Blood in the Water
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“Are you sure this is a good idea?” Diana asked.
“I don’t see why not. You’re getting your name out there, it’s all true, and you’re not calling out anyone by name. Win for everyone!” said Maeve.
“I don’t know. Have you seen the people down here? They’re crazy. Velvette’s the craziest.”
Both human and imp looked at the website for the shop: Facade’s Fashions. Diana needed some new customers, and it was always hard to compete in hell. Especially when disputes could go violent. Yes, she had quite a few clients, but the untapped market of the other rings was waiting out there.
Maeve, her secretary, was an imp from the Wrath ring. She knew her way around the Hell equivalent of the internet, and she found a way to get the ads to every ring and not just in Pride. In Diana’s eyes, Maeve’s skills could make a VoxTek intern cry… more than they probably already did.
Speaking of: all their tech came from the outer rings. No VoxTek allowed in her shop: that meant security, cable tv, computer systems, you name it. The last thing Diana needed was being watched. This was Hell, after all.
“It’s not even videos. It’s just little pop up ads that lead to the site. Let’s at least try it.”
Diana sighed, “Okay. Make it live.”
*one week later*
“VOX!”
A wrath filled Velvette stormed into Vox’s office, phone in a tight enough grip to break.
“Do you want to explain why you allowed this fuckin’ slander to show up?!” She threw her device at him which had a page for Facade’s Fashions pulled up.
“Pop ups for this bitch’s place are all over the net! Sinners are going to her and my image is being trashed!”
The ads in question had quotes such as, “Tired of poor quality after paying absurdly high prices? Sick of outfits falling apart after three wears? Tired of so much red?”
All of them led to the shop’s website promoting better quality at half the cost, and free consultations for custom designs. It was… small, in attack standards.
Nothing listed Velvette by name, or any of the Vee’s for that matter. But in Velvette’s eyes, it was direct slander.









