"Don't Call Me That!" Molly shouted, or at least the equivalent of a shout from an orb can make. "Call me by my new name... X-"
"MOLLY!" Kassandra shouted, interrupting Molly. "Why are you doing this! Even for you, this is too much!
"Nonsense! This is everything I could have ever dreamed of!" Molly shouted back, then added. "Except for being trapped here... thanks to those spirit callers..." she muttered the last part.
"Molly. Stop this right now. You know this isn't right!." Kassandra said, trying to make Molly see reason."
"Enough! I hated you the second you arrived, a ditzy airhead who played goody toe shoes with everyone she met. Bad enough I had to marry a bleeding heart, but with the two of you, my life was a living hell!" Molly shouted. "I could have married up, or gotten myself a nice boy toy, could have had full control of my house... but I had to share it because my parents didn't trust me to rule... they were scared of my potential... they were right to fear me..."
"More like they thought you were a batshit insane sociopath..." Rudrick muttered under his breath. "Gahh!" his body then suddenly spasmed as if multiple electric shocks went through it.
"No comments from the peanut gallery. Don't forget. I. Own. You." Molly said menacingly.
Rudrick grunted but said nothing more.
"Enough! Why do you do this Molly?" Kassandra tried to plead. "What's the point of all of this?"
Molly began to laugh a little. "The point? The POINT!? The point is for the first time in my life I have people who do as I say! The point is I can do whatever I want! The point is... I have absolute power... and therefore... absolute freedom..." saying that last part almost reverently.
"Freedom to do what? Torture others? Steal and hurt as you please? Is that all you ever wanted!? Why!?" Kassandra asked, now a little confused.
"BAH! As if you could ever understand! Understand what it's like having parents always looking down on you, having an older sister who is better than you at everything! Being forced to marry someone you didn't want to!" Molly said angrily, then her voice took an ominous turn. "That's why I had to get rid of her... if she was gone... then I was free..."
Kassandra gasped and Rudrick's hands tightened into fists.
"Why Molly!? WHY!?" Kassandra yelled back.
If an orb could shrug, Molly just did. "Honestly..." she chuckled. "It was an accident. It seemed she drank some of the potions that I was experimenting with. Have no idea why... but the next thing I heard was she died and no one could find her body. Either way, I was in charge now. And it felt great!" she said in a joking manner.
Molly then started to laugh, and Rudrick and Kassandra seemed to have taken what she said at face value. Rudrick trying to contain his anger, and Kassandra being strangely silent.
But Van was thinking something else. "Wait... something about what she said isn't adding up..." he thought. "And as far as I can sense... she isn't lying either..." But any idea to pursue that inquiry was stopped when Molly began to talk once more.
"That's enough gloating." Molly suddenly said, as if switching characters. "Now it is time to deal with a few pesky intruders. Rudrick, deal with them!" Rudrick hesitated, but almost as if against his will, his body started to move.
"Rudrick! NO!" Kassandra shouted.
"I'm sorry Kassy... I can't help myself... You shouldn't have come..." Rudrick was just able to get out.
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World of Alvarra: Rise of the Vampire Lord
FantasyVan was born a dhampir with memories of past lives that plague him. If he does not overcome them, he may face a slow descent into insanity. Growing up in a world where the memories of his past lives, clash with the truth of this strange new world. A...
