[ EDEN AFTER DARK ] @delabor
[ ϟ ]—– The place is more cathedral than cabaret, if worship was to be done with silk, sin and stained desire.
Firstly the scent is noted; something akin to myrrh beneath cheap perfume, tobacco ghosting through incense, then the drag of time that had tainted the floor where saints would once kneel. Now it was abused by lacquered heels of dancers, the air becoming velvet, thick enough to chew, not lit by moonlight or starshine but by pulsing red halos and strobes overhead.
Stepping across the threshold with the weight of purpose slung over the god's shoulders thunderer's boots thud heavy over stonelike floor repurposed from what was once a church of sorts, now slick with spilled whiskey and holy neglect. Rhythm coils around him, low and oddly void of true melody, the hum beneath it all more felt than heard.
Finding the man was not an easy task, the words of The Seer echoing in his mind.
" You must seek the one Heaven forgot but cannot erase. He dances with damnation, and drinks like he is daring the void to try again. " The location, the visual, it had all been vaguely described in the maddening cryptic language all Seers seemed to suffer from, and admittedly, seeing him comes with a wash of relief.
Draped like a serpent king in the backmost booth, surrounded by half-empty glasses and bodies coiling around him, clearly seeking his favor.
' You. ' Thunderer speaks the word unceremoniously, barely containing the distain from the bass that cuts through all other sounds.
' We must speak. Urgently.'