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[h3][i][color=gray]The House on the Hill[/color][/i][/h3]

[b]Interactions:[/b] Britney ([@Shin Ghost Note]), Linqian/Luca/Anya ([@FernStone]), Clancy ([@Zombiedude101]), Lila/Lynn/Jasper ([@NoriWasHere])

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[quote=Britney][color=f4eb93]”You're not [i]our[/i] Alizee. Alizee Alteri was shot to death by the Wolfpack, then the Hound took what he needed, and the leftover consciousness, psyche, and memories, formed an entirely new being and, well... [i]Became you[/i].”[/color][/quote]

Alizée stared at the woman speaking, and just like that, little drops began to fill her well of knowledge. What the woman was saying lined up fairly well with what she remembered, though she had no knowledge of this Hound being, or what they did.

Her gaze dropped, examining her hand briefly, opening and closing the elongated phalanges. She… she had been someone else before this? They knew who she was? Who she had been?

How much of the old self had survived, if what they said was true? 

[quote=Britney][color=f4eb93]”But what exactly do you remember? Do you remember anyone else other than Voidy? Does the name [i]Britney Williams[/i] ring a bell? What about... [i]Jack Hawthorne?[/i]”[/color][/quote]

Alizée returned her hands to their surrendering position, looking up at Britney, a pensive look in her eyes. 

[color=916BB4][b]“Those names…”[/b][/color] She shook her head. [color=916BB4][b]“I'm sorry, they don't ring a bell.”[/b][/color]

[quote=Linqian][color=CD5C5C]”Fuck, you seriously considering this shit, Brit? I know exactly what we should do - fucking seal her. Be done with it. Like you said, we got too many fucking problems right now. I don’t give a fuck if she needs to find him. We need to find Father Wolf before he fucking kills more of us.”[/color][/quote]

Alizée, if her eyes could go saucer-like wide, like an innocent puppy, they would have in  that moment. She had learned from the whispers of voidlings older than her of the ways a voidling suffers, and ‘dies.’ One of those ways was through sealing. Just mentioning the word made Alizée feel uncomfortable, and she shifted a bit as she kneeled.

[i]But who's this Father Wolf?[/i]

Alizée's eyes returned to ‘Brit’, alarm in the redness, the threat of sealing very much over her head. 

[quote=Luca][color=6B8E23]”Why should we trust you enough to give you a second chance? Void Heart was a parasite. I understand better than most here what it’s like to have something like that attached to you… By helping you, we let more people get hurt. Maybe people deserve second chances, but…

”You’re not a person.”[/color][/quote]

Alizée gave a closer look to this person. Immediately, she could smell it coming off him. The scent of another within him, a voidling with a peculiar scent of rotting meat.

She blinked at his accusation. Of course she was a person. Well, a voidling. An apparition. A ghost. Perhaps not technically a person, those were left to describe humans, after all. But she could feel. She could think. That made her at least worthy of the title of ‘person’, did it not?

[color=916BB4][b]“I don't know about Void Heart being a parasite. He was kind to me, from what I remember.”[/b][/color]

Alizée's gaze dropped, seriously thinking hard about Luca's question. Sealing scared her. It seemed to be a preferred method of this group. What would happen to her if they decided to do what they would with her…?

[color=916BB4][b]“I… I don't have any way for you to trust me except for my word. But it's a part of my power, my core: connections. I'll do almost anything to form a new connection, and earn a way into a person's secret world.

“You have to trust me that it's a completely self-serving interest that I cooperate with you.”[/b][/color] Alizée said softly.

[quote=Anya][color=9966CC]"We should allow her to answer Britney’s questions - and anyone else’s - before we decide.”[/color][/quote]

Alizée couldn't help but feel a bit of discomfort at this woman's sentence. The calm before passing judgment. It felt like she was being sized up, scrutinized. It reminded her of battles where the opposite voidling would stare hard for a long time, before striking.

She hoped this wasn't the same thing…

Alizée thought a bit more, returning back to ‘Brit's question, before she spoke again. [color=916BB4][b]“I remember how I died. It was by a gunshot. I remember I was trying to save Void. I remember who shot me, the little group; Leather-wearers, with roaring motorbikes. I remember waking up in darkness. It took… a long time before I learned how to move. A longer time before I learned how to fight.”[/b][/color]

Before a boy, no- an apparition, a voidling like her, spoke up.

[quote=Clancy][b]"Trust me. You don't [i]want[/i] this, whatever you're looking for in that [i]parasite[/i] isn't worth it. You'll never stop [i]wanting[/i] and you'll [i]hate[/i] every moment you continue existing. You want purpose? Don't make this [i]harder.[/i] Put the chains away. [I]You don't have time for this.[/i]"[/b][/quote]

Alizée watched with pained eyes, before her chains receded further, and sank to the floor, unmoving.

[color=916BB4][b]“Brother, he is my source, my strength. I have to maintain my good word. Surely he isn't the villain you make him out to be?” [/b][/color]She said, hopeful.

But her head perked up as he mentioned purpose.[color=916BB4][b]“I will admit I've been… blindly following this. I don't have another purpose besides seeking out the Void Heart. What other purpose could there be, for someone like me?”[/b][/color]

[quote=Lila][color=DA70D6]“What do we know about the void heart?  Was it something that made her do those evil actions, or were those actions truly her own?  I also understand what it’s like, which is why I’ll at least humor…. Whatever this is.”[/color][/quote]

Alizée's red eyes blinked a couple times as the woman with the glorious wings spoke. She could smell a sweet scent off her; she too had a voidling, an apparition. 

But her confusion only compounded. [i]Since when has the Void Heart done evil? And I was a part of it?[/i]

Alizée felt the concern in her chest growing, but remained quiet. The question wasn't directed at her, after all.

[quote=Aryin][color=00BFFF]“You could fuck off for all I care, and if you don’t I know someone who could turn you into the most perfect fucking pet.”[/color][/quote]

Alizée's eyes became wide like saucers again, but not in shock or horror. No, this time was in sadness. She couldn't bring herself to speak.

[quote=Lynn][color=F08080]“If you are what I think you are, you must be the perfect age for that Void Heart, I heard he liked them young,”[/color][/quote]

Alizée's red eyes bugged out for what was the third time. [color=916BB4][b]“It's not like that! At least, I don't think so. It's entirely different!”[/b][/color]

If a voidling could become flustered, this was her, right at that moment.

[quote=Jasper][color=98FB98]”We weren’t there for her before, when she truly needed us to be, why not give her a moment now while we can. I'm tired of fighting ourselves when there are mother fuckers out there who deserve our collective rage more.”[/color][/quote]

Immediately, Alizée felt a bit of kinship with Jasper. The words came out on their own, [color=916BB4][b]“Who torments you? You knew me before, when I don't know myself. Tell me who torments you, and I will fight them.”[/b][/color]