@ Little Wisp @ mane;validus
LucettaLucetta struggled a little with keeping an outward appearance of calm about her. It wasn't that any vampire with a sense of self-preservation would be on edge considering the unknown that was out and about bleeding them dry. Actually, she suspected that was something she could handle. No, her problem was actually that she never quite felt comfortable about vampires. They weren't a species that naturally grouped together for anything, and she trusted the lot of them about as far as she could throw a 50 story building. Then there were the werewolves, who were bound to be unpredictable even bound up. She trusted them even less than she trusted the vampires, which was saying something.
The vampiress turned her mind back to task. The sooner she picked out one of the beasts, the sooner she could return home. Her eyes flickered over all four wolves, but lingered longer on two. One of those two was the only female of the bunch, while the other was a male that for some reason simply caught her eye. "I think I'll pick this one," she said differentially while motioning to the wolf. She wasn't speaking to anyone in particular but stating a fact. She doubted the other three vampires would challenge her overly much, if at all.
CalixCalix's memory on what had happened was fuzzy at best. He fuzzily remembered going through jobs to pick out his next one, hearing something strange, and then his body going numb and his world turning first gray and then black. When he woke, he was bound tightly, sprawled on the floor, sported a headache like no other he could remember, and the acrid scent of vampire surrounded him.
Some inner instinct demanded that he leave his eyes shut and pretend as if he were still knocked out, but the rest of his senses worked fine, and he struggled with them, hoping to garner some information about what was happening. In the meantime, a particularly strong surge of fear spiked through his body, and he fought against the urge to hyperventilate and give away that he had woken up. Because this was bad. So so so so so bad.