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The coterie arrives at the Pet Cemetery under the light of a sickly moon. Fog rolls low. Graves hum with memory, and Amy hums Ramones:
🎶I don't want to be buried in a pet sematary
I don't want to live my life again🎶
Leslie hears something behind him— A flash of pink fur darts through the headstones.
"What the hell—did that cat just... look at me with sarcasm?"
"Ah... seekers in black coats and blacker thoughts. Looking for a cat, are we? The cat is rarely where he is, often where he isn’t, and never where he’s expected. Much like trouble. Or love."
"You’re... pink. And you talk. Are you actually real?"
"I was real once. Then I realized it was dreadfully overrated. Now I’m curious. And being curious is so much more fun."
"Jeanette sent us to find you."
"Ah, my fractured mistress of lace and lightning. She forgets that cats cannot be possessed. But I suppose I can be persuaded..."
"Lead on, twilight couriers. I do so love a dramatic return."
🎶And the night when the wolves cry out
Listen close and you can hear me shout🎶
(As they approach the Asylum, a woman leans casually against a column)
"You’ve danced with a ghost queen, wrestled with fractured madness, and now you return… with a cat that sees more than you ever will. I'm impressed."
"Most Kindred flee from the past. But you… you run toward it. Into haunted museums and abandoned cemiteries, like moths mistaking flame for moonlight. It’s beautiful. And suicidal. But mostly beautiful."
"Are you following us?"
"Actually, I live next door. The screams blend nicely with the DJ."
"I’ll see you again. Very soon, I hope"
(Back inside the Asylum, Therese confronts the group).
"Where is the necklace?"
"We gave it to Jeanette."
"Of course you did."
"At least you brought back the cat."
"Fine. We’ll attend the ball. Myself. My sister. And the Anarchs of the Asylum."
"One more thing. There’s a message you need to pass on—"
"Tell your crew we’re looking for a photographer... one who specializes in Still Unlife."
"That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard."
"But fine. They’ll be there."
Next Episode: "MASQUERADE MASSACRE" – The Masquerade Ball begins.
Will Amy acknowledge the irony of a vampire singing "I don't want to live my life again"?
Can Rebecca survive the Voerman sisters... and her own desires?
Can Pisha resist snacking on the hors d’oeuvres (the guests)?
Answers tomorrow! Same Bat-time, same Bat-Tumblr 🧛 acCount! (pun intended)
