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[center][h2]Pagras[/h2][/center]

[center][@Xaltwind][/center]

The chase was brief and not very dramatic, nor comedically accopanied by Billy Hill-music or 90's one-hit-wonder background tracks. Instead, the two monsters arrived at a building. A rather impressive one at that. Perhaps someone important lived here, and this incubus knight was waiting outside the door to solicit their aid in dealing with his pursuers? Or perhaps it was a trap, and he was luring the girls into his love nest, where he'd take advantage of and do all sorts of things that can't be mentioned in explicit detail due to PG-13 censore restrictions.

Alas, it was neither. But before that...

The lizardman unsheathed her blade, again, and called out the knight's name, again. Vanessa, standing next to Iskah, slowly turned her head towards the reptile-girl and said, in a very deadpan fashion with a very non-plussed face.

[color=lightblue]"That approach didn't work last time, what makes you think it'd be different now?"[/color]

Unfortunately, her witty quip was not given time to be responded to, for the heinous villain soon unleashed his secret weapon. Children. [i][b]Oh God, the Children![/b][/i] They swarmed out of the house like a wave of ants, quickly surging towards Iskah as if she was made of sugar and suirrounded her, beginning to immediately do what children do best. Touch everything and everywhere they're not supposed to, and ask inane and completely vapid questions of no real consequence or actual import. There were a few random invites to go on a date as well, but Vanessa chose to pretend like she hadn't just heard pre-teens try and pick up a member of a different species.

Then, sauntering over like it was no big deal, the culprit approached. He was wearing that friendly but playful and sort of smug smile again. It might've been charming, if it wasn't so damn annoying. He struck up a conversation while Iskah fended for her life and chastity against a horde of man-goblins. So, there likely wasn't going to be any progress made for a little while.

[color=lightblue]"Such a charmer, but I'm not into the whole chivalrous-deal, so no hand for you, naughty boy."[/color] Vanessa replied and admonished. [color=lightblue]"It seems you've caught my little employer in quite a devious trap, so I suppose until she managed to free herself, I'm free to talk. Ask away, handsome."[/color]

In truth, Vanessa wasn't keen on talking at all. She would've much rather frozen the man solid here and now or have a sinkhole swallow him up and make him stuck and still so Iskah could do whatever it was she needed to do. But, unfortunately, the cavalcade of snot-nosed brats made any such plan or attempt rather impossible, unless she wanted to risk causing damage to i- albeit annoying, but ulatimately - innocent kids. And while the dark mage was confident and competent at her use of sorcery, even she wasn't arrogant or stupid enough to try and do something when there were underage innocents all around her, or at least in very close proximity.

Luckily, she had a good poker face and even greater control of her own magic and monster energy. If the incubus knight was going to pick up on her slight frustration, he would've either needed to be really good at reading emotions, or be a mindflayer in disguise.

[color=lightblue]"Oh, right. I suppose you can call me Vanessa, Incubus Knight. Or Nessa, if you prefer."[/color] She chose not to go with his nickname.