
Loud and horrible wailing echoed off the opulent glass windows and tile floor of the 73rd floor of the skyscraper. By day it was a nondescript business and financial institution, but by night it revealed what it truly was; a bastion of power for the Ventrue and by extension the Camarilla. Well trained kine janitors had cleaned unimaginable gore and viscera from the walls and floors of various innumerable board rooms and personal offices. Inside one of these rooms business was going on as per usual.
"Please, please, fuckin' christ! I don't know nothing! I didn't see anything!"
He was on his knees, and covered in sweat. Tears were openly streaming down his face, and he wore a cheap suit. An employee I.D. hung limply in his breast pocket. Beside him were two other men, similarly dressed and also on their knees. Each of them had been handcuffed. Their faces were flushed with terror, and their hearts bead so loudly it was hard to concentrate on anything else.
"Well see, that's ya problem. Ya don't know nothing. Don't know ya place.
Very important to know ya place."
That was Ludo. He had been a hulking behemoth of an enforcer in life, and was much the same in undeath. He had mentioned once that he used to be a wise guy in a past life, whatever the fuck that meant. Two Ventrue Lictor's stood in immaculately black suits and ties with white button up shirts. They each had holstered pistols at their waists, but they were meant more for intimidation than anything else. As one of the crying men spoke, Ludo poured from a red jerry can, gasoline soaking the crying men.
"Please you
have to let me go! Kill the others but spare me, I have a newborn baby girl at home!"
He groveled at Ludo's black oxford shoe clad feed as the Lictor poured. Ludo gave the man a swift kick in the mouth, sending a spray of blood and teeth into the air and mixing with the gasoline. The man recoiled and fell on his back, looking equal parts stunned and horrified.
"I don't
have to do anything other than what I'm told, something
you mooks should have already known by now. Now for fucks sake try and die with a little dignity, eh?"
Ludo turned to his younger partner and gave him a look of 'Can you believe these guys?' He reached into his suit jackets pocket and revealed a cuban cigar. He ran the length off it under his nose, breathing deeply and taking great satisfaction in it. One of the men, spotting the cigar, let loose a final terrified howl of desperation before standing up and attempting to sprint away from the Kindred. He made it about ten steps before slipping on the slick gas and falling over. Strangely enough, neither of the two Lictor's moved as he made an attempt to escape. Instead, Ludo simply called out;
"You sure you wanna do that?"
The man did not reply. Instead he managed to scramble back up onto his feet and began running again. As he ran, the younger of the two Lictor's sighed and began taking slow and deliberate steps after the fleeing kine. This agent of the Camarilla had the beauty of youth, and was of much lither build than his mentor. He also had a hunger and ambition in his eye that cried out for recognition, for glory or death. The fleeing human made it to a door leading to the staircase, but found it locked. He banged on it for several seconds attempting to force it open, to no avail. He yelled for help, but abandoned the door as the younger Lictor's slow approach came too close for comfort.
Finding himself trapped like an animal, the man retreated to one of the glass windows before faced the young Kindred.
"You'll have to shoot me if you want to kill me, or I'll jump!"
The kindred did not respond, but simply continued walking ever closer. The man waited until the kindred was a mere few steps away before attempting to leap through the window and fall to his inevitable death. Instead, he bounced resoundingly off and into the arms of the waiting Kindred.
"Plexi-glass. Ya don't think ya were the first person to try that little stunt, do ya?"
The man who had tried to escape was dragged back like a sullen child, but surprisingly was not forced to kneel down next to the other two men. Instead, Ludo asked his partner for a light. Upon giving him a match, Ludo lit the cigar and took a satisfying puff before flicking it onto the two kneeling men, instantly erupting them into a fiery screaming pyre.
"Why not me..?" Asked the man in horror as he watched the other two burn.
Both Ludo and his companion shielded their eyes from the intense light and heat of the burning men. For the first time, the younger of the two Lictor spoke;
"Fuck! I hate this shit. We're fucking kindred and out here burning perfectly good bloodbags! Not to mention the Rotschreck!"
Ludo shrugged dismissively. "Order's are orders. 'sides, I'm sure we'll get to have some fun with this mook. He tried to run away, you know what the boss thinks of that."