<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Location: Countess Feratti's Mansion - Foyer</span></span><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/HgC0lqN.jpg)<br/></div><div class="floatright"><div align="center">(https://i.imgur.com/j5UUcQX.png)</div>(https://i.imgur.com/iCG6Tac.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/y4EWGua.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/ez4r7oq.jpg)</div><br/>KATRA and PEACHES<br/><br/>As Katra and Peaches elected to hang back at the entrance, they have been left mostly unaware of the wacky hijinks Valna and Juro have gotten themselves into. However what they do notice, peering from behind the cracked front door so as not to be easily spotted, is the return of the butler, emerging from the room to the right on the first floor. Though the pale elf did not come out alone, but was in fact accompanied by a strange, waifish figure. As they stepped out into the foyer, the duo would get a better look at the new arrival, a very thin (almost to the point of looking malnourished), very pale woman. She wore a long flowing dress and some kind of metal mask or helmet that completely covered her face, from which spilled long locks of stark white hair. Just looking at her body one might assume she was sickly, or otherwise afflicted, though despite her apparent frailty she carried herself with great poise and presence.<br/><br/>"You'll be receiving them in the banquet hall then? We'll have a table prepared as quickly as possible" the butler said with a polite bow of their head, motioning for the woman to head up the stair case, "My thanks J'eves. I hope to have this matter settled as quickly as possible" the woman cooed, starting to ascend the stairs with an almost unnaturally smooth stride.<br/><br/>However the two would stop in their tracks when squealing and shouting could suddenly be heard from the second floor, from the same direction Valna and Juro had gone. A few moments later Katra and Peaches would see two maids emerge, one an elf and the other a...skeleton? They were carrying something bundled of up in a cloth sack, suspiciously similar in size to the lizard form Juro had taken before hitching a ride on Valna, "Sasha, Finnea, what was that commotion? Is everything alright?" the woman asked, her masked gaze cast over to the direction they had come from and lingering there for a moment, "Forgive the disturbance Lady Carmilla, it was nothing serious, we just-" "Came across this strange creature in the hall. Some kind of lizard, but with rabbit ears. It jumped all over Finnea, but we managed to capture it" "We've no idea where it came from, but since it seems so exotic we didn't want to just dispose of it without consulting you, in case it might be something important" they explained, "Hmm, you've really caught me at a bad moment. We were just about to meet with some guests. For now just a find a cage for it and I'll-" the woman, apparently Countess Carmilla herself,  started to say, only to receive a look from the butler that gave her pause, "Actually my lady, this mention of...<em>rabbit ears</em>is quite curious. I think it'd be best to take a look at it now" they said, gaze briefly flicking over to the front door, though whether they spotted Katra and Peaches was hard to tell.<br/><br/><hr/>Katra, Peaches, from your look out spot you managed to get the first look at the infamous Countess Carmilla Feratti. However a complication has arisen. It appears that Juro has been captured by a pair of maids, and brought straight to the Countess. He is now surrounded by four potential hostiles, one of them being a skeleton and another a full fledged vampire! What do you do?<br/><br/><br/>JURO<br/><br/>Juro's trip through the manor was about as comfortable as one would expect being hefted around in a bundle would be. It was impossible to see where he was going through the apron, though fortunately he wouldn't have much time to lose his bearings, as the maids would stop only a few moments later. The voices were muffled by his cloth prison, but he distinctly heard the name "Lady Carmilla" being said. From there he could piece together the general gist of the conversation, and it would seem he would soon come under the Countess's scrutinizing eye, "Ver...let's....ook at it" a new voice said, before the the apron was pulled open slightly and Juro would see a frightful metal face staring down at him.<br/><br/><hr/>Juro you have been hand delivered straight to the Countess, and are now staring face to face with a steely masked visage. The apron has been opened slightly, but you are still being contained, and doing anything in your current form and position will still prove extremely difficult. What do you do?<br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="bbc_u">Location: Countess Feratti's Mansion - Bathroom</span></span><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/Igv7CkU.jpg)<br/></div><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/62zzFn9.jpg)</div>VALNA<br/><br/>Sera just stares at Valna for a moment, though not for the same reasons Valna is staring at her (and it is within this brief silence that Valna will notice just how perfectly the water drips down off the supple mounds of her breasts). Bit by bit her anger seems to be replaced by confusion, "I'm sorry, what?" she muttered, as if Valna had just spoken to her in a completely foreign tongue, "Are you seriously saying that I should just drop everything I'm doing and go along with a group of random strangers who have broken into our house, purely on their word that they were sent by my father, just so I can go<em>back</em>to my father, who I was trying to get away from in the first place?" she asked, wanting to make it clear they were on the same page with what Valna was suggesting, "Because if so...NO! Why the fuck would I do that!?" she growled, "I don't even<em>know</em>you, let alone trust you. Why should I go through all that risk and effort? What, so you can get paid? Do I look like I give a shit?" she asked, letting out a heavy sigh and shaking her head, turning her back to Valna (and unintentionally giving her a full view of her perfectly palmable ass), "How about this? Instead of whatever nonsense you just said, you and whoever's with you just turn around and piss off before you all get your heads chopped off and mailed back to Father as a warning"<br/><hr/>Well it seems your target has now<em>impolitely</em>declined your offer of rescue. So what now?<br/>