@future-cia-agent, do you hear that?
Carmilla...!
Looks like we found him.
*makes a raptor call and alerts @rocco-the-fourteenth*
*it catches his attention, but not enough to let go of Carmilla*
You missed one!
*lets go of Carmilla for a moment, but keeps her ensnared in his tendrils*
And who might you be?
Extrade... search the memories of those you've eaten. You'll recognise me...
Ah, of course⊠Extrade.
Youâre the source of so much guilt and shame, did you know that?
Come to beg me for the sweet release of death?
I... hate them
I'm glad they're gone...
I just came to thank you
*chuckles* Ah, that makes much more sense.
*pulls at @unbound-romanaâs soul one last time, drawing it out with the last of her blood, then discards her body and closes in on âExtradeâ *
I already know a way you can thank me.
*backs into the wall*
W-wait... I'm... g-grateful... you don't need to...
No, I donât need to. But I want to.
*leaps at him*
*tries to fight but is hopelessly outmatched*
*absorbs him easily*
*he masks his taste so he cannot tell he tastes like Daybreak*
Stop...
*the mark of indenture pulses like a power source... enchanting... powerful... alluring*
Oh⊠whatâs that?
*snatches it*
Youâve been holding out on meâŠ
N... no, give that back!
Its not yours... t-that's my power... mine!
Thatâs where youâre wrong. Youâre nothing. Everything that was yours is mine now.
*integrates the power and begins digesting him*
*is slowly absorbed, and Rocco realises its Daybreak II*
@inconspicuous-extra-de-cia, he is yours... command him...!
What...
*the Mark of Indenture, taken willingly into himself, wraps itself around his soul and binds him*
How are you doing this to me?!
Y-you took the M-mark of Indenture, and w-willingly absorbed it...
Y-you are now a C-celestis... thrall...
*fully broken down and absorbed as with the others*
No! I won't be bound. I refuse to be subservient to anyone ever again!
*tries to tear the mark from his soul to no avail*
Iâm going to kill you for this, I willâ
Argh!
*feels compelled to obey*
Tell me why they hate you
They just canât accept that their time is up. That Iâm the hunter and theyâre the prey. But Iâve defeated them. Wiped them out and made them suffer. Is that not what you want, too? Oh great Lord Extrade? You actually had me fooled there for a moment⊠tell me, whatâs the purpose of this ruse?
Return what youâve taken
And how am I supposed to do that? Theyâre part of me now. I took their strength and discarded their weaknesses. You canât ask me to spit out a meal thatâs already been digested.
@future-cia-agent, weâre too late.
Not too late
Theyâre already dead
Am also absorbed, just like them
slivers kept
biodata saved by Sol
lying
*sighs*
@rocco-the-fourteenth, release the biodata.
That wonât bring them back, you knowâŠ
Do whatever is necessary to bring them back
*is forced to release the bodies he absorbed, but Seventeen holds back the slivers*
*all the bodies come out, vacant, weakened from bloodloss but mostly alive*
I hope you have a plan. If I return them to their bodies in this state they might not all survive it. And except for Carmilla they all have large parts of their souls missingâŠ
We have the biodata samples to restore them.
Sol and I split the timeline... so we got samples of the main pack from there, Midnight is covered by the biodata sample extracted during those experiments. Same with the other hatchlings and the Cerulean kids experiment and Erlisen and Quel have their Matrix archives.
We can... for lack of a better analogy, load them to last backup and then restore the remainder of their minds with what's left in here.
Good. Then tell Sol to make all necessary preparations and get someone to put the bodies in stasis.
@unbound-romana, youâll also have to wait for just a bit longer, your body is too damaged right now.
@dyath-of-endrix
Get the bodies into stasis and prepare the biodata for restoration...
Iâm on it.
What about you? Will you return to Extradeâs body, orâŠ?
Extrade's body... what happens next there is between me and him.
