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Word's End Bar...
Damen appears. Soon after a dwarf wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase shimmers into view next to him.
Yosannah sits at the bar, head propped on her hand. She turns toward Damen and smiles brightly. She then spots the dwarf tagging along behind him and her smiles fades and her expression turns to puzzlment, "What the heck...?"
Damen whispers a few words to the dwarf before heading towards the bar. The dwarf moves to the door and disappears outside. "Hey sweetheart."
She watches at the dwarf leaves the bar.
Damen says "You know Bartholemew. My personal assistant."
"Yeah Yeah. Him. What's he see in you."
"His paycheck. How have you been?"
"Not bad. Long day and I'm starving."
"Order something to eat." He pauses a moment to order himself a beer. "So I have a new business venture."
Yosannah nods, "Oh? Tell me about it."
Damen nods to Riva as he spies her in the mirror. Damen says "An adult establishment called the Desert Rain....."
Riva nods, putting her trump away in her purse and looking a little self-concisous. She moves to a table to sit, almost immediately going blank-eyed.
Yosannah says "Yeah? I've been there. Think I saw a flyer about it in Dover."
Damen nods, "I recieve part of it's profits....and I devoted a small subsidiary of my studio to make films for it."
Yosannah raises a brow in Damen's direction, "Movies."
He nods, "Movies."
Yosannah makes a face.
Damen chuckles, "Well, that's never been your thing.....has it?"
Selene steps from the shadows looking around the room.
"What? Making Porno movies? No. Not my thing."
Riva stands and reaches out a hand... Vassago appears, grasping Riva's hand.
Damen chuckles softly, "It's an 80 billion industry....and I'm not talking about making them....well, my business is...." He grins at you, "I bet you've never even watched one."
Yosannah says "So what If I haven't? And what on earth do you need money for anyway?"
Selene yawns and walks over to the bar.
Riva releases Vassago's hand and sinks into her chair, pulling her skirt awkwardly as she sits.
Damen smiles faintly, "I don't...but it's about power....and that's what that particular shadow thrives on."
Selene nods to Yosannah.
Damen's synapses suddenly register something. He turns, "You're wearing a fucking dress!"
Vassago looks at Riva, then her outfit. Hides a smile.
Yosannah regards Selene but is distracted by Damen's sudden 'outburst'.
Damen turns to Yosannah. "I need a camera."
Riva says "Yeah, and I even invested in panties, now fuck off."
Yosannah pats down her jacket pockets as if searching for a camera.
Riva scowls and glares at Vassago, daring him to smirk or make a comment.
Damen says "Lost another bet, Riva?"
Selene gazes over at Riva and rolls her eyes.
Riva says "I had a meeting and dressed appropriately."
Damen nods, serious. "It's becoming." And with that, he turns back to Yosannah and his conversation at the bar.
Vassago smiles, "I like it."
Brandon appears suddenly.
Selene says "Personally I do not though, it is not fitting, it would be like seeing me in one."
Damen glances at Selene. "You haven't invested in panties?" Damen sips his beer, feigning interest.
Brandon slides his trump card from hand to case, then the case from hand to pocket. With that he glances over the room looking for something or someone perhaps. Content with what he does or doesn't find he moves towards the bar.
Selene repiles with a smirk, "Only one way for you to know M'lord and that would be unwise.."
Riva orders a bottle of some generic brand beer. The bartender hands it to a server who takes it to booth by the door and sets it before her.
Yosannah chuckles. "Damen, you can't pass up a free invite like that!"
Damen jerks a thumb at Yosannah. "My better half here would put me in the dog house for months."
Selene giggles, "As would mine M'lord.."
Yosannah smiles, "There'd be no doghouse. Just the door. Jerk."
Brandon chuckles softly at Yosannah, and takes a drink.
Damen nods sagely at Yosannah. "See. 'M'lord' One could learn from her, sweetcheeks."
Yosannah waves in Damen's direction, "Pahlease."
Damen adds, "Pay the devil his due."
Selene laughs hearing Damen's comment. "The Devil is do a good kick in the ass and that's about it."
Damen grins and sips his beer.
Yosannah says "So, what are you doing lately, Sel. How is Rubi?"
Selene says "I have been working on my investments in the kitchen, and Rubi is doing very well."
Damen smirks, "She's shaking her moneymaker."
Brandon takes a drink once more, glancing over the bar towards the others.
Damen says "I didn't know you knew Rubi, Yo...she's vested in the new business."
Yosannah is doubtful,"She is not!"
Brandon becomes interested, "New Buisness?"
Damen looks over to the man. "You've been there. The Desert Rain."
Brandon ahs, and nods. "Yes, I have. Quite a place, are you in a partnership with Charli?"
Selene whispers to Yosannah, "So how have you been seen your sister and brother recently."
Yo shakes her head at Selene if to suggest that they talk later.
Selene nods.
Damen looks to Yosannah, nodding. "She's directing." Fehs in Selene's general direction before speaking to Brandon. "We're business associates."
Selene says "directing what, or do I even want to know this time?"
Damen shrugs nonchalantly. "Ask her."
Brandon nods, "Very good, I work there as the doctor slash Plastic surgeon ."
Selene says "She is not around at the moment..you are."
Damen raises an eyebrow at Brandon. "Ah, I didn't know that. Were you recruited from Shadow General?"
Brandon shakes his head, "No I approached her. Just after the end of my shifting training. I wanted to find an outlet for my new talents and what better way than to make strippers look better?" he chuckles softly taking a drink from his ginger ale. "Name is Brandon, well mine is at least."
Yosannah blows a stray stand of hair from her face.
Damen smiles faintly. "Damen Raynard. This is Yosannah....and her friend I am now going to affectionately call 'the ice queen'."
Yosannah rolls her eyes at Damen. "Selene. Her name is Selene."
Brandon nods, "Pleasure." he takes another drink, chuckling softly. "Nice to meet you Yosannah.." he turns to Selene, "And you also, Selene."
Selene says "Ice queen, I do lke that better, but actually it is Selene Villina."
Damen sips his beer, "Well that was a conversation stopper."
Yosannah smirks, "Nice, going, D."
Brandon starts a new one, "So, Damen was it? What else do you do, besides what ever it is you do at the Rain."
Yosannah says "He stars in his own movies. But just the pornos."
Selene seems disgusted as she comments, "I see."
Damen shrugs at Brandon, pausing only to smirk at Yosannah's comment. "I dabble...a little of this...a little of that."
Brandon nods, "You sound a lot like me, minus the porno."
Damen adds, "And on every other Tuesday I plot the end of existence as we know it."
Brandon ohs, and nods to Damen. "And that part too, I plan mine on sundays. I find they are the most boring days."
Damen leans over and places a light kiss on Yosannah's cheek. "Any news on the legal front?" Damen smiles sweetly at Yosannah.
Yosannah sighs. Yosannah thinks out loud, "Mental note, draft contracts for Desert Rain Ho's. Check."
Damen grins. Selene chuckles.
Brandon glances between Damen and Yosannah, then goes ohhh. "Your the guy that wants to do the movies.."
Damen nods, "It's a done deal...and let's make no mistake about this....*I* was appraoched by *them*."
Yosannah says "Pshhh."
Brandon nods, "Cool." he chuckles a bit, "So, are you two married?" He looks between Damen and Yosannah.
Yosannah looks at Damen as if she isn't sure.
Damen winces, "You had to bring that up."
Selene eyes Damen.."Why do I not believe that..oh well none of my business."
Brandon winces back, "Sorry."
Damen smiles winningly at Yosannah, but speaks to Brandon. "Nope. Not yet....just waiting to pick a date."
Riva stands and leaves the booth by the door.
Yosannah glares up at the ceiling.
Brandon nods, "Excelent." he orders another drink, shutting his mouth for now.
Selene starts to belly laugh.
Brandon orders an another glass of gingerale. The bartender pushes it across the bar and it slides to a stop in front of him.
Damen says "Hope you make prom queen, Riva."
Vassago chuckles at Riva and rises from his seat as well.
Damen winks.
Riva flips Damen off with her free hand as she focuses on her trump. Riva moves forward and vanishes, leaving behind a rapidly fading afterimage.
Damen blows her a departing kiss before taking another sip of wine.
Brandon chuckles softly at Riva as she leaves, then looks to Vassago questioningly.
Yosannah says "She's such a bitch..."
Selene says "What do you expect she is married to a Hendrake.... Riva for Porno Queen..I like it."
Damen smiles, "It does have a nice ring, doesn't it?"
Vassago walks over to the bar and takes a seat.
Selene whispers "Okay hon, what is this with marriage?"
Yosannah whispers back, "What do you mean?" to Selene.
Selene whispers "Damen and you?"
"What's it to you?" She smiles, "Really now." to Selene.
Selene whispers "Just curious mostly.."
Brandon hmms, "Do you guys know Gail?"
Damen smirks faintly. "She's a good girl. Loyal." He nods to Brandon, "Yeah....I know Gail. She's a fluff chick."
Yosannah drops her jaw at Damen's statement, "A *fluff* chick? That's not what I think it is..."
Damen looks to Yosannah. "What do you *think* it is?"
Yosannah says "A *Fluff* girl? Aren't they the ones that... oh never mind..."
Damen regards Yosannah. "I wasn't using it in that capacity."
Yosannah says "Whatever."
Selene shrugs, "Never met her."
Brandon grumbles, "Yea, I walked in there and dropped a snake at the bar. You know, just as a joke. It was a bloodbeast, and she flipped out. She got all mad at me when I shut her mouth for her too.." tsks to himself and chuckles softly.
Vassago comments idly, "She's a bouncy one..."
Damen looks to Brandon. "Where did you get a blood beast?"
Brandon holds out his arm, "This one.." he thinks for a second, "no no it was this one." he holds out the other arm.
Damen raises an eyebrow.
Brandon chuckles, "My blood, is where a blood beast comes from."
Ransom looks around, flips a big leather wallet closed, puts it into his hip pocket.
Brandon nods to Ransom as he enters, and looks to Yosannah.
Brandon glances towards Damen, "Has a girl named Jessica offered to be an actress in one of your movies?"
Yosannah says "Mental note... be sure to do contracts for Gail and Jessica..."
Damen shakes his head, "No. She's not on the list I was given."
Yosannah says "Mental note, do not do a contract on Jessica..."
Vassago chuckles. Brandon nods, "Never mind then." Vassago says "I don't know Jessica. Who is she?"
Brandon shrugs, "Just a girl I used to know, she works there now. I don't see her as much as I would like to."
Yosannah says "Wait.. she works at the Rain.. and you want to see her more? Friend, she's a whore."
Brandon chuckles, "Not like that man. We were an item for a long time."
Damen looks to Yosannah, frowning. "Opinionated, aye?"
Yosannah expertly ignores Damen, "Well, now she's a whore."
Brandon chuckles, "Yea, I know. A damn good one at that."
Yosannah says "Well, on that note..." She hops off the stool.