<div class="floatright">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d8/bd/dc/d8bddcf915691f1a6084e11275d75f18--mother-art-dota-.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Cassandra Blackbriar (https://www.myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=1252610)</strong></span><br/>Place:  The afterlife?<br/>Time:  Late evening last she knew<br/>Tagging:  New friends, and Lady Adelaide Meeks<br/><br/>The moment the zealot, a rather handsome half elven man she idly noted, spoke the name of the devil before her, clarity came to Cassandra as her encyclopedic memory came into sharp focus.  She'd come across that name before in her studies after all.  Malcanthet, the Queen of Succubi indeed, and while the zealot happily went into detail about the woman before them, her own knowledge base was much more academic in nature, not religious.  She hated the very idea of the gods and goddesses, although her dislike was more based on a personal bias and a loss of reason when one wholly devoted themselves to such uncaring figures.  It seemed the same could be said of devils, who knew?  That said, her personal bias was much more related to her family history since worshiping deities devoted to magic and law and, in her mother's case, commerce, was a common practice.  Whatever the reason, before she could respond to the man's informative spiel, the long haired ruffian among them decided to open her trap.  The accent was rough and uncultured, her look wild but somehow alluring, and she was fairly sure she could detect a faint hint of the sea about her.  It was probably just her imagination, but whatever the case, something said that this woman would have been right at home on the water.  She hadn't had a lot of time for personal fancies, so such tales of pirates were more cautionary tales in the far distant horizon, with only the ocassional issue cropping up if they ever chose to attack one of Mirabella's sea venturing trading partners.  But upon hearing this woman speak, Cassandra gritted her teeth and crossed her arms, casting her emerald green eyes on the redhead with such distaste at the very idea of joining her crew, even if Malcanthet gave her blessing, or her command as would likely be the case, and just scoffed.<strong>"I think I'd rather stay here if that's to be my only alternative."</strong>Noble upbringings made for, at times, stubbornly held ideals and beliefs, even in the face of such incredible power and awe inspiring terror.<br/><br/>But whatever else she could think to say was cut off when Adelaide decided to step forward and made her own offer.  As much fun as they'd had together, Cassandra still had to swallow and grimace uncomfortably at that ghastly smile on the woman's beautiful face.  She was bad, there was no denying that, but Cassandra was quick and practical, whereas Adelaide was like a cat playing with a mouse.  She loved tormenting people, dragging things out days, if not longer, before leaving a trail of dead and broken families behind wherever she went.  She'd discovered that shortly after their first meeting, but given her own crimes, Cassandra hadn't been about to judge Adelaide in kind.  If anything, what she did so easily as breathing, Cassandra wanted to know what that was like, to be so free and willing to indulge herself as she desired.  It was why she had stuck around Miss Meeks despite the very real possibility that she could have wound up as another of her playthings before being summarily executed, or as Miss Meeks had explained, 'suffered an unfortunate if fatal accident'.  Still, Cassandra took a half a step away from Adelaide despite the fact of the two, Malcanthet was the far more intimidating.  Just as quickly though, she relaxed and could see the appeal of her friend's approach.  Malcanthet was a devil, a very powerful, very dangerous, and not honor bound, devil.  Her whims could go either way, they could go another way altogether, best to offer as many avenues for what came next as possible and simply let fate decide, so long as the proper arguments were made of course, and Adelaide was<strong><em>very </em></strong>talented at putting together a compelling argument.<br/><br/>But once more, once the zealot had spoken in response to her friend's proposition, she couldn't help but stroke her chin.  As crazy as she considered the half elf man, he had a point.<strong>"He's right.  We're likely wasting our time making such offers."</strong>Cassandra began, an idea starting to form behind her green eyes as she put her right elbow into her left hand, her hand falling to the bottom of her chin.  She had no shame in displaying her body, but hers was more due to the fact she was trying to think of a way out of this mess, if such a possibility even existed.  That Malcanthet had gathered them here, somehow, wasn't lost on her as she turned to the succubus, her hands falling to her sides.<strong>"You've taken an interest in us, you've gathered us all here at about the same time if I'm not mistaken, and you've yet to consign us to a place of endless torment.  You want something from us, you want us to serve you, obviously, but how and in what way?  That's the real questions I think we need to be asking."</strong>She felt she was onto something, and while it was too early to tell, especially since their gracious hostess had yet to respond or give anything away at all, she felt in her gut that she was right.<strong>"You don't gather several people in the same place like this without something being in play.  Something big, important, and no doubt quite earth shattering.  Feel free to tell me if I'm on the right track."</strong>She immediately regretted her choice of words as Cassandra realized, too late, her eagerness had led to her being quite rude.  Thankfully, or not so thankfully perhaps, someone decided to yell aloud, drawing her gaze on the newest member of their unusual group.  Slapping a hand over her face, Cass huffed and threw her hands into the air, all trace of her former civility and good manners forgotten.<strong>"Oh no, feel free to keep shouting out at random.  I'm sure the constant interruptions aren't at all annoying to our new goddess here."</strong>