<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/nvQJUqt.jpg)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Albion<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>June 15th, 2021, 11:00 AM<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>City Streets -> Beauty Salon<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Nerissa, Lily,<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>The dread is here<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong>Sharp style (but for how long?)<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"When you let demons like that into your mind, it's usually your soul that follows. It's why I learn to not put much stock in what she says... At the end of the day, anything I've ever heard her spout has been almost entirely for her benefit, and I'll be damned if I ever give her the time of day, let alone entertain any semblance of unease she tries to instill in me." Albion spat with thinly veiled vehemence. He could hear a sense of anxiousness in Nerissa, that made him believe... Maybe Kyless got her worried, thinking. He had shot her, but would Nerissa be next?<br/><br/>"Rest assured, Neri, my trust in you has not wavered since the day it was built. Much to the point that I continue to let myself be guinea pig to your experiments even when I should know better." Albion gave an amused laugh, but there was no frustration behind it. Every time Nerissa had subjected him to a creation, it had been an interesting experience, but he knew she could count on him... Because when everyone else said no, he was the only one foolish enough to say yes.<br/><br/><em>'It always starts with the infighting. She has her game, and so far the only way I see to win is not play it.'</em>He exhaled quietly. He was one person, but what of anyone else around him? What was to say they didn't harbor seeds of doubt? He knew while Nerissa could be mischevious, hedmeber known her to be malicious... He had the utmost confidence that the fox demoness would not follow the same path that Kyless did. Right now, there were bigger concerns...<br/><br/>There it was before him, the dreaded beauty salon, and Lily was having entirely too much fun at his expense. The voice and the look she wore... Some small part of her was going to delight in the torment that was about to befall the man. Of course there was also<em>probably</em>a part that would have sympathy for him, but overall it was just going to be amusement at his expense. Would they even be able to do the impossible and make him look girly enough?<br/><br/>Maybe he should have started entertaining second th- Nope  too late! Nerissa was fast as usual, taking his hand and dragging him inside, his scent assaulted by various care products and smells he usually only picked up when his face was buried in a fair maidens' neck. The establishment was so violently pink, he was worried he might not like the color after today (Nerissa tended to have enough pink for him by her hair alone). He wouldn't have even begun to know where to start, but the vixen was three steps ahead of him in this regard... And basically tying him up to let the proverbial buses drive right over him.<br/><br/>"... Wow, Neri, I honestly do not know what to say. I think you just kinda verbally stripped me bare right there, and even aired some of my dirty laundry. But, I guess that's what friends do, right? Hahah.... (You can smite me any time now, God)." Albion drawled quietly, letting his head hang. He could see even the receptionist seemed puzzled by Nerissa's speech, to which he raised a hand and shook his head as if to say 'Don't try to understand her.'<br/><br/>"I'm fairly sure this isn't how it's supposed to go, but... To let you know what kind of tragedy you're working with..." He grunted, hanging his bag of grocery store purchases to Lily for safekeeping before he worked to begin slowly stripping the clothes off his top. Each one he tossed upon Nerissa's head carelessly until he stood before the receptionist, scratching his cheek. As advertised, a myriad of scars lay strewn about his chest, his back, and even his arms, though many of those were faded. Perhaps more existed elsewhere, but the most noticeable ones seemed present on his chest.<br/><br/>"So... Still workable, or beyond saving? Just need some freshening up and a lot of hiding work, tonight is going to be busy."