the room. “It was this monstrous hubris that led us here in the first place: the monsters, the human testing, Rivka… none of it would have come to pass had he not already been rotten to the core…” Closing her eyes in quiet contemplation, the heiress opens them slowly as regret creeps across her pale face. “And despite it all, Diesel, there was still a piece of my heart that considered him my father. A pickled, rotten piece tainted with the foolish belief that if I did what he wanted, well…” She pauses again to take a steadying breath.
“... perhaps he would change.”
All you can do is frown in response–a gesture Mina swiftly picks up on.
“You don’t need to say it. My father and Rivka are to blame for tonight–the evidence will point to that, and while I’ve managed to steer Darren far away from our family’s sins, I have plenty to answer for myself.”
>CONTD.
