Cards Reshuffled 250 – Unpleasant Discoveries
No 250th episode special? Awww, I really wanted a commentary track!
Dekaras nodded. “Asleep or not, we must take care,” he said. “I believe some vampires, the more powerful ones, can be awakened during the day, if sufficiently disturbed. Bodhi is certainly strong enough for that.”
In other words : don't piss off the bloodsucker.
As they walked, Dekaras mused, not for the first time, on the peculiar décor. Drinking blood, now that I can understand. But filling up these large marble tubs and bathing in it, now that I doubt I shall ever comprehend. It doesn’t seem to make any sense at all, that I can see. They can’t absorb it through the skin, it won’t make them clean, and it wastes what has to be an important resource to them. Ah well, I suppose they’re simply trying to be theatrical and show off their depravity.
Random Vamp : Yo, yo, yo, it's a vamp-thing, you know what I'm sayin'?
The tunnel leading down to Bodhi’s bedroom had a few traps, but nothing that couldn’t easily be disarmed. And now they were at the entrance chamber, yet another very gaudy and simultaneously gloomy room that was dominated by a large pool of blood that took up most of the floor. It had spikes surrounding it, Dekaras noticed, his lips twitching almost imperceptibly into a wry smile. What is it with these would be evil masterminds and spikes?
Random evil mastermind : Yo, yo, yo, it's an evil mastermind-thing, you know what I'm sayin'?
There were two guards down here, by the entrance to Bodhi’s bedroom. Two large men, with shaved heads and muscular bodies, both of them armed with big two-handed axes. Oddly enough, they weren’t wearing any armor at all, only furry loincloths.
Typical Bodhi.
Let me see. Bills for ten tons of marble…bills for a dozen leather strap outfits, the price per square inch for those must be astronomical…and what is this?
It's all in the script.
Have him return to me with your reply to this letter, sister, if you can manage to take time out from your debaucheries to actually write one.
Dekaras read this letter through an extra time, to make certain he had understood it fully. Yes, it still said exactly the same thing; there was no mistaking it. One single thought kept running through his head. How could I have been so stupid? I ought to know better by now than to place my trust in people this easily. And I let the simple fact of me liking him lead me astray.
Well, he's on to him now at least... I wouldn't say Dek is too trusting, though.
Dekaras crouched down behind the desk, having gone into hiding before his conscious mind had even had time to register the danger. There was a voice close by, a slightly sibilant female voice, currently laced with contempt.
“You fools!” Bodhi spat. “You dare sleep through your guard duties? Answer me!”
Uh-oh. Time to make a break for it is getting closer.
“Did I perhaps come at an inappropriate time?” Aerie asked, and Dekaras could almost see the little toss of her golden head as she surveyed the feeding vampire.
Well, one bloodsucker deserves another, I suppose.
Around the edge of the door, Dekaras could feel a cold chill running down his back, one that made him have uncomfortable thoughts about a sharp blade rubbing his spine.
“Oh, really,” Bodhi scoffed. “I take great care with this place, you know. Both my fledglings and my slaves are utterly loyal.”
“That may be so, but he has his ways, and unless you want to wake up one evening with a stake through your heart, you will listen to me. He is a tall dark fellow in his forties, thin, sharp face and long nose, dark eyes. Tends to think he’s very clever and witty, much like the little wizard. Usually he wears black, although he could very well be in disguise. And he…”
“Mordo!” Bodhi exclaimed, making Dekaras wince. Yoshimo was looking at him, and the man’s eyebrows had risen almost to his hairline. “You are describing one of my lately hired servants!”
D'oh!
“There,” Aerie said, and the smugly satisfied tone of her voice made the assassin wish he could reach through the wall and magically strangle her. “Didn’t I tell you I would prove useful?”
In the words of Yoda : Warned you we did. Listen you did not. Now screwed we all are.
Next: Back to Rini's group, and an encounter with utter insanity.
Sounds good!