The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Coquette Blacquin]

"No. Xyrrim and Noire are new, and Bitch changed once before. She was... I don't remember what she was before, but now she's Bitch."

[Zevran]

"I see," Zevran repeats, stalling as he absorbs this new information. "So you can... emerge and change and evidently disappear? Is there... a limit on that?"

[Coquette Blacquin]

"I didn't do it on purpose," he says, a little sullen. "I don't know how it works."

[Zevran]

"Also fair," Zevran says, squeezing her hand. "I mean... Is there anything-- I do not know-- that can be done to help?"

[Coquette Blacquin]

"...tell me what happened?" he says quietly. "I don't remember anything after we broke your soul tracker."

[Zevran]

"I..." Zevran swallows uncomfortably. "I wasn't with you for most of it," he warns Cedric. "So I cannot tell you all of what must have occurred. But." He winces, hand tightening briefly. "She took us in our sleep. I woke just long enough after our... goodbyes... to see her there, holding a charring scroll and smelling the fumes of a sleep toxin. I was left bound in a room, waiting for... nothing good, I am sure. You... you were... She tortured you. Badly. In multiple ways."

[Coquette Blacquin]

He swallows. "And... and Bull?"

[Zevran]

Zevran nods. "And Shisou." He hesitates but doesn't want to lie. "With... Shisou, and Bull, as well. She... She wanted them to suffer as well."

[Coquette Blacquin]

Cedric nods. "Where... are we now?"

[Zevran]

"Ah, a bit south of Jalzaid, either just about to or now currently crossing the Bay," Zevran offers. "In a more immediate sense, aboard the Siren's Call, an airship owned and captained by an old friend miraculously rediscovered."

[Coquette Blacquin]

"We... left?" he asks, bewildered. A moment later, rage flares through him. "Did you leave Bull behind?!"

[Zevran]

Zevran's jaw tightens but he doesn't fire back. "We saved who we could. Bull was-- We were all almost caught and he... he--" Zevran laughs harshly. "He didn't even say a word, he just... attacked. Told us to run. He saved us, all of us."

[Coquette Blacquin]

Cedric slumps against the pillow, silent tears streaming down his cheeks. "Oh," he says quietly. "Sorry. I... I promised to protect him. And I didn't.... I couldn't...."

His eyes drift closed, and he murmurs, "Take care of Shisou for me?"

[Zevran]

"He made the same promise," Zevran reminds her-- him-- quietly, insistently. "Bull loves you with everything he is. Shisou loves you too." He hesitates. "And why are you saying goodbye?"

[Coquette Blacquin]

"I'm not strong enough," he whispers. "I'm ill and I can't handle... I can't. When I sleep the dreams overwhelm me."