Now, Let's count up your sins!

[Guu]

Glen was intently listening to the conversation. She was watching as Masters headed for the door when a call came in on the phone. She grunted with annoyance as she clawed for it.

“Yes sir?” She said, not even hiding her passive aggressive rage.

“I want you to bring up the Lavalliere to my office. I need to check on something.”

“Alright.” She said sighing, hanging up the phone with a thud. She turned to the others. “Excuse me, my boss needs me.”

She wraps the necklace tightly in a blanket and then she makes her way up to the elevator.


———

Recoiled in fear, she had dropped the necklace on the floor. She had walked out of elevator only to find her boss, slumped dead in his chair. A man in all black, covered in her boss’s splatter, stood next to his bleeding corpse, holding a blaster rifle towards the hippogriff.

She tried to turn back to get into the elevator again, but he fired a shot which barely missed her head, causing her to freeze in place.

“Not so fast little birdy.” He said in a creepy tone of voice.

“L-look! I-if you want the necklace, it’s yours! I won’t stand in your way!” She said, exasperated. “I don’t even know what you look like so I wouldn’t be a good witness! Please let me go!”

“I don’t want the necklace. I have bigger plans than petty theft.”

“Whatever is you can have it! Please let me live!”

The man suddenly looked behind her and into one of the upper corners of the room where a security camera watched everything.

“Put on the necklace.”

The hippogriff had a double take as the words entered her ears.

“You heard me, put it on.”

Slowly, her front talons reached into the blanket and slowly pulled out the Lavalliere. She held it in her claws, shaking rapidly. She looked over to the man.

“Do it!”

She lifted it up and placed it around her neck. It clicks in place in the back.

Suddenly, her horn flashes a burning white aura. Her eyes glow, obscuring her pupils. Slowly, the aura encompasses her body, radiating light all around the room. She starts to float as the power causes her body to go limp in midair.

The man runs passed her and into the elevator. He smiles at the floating hippogriff, accomplished at whatever goal he had in mind. He looks over to the security camera to check if it was still working. A red light below confirms that it was. He hit the down button as he took his cyanide tablet, fully intent to leave behind his own body for the bottom floor dwellers to find.