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[quote=Lyss][color=D3D3D3]"Your family name is another type of power in this world. You could have anything if you wanted it. I don't see why you want to join our part of the world but to each their own."[/color][/quote]

"That's the thing, Ms. Burns..." Blake said as he swirled the wine around in its glass. He let the words hang in the air for a few moments as if he was attempting to find the right words to convey his thoughts. "The supernatural changes things... and I don't want to be the victim of a supernatural criminal." He took a sip of his wine as he kept his gaze on her.

"... You need to keep expanding your power or [i]someone[/i] will eventually beat you."

[quote=Lyss][color=D3D3D3]"So, I'd like to ask what kind of power you seek? While we've made it clear that we will not help you gain any extra-normal abilities, I'm curious what you had in mind if we'd accepted. I've met men like you before, and every answer is generally the same. I want to know if you're different than the rest."[/color][/quote]

"Hmmm..." Blake trailed off as he [i]honestly[/i] hadn't thought about it. Or he didn't want to say that he wanted to get the strongest abstraction. That [i]totally[/i] wouldn't end well. He got up as he swirled his wine in his hand dramatically as a rich douchebag could. He looked off to the side as he said, "... I'm honestly not sure. The red lux sounds appealing, yes? But, what sounds [i]more[/i] appealing is a loyal group of well-paid, well-organized, subordinates because it's not like [i]I'm[/i] going to be the one doing that kind of work."

That was probably the more realistic option in this situation... but he saw his lovely wife Phillis walking up... except her makeup was messed up. Her hair too. Her swimsuit was also a little messed up. Like it was thrown back on. Still, he was more than happy to see his wife as she ran up, grabbed his face, and deeply kissed him in the middle of the whole meeting. While he wasn't against the PDA... something was [i]wrong[/i] here. Very wrong.

"... Phillis, what's that [i]awful[/i] taste in your mouth?" Blake asked with a raised eyebrow.

"That's my new friend Maya."

"Wha-[i]what?[/i]"

"Since you seem to love all these little [b][i]whores![/i][/b]" Phillis turned her head around and looked at Izzy as she shouted the last word. And she was hoping her words were sharp as knives. "Sooooo much, I decided to try one for myself."

"No..." Emily flatly said as she dropped the briefcase as everything just got a [i]lot[/i] more awkward. She was frozen in shock.

"And I gotta say, she was great," Phillis started as Emily almost fucking [i]screamed[/i] in rage as she helplessly watched. She was shaking like she was barely holding something back. "Much better than you and guess what?"

Phillis took a few steps back as she stuck her hands out and an aura of pink light came off her body and lasers shot out in random directions. She smiled as she felt the power [i]course[/i] through her body.

"[i]And it gave you powers?![/i]" Blake damn near shouted.

"Yes... and it feels great, it feels [i]amazing[/i]," Phillis said, "... But I want to know how it feels to get a taste of your own medicine?"

Blake bared his teeth as he started uncontrollably shaking. He squeezed the wine glass so hard that it broke and blood dripped down from his hands. He turned [i]red[/i] and Emily theorized that he was gonna awaken from the sheer rage.

"I offer you all the deal of a lifetime and then you fornicate with my wife?!" Blake said as he threw the glass shards on the ground and then pointed at the elevator, "I'M REDACTING THE OFFER! ALL OF YOU, GET OUT OF HERE!"

"Fucking [i]Maya![/i]" Emily shouted before she turned to Izzy and pointed a finger in her face, "No, fucking [i]Izzy![/i] This is all [i]your[/i] fault!"


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[quote=Vashti][color=darkcyan]“Are you kidding me? If you had a mute button the whole time why didn’t you use it on her when we were up there, you stupid fucking bitch? Claudette, I didn’t mean that. I’m sorry. I just…”[/color][/quote]

The words cut sharp in Claudette. As she was trying not to use her abstraction in public like that... she [i]could[/i] had done it, but that didn't make Vashti's response anymore justified. Her mouth went agape as she was more than insulted by the girl. To the point where her apology didn't even register. It merely came in through one ear and left the other.

"Nah, you meant it, sugar," Taylor spoke. "Own up to it." 

She thought that she should have at least used her abstraction earlier but sometimes, hey, shit happens. Taylor didn't take the words of a drunk bitch all that seriously and it was Vashti's fault for getting all that emotional in the first place. Taylor shrugged. Shit happens, like the fact that they were stuck in here. Taylor just shrugged. She was about to light a cigarette but that was not smart given that they were stuck in here. What was less smart was using her abstraction at all. So it seemed like the best way out of this was Vashti crawling through. Taylor would have crawled through herself, given that she was pretty small. Vashti wasn't too big herself.

"Just crawl on through, sugar," Taylor said. "I [i]don't[/i] want to die from heatstroke." She said as she noticed that it was starting to get hot. Real hot.

Then it cooled down as Claudette used her darkness on the walls of the elevator to absorb the heat out of it. It'll eventually cause another problem but it should slow things down.

"Help me get Maddie down," Claudette said as she and Taylor put Madison down and propped her against the wall... where she finally passed out. Thank the Lord. They could get some respite... and Claudette was going to get Henrik to carry her the rest of the way.