[hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=6666FF]Demetri Rowan Howell[/color][/b]  [b][color=CC00CC]Cassian Rudenko[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/392257844256440322/1125619539040813077/Copy_of_Black_and_Gold_Eye_Modern_Occult_Illustrative_Halloween_Virtual_Background.gif[/img][hr][b][color=6666FF]Location:[/color][/b] Limbo
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Standing there in stunned silence and shock as Janelle began to assault his boyfriend, Demetri couldn’t move. One slap was fine, he’d of smacked the God of Parties to release him from the hotel's grasp if he didn’t think it would incur further wrath from the Goddess of Love. But Janelle didn’t stop. Zeke got to her first, gripping her wrist before finally letting go. He wanted to say something, to yell at her or ask her what her deal was, but he saw who he was surrounded by. Zeke would surely disapprove of that behavior, and the others had already seen a similar side to him on the train ride here. He didn’t know what they would think if he said anything, if maybe they’d think that part of him was creeping back out of him, if they thought he’d be a threat to the mission and Janelle. He wasn’t ofcourse, but that didn't stop people's perspectives from taking over their own thoughts. His jaw was clenched as he bit back words he wanted to say before choosing to focus on what Zeke was saying instead of what had just happened. [color=6666FF]”Right, about that. I haven’t actually had any urges to eat or drink anything here.”[/color] He said before muttering the next statement. [color=6666FF][i]”Then again I haven’t had the urge to eat anything for a few days now so…”[/i][/color] Maybe that’s why he and Nancy hadn't been affected yet. He recognized the look in her eyes when they met in front of the Hotel, but perhaps their issues would be a blessing in disguise. Either way Zeke was right, they needed to stick together, they’ve all ran off too many times already and it was getting hard to keep up.

Demetri channeled the negative emotions he was feeling, a darkness coming over his eyes as he took every word he wanted to say to Janelle and shouted them inside his own mind. He felt that familiar tug inside his chest, a string pulled taut. Shadows coalesced around those before him, tendrils flicking up like flames in the air. Dark smoke encircled everyone's wrists  before they all began tethered to one another. [color=6666FF]”Got you babe. No more separating. I’ve manacled all of us with solidified shadows. Where one goes, we all go. Got it?”[/color] Tethered or not, Demetri still took Zeke’s hand. Feeling its familiar warmth against his usually cool hands. It was like they were back in the Infirmary, holding hands underneath the desks as they read silently amongst each other, secretly together without even having to say as much. There was a tug at the corner of his lips, a smile threatening to creep out at the thought. He lurched forward, planting a gentle kiss where Janelle had slapped him. He didn’t have healing powers like Zeke, but a kiss made everything feel better. That was the rules. 

Cassian hadn’t expected to be third partied. He watched as the new girl wedged herself in between their conversation, giving him a glare. He wondered if perhaps this was his girlfriend, but that was quickly disproven when Anya called Aran her little brother. Was she always so hypercritical of the people that her brother interacted with? Or did she simply dislike Cassian in the way Nancy did? [color=CC00CC]”Aran and Anya. Pleasure to meet both of you. Where are your names from? They sound so unique.”[/color] He’d forgotten all about the hotel, its traps, and its ability to freeze time for those inside of it. Who knew how old these two were, and with names like that it was difficult to place a time period. But he wasn’t thinking about any of that, only about the game they had momentarily abandoned and the beautiful guy before him. His hand released Aran’s, pointer finger flitting between the pair with a slight look of shock at them. 

[color=CC00CC]”A few minutes? So you’re twins. That’s so cool, I’ve never met twins before.”[/color] Cassian didn’t think the twin gods Artemis and Apollo counted for the statement. While he’d never fully met the pair in general, it was their godlyhood that counted against them. He’d never met any mortal twins, thought he couldn’t exactly say that seeing as how everyone here should be mortal. Fully gone were the people he’d ventured in here with, Janelle and her twin brother forgotten as the hotel made those details foggy in his mind. It was as though he could sense a bit of inconsistency in his statement, but he figured it was simply due to the gods and nothing else. He picked up another Skeeball, holding it in his hand before tilting it towards the twins. [color=CC00CC]”So who’s next?”[/color]