𝔹𝕦𝕣𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕒 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕠𝕞𝕟𝕚𝕡𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕝𝕖𝕕𝕘𝕖~~~~~ (♡♤ 𝐀 𝙏𝙒𝙎𝙏 𝙁𝙄𝘾 ♢♧)

Í𝗍𝗌 𝖼σ𝗅𝖽 α𝗌 𝖿𝗎𝖼𝗄 í𝗇 𝗍𝗁í𝗌 вí𝗍𝖼𝗁.

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"Man, it's cold as hell down here."

"Yer' tellin me."

The group sat together in the muddled darkness, awkwardly shivering against the metal walls and nursing bruises and cuts from the fall.

They had a grand total of 14 people trapped underground, 5 in this room (that he was aware of), and the only light granted was from their pens.

And the Near-Death Queen had just blinked awake to this.

"I feel like I missed something important."

Just the sound of her voice make him relieved, considering what he had seen upstairs, but unlike him, Deuce would say that.  Ace however, said this:

"Oh yea, welcome to the afterlife, dipshit."

Her followup quip?

"Fucking finally."

That got a mild laugh out of the room, but he could hear Deuce get up and follow the sound of her voice, and the squeaky toy like sound was probably her reaction to getting bear hugged.

"You're ok!"

"I mean, somewhat, yeah. Did something happen? How long was I out?"

"Uh, I don't know...We didn't even know you were down here with us."

A weird pause. Then a brief sigh.

"And...You...kinda got crushed by a pillar. Bad."

"How bad?"

"Thought ya might be a dead man bad. Would explain why this room smells like a rottin' core."

"Yikes. Wait, who the hell was that?"

"Oh, thats my friend, Epel."

Pure Silence. Then a croaked "oh."

Okay, she definitely knew this guy.

Confronting that could wait though, it was ice cold in here.  Plus, playing the long game would probably work alot better when it came to confronting her.

But FUCK! He was cold. Like Ramshackle at Night with no Blanket cold.

While he was thinking, it seemed the conversation was continuing onwards.

"Do you have a fever, or is it just really cold down here?"

"Um, Deuce...You're literally shivering."

"Are you not cold?"

"No? Are you?"

"Freezing. It's actually warmer by you. You're like, a hand warmer, or something."

Thats when Ace remembered how much of a god damn heater that woman is.

So he got the brilliant idea of recreating the reason she had oh' so loving dubbed him a parasite.