Private Dazed and Confused at the Wolfsbane

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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"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.

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.

"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.

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.