Private Dazed and Confused at the Wolfsbane

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Surveying dispassionately the room where the attack on her girl, Kara, had happened, Kalitsa frowned as she took in all the damage. Whatever had affected Mr. Garnier and his party was not anything she was familiar with. Yes, the madame had seen clients go crazy before - too much booze and drugs could make a normally rational being irrational and volatile - but this was different somehow.

This attack had seemed more vicious, deadly, and from what little she had seen on the two cameras in the room (one camera was focused on the door, the other on the private stage area) and what she had pieced together from Kara, it sounded like they were beyond all reason and lost to their bloodlust. A thought that left the werewolf cold and unintentionally stirred age-old fears and suspicions regarding vampires.

"Reytan?" Kalitsa remarked tiredly without turning around, sensing the one person she fully trusted not to screw her over.

"Were you able to get the Garnier party's tab for the evening?" she asked, pretty sure that the group had ordered the usual - champagne, heart apple cider, or heart apple cocktails. - but needing to be sure that they hadn't ordered something off menu.

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Rey glanced down at the tablet before holding it forward for her to take if she wanted. "Of course, Kali. Regulars, and normally quite the predictable sort too. Shame about the mess," he answered as the spirit snuck a peek into the room beyond his boss. Clearly it had been quite the night, and not in the way it was intended to be.

"You know, I could suggest you have a seat and rest for a bit while we take care of this but I know better than that. Here, I've brought you something hot and caffeinated." Sure enough, he gave her an amused and cheeky smile as he slipped the insulated cup to her along with the tablet. It was a dark and stressful night, but he was pretty good about letting things roll off his back. "Shame the police had to be involved. Would have been much easier to clean up if it had just been disposal and a little drywall work." A joke, of course. But there was some truth in it as well.
 

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"Yes, you could have," Kali began with the tiniest of half-smiles, grateful for the attempt at lightening the mood. "Though I am glad you didn't," she finished. "Cause tonight I just may have accepted," she added shooting Rey a tired smile, taking a sip of the drink and sighing when the caffeine hit the blood.

Kalitsa then took a moment to scroll through the Garnier tab and saw that as expected they were regulars who tended to order the same thing time after time. Even their choices of escorts and services seemed to follow a pattern.

"Did you happen to see or notice anything unusual tonight when you were on the floor?" Kali asked as she gave Rey the tablet back.

"Because I didn't," she confessed with a scowl, low-key angry at herself and what had almost happened to Kara. It was a pride thing, she knew. Kali prided herself on making sure that the Wolfsbane was a safe place for those who worked for her, and tonight she had failed miserably.
 

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Rey chuckled and put his soft hand on her shoulder. "Admittedly I was a bit preoccupied with keeping the table of businessmen from downtown and then the bachelorette party entertained. They both seemed thoroughly pleased by the service here by the way." He smiled and let that statement float in the air a bit. He took pride in his work and even more pride in letting his boss know of his successes.

"But of course had I noticed anything you would have already known about it before now. Containing the troublemakers before there was any threat or damage would have been far easier to handle." Indeed it sounded very much like there were no signs they could have seen beforehand. Regulars doing their regular thing right up until things went haywire.

"Kali, my dear. I see the lines of anger in your jawline," he purred. "There's a time for that, and i'll happily help you see to it that whomever is responsible is seen to in turn. But don't beat yourself up before you know who truly deserves the beating. Did she mention them doing anything other than just enjoying the show before things went crazy?"
 

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Kali glared at Rey when he gently admonished her. "You know me too well, Reytan. If I were a better madame, or a much pettier bitch, I'd make you pay for being so damn logical, good at what you do and so bloody observant," she glowered, though her words held no real malice or threat, only appreciation and, perhaps, a hint of affection for the alien spirit.

"And to answer your last question, maybe?" Kali admitted with some hesitation as she stepped away from the mess.

"Kara says the group left for a few minutes and then came back. She thinks they probably went to the washroom," Kali said, though by her tone you could tell she was unconvinced that that is what the group had been doing.
 

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Rey only smiled. "You may feel free to do with me as you wish but I might have to ask for a raise. After all, you did just extol my virtues," he laughed and shook his head, not really being serious about it.

He followed her away from the entry to the room as she spoke and listened intently. "Washroom or not, the whole party doesn't go at once unless they're hiding something or plotting something in there. And I very much doubt they stepped out from boredom."
 

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"Did I? Well, my mistake. Can't have my employees thinking I actually appreciate them," Kali grinned wolfishly and then winked at Reytan.

"Come, let's leave this til tomorrow," she said as she looked at Rey and nodded, acknowledging his comment, but indicating that he should follow her to her private quarters where they could talk more freely and not be overheard by anyone passing by or within ear range.

Once they were safely in her chambers - that had been magically soundproofed from prying preternatural hearing - Kali let out a relieved sigh.

"Fuck, Rey," she exclaimed as she sat down tiredly on the couch. "This is such a mess. Kara thinks the Garnier party stepped out to do drugs," she confessed, her anger mixed with frustration barely in check as she spoke.

It was no secret the Wolfsbane offer drugs and other methods of getting high off menu, and up til now,there had been only a few minor incidents.
 

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Rey smiled and tipped his head as he extended his arm to motion for her to lead the way. Following her quietly until they were securely in her private chambers.

Casually he perched himself on the arm rest of the couch, one leg crossed over the other and his head, cocked to the side in amusement, held in one hand. With a smile he cast out his privacy aura to further ensure they were.. well, free of any prying.

"Of course, but that sounds nothing like anything we typically provide. We're in the business of enjoyment not rabid lunacy. Any idea where they managed to obtain the extract of ruined-night leaf?" This was serious, but they already knew that so there was no reason for him to hammer that home. And all the more reason to break up the tension a little.
 

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Kali looked up at Rey and smirked, a tiny, amused smile forming on her lips. Her dark sense of humor appreciated the rabid lunacy remarks despite everything that had happened. They took some of the gravity off the situation.

"I can only assume it's some new thing on the market," Kali confessed as she crossed her legs. "Though why anyone would want to take anything like that is beyond me," the werewolf admitted, wrinkling her nose in distaste at the mere idea of being under the influence of such a drug.
 

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Rey couldn't help but mix his flirti g with business and he gave her a wink as he noticed the smile.

"Come now, Kali, you can't tell me you've never wanted to just lose all your inhibitions and go wild for a night," he chuckled and then his face drew more serious again. "But I do doubt that was the intended effect. There are far better places for murderous relief. And we do charge exorbitant fees for going that far off the menu here."
 
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