Don't you want to play?

[petal_storm]

Who: Magnus, Markux, the Flowers
When: Two years after they are created.
What: Gifting

Magnus smiled, tying the large, satin ribbon around Poppy's neck with amusement. Big, purple, and ridiculous, it made Poppy look like a stripper at a bachelorette party. Or after said party really given he was naked except for the collar he wore under that ribbon. "There. It's the small details really..." he chuckled. "I've already transferred ownership, you're a proper gift and you had best be able to sooth him in his declining years." Or else.

Orchid watched from her elegant sprawl on the bed, face politely impassive, but the inner ranting was anything but...::sending you off to a mystery man he won't give us any info on...:: she hissed. She didn't like it, not at all, and he hadn't allowed her to do the property transfer so she couldn't even give her brother a clue. They both knew by this point though that their Master's 'gifts' never benefited anyone but him. ::Make yourself indispensable, please, I can't lose you...:: so he had to make his new master NEED him! Even if they were apart they could still talk when they passed near each other and that gave her a reason to hope.

"The hover will drop you at the door, you'll need the master of the establishment, naturally." Magnus smiled, slapping Poppy on the ass harshly and waving him away.

The hover dropped him, as promised, at a elegantly crafted landing pad on a disk nowhere near Magnus's. It was all smooth polished stone leading up to immense doors with beautiful carvings of naked people in all manner of water play and relaxation...

Comments

[petal_storm]

"Do you play chess at all?" He asked softly.

[code_jaeger]

“No.” He frowned.

[petal_storm]

"Unfortunate," he mused, considering. It was easier to explain with chess. "Magnus does nothing without layered reasons. In this case there is the reason he told you, and a plethora of others intended as probes and attacks. I will be countering several of said attacks through not caving to the surface demands," and it would be exhausting regardless.

"That advances the plot as it were, because your assignment will fail but your personal position will be much higher, making you an asset instead of a weapon. He knows I am a bleeding heart, he knows I will protect and house you, which means he will believe he has attained something he has failed to do since he decided we were rivals."

[code_jaeger]

“He will take his frustration out on people.” Namely his sister.

[petal_storm]

"The obvious attacks being diverted doesn't cause frustration, trust me," he admitted quietly. "Next he'll send your sister here to see you."

[code_jaeger]

“Why…?”

[petal_storm]

"Because he has never successfully placed anyone in my household, and he'll want to test how much hold he can maintain over you."

[code_jaeger]

“Okay.”

[petal_storm]

"If that frightens you I can, and will, send you somewhere safe where he will never find you."

[code_jaeger]

Poppy hadn’t been frightened before now but the threat of never being able to see his sister ever again had the fight leaving him as he stared at the floor. “I’m sorry.”

[petal_storm]

He...blinked? "What?"

[code_jaeger]

Poppy winced. “I’m sorry, Master.” He corrected himself. If he could wilt more he did.

[petal_storm]

"No, no no no," he winced, "no, I meant why would you be sorry? That was a genuine alternative to ever having to deal with Magnus, that's all?"

[code_jaeger]

“We’re all the other has.” Poppy whispered. “If we never saw each other again….”

[petal_storm]

"Whatever made you think I wouldn't be working to get her out to?" He blinked.

[code_jaeger]

“He will never let her go as long as he lives.”

[petal_storm]

"His dream," he agreed gently, "but I can do a surprising number of things."

[code_jaeger]

“Like what…?”

[petal_storm]

"Free you, see you safe as anyone here is, make it very illegal fir anyone to ever touch you without consent, and speak with your sister when she comes to work out a plan," he listed. "For starters. Is she loyal to him?"

[code_jaeger]

“No…”

[petal_storm]

"That will help immensely. I am a broken thing child, but I am a Power as well and I keep my promises."

[code_jaeger]

“…” he looked up at him.

[petal_storm]

"And I do not abide slavery. So now you choose child, do you wish to be free soonest or in a short period of time and with Magnus paying you for the damages?"

[code_jaeger]

“Why would he have to pay damages…?”

[petal_storm]

"Because biolocking a person is very illegal, which you will be when freed. Worse for a full citizen, which you will also be...and he'll ignore the first, polite message from the Council, doubling fines."