Rollin' Bones Casino

The music blasts into the night and could be heard for miles. People enter with fake smiles and laughter, feeling a need to keep their status in the world just by showing up and entertaining the more 'important' people. It was all a political game, and most walked around with a figurative mask, hiding the truth away from the others.

Ironic that the casino itself was just a mask as well.

Rowan walked through the crowds, smiling and greeting them in passing. A wolf among sheep, he thought. Still, these were the people giving him business and enough means to continue his operations.

The casino itself was relatively new. It had only been in place for a few years, but it had become an overnight success. The area in Audrieu grew due to the casino's success. This made Rowan a very powerful man in terms of Lutetia.

Slowly, the man made his way to the stair cases that lead up to the Royal Suites, where he had texted for all his pack to meet.

It had been too long since Lilith had experienced simple pleasures. Yes she was different, but a phrase would come to mind. You can't change a Leopard's Spots. It was apt, true she was trying to be far less sadistic and cruel, but she still revelled in the utter excess of all of this debauchery. The dub-step atmosphere while spinning slot machines, bubbling with beeps and bloops. The sound of dice hitting the leather, combined with the euphoric yells from those winning big. It was an atmosphere she had forgotten she had once enjoyed. Even while she had been Demonic she had completely lost the idea of how fun this all was. Being what she now represented or tried to represent. It was difficult to go from one extreme to another.

Yes the Barcardi obliterated the hurt in her soul. Her soul. Now that was just as strange to understand. She now had it again, even more she had her life restored. Not a trace of demonic darkness within her now. Just immortality and powerful magicks. Memories, remnants of who she once was. Who she now was? Crimes she still remembered, horrific truly abhorrent atrocities. And he have forgiven her? Maybe that's why she seeked such loud places to silence her own tormenting doubts.

Has she made the correct choice? Her wife, her beloved sister snatched from her. Taken, the one thing she had to connect to her past now taken. Yet she did not resent this outcome. Or tried not too.

Gripping a bottle of barcardi, she sighed morosely, "Who am I even now? How can a person who remember's all their crimes and sins and ever truly be good?" she spoke to the air. Of course it said nothing, merely a stony silence, "Yahweh I just want to know, what even am I now? Things seemed so clear when you spoke again to us again... now I feel even more lost. I am back to what I was meant to be? But at what cost Father?" again a silence...

Exhaling she tipped the bottle and took a drink, thinking once more, 'Who am I?'

Under the table on the opposite side of Lilith approaches a soft shuffling noise of carpet. Shortly after the noise stops three large snake heads in respective red, green, and blue eyes stare at her. An unmistakable chorus of salesmen voices begins.

"It's the most beautiful pair of ennuis I've ever seen, Blue!"

"That's right red, you can't find many like these on this side of the nebula! What do you think, Green?"

"Oh I'd love to have one of these in my databanks. It's just striking."

The three mind-eavesdropping snakes raise far enough to see the join of necks. They chorus, "So tell us, how much does this bountiful rarity cost!? Please, tell us more!"

Hearing different voices she spun around, at first she saw nothing and assumed she had merely picked up the voices from around her. Of course being how unlikely this seemed, she first looked left, nothing. Looked right, nothing. Looked Up, nothing. Finally in exasperation she stared down and even she was little beyond baffled at sight in front of her. For a few seconds Lilith looked at the bottle in her hand, then back at three headed snake or three snakes. Finally, with a sigh she responded, "I am not drunk or high enough to ever think that conversing with you would achieve something other than me continuing to drink this Barcardi. So kindly fuck off. I may not be demonic anymore, but I am not in the mood to deal with strange shit right now. Go slither up a girl's leg or something far more entertaining." she once more began to swig from the bottle before placing it down and sighing loudly, "Plus I have no fucking idea what you are talking about so I could not even answer if I deigned it worth it."

Hotei's thick rear body pushed the human-sized snake heads above the table line a little more even to view. Red put his head upside down on the table, "I told them a good pitch is still a hard sell for that many questions."

Green eyes scoffs at red then straightens to look at Sirad, "Ssspah, We're here for the sounds of good questions not entertainment! Who wants to buy all the swearing and shallow questions?"

Blue sidles in sideways beside green forked tongue hanging out. Blue looks up at green explaining, "We can hear you thinking deep questions but not what they are. What hope for good answers do small swearing minds have?"

Red eyes the bottle psychokinetics pushing at it lightly, "If you're going to drown good questions we'll take them off your hands! They're all blurry now!"

The former demoness growled in the past she would have done unspeakable things to this annoyance as she was admittedly really damn petty and outright hateful in the past. Now she was meant to be a lot more than this. Although from the voices she gathered what they wanted. Still did not remove her rage she felt towards these things, "FINE! I used to be so many things from in Garden of Eden to something far more complex. I was a demoness. I was Lilith. I still am Lilith, but my sister who defined so much of myself from hate to love and intimacy I no longer have. I don't know what my purpose is. I can't go back to what I previously did as I been given a second chance. Thus, I face conundrum what am I meant to do?" she sneered with clear fury surging towards her mind, "I don't who I am, because how I defined myself is gone. I am not even human like these folks. I am Pure Human, which means I am magical and immortal. So tell me dear expert WHAT THE FUCK AM I?"

Magali could sense trouble a mile away. Working with the magically-inclined as a waitress all day gave her a sixth sense for the stuff. After all, business was only booming as long as fights weren't breaking out and tensions kept low. She could hear the tone of the rather loud woman and in an instant, Magi had her warm, disarming smile on her face as she strutted slowly over to the table in question.

Things were still in control, that was good. Magi'd seen stranger things, but she wasn't quite sure which set of snake eyes to make contact with so she instead decided to address the woman first. "Well, right now I see a woman with a beautiful face and powerful voice. Do you need another bottle?" she asked, her tone polite as she trilled out the words. Her gaze swiveled towards the snakes and she made a small questioning gesture. "And you..." She looked them all over and decided to guess. "...boys, do you need anything? Perhaps some snacks, hm? With your mouths full, perhaps we can have a calmer chat. No more feather ruffling." The last statement was a little firmer, she was ready to lay down the law if needed. "Hm?"

Excitement widens three pairs of slit eyes for interesting answers raising so many questions. Was there empirical proof of a deity? Excellent questions for scientists. They couldn't actually talk to each other but they knew roughly what each were thinking. A demon made into mankind? So many interesting questions!

Blue feels the waitress enter his telekinetic envelope first and turns toward her. He cleans his eyes with his tongue while he listens. Shortly the others turn to listen too.

Blue looks at Red though they all look down ever so slight at a calmer authority, "Okay, we'll be good. Less loud questions. Red can eat since we only have one stomach anyway."

"But isn't it a human's purpose to ask their unanswerable 'why'?" Green piped up with a quieter voice toward fuming Lilith, "Doesn't that make you much more like them now? Did creation with answers to purpose make it difficult to change for so long? Does that it mean if you ask questions about your purpose but did not before that now your future can change? Humans gave our answer for purpose of always asking why. We don't mean to cause anger."

Red looked up and shook his head, "Green your optimism will get us bitten one day. Why do I have to be the eating one!"

Under normal circumstances, a pretty face would never have stopped Lilith from teaching the snake a lesson, but fortunately, she was a changed person thus though she had images of murdering the snake or one of the heads she instead counted to three in her head before turning and staring at the other person.

Forget the snake, this person was far more interesting.

The former demoness had never encountered someone who was so easy on the eyes the freckles giving her an air of innocence and increasing attraction for her. For a time, she just gazed licking her lips back and forth being lost in the beauty appearance and struggling to think straight. Even her melancholy had taken a back seat currently everything focused on Magali.

For a time just saying nothing, but appearing obviously attracted to the waitress.

Finally, she spoke, "Fuck the snakes, you are less likely to piss me off... come sit with me..." smirking she gestured to a seat off at the far corner before adding, "Also would love another bottle of Barcardi, but what would someone like you desire my dear? I have money to spare and you have likely been on your feet all day, why not a little rest?" she asked with disarming glint in her eyes which appeared older than her whole body, in fact, she exuded an old soul truly. Nonetheless, she smiled warmly, "Lilith, I don't have a proper surname but I also can go by the name Sirad if one desire's and anything you desire I would truthfully promise you will definitely receive." licking her lips again she gave one last look of the snake thing rolled her eyes and started towards the seats she had gestured off at a dim part of the casino away from much of the noise. Likely a VIP area.

Red and Blue saw it even if Green was oblivious. It was time to go. The body pivoted behind Green dragging him quickly away. As they quickly slithered away Red can be seen holding Green's mouth shut with his own. They certainly couldn't use cloaking in here the casino would have words about that. Once they passed the doors however the three heads seemed to slither into nothing but a very faint distortion along a wall.

Outside the doors one could see a short argument of floating mouths trying to stay out of the way of passers-by.

Magali allowed some tension to drop from her shoulders as the situation resolved itself, the snakes deciding to take their leave. She took the moment to study the woman more closely, taking in more than just the more obvious physical traits that she had noticed before. She kept on a smile as she decided to follow the woman. After all, she wasn't really on shift at the moment, she was just keeping the peace. "If you insist, how can I refuse such a kind invitation?" Magali responded as she walked. "My name is Magali Auzenne, but I'm known as Magi. It's a pleasure to meet you, Lilith. As for a drink, since you're offering, I'm a wine girl. You can do as you please with that information."

Leading her to a far off table, the former demoness sat herself down sighing in slightly haunted melancholy, before remembering Magali, "I am charmed to meet someone not alarmed by such brashness. I admit another life I may well have done unspeakable things to those miscreants. But when one is given a second chance you don't fuck it over for ingrates. Thus, the fact you came well you provided the needed distraction. As for wine, well hold on..." closing her glowing eyes she focused before turning her palm. Sparks of beautiful white energy flew nearby Lilith, before, in a flash of incandescent light, a beautiful bottle of white wine appeared.

As she handed it over, she smiled softly, before tracing fingers lightly over the wrist of Magali, "I am honestly glad for company my dear one. The intelligent and beautiful company too, those freckles well there is innocent radiance about them." pausing she gave disarming grin before continuing, "I dare say you must have many admirers, but perhaps for now, I should stop the compliments? Unless you wish for more my darling... I just wish for company, and someone who won't judge whatever they find out I formally was..." her voice faded almost like a mist before she continued, "Your beauty could topple the walls metaphorical or otherwise... more real than Helen of Troy and true in appearance and soul."

Meteor materializes from the void.

Meteor has left the area, heading in into Rollin' Bones' Slots Room.