[Sodium_noir] Thursday's child is full of tears

[concrete chaos]

 Wire, Arkana
  green room

> The chanting contained some very clipped and strange sounds, including the
> clicking of the Tongue as part of the language. It continues for several
> minutes of unintelligible phrases and then fell silent.

Arkana puts a slender finger over her lips, and turns round as quietly
as she can, asking everyone in the room to do the same. Paz and Ace
tired from a night of excess and the performance are almost asleep on
the couch. Arkana looks to Wire, and stares at him for what seems a
long time, the only thing passing between their dead eyes, is silence.

> The next sound was altogether different. A Voice that sounded like teeth
> tearing through flesh. Like a garrotte around a young throat. Like meat on a
> chopping block. The pair of them shuddered as the hairs on the back of their
> neck stood on end and the flesh turn cold.

Arkana gets that sinking feeling, that same feeling she used to get as
a teenager when the authorities used to get lucky. She almost froze
completely but inside was ticking, fast.

> "I accept your Offering." it said in English. "let the waters of life flow
> like rain, let the tears of worship flow like rain, let the rains fall."

> Anything else was spoken too quietly to carry through the ventilation shaft.

The Brujah got up and moved away from the shaft, clicking stop and
tucking the tape away in her pants, she fishes out a black tank top
and slides it over her quickly then raises one foot on top of the
table, removes the buckles and unzips her boots. Removing her pvc hot
pants she gets into her favourite pair of leather pants, she's had
them so long they're soft and tattered round the knees and hips.

Now that Arkana is dressed comfortably, she puts on some music - twin
peaks movie soundtrack so she can mellow out. She shakes Ace gently
and gives him the props to roll a joint, while she walks over to her
make up kit and looks for her stash, or whatever's left of it. She
wished she had some heroin right about now, maybe she could some from
the club this is the Lachrymatory after all.

It seems a long time before anyone said a word, but Arkana wanted to
keep as cool as she could, leaving would definately look suspicious,
and she would not want anyone of Hannibaal's staff to find out what
had happened a few moments ago, specially about the tape. She snuggles
close to Wire and pours a glass of jack, downs it straight and lets
the bottle hover close to Wire's face, sort of asking if he wants any.
Ace hand her the joint and she takes a long drag before speaking to
Wire, "I suggest we chill out here, pretend nothing's happened, they
don't know we're safe", she pauses and moves closer to Wire by pulling
herself forward from gripping his shirt, and whispers in his ear, "I
can run this tape by someone, i think".

Arkana takes a few more drags, and offers the spliff to Wire, as she
blows out the smoke she feels slightly calmer.

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