Riley Ch 1.5: Riley Meets Her New Mistress
Added 2020-02-14 11:28:02 +0000 UTCMost wouldn't dare approach the Manor alone, but with a pair of syringes clinking in her handbag, Delilah strides into the Manor with arrogant purpose.
The floorplans she'd collected told her exactly where she needed to go and so after checking in with the help, she makes her way to the Director's office.
Delilah proceeds through the labyrinth of suffering towards the elevators and then up to the 7th floor where guards stand ready to challenge her determination to pay the director a visit.
Ever aware of time, Delilah wishes to waste none of it and so moves to reason with the guards who, according to the intel, are often required to administer drugs to the nekos kept here - by force if necessary.
Making the gamble that these brutes know what will happen should the syringes pierce a human's skin pays off as the guards quickly reevaluate their loyalty and let her carry on to the Director's office.
The director is seen trying to flee but Delilah corners her in a diatribe of the Manor's failures concerning their recent acquisition. The director grows more and more irritable until finally, Delilah offers the solution she'd been building towards, the purchase of the little moggy at a steep discount.
The Director begrudgingly agrees and Delilah heads out to collect her new property but as the elevator doors open on the first floor, Delilah is accosted by an onslaught of panicked staff, bustling doctors, and the beeping of medical equipment.
And at the edge of this sea of chaos stands a little waif, the gaunt, blood-splattered moggy with a stricken expression as staff rush in and out of the doorway she stands beside. Delilah rushes over to learn the blood is not the moggy's but her roommates', a sick neko whose description fits that of the one her friend had been looking for at the behest of his treasured, white-haired, rosy-golden eyed neko, Kiko.
