The change struck Olivia as suddenly as it had Esther: the immediate and absolute knowledge that she was somehow no longer the same.  And yet it was equally impossible to place - although she knew her reflection had become<em>different</em>in the instant she had spoken her wish, there was nothing she could put her finger to.  No single thing or collaboration of small differences could be pointed at as "this is what's different".<br/><br/>With most of her thoughts absorbed in this change-without-change, only the back of her mind noted that the "holy water" really did smell quite like gasoline.<br/><br/>And then even that thought was blown away, as Billy spoke the Word again.  For the second time that night, he Named the creature they could all feel watching them.  Again, none could remember the name an instant later, and again the response was immediate.  The clouds began to churn, and thunder rumbled in the distance.  What had been a calm if oppressive sky was now on the verge of violent storm.  Billy spread his arms wide and for a second time the tattoos came to life.  Immediately Olivia's attention was drawn to one in particular.  It looked exactly like all of the others, but somehow she knew that it was the one that had looked at her before.  It was<em>hers</em>.<br/><br/>"By my power as the Emissary I decree: Olivia Turrow has accepted the Bargain!  Take her into you, as she takes you into herself!"  He pointed a hand at her, two fingers and thumb outstretched in the shape of a child's "gun".  Olivia swore she saw him mouth the word, "Bang!"  And then the tattoo struck, leaping across the intervening space to find a bit of exposed flesh near her waist.  It's icy path wound its away across her suddenly vulnerable skin, twisting around her chest and across her breasts, passing straight over one of her nipples.  In an instant that felt like forever it had come to rest near her left shoulder blade.  She felt violated, taken advantage of.  And then as the chill started to warm and then heat, it transmuted from a violation to a comfort: The soothing caress of a lover's embrace.  The warmth promised safety... and then as it heated along her breasts, it promised something more.<br/><br/>Peripherally she was aware that Billy had again moved on - he was as finished with her as he was with Esther.  It was Mike and Jason he cared about now.  As she recovered from what the tattoo had done to her, she found that suddenly she could put a name to some of what was different about her.  The comfort she had felt was something beyond just the tattoo's effects; she realized that for the longest time she had been carrying a deep, ingrained loneliness, a feeling of being separate and divided from everything else.  And somehow it was gone.  She couldn't explain it - there was nothing external she could point to that made her any less alone.  Still, something<em>had</em>changed within her in some way she didn't yet understand.<br/><br/>And whatever it was, it meant she never had to be alone again.<br/><br/>((OOC: Olivia has lost the human trait Feels Alone (3d3).  She has gained the supernatural trait The Other Within (3d12).  Increases to her traits have increased Olivia's Spiritual attribute from 2d3 to 2d4.  Olivia is now a transhuman and her character sheet has been updated accordingly; the full ramifications of this change are not yet apparent.))