POV Main

Sith was right. They all agreed to create Unlimited Devas. Bear and Huntress said, it was temporary for them, as they weren’t sure, if I wasn’t another Diana type. Still we agreed to register general partnership under the name of Unlimited Devas Business. We could do it only after weekend, so I proposed to book and pay for hotel rooms for five days. They agreed, and some told me, that they would need to go to their homes, but they would come back for any legal responsibilities. In case of Lily and Sith, I wanted to talk with their old group seniors, to clarify things, so there was no hard feelings situation. Lily had phone number to Mirror, so we wanted to call her after meeting. Vivaldi had only contact on web communicator. I wrote few words to him. We talked more in group. After some time I felt, that third level influence was starting to wear them of. I decided to finish my businesses and leave.

I told about my deal with Sith over [Flow bending] info. Sith proposed Lynx as second buyer and he agreed. We left for about an hour and came back with knowledge. I should tell more about it, when I would talk about magic. We confirmed, that it was worth it. Lynx also said, that it was not his vibe, but still something.

We went with Lily to call Mirror then.

-= Hello Mirror. – Said Lily after someone picked up. – Do you have few minutes to talk?

-= Hello Lily. Yes, I have.

-= I’m here with En, Nameless, he can hear you. – Hello Mirror, I said in background. - I called you because I will join his group. I wanted to tell you that, so you wouldn’t be mad at me.

-= I wouldn’t be mad at you, just a little sad.

-= That’s good. Sorry for making you sad, but I need support. My life got huge blow in times of sleep deprivation and here I have chance to get something out of it.

-= I understand. Sorry I can’t help you, but now that Mary have stone too, we are in a pinch too.

-= I’m sure you will manage somehow. You have each other.

-= Yes. Right. Can I talk with Nameless privately?

-= Yes. I will give him your phone number and he calls you back after meeting.

-= Ok. I’m sorry, I couldn’t support you more. Take care.

-= Take care, bye. – She disconnected.

I got number to Mirror.

After that we went back, I talked a little and left meeting. We were appointed on Sunday afternoon.

When I was home I called Mirror. She said, that because of too much closeness between stones, there were troubles for two of them. She asked, what was this support I could provide. I told her, that I could sell circulatory medicine for nice money. After that she thought a little. She provided me with story of her troubles. I was not too good listener to stories about misery, but somehow I managed to listen to the end. She wanted to come and sell medicine. I agreed. She was damsel in distress, and for me damsel in distress is sexually arousing. To tell you truth, I thought, that she is nice girl even before, at the Mokotov field meeting. Now it was something more. Some of you should know, what I’m talking about. This ability to show off. Or I just was lonely for too long.

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POV Huntress

Nameless, En, was beginning to be tiring. He left before it became unbearable. He was the one with money so we didn’t complain. I was very disappointed in Lily, I wanted to talk with her privately. We found some empty spot.

-= I thought we were similar. – I said. – That we think alike and we are friends.

-= We are.

-= So why did you join Unlimited Devas without any precaution? I told you, that En is talking too much and sometimes denies his earlier words. You should do the same as me. We don’t know with who are we dealing with.

She looked at me seriously.

-= You betrayed me for some money. – I attacked her. – It’s sad.

She moved away on her chair to look me right into eye.

-= You told me many things. I believe in what you told me. I believe we are friends. But I’m not you. My circumstances are different.

-= What do you mean?

-= When you told me, how he is using his money to grasp you in his palm. When you told me, how he doses info to manipulate your group, I was frightened but also jealous.

-= Jealous?

-= Yes. You had support of money and info. Your price was to listen and smile. – She raised her voice unknowingly. – Do you know what kind of support I got in mu group? It was hugs and warm words. My life was on brink of destruction after sleep deprivation period. This new stone connection was putting on me new responsibilities and all I had was hugs and warm words.

-= New responsibilities? What are you talking about?

-= Try to not feed stone and you will know. – She looked at me with pity or something similar. – I can’t rebuilt my old life. Maybe part of it is recyclable. But when someone is giving me enough money to build new life, I will not think twice or wait till that chance disappears, even if I would have to dirty my hands a little.

She was really agitated. I didn’t know what was she going through. Still, I felt betrayed and knew that after that talk we could be friends, but not best friends. She could have told me earlier.

-= You could tell me earlier. – I said.

-= Could you help me then?

-= No. – I couldn’t handle rabbit. Human being was much harder to handle. I wanted to tell her, that I could sympathize with her. Luckily I stopped myself.

POV Lynx

After En left we stayed for hour. Then some of us went to hotel, others left for night clubs. I became friends with Sith. This magic trick he showed was nice, but not in my style. I was working on something different. En somehow got hang of it very quickly and was better at it, than Sith himself. It didn’t matter that evening.

We went to club, I don’t remember name, but earlier there was Finish, Setup, Jelly there. It was near Wedding club in the center. Till morning we went through more of clubs. I wanted to restart my psyche and celebrate next stage of life. Sith perhaps wanted to have fun. We were dancing with some random girls, drinking, kebab eating, talking.

We both understood ourselves.

In the morning I asked Sith.

-= You killed someone with this poison of yours?

-= Yes. – He said flatly. – I chose poison so I could kill this bastard and I killed him.

-= Did it make things better?

-= Yes, it did.

-= So, why are you here?

-= It let me destroy something bad, but it didn’t help me build something good. I have no one to kill anymore. I’m useless by myself.

-= You’re not useless. We’re strong.

He looked me into eyes.

-= We’re strong. – He said.

POV Adam, Ahriman’s Order

It was middle of the night or early morning. We were almost ready to assault big house in suburban area. There was stone inside, we could feel it. Owners were pair with three children. Oldest son hit mental asylum about week ago. Now his younger sister started to have similar sleep and mental problems. We were sure, what was source of it. They didn’t treat seed with honor. They should die. But first, seed needed to be rescued.

-= No lights and flashes. – I commanded fellow cultists. – Go!

POV Diana, voice of Ahriman

In the morning I got massage, that they secured seed. Two of them were injured, but not with life threatening injury. I would contact our benefactor and soon our new cultist in the afternoon. Now I only needed some fresh anti-seed liquid, that Nameless produced. I knew forceful linking would create complications and backlash. It wouldn’t be beneficial, if our acolyte lost his mind in the process of linking. This liquid could weaken backlash.

There was also issue of price. Maybe auction between three rich men, with head start for first one, was for our best. Maybe just hinting on possibility of auction was enough. I was entertaining thought of playing cat and mouse with them.