Left in the Dust 16.7

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Left in the Dust 16.7
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Left in the Dust 16.7 is the seventh chapter of Left in the Dust.

Plot

Verona is hallucinating due to using the cursed heart. Household items whisper to her about how to perform dangerous alchemy.

She is collecting her stuff so she can get ready for the demesne ritual, when she goes to leave her dad blocks her, complain about her not doing her chores. Lucy arrives, rescues her and they head off together, she also informs her she has an assignment due that’s worth 15% of her final grade.

When they arrive at the House on Half Street they find Mallory, she tells them the Undercity version of the house is occupied by Stuck-Arounds. Verona speculates about how the Undercity residents were created, she draws an outline of Mallory’s body in chalk on the floor.

Lucy gives Verona a copy of her assignment then Verona starts work on creating a summons.

Tashlit arrives, Verona hand is acting up again and she helps heal it.

Verona begins creating her summon. When creating it she uses Nyan for the crown, the fogged watch for the brow, the charred homunculus for the throat, Engine Head of the heart, the rasp for the solar plexus, hot lead for the sacrum and Lott for the groin. The Other that appears looks like something created by Verona’s sight, she dismisses it so she can use it later.

Verona and Jeremy are in bed together, Jeremy is helping her with her assignment. Jeremy says he has to leave and Verona asks him to come round tomorrow so they can have sex for a third time.

Verona puts on her battle gear and head to the Undercity to deal with the Stuckarounds in their version of the the House on Half Street.

Inside the house she finds a couple tied up to a radiator, they tell her they’ve been held hostage. She creates darkness with a spell card, when the Stuckarounds come down she attacks them with a table leg. She gets Grabsy to steal the keys. She uses a vacuum jar to remove the air. After violently beating everyone up she lets the couple chained to the radiator go and sets wards around the place.

Next morning after having sex with her again Jeremy leaves. After he’s gone Miss arrives and tells her that Musser is occupied. She pings Lucy, text Melissa so she can handle the fetches then messages Avery. Then she makes her claim to the house as a demesne, in both Kennet Above, Kennet Below and Lost Kennet, invoking the blood, sweat and tears she has shed to mark her claim, as well as the fact that she spelt with Jeremy three times their.

Major Events

• Verona creates a summons
• Verona attacks the stuck arounds living in the Undercity's version of the House on Half Street
• Verona and Jeremy have sex two more times
• Verona declairs the House on Half Street her demesne, claiming it both in Kennet, the Kennet Undercity and Lost Kennet

Characters

Kennet trio Lucy Verona Kennet Others Peckersnot Tashlit Grabsy Miss Kennet Undercity Mallory Innocents Jeremy Brett Hayward

References

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