World and Writing Clarifications:
- 'Nick' surrounded by commas denotes Nick's body as being controlled by Karnig
- Genital Magic: the main character, Nick is a female-to-male trans man. He has not received bottom surgery. Karnig's current magic can conjure a somewhat transparent cock that resides over Nick's vagina. The ethereal dick can touch and penetrate matter, but cannot be touched itself (unless Karnig wills it). Meaning Karnig can use it to push open a door but slamming the same door back will go right through the ghost cock and knock into his body (Moreso, how ghosts can stand on the floor but also walk through walls).
Chapter 2:
'Nick' sits in the back of a utility van. Besides a backpack to the side, the cabin is
empty. Despite parking in the shade, with the van off sweat starts to prick at the back of
'Nick's' neck. He slides a leg out in front of him and sighs.
"This is utterly boring" he groans aloud.
Sitting in an unmarked van for hours because you're a horrid rapist is boring? Great, let's go do something else.
"No, you are fully aware we have work to do." 'Nick' says aloud again before Karnig continues mentally,
And besides I didn't see you complaining when we reaped the rewards from last time.
I still don't get it. Did you mind-control the guy? Hypnotize him? Cast a spell? The man just went mute and handed over the keys and registration.
Nick asks.
'Nick' chuckles and crosses his arms. Yes,
hypnosis my young friend. A demon lording over snakes should be charming, should he not? I used to hypnotize armies of men and sic them upon each other for sport. The salesman possessed inferior beta energy. It was easy enough to hypnotize him with one concubine. After we acquire the next, we aim for the deed to the manor we saw in White Ridge.
That mansion you keep driving past?! I already rent a place, you really intend to just move me out of my life?
You believe that small shithole to be large enough to house a harem?
You said you liked it...
I lied. We need more room. We both deserve better anyway. Why are you renting land when some ashen wrinkled meatsack rakes in money for sitting upon his ass? We should be sitting upon our ass!
We are.
But not in a mansion. That'll change soon my friend.
'Nick' gets up to a kneel and peers out the back window.
And soon it is. Right on cue. And she has yet to cross to the other side of the street!
'Nick' drags the backpack from its corner to his side. He rips open the zipper and pulls out a bundle of pre-cut rope and a roll of tape, before tossing the bag deeper into the cabin. Outside a taller woman jogs under a canopy of trees. She weaves between fallen sticks and cracks in the sidewalk, ponytail flicking side to side a moment behind her body.
'Nick' began tailing her a week ago. Every day she jogs from her home through a wooded park and back, taking approximately 45 minutes. Upper middle class living and a lack of watching crime shows must have led to having such predictable behavior. Still, Nick pities her and cheers every time she makes the rational decision to cross the street before passing the van. But a week parked in the same place leads to complacency. Keeping dead on, the woman passes the back of the van.
'Nick' busts open the back door, grips the crook of her arm, and pulls in. Bangs echo throughout the van as she clatters into the cabin. The door slams shut. 'Nick' grabs an ankle and drags her straight. Supplies in hand he climbs over top.
"What the hell? Get off of me!" she yells, squirming.
'Nick' wraps the bight a few times around her wrists and finishes it off in a double column tie. He pulls the rope and her arms over her head and ties it to a loop welded onto the floor.
This is why you had us out with a blowtorch last week? How many hooks did we add in here? You're fucked up.