Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic (Part I)

0179 The Upgraded Book and the Act - D-Mail! (I)

Meg came blasting through the door, panting, her eyes bloodshot and her body sweating, anger and shame dancing across her face in a call of mockery.

Kai looked at her. After confirming where he was, he had used the Party's privilege to share his location with her. It turned out that he was in a hotel room, its rent already paid for the next month under his Code Name. It wasn't even the same building where the Existence had taken him.

Only half an hour had passed since those events, and yet, Kai felt like ages had come and gone, and waiting for her arrival had done nothing good for the agitation bubbling up inside him.

"Oh, master!" Meg fell to her knees. "I've failed you. I..."

"I don't think you could've done anything, anyway," Kai told her, sitting on the bed. "Get up and sit on the chair. We have much to cover."

Meg stood up sluggishly, and when she turned to take the chair, her eyes landed on the waist-high cylindrical glass tank, filled with light green liquid and the curled, charred figure suspended in it. Petyr Baelish was standing near the tank, his eyes gleaming with unseen curiosity. She snapped her head in Kai's direction, her eyes widening in horror.

Today she would learn a new definition of horror, Kai amusingly thought. The events had shaken him, but he was still non-perturbed, for he had a trump card, just waiting for him to use. Alas, when he ordered Petyr to come out, he learned that the Character, who had been within him, had seen or heard nothing, and had not even felt something odd.

He would deal with this situation later.

First, he must see to his slave.

Meg sat, her head bobbing from Kai to the tank, and then back at him. "I didn't know what happened and how it happened, master," she began, justifying her failure to see the danger beforehand. "One moment you were walking with me, in the other you weren't. You... you just vanished."

Kai sighed, and then told her everything, starting from the Existence's appearance. This already made her gasp. Meg seemed horror-stricken, glued to the chair like a pale statue. Her color went from red to white and then gained an unknown shade of purple. Clearly, she didn't know who this person was, Kai reflected.

He continued, now talking about the strange world the Existence called Limbo, him breaking the Iron Coin, flashy bangs, and then the details of the Deep Ones shared with him. By the time he paused, taking a breath, Meg's hands were over her face.

Kai didn't give the respite she direly needed.

He continued with the second thing the Existence had come to discuss. The Book. Her head snapped up and she mumbled something incomprehensible, but Kai was almost sure she had unknowingly prayed to Hastur, asking for HIS forgiveness. He didn't blame her. If it wasn't for the D-Mail in his arsenal, he might have been sitting in her place right now too.

Then came the third and most horrific part.

Kai took his time to tell her that, taking pauses and not missing any details. The room was so silent that a buzz from a mosquito could have thrown it into shambles. Meg's eyes were planted on the part between Kai's brows, tears trickling down from her smooth cheeks. The idea of the curse of not getting chosen by any true wand had pushed her beyond the gates of rationality.

Kai smiled. "We still have one option," he told her. "No need to lose hope. The thing is, who was that creature? He certainly was from your Temple, and if I am to believe his fiasco of a tale, then there are high chances that he is the older brother of the two. But all this can easily be nothing but a ruse to just curse me. Who knows? Maybe it was him who perpetrated all this. Selena's foolish actions to leave the safe house, then the child getting kidnapped... It all seems quite a far-fetched coincidence. But if it's not, then..."