“I’m never fucking forgetting to do that again, and I’m coming to check up on you if I can’t reach you damnit,” Lucy was still sniffling her way through sentences.

“Yeah, big oversight huh,” Fae said. Their phones darkened after exchanging numbers in case someone was out and about looking.

“Fae is there anywhere over here that like, I dunno maybe we could be alone and talk a bit? Seems a little risky to do that out here in the open like this,” Lucy asked.

“Oh yeah you can see in the dark. Yeah there’s a conference room I’m in charge of cleaning now. I can tell you how to get there if you can keep me in the loop about where we are.”

“Yeah okay, perfect actually.” Lucy took Fae by the wrist; she was gentler with her grip than she was with Gisele. Lucy asked for the stairwell route and explained how she was trying to avoid blind entries into rooms. Fae instructed her to go a floor up and guided her around a few corridors to a pair of small double doors. These weren’t like the ones to the wash hall, there was no electronic lock.

“I’ve got a key here in my satchel Lucy, but I can’t see anything, can you fetch it for me and open the door?” Fae asked.

“Yeah okay I got this, give me a sec, easy.” Lucy produced the key from the satchel and inserted it into the keyhole. “Wait a minute is this like–” The key whirred and clicked on it’s own, it was similar to the kind of key Foras had used for his office, “huh.”

“Something the matter Lucy?”

“No it’s nothing, I’ve just seen a key like this before, are they common or something?”

Fae shrugged, “First time I’ve seen one.”

Lucy took Fae gently by the hand once more. There were several office chairs surrounding a long center table. The wood was raw edged. Lucy couldn’t make out the color. Lucy closed the doors and locked them. She returned the key to Fae’s satchel.

“Patrols come through here often? There’s a pretty big gap between the doors and the floor, like maybe an inch and a half or something,” Lucy said.

“I dunno, I’m not out like this. I can’t see remember?”

“Oh yeah. Sorry Fae I just realized earlier this year that others couldn’t.”

“What did you want to talk about? It’s already late,” Fae paused and crossed her arms, “ how long have you been out and about?”

“Since lights out, why?” Lucy lingered on the last word.

“Lucy it’s bad enough that you're up at all but you’re going to be dead tired tomorrow morning as is. I thought you had just gotten up.” Fae scolded.

“Shush, are you telling me it wasn’t worth it, maybe you thought I wouldn’t notice but your voice was shaky too, it was worth it Fae don’t tell me it wasn’t.”

Fae didn’t respond. Lucy slid her hand from Fae’s wrist to hold her hand, she took Fae’s other hand too and raised them both up together.

“Come here you,” Lucy said as she pulled Fae towards her. Lucy remembered Fae couldn’t see and brought her to the edge of the table, standing aside at the last moment to put Fae’s back to it. She brought her voice down to a soft shaky whisper. “It was worth it Fae.” Lucy took off her satchel, she removed Fae’s too, and set them down in the nearest seat. “You smell good Fae, just like I remember.”

“Lucy what were we going to talk about–”

Lucy brought herself up on to her tiptoes and stifled Fae with a gentle kiss. Lucy closed her eyes. Her senses closed in on her for the second time that evening. All she could feel were Fae’s soft lips pressed against hers. They both whimpered together before their kiss broke, a small thread of saliva connected them for a moment before snapping.

“Up,” Lucy demanded.

“Excuse me?”

“Up. On the table. You can’t get back to your room without me or anything and I’m not leaving here until I’ve kissed you all I want Fae, and I want.” Lucy’s had a sharp confident tone about her now.

Fae giggled as she lifted herself, “did you just give me an ultimatum? You? Lucy Pyre?”

“Lucy Anne Pyre, and yes.” Lucy crawled up after Fae.

“Oh middle names now, should I call you Annie, bet that’d annoy you wouldn’t it?”

The only response Lucy gave was placing her hands on Fae’s shoulders and gently pushing her onto her back. She pressed her body into Fae’s and locked lips with her once more. Fae trembled, between kisses she spoke in a whisper. Lucy’s long hair draped them both.

“Lucy what’s gotten into you?” Fae asked.

“I missed you Fae, I know it’s only been like a few days or whatever, but I’ve got that dog in me,” Lucy gave Fae a short kiss on the nose, “I could do this all fucking night.” Lucy went in for another kiss, and her tongue made a gentle push onto Fae’s lips, asking to enter. Their mouths opened just enough to let their tongues slide over each other freely, and the sound of whimpers gave way to soft moaning. They only separated to speak.

“We don’t have all night Lucy,” Fae said, “it’s half over already.”

“Oh shut up,” Lucy said.

Fae intertwined her tail with Lucy’s, wrapping around it in a spiral. Lucy snuck one of her hands between their chests, caressing Fae’s left breast. Their tails wrestled for control of the other. Try as Fae might, Lucy’s tail was much thicker and stronger, it was barely a struggle, though neither of them were trying very hard to win. Fae softly caressed Lucy’s face and slid her hand down gently along the length of her neck, the tips of her nails dragged along behind, pulling a whimper and goose bumps out with them. Their bodies were burning, and they were already leaving small beads of sweat on the table. Lucy took a deep breath as Fae’s familiar scent pushed any remaining doubt aside. 

“Fae, we’re not going to get separated again are we? When we leave here it’s together for real, no maybes right?”

“You’re sounding meek again,” Fae put on a broad smile, “I think I’ll stay down here though, it’s nice for once, looking up at you. Not that I can see, but I feel that hair of yours resting on me and I can imagine it. Yes Lucy, we’re leaving together, and we’re staying that way.” Fae took Lucy’s free hand and held it.

Lucy pushed herself to her knees and lurched forward, pushing Fae’s shoulders firmly into the table. Their tails unraveled with the motion. Lucy’s next kiss was forceful, long, passionate, and when it was over she gently bit Fae on her neck, directly under her ear, and earned a soft moan from Fae, who wrapped her arms around Lucy’s shoulders and held her there. Lucy felt Fae’s wiry tail press against her folds, quickly nestling between them, her lips were already slick. Fae moved her tail back and forth slowly along its length, only reversing direction when it ran out of slack. Lucy’s jaw tightened its grip on Fae, and they moaned together. Fae loosened her grip on Lucy, running her arms all along her body, keeping her tail in motion.

“Think you could manage to return the favor? I know your shape is a little weird but, I need something down there,” Fae said between sharp breaths, her pitch was higher.

Lucy didn’t say a thing, she kept her grip on Fae’s neck. She brought her tail down as Fae had asked. The beads of sweat on the table had become small puddles, and they were starting to slip a little when they moved. Lucy pressed one of her tail’s forks against Fae’s entrance, it was remarkably wet. Fae normally didn’t respond to her that quickly, or that much. It didn’t take Lucy long to wriggle her tail awkwardly into Fae, who arched her back with a whiney moan. Lucy thought to brag, but before she could even open her mouth she felt the soft triangles on the end of Fae’s tail whip swiftly into her, deeply into her. Fae’s limber tail doubled back and looped around inside of Lucy and the slithering sensation made Lucy’s legs wobble. Fae dug her nails into Lucy’s back too, leaving a trail of scratch marks. Lucy moaned into Fae’s neck and the sensations caused her to clamp down without realizing.

“Ow!“ Fae cried out, “guess you liked that huh.” Fae laughed to herself as Lucy’s bite relaxed. “I think you nearly drew blood.”

Lucy released Fae from her toothy grip and raised her head to respond. Fae’s tail was still wriggling inside her; loud wet noises followed its movements. Lucy moaned and panted, unable to get the words out; she could move her own tail though, and she remembered the spot Fae had shown her on their first night together. The tips of Lucy’s tail recurved, and she used that curve to probe around. It didn’t take so much as a second before Lucy felt Fae clench around her, she’d found it.

“The other side Lucy,” Fae tapped her neck. Fae was panting too.

Lucy was quick to oblige and she sank her pronounced incisors as far as she thought she could get away with. The noise that escaped Fae’s lips was some cross between a moan and a howl and her hips briefly left the table. Their hands searched and groped chaotically. Lucy was having a hard time keeping track of what she was doing. Her hands would stop moving when she focused on her tail, and her tail’s motions were less directed when she focused on her hands. Lucy felt Fae’s tail brush sensitive spots as it performed acrobatics inside her, and when it did Lucy would shudder and freeze. There were many new spots for it to find. Between her and Fae quiet moments were becoming more sparse.

“That shape of yours is such a tease Lucy, it’s almost the right size for both,” Fae whined.

“Right size for what?”

Lucy felt Fae’s tail leave one hole and slide along the short inch and a half to flirt with the other. The sensation left Lucy confused, it was thrilling, it made her self-conscious. More than anything else it tickled and Lucy recoiled with a shriek.

“For that.”

“Oh, uh I,” Lucy flushed with embarrassment, which she was glad Fae couldn’t see, “what if I…”

Lucy pushed deeper. Her tail came to a stop as the u-shape came up against Fae’s body, pushing against her lips and clit. Fae wrapped her tail around Lucy’s thigh and she rose to kiss Lucy gently on the neck. Fae licked Lucy from the collar bone, up along her neck through to her ear, which she nibbled on.

“Yeah that’s pretty good, but I think I’m ready for the teasing to end Lucy,” Fae said.

“Yeah? Well what do you want? What can Lucy do for you?”

“Switch which side of your tail is inside me Lucy, find that spot you had earlier it was really good,” Fae replied.

Lucy withdrew one end of her tail. Fae raised her hips to give her more space, and the other end slid in, shallowly. Lucy’s tail was firmer than most, and now the very tip of it was pointed up, Fae slapped the surface of the table a few times and sucked air through her teeth as Lucy hit that spot Fae asked for. Fae reached down and started rubbing herself vigorously, and it looked like most of her muscles were contracted. Lucy could see Fae’s abs more clearly.

“Lucy suck my nipples I’m close, move too, move damnit.”

Lucy obediently darted down and took a nipple into her mouth. She pushed her tail back and forth but only a tiny bit, like she was scratching an itch. She swirled her tongue around and changed how much she was sucking in a rhythmic pattern.

“Like that! Yeah exactly like that fuck, keep going keep going,” Fae was shrill, like she was struggling to squeeze the words out of her mouth.

Fae’s juices were starting to pour out of her. The table was covered in a cocktail of their fluids. Fae was rubbing herself so vigorously Lucy thought she might hurt herself. Fae’s feet left the table along with all of her upper back, only her ass and a bit of her lower back were touching the table at all. A long moan pushed through gritted teeth was followed by the sound of Fae’s legs and back hitting the table, Fae’s breath was heavy and the puddle around her ass was prodigious. Lucy withdrew her tail from Fae. Fae’s tail unraveled from Lucy’s thigh and went limp.

“Hah, whew, I think it’s your turn now Lucy,” Fae said weakly between breaths. Fae was still catching her breath, but she sat up and turned Lucy on her backside. Fae slipped and stumbled in the process, coming down onto Lucy and the table with a thud, followed by Fae’s laughter.

“What a mess, it’s a good thing I clean this thing, let’s see if we can’t make it worse,” Fae rose back to her knees, “What would you like Lucy? You’ve been such a good girl, go on, what’ll it be,” Fae asked. Lucy didn’t answer immediately and Fae jumped back into the silence. “Girl don’t you spoil this moment tell me something, I’m really into this right now.” Fae felt up Lucy’s thigh to locate her crotch, and no sooner than she found it did Lucy feel Fae’s tail slap her directly on the clit. Lucy’s hips jumped as she squealed.

“You know what actually, yeah, grab my satchel. Can you find it?” Lucy asked. Fae leaned over and groped around for the chair Lucy dumped their belongings in. After some searching she grabbed both and brought them up to the table and rifled through them. Lucy saw her pull the vibrator out of her satchel.

“I take it you wanted this,” Fae pretended to ask.

“Yeah I haven’t gotten to use it yet, so show me Fae, show me how it works.”

Fae dug through Lucy’s satchel and grabbed both their phones. She slid Lucy’s to her.

“Hurry up, you need to add me to your app,” Fae said. Lucy quickly fumbled through her phone to do what she was told. Lucy felt the sensation of the vibrator pop into her, Fae wasn’t wasting a moment. She clenched around it and whimpered. Most of the toy was unimposing the bulb was thick, leaving her with an intense and unrelenting stretching sensation. The raised point on its thickest part was like a knuckle straight to her g spot.

“Holy shit Fae that’s bigger than it looks, fuck. I think I’m done over here,” Lucy said. Fae didn’t respond except with a few taps to her phone. The toy buzzed to life inside her with an intensity Lucy wasn’t expecting, the sensation penetrated much farther than she thought it would. Waves of pleasure pulsed through her whole body and Lucy could do nothing but writhe and whine. Whatever Fae set it to, it wasn’t stopping. Lucy could see the devil’s grin cross Fae’s face as she straddled her hips and leaned forward. Lucy kicked her feet in protest but she couldn’t move. She felt Fae caress her breasts. Lucy gasped. Fae put her mouth next to Lucy’s ear and whispered.

“Let go Lucy.”

Goosebumps prickled up Lucy’s neck, and she realized she was tense all over, resisting, like she was going to make Fae force it out of her. She didn’t do it consciously, she wouldn’t have known how, but those words sank in, and Lucy surrendered. She felt it immediately, the orgasm that was trying to escape, it jolted her out of her momentary relaxation, but she knew the feeling now and she could try again. Lucy would ease herself back down, and the rush would throw her back out. Regardless, it was building. She could hear Fae’s faint voice, but she was looking so inward she couldn’t understand it. Lucy imagined the tension draining from her head and leaving through her feet, and her body obliged her. The next rush of pleasure washed over her without tension, without resistance. She became conscious of the contractions she was having around the toy, the gentle pinching on her nipples, she knew she was moaning but couldn’t work out how loud, only that it was happening. Another wave hit and she gently rode it. Another came, and she rode it farther. Some intangible space was filling, a sensation she couldn’t locate; it was all over, but nowhere, and she could sense its limits, and that it was close to reaching them. She felt the vibrations suddenly get stronger, much stronger, it almost pulled her out of her trance. Lucy was surprised it wasn’t at full power before. The space had filled, and ecstasy burst from it. She was hardly aware of what her body was doing now, this last wave did not wash over her, it drowned her and she could sense nothing beyond it. It carried her for what felt like minutes and when she came to her legs were still twitching, Fae was saying her name. Something had happened to the vibrator, she could feel that it wasn’t in her anymore, she was so sensitive now it nearly hurt, a stiff breeze would have left her covering up. Lucy held onto the ephemeral feeling as long as she could manage, there was no sense in moving or getting up even though she had the strength to.

“You alright over there?” Fae asked. Lucy’s only response was to heave a happy sigh. “I’ll just give you a minute. Don’t forget you have to take me home straight after the movie.”

Lucy took a few minutes to catch her breath, “That was fucking amazing Fae what the fuck. Do I even wanna know what time it is?”

“Lucy it’s hardly been 20 minutes, I checked while you were off in lala land.”

“No fucking way that felt like a fucking hour, shit,” Lucy brought herself to a sitting position, “Where did the–oh.” Lucy spotted the vibrator she lost track of, it was further down the table by about a foot. “Fae, did you put that there?”

Fae cackled, “No you did that yourself, launched that thing, made a mess while you were at it.” At that moment Lucy became aware of a familiar and embarrassing odor.

“Noooooo, I didn’t,” Lucy whined

“Absolutely everywhere. Don’t worry, It’s my room to clean, remember. No one will know.”

“That’s not helping Fae, like it should but it’s not helping at all.”

“I’ll be cleaning this too, it’s my turn with it anyway,” Fae said as retrieved the vibrator, “at least a mess this size is something we can take care of immediately.” Fae fumbled around in the dark but managed to retrieve some wipes and wrap the toy in it. She started probing around both satchels. “Alright Annie nap’s over, I could use some help over here.”

“Oh please don’t start calling me that,” Lucy groaned.

“I won’t if you get over here. I don’t know which one of these is yours and I need the charger. We’re pushing it as it is, we weren’t quiet, especially you.”

“Oh no how loud was I? How loud was I!?”

“Enough that I’m not worried that anyone heard us, because if anyone had the chance they'd be in here already,” Fae replied.

Lucy got to her knees and nearly recreated Fae’s earlier tumbling act. She grabbed the satchels and handed Fae’s over, then she grabbed the charger out of her satchel and gave it to Fae.

“Not gonna lie I’m going to be a little relieved I don’t have to hide that thing all the time for once.” Lucy said.

“I don’t even see how you’d use it as intended as loud as you were, I thought you got a handle on that noise thing,” Fae said as she stowed away the charger.

“Oh yeah! If someone starts some gossip or whatever I uh. Well I dropped that earlier when I was checking the rooms and I woke someone up and they found it. I had to wait until they fell asleep and steal it back so–”

“So you want me to cover down for you if things get dicey is what you’re saying,” Fae said.

“Yeah…”

“Fine,” Fae sighed, “but only if it catches attention it shouldn’t. I’m not going to burn myself over a rumor.”

“Fae.”

“What is it now Lucy?”

“I–fuck.”

“Nope, think on that one alright, you know, when the afterglow wears off, now where are you?” Fae groped around in the dark trying to find Lucy by her voice, finally landing on her shoulder. She leaned over and gave Lucy a peck on the cheek. “Clear your head alright? Time to take me home.”

Lucy hopped down from the table, taking care to avoid the office chairs on the way down. She helped Fae do the same.

“Home. You make that word sound really nice. Did you mean it earlier, about staying together when we get outta here?” Lucy asked.

“Yeah I did. How are you feeling Lucy? Feel like you could hang on for another week before doing that again?”

Lucy giggled, “Yeah I think I could hang on a week, I’d love not to though, I think I could go again in a few minutes to be honest but like, I think we should wait at least a week, probably more.” Lucy led Fae to the door and they left the room. Lucy poked her head out to see if they could leave safely. “Coast is clear Fae, come on,” Lucy said as she led Fae by the hand.

“I could definitely get fucked again. It was good mind you but now I’m craving large things. When we get out of here I am buying the biggest strap on and I am dicking you down so hard.” She said as they made their way through the corridor.

“Wait, didn’t you say –you– wanted it big? What’s that got to do with dicking me down? I mean, uh, don’t let that stop you but I don’t see how that helps you Fae.”

“I mean, obviously we switch off.”

“Yeah~, how about you just get a smaller one if you’ll be using it on me, you can have that big one if you want, shit. That vibrator was basically already my limit. I'm kinda surprised it went in. Hey Fae we’re about to hit the stairwell we should probably be quiet for now–” Lucy dropped Fae’s hand and held onto her left forearm like someone had stabbed it. “Ow! What the fuck!?” Lucy looked down, and some sort of sigil was faintly glowing on her arm, it was burning her too.

“Oh shit Lucy, you have to get back to your partner.”

“What!? Fuck this hurts.”

“God how do you not–that’s what the binding ceremony does, that’s why they had to break ours. Your partner is awake now for sure she’s getting the same thing. You’ve been away from her too long. That gets worse the longer you’re away, it’ll scar you if you don’t hurry Lucy!”

Lucy guided them back to Fae’s room without further incident. She was holding her arm the whole way, not just because it hurt, but because it was putting off light. They said their goodbyes quickly and Lucy promised to text Fae the next day if she had the time. Lucy set her mind to the task of getting back to her dorm room. It took an hour just to get here, and if it took another it’d be 4 in the morning. Now that Fae wasn’t next to her, Lucy was feeling the weight of her limbs and was having trouble standing fully upright. She was still covered in sweat, both hers and Fae’s, not to mention all the other fluids. She was glad to have Fae’s scent on her, it was comforting, but she was worried her ability to see in the dark when other’s couldn’t would be wasted if they could literally sniff her out. Lucy thought about using her perfume to cover it up but realized that would just replace one strong scent with another and make it even easier to locate her. She’d have to hold her arm the whole way too.

Lucy took extra care when making her way through the halls. She stopped at every corner and if the corridor was long, every couple of yards or so. She was listening for any footstep, any heaving of breath, anything that would suggest someone was close enough to catch what had to be an oppressive odor. She was back to the kitchen door. Not being able to see through the door was bad enough but having to badge in and have the electronic locks make their obnoxiously loud noises made her stomach turn. Lucy considered how she might do this one-handed, but no ideas came and the pain was getting worse. She held her breath and badged in, slowly peering into the kitchen. Coast clear. Lucy breathed a sigh of relief and started in. She nearly slipped on the smooth tiles on her sweaty feet and banged her head into a pan. She winced at the pain but managed not to cry out.

Great more noise, She thought.

Lucy considered that she hadn’t seen anyone else on her approach. Earlier in the evening she had to evade several hall monitors between the kitchen and Fae’s dorm room. Lucy wondered if there were hours in the evening when they weren’t active, it wasn’t something she’d ever had to think about before.

Oh no, I didn’t know about the sigil, so I never warned Gisele. Fuck if she went to Fae or tried to get help or something I am fucking toast. C’mon Gisele, be shy or something, be tough, fuck fuck fuck.

She thought about throwing caution to the wind and running down the halls, using the elevator, anything at all to make better time to her room, to Gisele. Her phone buzzed, she looked down at it, it was a notification from Fae.

Fae: Good Luck Lucy

“I am going to have to have a serious talk with that woman.” Lucy said to herself. Get a grip Lucy, it doesn’t matter how fast you go now if Gisele was going to get help she’s already done it, god this fucking hurts.

Lucy set her phone to do-not-disturb so it wouldn’t make any noise if Fae decided to text her again. She made her way quietly down the halls, she tried to break out into a run once, but her legs weren’t obeying. Her late night tryst was catching up with her. Lucy’s slouch increased and she was forgetting to check doors as she walked through them. Her vision was going out of focus occasionally. She thought if there were any active hall monitors she’d have been caught by now, she let go of her left arm. The sigil was glowing fairly brightly now. Only Lucy’s exhaustion was keeping her quiet about it. She wanted to whine and moan, but lacked the strength. When she turned into the last set of corridors she made the turn for the elevator instead of the stairwell. She’d had it, Lucy decided that if someone was going to see her someone was going to see her. She badged into the elevator, the doors shut behind her. Instead of picking a floor, she slumped down, to take a momentary rest. She closed her eyes, just to rest them a moment. When they opened again she startled awake, her arm had woken her. Lucy desperately fumbled for her phone in a panic. She dropped it twice. Her heart pounded and her body shook as it resisted her orders to move. 5:15am. Lucy jumped to her feet and slammed her hand on the elevator buttons.

“This better not scar this better not scar this better not scar.”

With a chime the elevator doors opened into the dress hall. Several maids were already there getting dressed. She could feel the burning sensation start to subside. That’s when she spotted Jezebel. Lucy had never seen that look in her eyes before. Jezebel closed the distance between them with unnatural speed. Lucy could have sworn through her blurred vision that Jezebel’s legs hadn’t even moved. Before she knew it she was being dragged by her ear across the dress hall.

“Hurry up you buffoon!” Jezebel hissed. She took Lucy by the hand and broke out into a run. Lucy’s legs gave out from under her, but that didn’t slow Jezebel down. Lucy was dragged unceremoniously through the dress hall and onto the dorm carpet, which quickly started to burn her. Lucy desperately tried to come to her feet, but she only managed to get her butt and thighs off the carpet a few times. Lucy noticed her bond had stopped burning completely. She was being dragged to her room. Jezebel flung the door open forcefully and tossed Lucy inside. Gisele was sitting on her bed in tears, sobbing. A few demonesses she didn’t recognize were tending to Gisele, they looked like they must have been nurses.

“Leave,” Jezebel growled, “you saw nothing, do you hear? I mean it, if I hear one utterance of this situation from anyone but the mirror you will never leave here.”

The nurses scrambled out of the room without a word. Jezebel waited until the door was completely shut before she said anything else. The lump in Lucy’s throat threatened to choke her.

“Look at what you put poor Gisele through! For what?! You smell like a brothel. You didn’t even warn her. Of all the careless stunts you have ever pulled Lucy Anne Pyre this is beyond the pale. I can scarcely remember anyone under me doing anything so colossally stupid.”

Jezebel closed her eyes for a moment. Lucy could see that she was trying to calm herself down. Lucy turned her eyes towards Gisele, her gaze was resentful and it didn’t look like she was taking any comfort from Jezebel’s browbeating.

“Lucy,” Jezebel continued, “no one is to speak of this, not you, not Gisele, no one. I’ve already told your colleagues, I had to wake them all up. Gisele woke everyone up crying and screaming, she was absolutely terrified, and you are going to make this up to her. I haven’t worked out how exactly, but it will be done. If you figure it out before I do all the better. Gisele, your turn to leave.”

Lucy’s brow furrowed. So did Gisele’s, whose expression gave way to confusion rather than bitterness. Gisele slowly made her way out of the dorm room. Jezebel opened the door and stuck her head out to make sure everyone had moved on.

“I haven’t the foggiest idea where you went or what you were up to, but I’m going to find out. I’m pulling the door logs after we speak, so don’t bother telling me what you were up to,” Jezebel sniffed the air with a look of disgust, “though that seems plain. Until further notice you are confined here, so is Gisele. Neither of you are allowed to leave until I’ve decided what to do about this situation so you better figure out how to kiss and make up. Hand over your belongings Lucy, all of them.”

Lucy put her phone in her satchel and presented them to Jezebel. On her way out, Jezebel turned to Lucy with a wide toothy grin, an expression that resembled a hyena looking at scraps of discarded meat.

“If I find what I think I’m going to find, you are about to put in some work for me Ms. Pyre.”