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🧙 WHO: Emerald + Rei
⚔️️ WHAT: Cupid's Arrow+Creative Cutlery Combo Stabbing (Closed)
🕒 WHEN: Backdated to like, last week
🗺️ WHERE: PHOENIX ROOST
⚠️ WARNINGS: nsfw, stabbing

[ Emerald hadn't seen Rei in a while. Honestly, she wasn't sure why. It wasn't like she actively avoided him, but she didn't really seek him out either. Their previous encounters had all been about profit, and he'd caught her doing something suspicious last time they'd had a real talk, so she hadn't really gone for encountering him much.

But right now, she feels like he's one of the few people who will completely understand what it is she's trying to do here, even if he won't necessarily.. uh, agree with it. He'll respect her entrepreneurial spirit, though. And so she finds herself hovering around his club toward closing time, catching some eyes since even the cold of winter can't stop her from wearing cropped tops. Eventually she finds someone who looks like they either work there or frequent there enough to know the owner. ]

Hey, can you get Rei for me?

[ Accompanied, of course, by an innocent smile and big wide eyes. No way she could be up to anything suspicious. ]

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No need. I'm here.

[Rei calls her attention from the door of the office, leaning on the frame with a friendly(?) grin.]

Well now, Emerald-chan! You're up late. [He turns in the doorway, letting her in. (His first mistake.)] Didja miss me after so long?

[ She doesn't exactly sleep most nights for various reasons, so it's an observation that makes her quirk an eyebrow. Not like Rei would know that. ]

I was trying this new thing where I don't do super sketchy stuff and suddenly I couldn't see you.

[ Her tone is light and teasing, and she says it while she comes into his office. If anything, she's done more sketchy shit in front of him than the reverse, but the fact he didn't tell on her means he's probably sketchy too since it wasn't like they had some kind of deep bond of friendship. ]

How cruel! [He doesn't look or sound offended.] This is the most aboveboard I've ever been.

[Well, sort of. Phoenix Roost: very normie! Lamplight: not so much.]

So what does that mean now that you've sought me out? [He closes the door (mistake number 2) and faces her again, stepping back into the room proper.] Though if it's just to catch up, I don't mind.

Definitely up to something sketchy, but I feel like you'll both get and appreciate it.

[ Eventually. ]

There are a couple of quests that kind of... line up.

[ She takes out her phone, like she's gonna show him what she's talking about, but it's just a motion to excuse her casting an illusion to hide that she's pulling a broken arrow out of her pocket. She's also just getting her camera out on her phone and turning it to the front facing camera, recording so when he comes to look the video's going to be of him getting stabbed. :') ]

See?

Edited 2022-02-27 06:24 (UTC)

You think? Let me take a look.

[The final nail in Rei's coffin is hammered down as he approaches her, leaning in to peer at the phone screen. The camera reflects his puzzled frown at seeing the video screen-- and then her stabbing him hard.]

--Damn it!

[He shoves Emerald away on instinct, dark magic rising from his skin in defense, though of course it's too late. OW WHAT THE FUCK???????]

[ She stumbles when he shoves her away, but she kind of expected some form of retaliation, so she manages not to fall. She does drop her magic illusion though, and holds up the arrow she stabbed him with. ]

It's not even that deep, calm down.

[ She smiles sheepishly. ] Sorry, but you know. Double payday.

[Rei's fight-mode ebbs, mana clearing as the situation settles. He sighs, clutching at his arm, irritated but not hostile. Ugh... he was careless. Avalon folk really have a thing for surprise attacks.]

You asshole. I'd better get a cut of that.

[Man, that sudden burst of movement has made it really warm in here! Rei glances around for something to clean up the bleeding wound with, but his attention is grabbed instead by what exactly Emerald used to stab him.]

The hell, it's another of those arrows? [He squints suspiciously at the offending weapon. Which effect has he been hit with this time?!] Didn't think those were supposed to actually puncture...

5% plus the real good night you're about to have with... Whoever you make "quiver," I guess.

[ She doesn't want details but he's a night club owner, they can always get some right?? Right. If not, he has at least one good arm. She's also definitely low balling him because she figures he'll try to barter. ]

I don't think they do if you use them how you're supposed to but if you just go for it instead of actually trying to fire it or cast with it...

[ Evidence shows misuse can result in stabbing. Maybe she'll get a bonus for finding a flaw.]

"Quiver"? --You picked that one? [Rei sighs, the physical sensations he's feeling starting to make sense. Goddamn, it works fast. He's about to become inappropriate for public viewing.]

Emerald-chan.... [MEANINGFUL EYE CONTACT] You're not trying to tell me something... are you?

[what if i put my minecraft bed next to yours.. a ha ha, just kidding...unless? (She stabbed him, he can at least grief her THIS much.)]

[ She flushes just slightly because that was an unexpected turn.. though it probably shouldn't have been. The flush turns to an eyeroll a second later though. Mercury's been insisting that she wants him since day one, she can handle this. ]

Maybe if we'd ever talked without one of us trying to make money I'd think about it. You're not that desperate that you don't have someone to already take care of that, are you?

[ ...Not that Emerald would have anyone if she were in his position, but. She's much better at deflecting than she is dealing. ]

Well, sure I do. [Aw, she's so cute. Rei's arm still stings-- he should really bandage that rather than just clamping it with his other hand-- but he can't help but grin at her attitude.]

But, Em-chan...

[He leans down, closing some of the height difference, faces that much closer. His cheeks are starting to flush. Pupils a little blown. Edges of his voice roughened... Gaze dropping to her lips, then back up..... ]

...Better make that twenty percent.

[lol]

Ten, final offer.

[ Considering she already did it, it's a good offer!! Emerald eyes him though and puts her hands on her hips. She's not even making an effort to hide herself despite that she always dresses in bandeaus with her stomach and cleavage showing (and cropped jackets when it's cold). She'll kick anyone's ass. ]

Edited 2022-04-14 01:58 (UTC)

Hah hah... all right. Ten. [Frankly Emerald has the upper hand, already having the evidence she needs and also Rei being Increasingly Indisposed... he is clearly operating only on the power of Audacity(TM). He should really be more grateful, but that emotion may not even be in his lexicon.

Rei allows himself one more long look at Emerald, then turns to the shelves with a sigh. He's starting to feel a little feverish, really. Where did he put that first aid kit again?...]

I gotta wrap this. [The wound, not the uh... you know. Still, it's only pride in looking unaffected that keeps him from leaning into the lower cabinets for some measure of friction.] But you should come by more often. Wanna hear what you've been up to. Yeah?

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(emerald voice) it's not that deep

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