<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/d/d6/Succubus3.jpg)</div>A quiet telepathic prompting from her Master bid Alactra to return downstairs, and with a sudden flash of insight regarding some of the Abyss-granted abilities she had gained, she teleported, disappearing in a manner similar to<em>dimension door</em>, save that an illusory double of herself was briefly left behind after her disappearance.  Appearing downstairs, she bowed in greeting to the... human woman? who had stepped into the front hall.<br/><br/>"Greetings, and my apologies for being slow to come greet you.  My Master, Lord Vholdran the Abyssal Seer, has been expecting you."  Once again, she gestured up the stairs and began leading the way.  "Please, come with me.  My Lord has instructed me to bring you directly to him."<br/><br/>Once again, she brought the new arrival directly to the round table room at the heart of the castle, and this time, after announcing the next guest, she politely bowed again and made her way out of the room, teleporting back downstairs to wait for further guests.  The demonic instincts that had newly-awakened within her were chafing a little at this sudden need to act polite and refined, but then again she had never really been fond of stuffy formal protocol.  It did at least help that she could tell that all her master's guests so far had been Archfiends of one sort or another, and were thus beings to be taken quite seriously and treated with respect.  Presumably, even that human woman with the sword was an Archfiend, or at least acting as the representative of one.<br/><br/>And now she simply needed to wait and see just who would be arriving next...