[Sodium_noir] A saturday in Darktown

[Spikey]

[OOC - for those who haven't seen the Ahua Can/Itzcoatl write up, look here]

Maurice, Goldie, Panic
Serpent, Whore, Mage
The Chaste Dragon

"I don't know any Quetza... whatever. I doubt 'I'm being sse great Damballah, but I might be misstaken and Damballah 'ad been pressent 'ere, before our forefasserss came to sse Americass ass sslavess." He thought about it. Was there a connection, an ancient one, to the original inhabitants of this land? "But ssey are traitorss? Revering Godss of darknesss and magic, you ssay? Are you talking about demonss? Sse open sslaverss of creation. Chainerss of ssoulss and desstroyerss of freedom?"

"Right on both counts!" Panic replies around his cigarette.

He took a puff from the cigar, his eyes narrowing. "You want to tell me,
ssat ssey exchanged sse promisse of freedom ssat sse Great Sserpent
bringss for sse russty chainss of sse demonic aeonss?" His eyes bored
into the boy. And what entity do you owe your allegiance to? But he left
the question unspoken.

"That is exactly what they have done... exchanged thier devotion to Rattlesnake, the spirit of wisdom, for devotion to a much darker Lord. These outlaws of the Ahua Can sometimes go by the name Itzcoatl, which means Obsidian Snake I guess. Sometime in the Meso-American nights these children of Set turned their back on their duties to the people down there and started listening to a creature called Tezcatlipoca. Their weakness for sin led them into a fool's bargain however and more than a few of them regret that choice now."

The boy regards Maurice with intense, deep eyes the colour of midnight now. For an instant, the seems less like the frail mortal and more like something the Serpent might recognise. But the feeling passes and again he sees just a young man he could break in two without a second thought.


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