The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Coquette Blacquin]

Over the next week or so, Coquette takes and delivers small things to Zevran, things he'll need to escape. They build up a secret stash outside of town where he can grab more things he'll need on the road, packed in saddlebags so he can take the horse as well. She secrets him away more money, food, clothing, things he'll need in his new life like candles and rope. But she can't find that damn bloodstone, no matter how hard she looks. Best case, she suspects Varisia took it with her on her business trip. Or maybe left it with a friend or business partner, or in a safe deposit box at the Naugrix temple....

It's the middle of the night a week after Coquette began trying to get pregnant when Zevran is awoken by a strange noise. That's all the warning he gets before there's a cloth pressed to his face with a chemical designed to make him sleep; thankfully, he knows this trick, knows how not to breathe as he disables the attacker to get the chemical away from his face. Soon his would-be kidnapper or killer is dead, and so is his accomplice at the door. Two more have drugged Nox and are working on Lux when Zevran intercepts them, saving Lux and waking Nox with a counter-agent he finds on one of the newly created corpses. But Shisou sleeps closer to the door than them; he must already have been taken, Zevran figures, and he prepares to go after his beau. 

Shisou's door swings open, and a body is thrown through it. It isn't Shisou's; it's another of the would-be kidnappers, overpowered and covered in glitter for some reason. The figure that steps out afterward doesn't seem to be Shisou either, though she could be his sister. She wears clothing that would be scandalous in Nyra: a short skirt, boots up to her hips, a tight shirt tied under her full breasts to expose her stomach, where a belly ring resides. Her hair is short and spiky, dyed blue to match the blue skirt in a gnomish fashion, and her heels show off shapely legs. On her shoulder is Shisou's lizard, Carbonne, only now there's a prominent gemstone in xer forehead, revealing xem to be a magical lizard of some description. 

[Zevran]

More seeming to glide than walk, Zevran continues towards Shisou's room. His expression is entirely blank, his eyes empty and hollow, and he doesn't hesitate a second to deal with the downed intruder. Without any change in pace, he lashes out with his foot, catching the foe in the neck with a sickening crack. Stopping a little less than two yards from strangely dressed woman, Zevran studies her silently. He's only wearing loose cotton pants, so the faint glow coming from his tattoos is very, very obvious. Less so are the shards of a clay jug in each hand, though given his posture and what he just did, only a fool would think him harmless.

"The--"

"--fuck is--"

"--going on?"  "--all this?"

Behind him, Nox is just staggering into the common area, his twin supporting him. Both of them stop dead, gaping, at the scene before them. It's a clear sign of how muddled and shocked the twins are that they're not in sync. They only very rarely doing verbal alternation, but speaking in unison is relatively common for them. They don't even practice it, they just think very similarly and know each other very well. 

[Shisou]

"Thank Ciren you're alright," says the woman, clearly relieved. "Um... I can explain all this... see..." 

[Nox]

"Where's Shisou?" Nox demands despite the numbness in his face causing his words to slur. "What did you do to'em?"

[Shisou]

"I, um. So remember how I said a few times that I know a little bit of magic? This is a sort of... disguise, that I am able to render, using magic."

[Lux]

Lux stares a moment. "Uhwhat?"

"What did I test Lady Coquette's gift on a week ago?" Zevran says in a bored, distracted tone.

[Shisou]

The woman flinches, remembering. "A loaf of bread. You scared Bull half to death and me as well."

[Zevran]

Zevran studies them a moment longer, then nods slightly. "All three of you, hole up in my room. Lock and barricade the door, don't let anyone in until sunrise and even then, check and double check they are who they claim to be." Without waiting for a response of any kind, he starts for the door out of the Husband's Quarters. 

[Shisou]

Shisou trots a few steps after him. "I can help," she argues. 

[Zevran]

"Good," Zevran says without looking back. "Then protect your husbands." 

[Shisou]

Shisou slows to a stop. "Oh." That makes sense. She turns and heads back to Nox and Lux, locking the three of them in a bedroom to protect them. 

Thankfully, it seems none of the assassins made it to the house to get to Coquette. Bull reports a quiet evening, and Coquette remains blissfully asleep. 

[NPCs]

It's half a bell past dawn when someone knocks on the door to Zevran's room.

[Shisou]

"Who's there?" calls a suspicious female voice. 

[Zevran]

"Zevran," comes the much more normal voice of their absent husband. "It seems that these half dozen were all that were sent against us."

[Shisou]

"What question did you test me with earlier tonight?" she asks, through the closed door.