BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION • returning.

[Luciferr]

he listened to Dante with growing distaste for what he was being told, Even as Barbara climbed his limbs - and the tendrils, shorter but no less gripping, attached to his shoulders reached down when she climbed high enough to grip at and help her gain her footing up to his shoulders the commotion of his...child?...for all intents and purposes caused barely a twitch otherwise - though he saw the strangers - exiled’s - eyes narrow and if he had any in turn they’d have glared right back.

So he listened and he did not like what he heard

Silent was many things, but he was not a fool who trusted the words of strangers over those who had proven to be reliable in their own way - Dante had nothing to gain from lying to him and the exiled’s words confirmed they were an exile,

He trusted the known against the unknown.

And he was not known for allowing vipers into his garden.

With a sharp crack again of that strange bulging spine, the eyeless skull like visage of the abomination that led this new Pitt turned back

”no rule or not, you attacked an Ardent, you killed one of our own - you’ll likely do so again if it so pleases you” the voice - voices really, for what made up the beast was more than one, was always oddly countless, a corpse of corpses indeed - hissed, a steady threat in the air that felt heavy.

”I know Dante, I do not know you - you have far more to gain by lying to me than he does” the voice rumbled, that was why she had come here after all no? She wanted a place to belong, she would lie to get it,

Dante was crude yes, but he had nothing to gain here by lying - had far more to lose if he did.

Silent stood towering over the green feline ”I will give you this chance to leave - quietly and without complaint - if you decide to be difficult” the creature’s claws clicked ”then I will kill you where you stand”

He did not allow threats in his realm.

[all IC opinions]