Keia

Chapter 6: First Loop (Zack)

    "All done...?" a sleepy voice whispers from the dark of the backroom. Zack nods and flicks his hair out of his eyes. At first, he feared he wouldn't be able to hear and understand his boss in the backroom because of the loud music, but the sound in the room was melting away, and all he could hear was the boss's voice. Not unexpected, but still alarming. He knew that he was safe since he was on the same side as his boss, but the thought that the world bent around the very existence of this one person was still alarming.

"Didn't even need to get my own hands dirty." Zack chuckles. "Keia is dead and out of your hair." The sleepy voice chuckles softly to itself. 

"Wonderful... Thank you, Issac." each word spoken by the voice has a long draw to it as if he had an endless lifetime to speak his mind, taking each word slowly and thoughtfully. The air in the room seemed to bend and shape its way around the voice. 

"Zack works fine, thank you. I'll eventually get your name right?" Zack asks. "I don't like working for a ghost."

"Lepprick Mie." Lepprick says softly, he peers his face out from the shadows. He had delicate blue eyes, but horribly dead and clammy skin, his body was thin and pale. He had a calm expression on his face, and his lightly dyed pink hair was almost floating around him. Zack noticed that his breathing was much slower than an average person's, and as he got closer to Zack the sound around him seemed to melt away more. "Though... names are just labels really. Call me whatever you like" with this a gentle smile spreads across Lepprick's face. He drifts slowly to the door that's keeping him away from the other party-goers, and with a calmly raised hand, he opens the door and lets loose a purple gas. "Keia's a smart girl," Lepprick says. "I'm sure she would've figured out what was going on, although that's not why I had you kill her." Zack raises an uninterested eyebrow at this statement and shrugs.

"I'm guessing you aren't planning to tell me why, either" Zack says. 

"Mhm..." Lepprick nods his head, allowing his hair to fall onto his face. He lowers his hand and simply watches the chaos unfold. "Y'know.. It's not often I'm able to do this" he says. "So many people able to sleep peacefully..." Zack feels a shiver go up his spine after hearing this, he pondered if he had made a poor choice, but it was too late to consider that possibility.

"How long does it take?" Zack says, after a pause Lepprick responds.

"However long it takes" Lepprick closes his eyes and holds his arms out as if he was falling through an endless void. "Sleep comes at different times for everybody~" 

"Let me rephrase then, when can I leave" Zack felt himself getting nervous, fiddling around for a cigarette, Lepprick places a hand on Zacks. 

"You'll leave when it's time for you to leave, Issac..." Zack was sure Lepprick had no intention of killing him, he was too valuable of a resource right now, right? "Just lay down and wait, I'll wake you when you're free to go..." Lepprick continues. 

"I am going to stand," Zack says, trying to make sure Lepprick knew he was still dangerous. 

"Suit yourself, but the night is long..."