After the results of the trial came in, Marionette was less than pleased with the results. Nicolette was one of the few prisoners she actually liked and she was forced to execute the injured girl. She knew that some of the prisoners were lacking in the intelligence department, but, she didn’t think enough of them were to cause them to fail a trial. While they didn’t explicitly hold their hand this time, the answer was still painfully obvious. While only a specific few saw the details of the injury. It was still very evident based on how Nicolette was acting and speaking that she was telling the truth about how long she was in the kitchen.
She let out a frustrated sigh as she looked at what was going on in the general IM channel. Seeing Hime and Hang interacting with the prisoners and the subsequent results. She pulled up a certain prisoners name once she was done watching the stupidity of the IM channel.
To: SupremeBitch
[AttackonLadybugs] Haou, if you are free... can you meet me in the Plaza in minutes
With the poisoning happening, Hime thought she wouldn’t be punishing everyone. She was actually enjoying the show from whom knows where. After all, no one knew where all the staff lived. Yet getting the notification of two punishments to be dealt made her excitement spike. One of the people she badly wanted to harm broke a rule. Finally, she could get her hands on him again and give him a worse punishment than the shock collar. Although, the other one to punish, it caused her to pause. Who would have thought this person would actually break a rule?
Sitting near the Wardens, it was an obvious sign to everyone that someone messed up. They wouldn’t bring Hime with them unless someone broke a rule. Laying her cheek in her hand, she watched the wheel spin and come up empty for a poisoning. Everyone was in the clear today — well, all but two. Expecting the Wardens to leave, she was surprised when they stayed. Or well, mostly Chat Blanc stayed. Marionette seemed to give her the okay with what she had planned, which was perfect.
“Before you leave, I have a little surprise for two of you~”
Her voice was sickeningly sweet, so much so that it terrified you. Not once was her voice this calm and sweet. Jumping from her seat, she placed her hands behind her back, eyes scanning the crowd for the first one who will be dealt a punishment.
“Oh, Salto~” she sang out before she walked towards the crowd. Some moved out of her way as she made her way to the blue haired male. Dragging him to the center, she knew Chat Blanc’s eyes was on both of them. Why the blond cared for this guy was a mystery to her.
Kicking the back of the shadow’s knees, she held his dominant hand, placed her foot in the small of his back, and pulled so his arm was extended.
“I never done this before so, it might not be clean. Oh well~ This is your punishment! For sleeping in your dead human’s room.” After speaking, she pulled his arm back a bit more; eventually her pulling caused the arm to pop out of its socket. Shooting a look to Blanc, she wanted him to stay put — the punishment wasn’t bad enough yet. Placing some weight on the dislocated arm, she grinned.
“Does it hurt~? I bet it does but we are not done playing yet, Shato.” Pushing him to lay on the floor, she laid his arm out and kept her smile. Taking a couple steps back, she counted how many before she wanted to do what she needed.
“Now, don’t move or else this will be worse!”
Running, she jumped just enough to land directly on the bone in Shato’s upper arm. She was sure she had; she heard that wonderful sound of it breaking. Although, just to be safe, she moved off the arm and gave it a stomp for good measure before she was yelled at to stop. Her shoulder was even grabbed as she was moved away from the shadow.
Pushed away was more like it, by the Warden still in black. This ticked the female off. Her anger obvious but she couldn’t talk back to her master, not with his green eyes burning and teeth bared. He was one of the reasons she was here. If not for her masters, she wouldn’t be having fun.
“Tch. Should have let me break more of his bones before stepping in, Master.” Venom dripping off of every word. Quickly turning her back, she ignored the Warden. “Since my Master stopped Shato’s punishment from continuing, I might as well go to the second one for the evening.”
“Miss Haou, please take center stage. Do note that running will only make your punishment worse.”
She doubted the female would turn and run. After all, she considered herself a Queen. Queens don’t run. Hime was right; Haou strode forward with a grace that would be found in royalty. Smile in place, she acted as if Shato’s punishment never happened. Her eyes were stuck on the female before her.
“Your punishment is a bit different. One that involves my master Marionette’s help.” Unfortunately, she couldn’t go into much detail since it was hard to explain and only Haou would know what happened.
“The count of three and you will understand exactly what I mean, Haou. One…”
Hime honestly really had no idea what was happening but she knew Marionette was taking care of it. This bond that Haou had with this boy who wasn’t here was slowly vanishing.
“Two…” Watching the girl, she made sure to watch the others reaction. She wasn’t causing any physical pain but more of a mental one. Physical pain had been dealt to Shato; she doubted Haou would react to physical pain anyway.
“Three!!” With that said, she knew Marionette did what was needed. Haou’s soulbond to her other half should be completely destroyed. Clapping her hands, she kept her smile.
“You may all leave now. Sadly, with Haou’s punishment, I won’t really be able to describe it but do know that she was given a punishment.”
Once again, instead of staying herself, she quickly turned and skipped away. Two punishments down and who knows how many more in the future.
@haoukun "If you've spotted something the rest of us might not have, you could always share. Perhaps it'll lead us down a new line of thinking or make a link back to an earlier conversation."
Haou’s punishment severed her connection to her precious other? Brie’s heart sunk into her stomach. Being a twin, she could never imagine being without her baby brother for long and over such great distances… Brie would never admit that she was jealous of Haou and how she was lucky enough that she could always feel her other half at all times. Still, her heart ached for the queen and the lost connection. If only…
Maybe…
“Haou?” Brie asked gently. “I know I’m not your precious other - I can’t replace him, never ever. But… Maybe, just maybe, I can fill in for him until you return home?”
Round and around and around it spins... Today is appears that everyone wins. Well, everyone except the two rulebreakers. Brie flinched as she heard the sickening pop of Shato's shoulder being pulled from its socket, but that could be put back in place with some muscle and without the hospital's assistance. The broken bones... were another story, but it looked like Warden Blanc had everything under control. It was heartwarming to see the Warden care about someone. Her concern immediately went to Haou when she was called up. She was confused when nothing happened physically, but watching the headstrong, never back down woman be brought to her knees let her know that she was indeed punished in ways invisible to everyone here. Without much thought Brie approached the broken queen and dropped down to her knees beside her, wrapping her in a tender hug. She wasn't sure what was happening, but she refused to let Haou suffer alone. @haoukun
♕ As if staring into a mirror, the King beheld his own visage before him...except, one thing was new -- the gender was different. It didn't phase him, and he turned away from his seemingly female double, not really expecting all that much resistance to his move, after all, she was he, right?
"Who... are you?" The doctor had been so busy working, and he swore that he was hallucinating. Faker didn't know who this girl was, yet for some reason, her presence there disturbed his concentration.
