#vinomous

Welcome to sunshine-y Isola Radiale, Oliviero!

You will be housed in CONDO 401.

You will retain your blood empowerment, but gain enough energy to gain a small strength empowerment. Enjoy your stay!

When you've hung around long enough in a place like Spirale, even the locals learn to adapt. Cecil's latest target is a man with anti-magic wards around his property, making his murder a little more time-consuming than average.

To escape detection, the assassin slips away through the woods behind the property on foot—he'll need to travel a certain distance before he can safely teleport undetected. And so—

❛ —?! ❜

To his credit, the fleet-footed Fourth of the Chorus doesn't make a single noise when he suddenly runs into another body in the undergrowth. But the obstruction does force him to think on his feet, and he ends up whipping out a concealed blade from his sleeve before pressing it—and the man—against the trunk of a nearby tree.

Up close, his maybe-assailant looks quite pretty. A little pale, perhaps—though Cecil himself isn't one to talk.

❛ Tiens, tiens. ❜ Well, well. Cecil smiles. ❛ Êtes-vous venu pour jouer avec moi? ❜

Aurelius wakes to rain on his face and hair in his mouth.

He sits up with a startle, spitting stray blond strands from his lips. For a second he fancies his own hair has grown; then he notices the blanket of white-gold spreading across his chest and thighs, and follows the matted, dirt-stained mess to a human-shaped form lying prone nearby. Whoever it was must have walked right past him to nap on the mossy forest floor.

...As usual, humans make nonsensical decisions.

A soft drizzle falls from the canopy of the trees above, slowly drenching the ground beneath them. The divinus makes a small expression of discomfort before brushing the mat (for lack of a better term) aside—but the moment he touches it, his expression falls utterly.

A flash of golden light engulfs the clearing before the grime on the hair is beautifully whisked away. Aurelius glances over, to see if anything's been disturbed—

Y’know, vivi from Mystery Skulls aND Professor Ven