North American Vampire Council & Past Calling (Hypernaturals 12 & 13)

Stunned

I led the group to the dining room, set up with a long table and sideboards, open-plan style to the kitchen. I stopped there. "This is what my mom would call a four butt kitchen. Room in here for four to cook at the same time. Other than being bigger than Casa de Gato's kitchen, set up more or less the same. Same industrial type appliances. On like that. That pass through goes to the rec room, for parties. The outside kitchen can also be used to supply the rec room. Moving on."

I led the tour around the bend of the floor.

"This is the master bedroom. The bed is larger than at the house. Room for ten. Headboard designed to have a cubby for each person to store stuff in. Denise needs Crew shit at hand, Helen, Rachel, and I Council stuff. Morgan needs PI shit. Jessica medical this and that. Guest cubbies for Vera and Angel when they are inclined to sleep with us instead of bringing in guest lovers. Room for a guest or two of our own as well. I assume Danny, Lori, DeWayne, Carol, Anne, Nico, Kevin, Simi, Tobey, etc, with be by at some point."

"Only a bed in here." Jessica indicated all the empty space around the large room.

"Same idea as the kids' room and the office space: left furnishing open for input. I put together a showpiece for today, but a lot of this is open for discussion and movement. Built-ins and the bar are not. Morgan can decide I stole it and put it back in storage, of course, but that room is built around the bar so a lot of work to change it."

"It is staying put, Mister." Morgan said.

"Good." I pointed. "Bathroom that way."

We walked into the open space. I pointed at the fairly familiar looking glass wall. "The shower is a little bigger than Casa De Gato. Not as big as Claremont's. Otherwise, mostly the same. Loungers and natural light piped in from outside. A garden with plants and a big jacuzzi on one end. Trellis. Orchids. All the same. In a non-code way, the gray water from here is piped to the plants on the roof. Also, there is a roof water catchment system. The sides of the building from ground to top are covered in solar panels. With as many residents as can live here, not enough to fully power the place, but it offsets. There is a water treatment plant for both the rainwater and the city water. Filters down to .5 microns. All heavy metals removed. That's for human residents and a selling point. No need for in-unit water filters, and in fact they would do nothing."

"You sound like a brochure for this place." Denise said. It was not critical. An observation.

"Out here are the grooming areas for drying hair, etc. Same as Casa de Gato, just a little bigger. Each of you has drawers for personal stuff. These cabinets have shared things, like hair dryers. That door there goes to one of four laundry areas. There is the main one, a kid's one, and the Angel/Vera suite has one."

I pointed at the door, then swung around and pointed at a wide door. "This closest and dressing room is far larger than at the house. Room for clothes and costumes."

We walked in. "In the center are the benches for sitting on to put on shoes and such."

"And sex" Vera injected.

"I remember bonding." Morgan commented.

"I can't wait!" Denise enthused.

"Sure. Sex too. The major areas are isolated from each other by 16 centimeter thick concrete walls. Vera could have screaming loud sex in here and we would barely know it in the Master. Same for the Rec room, etc. Even Morgan and I could not hear Vera getting off in here from the living room, I think."

"Whoa." Vera said, "That is so cool!"

"One of the reasons your suite is on the other end of the floor from this area. You can be being tortured by Kevin into blindness, and we won't hear it."