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the comment about june's father being a good man crinkles absinthe's face. she doesn't believe it. she doesn't believe anyone is truly good or virtuous. she finds the blind faith disgusting, sickly sweet, like rotten honey on her lips. everyone has some darkness inside of them—some people just have to foresight to only allow the darkness to shine when necessary.[break][break]

she wants to snap back with something sharp and cruel, but she bites her tongue. june's offer of further help is too good to pass up. she needs this alliance, even if it is with someone she can barely stand.[break][break]

"fine," she agrees, her voice clipped and businesslike. "i'll let you know."[break][break]

she bends to pick up the briefcase, then hesitates. "the contents are volatile," she says at last, glancing back at june. "handle with care, or yes, you will die. consider this an ongoing warning for any delivery you make for me." her voice is flat and uninflected, almost bored, but there's a flicker of something in her eyes that suggests she's not as disinterested as she seems.[break][break]

she tucks the briefcase under her arm, then turns to leave, her shoes crunching on the grass. but she pauses after a few steps, glancing back over her shoulder at june. "take care of yourself," she says quietly. "the world is cruel."[break][break]

with that, she strides away, disappearing into the trees as quickly as she arrived. the clearing is left empty and silent, with only the rustle of leaves in the wind to suggest that anything happened here at all.

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there's a wicked tenderness to her voice, teasing and consoling and possessive all at once, and the fire in absinthe's chest only roars hotter. the satisfaction is magnetic, like touching her tongue to a battery, or a part of herself that she hadn't realized was there.[break][break]

at this point, she should have shoved evelyn away. but it's not disgust that fills her, instead, something soft and molten seems to harden to steel in her chest, soldering her broken pieces together with something new and much less brittle. they are both survivors, shaped by pain and determination, something stronger than they ever were before. they might not have always been so brazen and destructive, but now, they're parallel in the most primal of ways, capable of truly understanding one another. or perhaps they've always been like this; shaped by something dark and hungry deep in their souls. it's in this moment that absinthe decides that this person, this thing that has reached out for her, is something she can trust. she only needs her intuition to know this is right, to know they fit.[break][break]

absinthe's lips quirk upwards into something that resembles a smile, and she agrees. "you never were the sharing type," absinthe murmurs. evelyn's mouth brushes against absinthe's and she sucks in a sharp breath. she thinks about evelyn's beautiful, unblemished skin marred with ash and knows she shouldn't let herself get carried away like this. she doesn't have anything to offer evelyn that isn't covered in grime. she shouldn't let herself get close, but it's been so long since absinthe has allowed herself this kind of intimacy, she isn't sure she knows how to pull away. she's suddenly, intensely, aware of the painful thundering of her own heart.[break][break]

she kisses back, carefully, softly, for a moment. then, she pulls away, but not without first wrapping her hand in evelyn's in the slightest tug of skin against skin.[break][break]

"then we have a lot of work to do," she muses, and she stands up a little bit straighter. "come. i want to show you many things."[break][break]

absinthe leads evelyn out of the sewers, the dragonite and the need for supplies almost entirely forgotten.

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a disbelieving snort falls from absinthe's damaged lips at the suggestion. "you can't be serious," she mutters, surveying the abandoned houses. she'd had her fair share of hauntings—both real and fake, if her shiinotic is any evidence to go by—but she'd never come across any spirits from beyond the grave hanging out in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere.[break][break]

she considers making a sarcastic comment about him spending too much time with his damn golems, or about how ghosts must have something better to do, but absinthe thinks better of it. she's fairly certain that when howard says haunted, he doesn't mean haunted by ghosts—at least, she desperately hopes so. perhaps a previous trauma happened here. perhaps these homes are filled with gutted bodies and coagulated bloodstains. they must be violent crime scenes, or meth labs, at the least.[break][break]

she isn't one to stop and marvel at the sights, so to speak.[break][break]

there is a pause as she considers him again, eyeing the way he flicks ash from the cigarette before tapping it against his thigh, weighing the options.[break][break]

"what are we doing here?" she says finally. "you didn't pull me from my research for a break and enter into a 'haunted' house."[break][break]

a pause as she reconsiders who she is speaking to. her eyes narrow.[break][break]

"...seriously? is that what we're doing?"[break][break]

her hands stiffen as she imagines strangling him. that would really make this place haunted, wouldn't it?

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the snake pit and the tormented soul that runs it is known to few members of decent society, but a harbor for the lost and broken. tonight's a quiet one, though most nights are. those who work up the courage to visit this den of iniquity do so with determination in their eyes and a glint of something malicious in their hearts.[break][break]

on this particularly miserable stretch of a miserable week, the place is barely churning out a pulse, a fact that the deathly quiet chemicals (rotting on their shelves in apology for ever having been created) begrudgingly make up for. there's no one to dance to the tune of their siren song, no one to succumb to the undercurrent of viper poison that pervades the atmosphere, leaking from the dark oak of the floorboards and sweating down the swampy green walls, slippery like bog leaves.[break][break]

there is only absinthe, mistress of the snake pit herself, long, talented fingers clutched delicately around a glass. she gazes deeply into its surface, as though trying to find some lost, drowned wisdom or prophecy in the alcohol that soaks its sides. what she wouldn't give for the simplicity of hearing fortunes in the quiet chime of clinking glasses, or tasting fate on her tongue in the filthy floorboards of her late-night establishment.[break][break]

instead, there's only silence, a drunk vampire's giggle as he leeches onto his numbed companion, a rustle of hair as someone ducks through the exit, beads jangling as they go.[break][break]

a suffocating sense of loneliness pervades, unnoticed by the scant few castaways dragged in by the tide and deposited on its shore. a strange feeling of something insidious, festering below deck. they are not alone in this feeling, for absinthe has felt it since university.[break][break]

'tis comforting to her. the rabble wouldn't get it.

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POSTED ON Oct 4, 2024 5:31:49 GMT

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absinthe is actually quite surprised at how this game has managed to grip her. by now, she would have usually put it down out of frustration and went back to work—alas, it's genuinely well made. the hiding sequence with the whirlipede patrols is cool, and while she could do without an annoying partner, she makes a good meat shield.[break][break]

plus, absinthe likes finding everything, like the keys, and the braces, and all that other fluff. speaking of the braces, absinthe makes the decision to go up the ascending tunnel, setting aside the boulder with ease.

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the sound that escapes absinthe's mouth could almost be mistaken for a laugh. it's dry, bitter, and entirely mirthless, but there's something about the way her shoulders shake that suggests she finds something about this situation darkly amusing. "yeah," she agrees, her voice rough from the electricity and the aftereffects of her rage. "i guess we both did."[break][break]

she takes a deep breath, then slowly levers herself to her feet, wincing as her muscles protest. the briefcase lies forgotten in the grass, but absinthe pays it no mind. "my husband was a terrible person," she says quietly, almost to herself. "he deserved everything he got. it was coming to him, really. but i loved him. and i want to burn everyone and everything that participated in his death."[break][break]

her eyes drift to the briefcase. a pause.[break][break]

"you're more like me than you think," she says at last, turning to face june. her eyes are hard, but there's a glimmer of something else there, too. something almost like understanding. "broken."

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POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 18:34:12 GMT

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absinthe doesn't allow herself to fully express the excitement fluttering through her at the thought of such a silly game, but she cannot help the fact that she has been charmed. taking one of the paper slips, absinthe bends over the counter and scrawls down her guesses with a flourish, little smirk quirking at the edge of her lips.[break][break]

she refuses to comment on how infantile it is that she is participating in something so provincial, but she never could resist a competition.[break][break]

she imagines her childhood self would have found this game delightful. she doesn't exactly frown at the memory of skinned knees and gap toothed grins, but she isn't necessarily thrilled by it either. there are worse things to be nostalgic over.

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POSTED ON Oct 1, 2024 18:28:52 GMT

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ah. a map. that makes everything a hell of a lot easier. absinthe can't help but congratulate herself for her smart thinking in a terribly ironic self-indulgent way that borders on self-loathing.[break][break]

regardless, the adventure must continue. absinthe continues to ignore shalin's health situation, instead continuing on to the northeast tunnel.

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absinthe says nothing for a moment that drags on as lulu implies her modest background may be false. she leans back against the counter behind her, face frozen into a stoic mask, though her eyes are razor sharp as they analyze lulu's expression.[break][break]

"it's true," she says cooly. "nothing to tell that you don't already know. seems to me that vipers that end up in a snake pit usually have similar backgrounds."[break][break]

it's a foul game, trying to pry into a history that she has kept deliberately shrouded in mystery for reasons she does not have the time nor the desire to delve into. absinthe's husband was killed by the very precinct that rewarded him, or so she assumes, though the memories are foggy and repressed. either way, it's a sore spot, a bleeding wound, and nobody should ever underestimate the bite in a wounded animal.[break][break]

lulu does have some interesting fascinations, though. while the substance of her character may be questionable, absinthe can't help but be intrigued as the woman divulges her ultimate goal.[break][break]

"i'm not familiar," she says slowly. "tell me more."

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the email questionnaire was unexpected, to say the least, but in a strange turn of events, absinthe finds herself drawn in by the questions posed. something about answering such basic questions without any threat of judgment is alluring. there's a certain freedom in anonymous surveys.

plopping down at her computer, flask in hand, she begins to type up her responses.

#5
What is your favorite instrument?
"the piano," she responds, feeling a twinge of something like nostalgia. she doesn't allow herself to dwell on it.
#6
when was the last time you had fun?
absinthe pauses, fingers hovering over the keys. when was the last time she had fun? "i don't remember," she admits, taking a swig from her flask.
#7
if everything in the world were to suddenly change, what is the one and only thing you'd want to stay constant?
"my resolve," absinthe answers easily. it's the only thing she has left.
#9
what would you name your kids? or what are your favorite names?
absinthe's heart clenches. she had names picked out, once. she loved the name pandora, cole hated it. but now... "i don't know," she types curtly.
#10
if you were to be able to put down everything you were doing, no strings attached, all loose ends tied cleanly, what'd be a nice retirement plan? any holiday destinations or a bucket list?
absinthe snorts. retirement? she'll be lucky if she lives to see next year. "i'd probably just drink myself to death," she responds candidly.
#15
what do you think of a god's relationship with their people? can a god do wrong?
"gods are no different from people," absinthe writes. "they can be just as fallible and cruel. in fact, they have a greater capacity for evil, for they have the power to do as they please with little to no repercussions."
absinthe hits 'send' with a flourish, then leans back in her chair. she doesn't know why she bothered answering these questions. it's not like it changes anything. but for a brief moment, she felt a little less alone.

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utilizing absinthe's mythical pecha berry, bought from skirmishes, to turn her espathra into psychic/poison. also buying miasmic mind as an ability and poison pheromones as a move, which will replace pluck, for 175pd.

using shadow sludge, bought from skirmishes, on garbodor, making it poison/shadow. also buying ability shadow shift and move shadow snare, replacing belch, for another 175pd.

finally, using crystabloom, bought from skirmishes, on grafaiai. also buying ability mold maker and move glitter bomb, replacing taunt, for another 175pd.

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