The Enigmatic Enemy

"Happy Sexual Sunday! Or as I like to call it, everyone get naked with me day!"

"Sounds like someone is in the mood for some entertainment."

Dante sits on the top of the Institute, staring silently up at the moon as he sighs

"What's got you mopping about again?"

"Look, you just need to relax."

"Hard to relax when I can't get the formula correct, these spells can be tricky."

"Any particular brand, or are you simply a fan of caffeine."

Aileen went straight to the door as she saw the spider on her pillow next to her face. “There is a giant spider on my pillow. Can someone please remove it..?” She asked, a little shocked that spiders that big even exist, standing outside in the hall in front of her room.

Walking through the halls reading Silas looked up seeing the mundane scurry into the hall. Tilting his head in confusion the snake watched before her frightened words hit his ear, stepping closer he looked into her room. Moving his hand upward as the spider levitated off of her pillow before being released out of the window for it to safely crawl down. "There you are," The snake spoke as he stuck his nose back into his book. "It was like it was never there."

"That really shouldn’t count," Dani said sighing, groaning lightly as she leant back in her chair. "Nothing after eight drinks should count. Anything else I agreed to after eight drinks that I should know of?"

"I don't know, I am liable to keep my word even after ten drinks. I suppose that's how I get into so much trouble these days." He mulled over the thought in his mind as he leaned back in his seat placing the remote control to the side. "No, nothing other than the usual, you helped me plan out world domination and promised to act as my right hand, woman..." He jested a bit. 

“Unlike my names sake I don’t take up archery, I do enjoy the hunt once in a blue moon though,” she said, taking off her sunglasses putting them to the side looking out into the water. 

"Well at least part of your mythology is right." The serpent chuckled as he stood up walking to the edge of the boat gazing into the blue water below. "I don't know, I was never one for holding a name to a certain standard, I find it belittles the individuality of people."

"Well then Caleb, should I ever rule the world I'll be sure to let you know when it is time to wreak havoc upon the citizens. Sound fair?"

"Having you present is self-servitude, that as well as the self-preservation. You know something that is useful to me, you have connections I do not, you can be places I cannot go. Or rather, places that it would be unfortunate for someone like me to be." The serpent smiled a bit as she spoke of being a nice person, she was from what he could tell, a victim of circumstance though never treating herself like a victim." When she asked he stepped in closer whispering into her ear. "Betraying me." He leaned back with a smile and crossed his arms behind his back. "I’m a business man after all, breaking a deal would leave me quite angry. I don’t know how I could handle something like that." 

"Self preservation? Where do you plan on taking me that’s so dangerous to your person?" She asked, raising her eyebrows at him curiously. Dani then caught his gaze, narrowing her eyes slightly at him. "Stop looking at me like you think you know anything about me," she said quietly - she really didn’t need another Gerardo on her hands, he already knew too much about her. "Betraying you is what it would take … And why on earth would I do that to you, Silas?" She said, looking at him, "After all I am a nice person."

"No where, yet, but you never know what the future may hold for you. Life is full of little additives that play, for lack of a better word, devils advocate to my point of view. Self-preservation is a variety of things to me. "I know nothing more than the information you've given me," Silas maneuvered his hands to either side. "Simply because one doesn't like hearing the truth, doesn't make it any less valid. Go ahead, tell me what you think about me?" A smirk played at his lips as he turned his attention away from her. "You'd be surprised how many 'nice' people have betrayed me, I'm not spiteful and bitter for the fun of it Dani."

Are you talking about me not wanting to drink?

"The mundane actually, you not wanting to drink is definitely something I cannot hold against you."

“Exactly, now they think they’re so advanced but the second anything bad happens in their minuscule lives they turn back to god, exactly the same way they did a thousand years ago. Pathetic really, reverting to something or someone they have no idea really exists or not for help or blame,” he said, laughing to himself shaking his head.  “I know what I’ve done and I’m not scared or ashamed to admit it – to some that makes me a psychopath, not that I care at all.”

"People like to think they're important enough that if an all powerful deity existed, they would be special enough to get their wish or blessing granted. What a peculiar race of being, I prefer the idea that everything is for nothing. Death is the end of the story, it gives it a little more urgency to be the change to want now. Though My change would unnaturally tilt the balance towards blood and chaos, but no ones perfect." He chuckled a bit. "Far from a psychopath, simply free of the need to blame others." 

"You never fail to bore me with your lectures." He made a muffled sound between a chuckle and a sigh. 

"I'm sure one day you'll find someone better suited for speaking with, but no one that will be older then you." He bopped his friends nose lightly as he laughed. 

"How kind of you," she said, offering the warlock a small smile. Sighing to herself, she sat of the lounge chair. "I wanted some sun, that’s all. Artemis Trang."

"Far from kind, a simple amenity." Smiling a bit the serpent sat at the edge of his chair examining the water. "Artemis, quite an interesting name. I don't suppose you take up archery?"

“If you ‘truly wanted to’, I’m a ‘helpful companion’,” she repeated with a grin, looking at him unable to find an amused smile from him.  “Which means you don’t want to treat me inhumanely. Asset or not, you don’t mind me which means that you have some other emotion apart from self -servitude,” she pointed out to him.  Dani couldn’t stop herself from laughing as she looked at him, listening to him closely. “I’m actually a nice person and I like you so, wouldn’t push your buttons on purpose,” she said before pausing, “Out of morbid curiosity, what would it take to push your buttons?”

"Having you present is self-servitude, that as well as the self-preservation. You know something that is useful to me, you have connections I do not, you can be places I cannot go. Or rather, places that it would be unfortunate for someone like me to be." The serpent smiled a bit as she spoke of being a nice person, she was from what he could tell, a victim of circumstance though never treating herself like a victim." When she asked he stepped in closer whispering into her ear. "Betraying me." He leaned back with a smile and crossed his arms behind his back. "I'm a business man after all, breaking a deal would leave me quite angry. I don't know how I could handle something like that." 

"When did I ask to be taken boating?" she said incredulously, arching her brow at the warlock, lying on her side on the lounge chair.

"I believe it was last night after your eighth or ninth drink." 

"We could always talk about… the transition of words…?"

"Transition of words, through the ages? Or do you prefer the simple use of moving from one point in a sentence to another?"

"I don’t drink much."