May 20, 2022

A figure approaches the house. They seem to be wearing a big cloak covering their body and face, except the mouth. They are about 5’8 as they approach the door knocking. Oh, yeah, it's secretly Maiden. She's wearing a disguise. Silly little thing.

“Hello?” Knight asks upon opening the door and seeing the figure. The figure waves happily, ‘looking’ at Knight up and down as they bounce on their heels.

“Who are you and why are you here?” Knight absentmindedly rests his hand on his pistol.

The figure puts there hands up in cowardly position as they make say something in sign language, “I do not speak. I am Star.”

“Okay Star. Would you like something to write with and on? My knowledge of Sign Language is kind of limited.”

They nod

He hands them a notebook and pencil. “So why are you here?”

Star starts writing then hands it to Knight, ”I see cool people, enter house. Think that Star can make friends?”

“Depends, Are you going to betray anyone? If not then I’ll be your friend.” Knight hands it back.

They read it and circle "friend" and hold it up for Knight to see as they smile.

“Nice. Now, How are you doing?”

They write down, “Great! You?”

“Pretty good honestly, considering things.” Knight says, “So, would you like to come inside?”

Star nods. Knight heads inside before gesturing to them to follow.

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Knight and Star walk in, and Star waves. Eurydice looks to them with a grin and Luna waves back. Cole gives Star a look. He stands up and draws his pink sparkly glock.

"You have 12 seconds, Flower Maiden," Cole says.

"What the? Flower Maiden??" Luna replies.

“Are you sure?” Knight asks.

Harmonia walks out to the livingroom and just. stares.

Eurydice gets up and cackles, “I FUCKING KNEW IT HAHAHAHAHA” They seem a bit manic today!

Knight pokes Star. “Doesn’t seem like Maiden.”

Luna closes her eyes and defocuses on the loud. Cole aims at Star.

"You know you're not allowed in this house," Cole says in a commanding tone.

"Didn't you say you'd shoot any new people on sight, Knight?" Harmonia asks, deadpan.

“I did, just testing the waters a bit.” Knight pokes Star again as their body gets frozen in time.

"Wait hang on, are we absolutely sure this is Maiden?" Luna asks.

"Can't Cole see and sense souls lmao" Harmonia sighs. Star looks confused.

"He can? I didn't know that." Luna says.

"He literally commented about smelling her rancid soul or something when she came back from the dead," Harmonia yawns.

"...oh. Oh thats what that was. I thought he just smelled her perfume or something."

“Ehhehhe. Rancid perfume,” Eurydice scoot over to Knight, ”I was suspicious because why would a new person voluntarily walk up to a house with Cole Garnet in it!”

Kade turns over to face the bunch, "What thr fuck"

Cole walks over to star, "Unfreeze them, Knight."

“Why?”

"Because I want to fucking kick them out of the house and give them a chance to run," Cole smiles

"Star... Flower Maiden, I don't know who you are... but I highly suggest leaving before the dogboys kill you.." Luna cautions. Knight removes Star’s hood by flipping it over.

Eurydice walks over but stops, “Aw you did it for me.”

Cole presses the barrel against Maiden's head and they as unfrozen, "Oh I'm just gonna fucking shoot them in 5 seconds"

Maiden's face appears to have tons of burn marks as she seems to be smiling and crying.

"Run!" Cole smiles.

"...Maiden, seriously, you need to get the fuck out of here." Luna warns.

"I healed those burns What the fuck” Knight says, confused.

"Wait what?"

“I’m going to kill them when they step out the door.” Eurydice smiles, tail waggin'

"Wait hang on, you're right." Luna says.

Cole puts pressure on the trigger, "3"

"Cole, hold on a sec. Those burns should have been healed."

Knight freezes Maiden again. “Hang on.”

Cole unfreezes Maiden, "2"

"When I saw her in Hell, she didn't have any of those." Luna says, puzzled.

“I just wanted to see you guys happy… again…” Maiden sobs.

“WHY ARE YOU FOCUSED ON THE FUCKING BURNMARKS!!?!!!?” Eurydice is frustrated in an instant. “KILL ON SIGHT! NOBODY CARES!”

"Because it's a logical contradiction to the facts!" Luna says. Harmonia is just. holding her head in her hands in annoyance.

"1," Cole fires. Maiden is hit by the bullet. Maiden's brains and skull are scattered everywhere dead gone reduced to atoms.

Peyton Vera McHugh, the Flower Maiden, Baroness of Hell... is dead.

“We could’ve taken this outside! Now we have to clean up the blood,” Knight groans.

"That too."

“We also have the best maids around.” Eurydice smiles.

"You mean Enoch?" Luna asks.

“Yep!”

Harmonia just. stands there. Knight just starts cleaning up. Luna helps, making sure not to get any viscera in her fur. The gore disappears (thank Enoch) but the corpse is still there. Cole holsters his glock and drags the body out to the front yard to burn it.

“The reason I froze them was so we could kill them outside you know.” Knight says.

Eurydice walks over to Harmonia, “Why are you annoyed? We made it very clear this would happen.”

"I'm annoyed that she fucking came here"

Luna goes back to her laptop and notes the contradiction. Not that it matters.

“Yeah! Ok. Ok, sorry!” Eurydice hugs her, “Sorry, I thought you were annoyed at a different thing”

{-Lunes, she's gone. The contradiction doesn't matter.-}

Cole walks back inside, "Ding dong the bitch is dead."

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