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[Lafayra Rue]

"Burias...Dempsey...oh, I see now." Raissa's voice was low and thoughtful, refreshing herself on the Phoenix Project she had studied. Caliphas Cain's partner was Burias Dempsey. It hadn't bothered to cross her mind until now. "I suppose it's not just everyone else that needs a beckon of hope." The sentence was spoken under her breath, not really meaning to be said aloud.

 

"Not meaning to be rude, but would I be able to get away from the work here? Getting poisoned and shot took a lot out of me and I can't guarantee my attitude to stay so mellow."

[Thugren]

the woman turns and runs over.

 

"Well hello! Oh you pretty thing you must be raissa.....Ive read all about you hun."

 

She points to an iron door with a sea hatch.

 

"Go on downstairs and unwind. Imm make sure you arent distured."

 

SHe turns and a huge gout of flame is blown at a drachen that had broken a vase.

 

"YOu simpleton bastard!"

[Lafayra Rue]

"Huh...I think I like her." Raissa muttered under her breath. "The fire's a nice touch." She made her way across the large room, artfully dodging soldiers as they moved back and forth. The iron was cold under her touch and made in a way that it's metallic smell permeated the air as her sweat cooled in it. She turned the hatch and pulled the door open.

[Thugren]

The door opens up, revealing a fully stocked lab .

 

 

The door swings closed behind you as the cool sanitised air of the room fills your lungs.

[Lafayra Rue]

Raissa took a deep breath, almost getting a headrush from the freashness of the air. It smelled sweet to her. Moving through the lab she examined the tools and equipment, finding it used but very well maintained. Every surface was practically spotless.


She found a room adjacent the lab that had the bathroom with a huge clawed tub. Sitting on the edge she started drawing up a hot bath.

[Thugren]

The water gushed as you look around the room ....

But as you look around you find a picture, caliphas Cain stands beside a drachen blut soldier , gripping some game foul by the leg.

[Lafayra Rue]

Raissa started stripping her clothes off, letting them drop to the floor as she pushed the door almost closed. Her fox slipped into the room, bounding over to a chair and curling up, his face poking out between his two fluffy tails. As the tub filled she moved to stand in front of the picture. She carefully removed it from the wall, turning it over to take the photo out of the frame. Sentimental people usually wrote things on the back of photos, she had found many in the pockets of the men and women she had dissected.

 

"What do you think of the name Konstantin?" She idly directed at her companion.

[Thugren]

"I like it!"

 

the fox chuckles, looking at the picture.

 

"WHAt do you think of the operation the old man asked abouty? you going to do it?"

[Lafayra Rue]

Raissa studied the photo with a slight twinge of envy. What was it like to do things like a normal person? She flipped the paper over checking for writing before laying it back down on top of it's frame. That same confused and uncomfortable look came back to her face as she went back to the tub. She turned the water off, the warm steam wafting up into her face.

 

"That's a tough question to answer." She stepped into the tub, slowly slipping into the hot water until everything but her head was submersed. "I know what he's asking me to do. It's highly dangerous and every report I've ever read on it ended in utter disaster. I'm also not a surgeon, though everyone seems to think I am." Her sigh rippled the water in front of her mouth. With a conscious effort she made her body relax, letting her muscles unwind. Her voice dropped several octaves, as if she were speaking more to herself than her companion. "Plus if I succeed...what then. There are hypothesis but what will really happen. Old though he may be he would never have a normal life again. Breaking the mutagen crystal like that...he'd be unbelievably powerful and practically unstoppable."

 

She brought a hand up to cover her face, inhaling the hot steam from the water, trying to hide the eager gleam in her eyes. She wanted to try it, to see what she could create, to succeed where everyone else had failed. Her other hand came up, pulling on her hair, making her scalp hurt. Selfish thoughts is what those were. Doing the surgery for herself and her pride, but her better half was fighting to remind her that he was human and that he had a family and a life. She fought with herself like that for almost a minute before suddenly relaxing and letting her whole body submerge in the water. When she surfaced she wiped the water from her face, pushing her long, black hair back. Another huge sighed came out as she settled back against the tub.

 

"I honestly don't know, Konstantin."

[Thugren]

the foxes eyes gleam.

 

"That man isnt really giving you a choice you know that right?"

 

it grooms its tails and loosk at her.

 

"You are battling a mental issue hes already resigned himself to......And if you think you needto be worried about the consequences of him doing it......What if his son got you...and force you to do it?"

[Lafayra Rue]

"Bah! What could Adolfo do to me that isn't already scarred in my brain. I think about the consequences because if I succeed it will be found out that I was the one who preformed the surgery. Who will be next in line to force me to do it. Adolfo? Ho Siht? I would relish the opportunity to see this through, to see what can be made of a man like this, but if I succeed I resign myself the fact that I will be wanted by any faction seeking more power." Raissa sunk a little lower in the water, brooding for a moment.

 

"I've been regressing...emotionally...to how I was a long time ago. It makes me hesitate in things I probably shouldn't. He simply has to assure that side of me, assure her that this is what is needed to make things right." She let herself sink under the water again. The heat no longer soaked into her so it was probably time to get out. Her skin and hair dripped when she stood and she twisted her hair to squeeze out the water. A towel had been laid out on counter and it looked much higher quality than the thin sheets they got back in the barracks. The fluffy feel confirmed her thoughts and she dried off, wrapping it around her torso when she was thoroughly dry. She found a brush and quickly ran it through her hair, her tresses falling in soft natural curls. If she had time she would have to brush them out straight.

 

Raissa retrieved her clothing, piling it on the counter. She never minded going commando but a fresh set of under garments would be nice. Not having clothes to change into she went out into the lab again, figuring there would be a lab coat to slip on. 

[Thugren]

inside the lab, the massive slab mountain that was alduin sits in a chair.

 

"Sit girl..."

 he murmers, motioning at a seat.

 

 

"I want you to learn.......SHow you something your Nazi books wont show you."

[Lafayra Rue]

Raissa stopped when she heard him speak and stared at him for a moment before looking down at her state of undress, then back to him. Words came to her lips but with a sharp bite of her tongue she cleared her throat and moved to the chair he had gestured to. Carefully folding her legs up under her she sat down. Her damp hair clung to her bare shoulders and the air chilled her. "There is plenty that the Nazi's could not and would not teach me."  She was quiet for a long moment, watching him stare at her.

 

"How much did you hear?"

[Thugren]

adolfo hands her a bundle of actual clothes, undershirt, p[anties, socks and a sweater and heavy pants.

 

"Do you know.....About the man anmed augustus cain?"

 

He opens his palm exposing a dataslate.

 

'The nazis hunt that mans legacy......A way to bolster their forces a hundred fold.....The pit of creation."

 

he smiles and looks at you. "The pit is a flesh forge that can make replicas of a host...Its waht my son wants....Its why i need you to carry out this procedure to the best of your ability."

[Lafayra Rue]

Raissa takes the package and opens it as he talks. She stands, moving behind the lab counter, she slips the underwear and pants on under the towel. With her back to Alduin she dropped the towel. In the labs harsh not fully lit light the scars she bore looked like macabre tattoos. The undershirt was skin tight but the sweater left a little room to breath. She slipped the socks on last then turned around to lean on the counter to look at the old man.

 

"So this flesh forge. It exists? And everyone is looking for it right? And your worried because you don't want Adolfo to find it or more likely he's very close to finding it. Which has lead you to a desperate act." She chewed on what he had said for a moment. "So Adolfo wants replicas of himself, or someone else?"

[Thugren]

"adolfo wants to use it to unleash the black flame inside him....He thinks itll make him unstobable......He then wants to replicate his Black scales...His loyal drachens to make an army to start a crusade of conquest."

 

He reaches into his shirt and grabs a sweet.

 

"I cannot allow that boy to run appaosed....So i have to do something drastic."

[Lafayra Rue]

Raissa began to rummage around the lab. She was craving her poisons, even a weak one. Addiction didn't go away just because you stopped using. "I'm sure you're aware of this but this procedure is extremely dangerous, Mr. Dempsey, and though you seem to think me capable as such, I am not a surgeon. My cuts have been made on the dead, not the living. I would kill us both and anyone in the same building if I screwed up. I realize you wish to go through with this and who am I to stop you, but surely there is someone more qualified to do this than me."

 

Raissa started to limp again. Somehow she had been able to ignore the pain of the bullet wound since she had met Alduin but it was now painfully reminding her that she hadn't had it healed. She moved to the next counter, searching for something to inject herself with. "If you overheard what I think you did then you know I would like to try. It seems that no matter where I go my reputation has proceeded me and should I truly succeed at this, somehow, someone will find out. After that it won't be just the Nazi's and Adolfo after me."

[Thugren]

Looking for something.."

 

Alduin raises his hands, showing four bottles of various poisions.

 

"The itch a little much dear....... Addiction is one hell of a thing to endure.."

 

he crusehes the poisions in his hand with a loud crack, igniting his fist letting you see the poisions go up.

 

"You will break that habit as long as you are here.....YOu are not in the nazi complex, here we have rules, here we have morals.......Do not, let me catch you girl...."

[Lafayra Rue]

Her eyes turned cold and she lost grip of her temper. "I am not your soldier and though I came here of my choosing you asked me here. My addiction is my choice. My withdrawal will be on your and my father's hand. Be mindful of that when you're giving me a knife to cut you open." She closed the drawer she had been rummaging through a little more firmly than necessary. Her better half was quiet in stunned silence.

[Thugren]

Like a massive slab of a mountain, alduin stands.

 

Two trails of smoke exit his nose like a drake of ledgend and his eyes smolder.

 

"You are not a soldgier.....BUt i will be da,mned if you will speak to me and do as you wish . IN MY HOME."

 

 to make his point, he kets the burnt sludge of the poisions leak from his gloves onto the desk.

 

"I know the choiice i am making. YOu use poisions as a crutch, as a way to forget just a little. You will not do that here....So if your hand is not steady when you cut me open, iwill take this, i will die having tried . but sometimes we have3 to be broken of our habits for the betterment of who we are."