PLANEOCRACY: The mole

[wright_idea]

When Nerine arrives, the room is dark, with only Phoenix inside, looking nervous. His face lights up when she arrives. "Oh! Great! You made it! I was worried... I need to tell somebody about this, and you're the first person I thought of I could talk to about it."

There's a curious element to his overall stature; on the one hand, he seems nervous, but close observation reveals a lack of nervous movements that might be associated with such a manner. Odd...

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[loveloveomelet.livejournal.com]

Nerine doesn't seem to notice, however. Things are dark as is, and she's eager to find out what Phoenix has found out.

"Then it's as we feared...?"

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

He nods. "I'm afraid so. It's a funny thing, really. I just kind of stumbled upon it! But I definitely know who the mole is now."

In the darkness, she might miss his eyes dart slightly off to the left.

[loveloveomelet.livejournal.com]

"Really? Who?"

Far too fixated on finding out who the mole could be, she misses the movement of his eyes entirely.

[the-overseers.livejournal.com]

Nerine may feel a presence behind her - if she could sense such things, it has the feeling of something holy, thoroughly desecrated.

However, the heavy hilt of a great sword aiming for the back of her head would be of more immediate concern.

[loveloveomelet.livejournal.com]

Being a demon herself, a suddenly holy presence, however tainted, immediately draws her attention. While far from the most dexterous of people, she's quick enough to dodge out of the way, tumbling to the ground as she looks up horrified.

"What is the meaning of this!?"

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

Phoenix shakes his head. "Sorry, Councilor Nerine. But there's only one person I can think of who could be the mole."

He spreads his arms out and shrugs.

"Me."

He walks over to the door, ensuring that it's shut while his boss does the dirty work.

[loveloveomelet.livejournal.com]

"Mr. Wright...? You... from the start?"

Confusion quickly gives way to rage as a magical aura wraps around her, although the presence of the stranger tempers her wrath into caution.

"Why would you do something like this!?"

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

He chuckles, shaking his head.

"Sorry. Orders are orders. This place is too much trouble for our group. It just... has to go."

He smirks.

"But hey! You may serve a purpose yet. If the boss decides you do, anyway. Speaking of, boss?" He looks at the other man in the room. "We'd probably better finish this quickly. I need to get back before people suspect anything."

[the-overseers.livejournal.com]

"Good work." The Aasimar smiled, his stern and angelic face marred by the cruelty in his lips and the callousness in his eagle eyes.

"Surrender peacefully or I shall smite you where you stand, Demon." The man places the sword back and reaches his hand out, chanting - the words sounded wrong, like a child playing with their parent's bones - that the words are not suppose to exist.

Nerine may feel the creeping edge of fear biting at her nerves.

[loveloveomelet.livejournal.com]

"I don't know who you are... but..." her face strains as she struggles to summon the words, but her will to fight seems to be draining out of her rapidly... replaced instead by a paralyzing fear. "I-I won't let you... do this..."

Why? She had been trying so hard to become more confident... More sure of herself. It had taken a long time, but she thought here she would finally be able to change herself. But at a time like this she was losing her strength of will?

"I have to help... everyone!" Rather clumsily and desperately, she gathers together all the magical energy she can summon up and hurls it at the new man. But that alone seems to take everything out of her, as she feels her knees buckling uncontrollably and she falls to the ground.

[wright-idea.livejournal.com]

Phoenix -- if he can be called as such -- falls to the ground. "I'll let you finish up here, boss. I'm gonna head back and keep working." He looks at her, smirking. "Told you that you've gotta keep an eye out for suspicious behavior."

He exits, shifting back into his previous persona in the meantime. It's a chilling sight.

[the-overseers.livejournal.com]

Siegfried cursed as the spell slammed him to the wall. "Damn Demon Bitch!" He spat at her before waving a hand, and let out another hellish incantation - this time a ghoulish skeletal creature appeared, looking as if it was a cross between a spider and preying mantis appears.

"Take the girl, but leave her unharmed, and we shall leave." The Aasimar commanded the creature, who chitter and hiss in response as it reaches over to scoop her up in it's rough limbs.