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Who: Lucifer & Istredd
When: Eifstide's period + November
Where: Thorne
What: The worst people to be dealing with children (Child's Play quest). | Istredd's No Good Very Bad Reckless Experiment
Warnings: N/A first thread, angry/yelling/violent Lucifer second thread.


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"No. No, no, no. I have been a well-behaved teacher's aide and helped out in your classes when you and Señor Bullshit have decided I need more going on in my life but--" Lucifer threw up his hands. "I do not. Deal. With children." He had done that once. Read stories to kids in the library as part of his community service for the Hayle Incident.

Of the two tasks he had done for that--gardening, reading--only one of those he continued to do ever since, to the point that they weaseled payment for such things from one of the Conclave requests.

It followed through in the intricate web of an alternate reality, cultivating the land in the Nether with pride, later doing an upheaval of his Horizon domain to echo it, and then beginning to form a grove in the place that should've eventually become Kell's. His followers, his blood. The man may've hated what happened in that reality but there should be something here. Something left as a physical mark, when no doubt the rest of them disappear and with that their memories of him.

"I need you to do this," Ingrid said, more frazzled than usual. "Please."

Lucifer dragged in a deep breath, hands drawn together, thumbs tight at the bridge of his nose.

"I'll owe you?"

"What could you possible owe me!" he shouted, but trudged off regardless.



He was, thankfully, not alone in pulling the short straw among the Summoned. The downside of being a Summoned teacher is that you entered the chaos pool twice over. Maybe triple, Lucifer wasn't exactly keeping count.

The teachers were pressed thin and the Summoned were needed to help and Istredd was far too kind to really say no because like Lucifer, they had appearances to maintain.

One of these days Lucifer is going to say screw it all to his hard work at the position he's gotten himself to and just wipe his hands clean of it.

(But then he wouldn't be allowed near the battlefield to amplify the influence of the heralds.)

Istredd's been getting licks of his frustration over the bond so it shouldn't be too much surprise when they meet halfway that Lucifer's first spoken words are: "I don't want to hear it."

At least Istredd isn't alone in the task, right?

after Istredd's Singularity Experiment

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He knows Istredd is on his way back into Thorne not only because of their connection (though Lucifer has been giving Istredd the silent treatment), but because of Mace properly informing him. He hadn't deemed to even visit Istredd in the Horizon, no. He wanted his arms on the man and not in an enjoyable way. He wanted Istredd to feel it, physically. Real, concrete.

So he finishes up some magic tinkering around one of the classes and keeps apprised of timing and then he waits in their room because eventually Istredd has to return. And no matter how right and satisfied Istredd is with his little discovery, Lucifer is a falling cleaver on that. The reality check. Angry, slamming Istredd to the wall in what is likely familiar enough for them, though this time Lucifer has his entire arm fully braced horizontally over Istredd's upper chest, just below his neck.