Vessa walked into a ballroom of people eating and talking with an arm full of plates and one more scroll to use. She walked along the back of the room as she had been instructed. She surged her reach to find her targets.
Female 2322: 54%, Female 5279: 32%, Male 7052: 97%, Male 3481: 22% Female 27: 97%,
Her dishes began to glow a deep purple, which matched to a table near the middle. Perfect. Vessa veered into the crowd and dropped the scroll halfway to her destination. She would have a couple of moments before it started in which Vessa needed to find her targets.
Male 1447: 9%, Male 2357: 17%, Male 3742: 2%, Male 1239: 42%, Male 4426: 31%, Male 2549: 3%, Female 16: 94%
“The price that you are asking for is outrageous.” One of the men at the table said as Vessa began placing the plates. Matching the purple plates to the same shade of the place mat.
“And yet if you don’t move quickly, the Wishers will be down your neck.” Another man said and Vessa continued in her task even as her skin crawled with the feel of Seer eyes. Never the less, now that she had her targets, all there was to do was wait in the place designated for her in case her targets needed anything.
Male 735: 24%
Male 2647: 45%
“All I need is the boy’s kidneys, yet you’re charging me for the entire child. That’s not how it’s done and you know it.” The first target said as he cut into his unicorn flank.
“I don’t want to have the child in my custody when the Wishers come knocking.” The second target said as he gestured to a carafe. Vessa moved from her spot and poured him the selected wine.
“Does Cepan the Great not think himself capable of handling emissaries from the upstarts of a Constellation?” The first target asked as the other people at the table began to eat. Many gesturing to different carafes. Vessa obliged them and wondered who would still be alive when this was over.
Male 735: 2% , Male 2647: 45%, Female 211: 4%, Female 245: 67% Male 273: 34%,Male 284: 34%,
“I have no idea how I’d match up and have no desire to find out.” The second target was interrupted by a fluting sound filling the air as Vessa continued to pour drinks for the table. Each of the targets’ numbers were firmly in her grip.
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“A message for the fine guests of the Menasi from yours truly, Elkethai, a humble Wisher.” Vessa took her cue and brought the numbers down.
Male 735: 0%
Male 2647: 1% - 45%
The first target died instantly by his own magic. The second target rose from his seat to face where Vessa had dropped the scroll and began precisely moving his fingers, causing screams to fill the air and numbers to be snuffed out. Black smoke surrounded the second target for a moment before transferring to a woman next to Vessa. She immediately began screaming, and then collapsed onto the table, dead. Fire blasted over and around Vessa before taking hold of two other men at the table. It was put out with both surviving only for creepy laughter to fill the air. She heard a slight ringing, nothing painful, but they clutched at their ears as blood ran from their eyes. Until they both fell to the ground.
A brief tightness took hold of her chest. Vessa pulled her number up from its decline. Grabbed a random number and dropped it to zero as she pulled the second target’s number down again.
Male 489: 0%
Male 2647: 1% - 23%
The second target jerked around, finding her eyes for but a moment before they slid away. She was told that servants were to remain no matter what, and so she stayed in her designated spot, along with all the other servants. Protected from the fight. Vessa wondered how much protection the spaces provided as she watched as the second target franticly turned around and around, his fingers moving, and screams sounding with each of his pauses. The final woman at the table began rocking back-and-forth, murmuring something, though whether it was a spell or her just losing it was unclear. Vessa pulled at the second target again and felt something give.
Male 2647: 0%
He stopped, froze, and stayed that way for several moments, then his fingers moved rigidly in the air. A thud and Vessa was teleported away to her next destination of the night.