Steven thought that surely, surely, after literally visiting the Duat and returning to tell the tale that he’d seen it all. There couldn’t be much of anything that was more terrifying than death itself, right? That was a lot of people’s number one fear.
That was before he’d woken up in the literal embodiment of Hell itself, with the knowledge that the past eight years of his life had been fake. All of that grief and indescribable guilt and pain from Layla’s death that ate at him every day was all a lie. Marc was separated from him, presumably Jake too. And while there was no telling where Jake had ended up, he at least knew that Marc had to be in Egypt. Or, no-- Egyptia.
This entire thing was absolutely Bonkers, with a capital B. But he knew better than to think that he was insane. The three of them had their issues, but all of this? This was beyond that.
Yet there he was, standing in the throneroom of the Hellstrom siblings. The place was bloody terrifying, but Steven pressed forward anyways and just mentally repeated a mantra in his head in hopes that this would go well. When danger is near, Steven Grant has no fear.
And boy, was danger near. Daimon’s skull and spike covered throne was setting off every nerve in Steven’s body and telling him to run run runrunrunrunrun. But he had to go find Marc, and it felt like it would cause more trouble than it was worth to just up and leave when he was employed to be hunting monsters here.
Clearing his throat, Steven stepped before the Baron and bowed his head respectfully. He was fully suited up as Mr. Knight, but he let the mask fade away to expose his face as he looked up at Daimon. He’d never shown his face to either of the Hellstrom’s before. Part of him hoped that maybe the eye contact would make this more of a personable conversation. It was like he was back in Donna’s office at the museum, hyping himself up to ask for a tour guide position and inevitably get told to piss off.
“Hello... hi. I’ve come to discuss something with you, Baron Hellstrom.”