Tanith (silverwhip) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2010-03-29 15:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | 2009-07-08, tanith |
Employee of the Month
Who: Calypso and Tanith
When: Nighttime
Where: A lake in Scarlet Oak
Having had a rather full day, Tanith was pleased with herself. She had efficiently pissed in Lex's metaphorical cheerios, she was all moved in, and there didn't seem to be anyone at the brothel who would give her shit or try to get buddy-buddy with her. After meeting a few staff members though, she'd been at her limit of social interaction, and needed some time to herself. She needed time in her element. She could have taken a swim at one of the pools back at the mansion (after all, she had two to choose from), but odds were good she'd run into someone and have to have the 'oh, are you new?' conversation all over again. So she hopped on her motorcycle and headed to the nearest lake.
Nobody (that she saw) was out and about, which was good. It seemed like a good chunk of the town was at the festival. This lake didn't get a lot of swimmers, which was part of the reason why she favored it. After taking a brief look around, Tanith shed her clothing and plunged into the dark, cool water.
Tanith might not have seen her, but Calypso was certainly out and about. Currently she was just beneath the surface of the water, having herself a nice little swim when the coolness of the liquid around her was disturbed. Her head flicked in the direction of the disturbance and her eyes narrowed into little slits. Lucky for the person who'd chosen to hop themselves into her lake, Calypso wasn't hungry, but she was curious. So she swam right over to where the sound had initiated from and popped her head above the water just as the girl resurfaced.
She said nothing at first, merely looked at the girl expectantly as if to ask her why exactly she was in her lake and just what she planned on doing now that she was in it.
Tanith had sensed someone near, but of course by that time, it was a little too late. She found herself looking at another woman, appearing to be about her age... and for a moment just stared back. Why was she looking at her like that? Frowning, she averted her eyes... and noticed the tail underwater.
Well. That explained a lot.
Being eaten (or, almost eaten - Tanith sure as fuck wouldn't go down without a fight) would have so put a dent in her otherwise good day, so it looked like she was going to be social after all. "Ah," she said. "I hadn't realized we had merfolk in the lakes this far inland. Lesson learned."
Calypso let her eyes flick over the woman, the very naked woman who was still in her lake, but she didn't seem to be causing any issues. At least not yet. She could stay. For now. "A bit late to be swimming, isn't it?" she asked the woman, her brows arching just slightly. "You never know what might be lurking in the darkness of the waters. You could get yourself into some trouble."
"I like it better at night. Nobody around - or so I thought," Tanith replied, with a pointed look at the mermaid. "My current residence is rather busy once the sun goes down. If you'd like me to leave, you need only say so." She raised an eyebrow at the mention of trouble, having the distinct notion that she was being toyed with. If someone barged into her territory with no explanation - naked, at that - Tanith would be shooting first, and asking questions later. "I don't doubt my current level of safety. I have no fear for what I might run into, I am quite capable of caring for myself." With that, she demonstrated - drops of water began rising from the lake, before freezing, leaving icicles hanging in thin air. "Of course... I couldn't use my element against a mermaid. That just leaves the question of whether or not you're planning on making a snack of me."
"You don't have to leave." Calypso told her. "I don't get many people out here that just come for wanting to come." she admitted. "And I'm not hungry, so you don't have to worry about me eating you. You're safe. Now at least." she said, giving the girl a wide smile. Calypso watched her as she let the water rise from the lake, freezing into icicles and highly amusing her. They sparkled just slightly in the moonlight and it made Calypso want to clap for the girl, so she did. "Very impressive." she murmured. "Where do you live?" she questioned. "You said it's busy when the sun goes down. Isn't it usually busier when the sun is up normally?"
Okay. Tanith wasn't a mermaid expert, but she was pretty sure they didn't keep track of human concepts like 'lying your ass off' when it came to tasty, tasty meat. So... she'd go ahead and take the mermaid at her word. She didn't necessarily let her guard down, but she didn't feel like she'd have to hurl a blood spell and haul ass at any given second, either. "A few blocks away, in one of the mansions on the hill," she answered. "And normally, you would be correct. In my line of work... not so much." When she worked with humans, she got a lot of lunch-hour appointments, and early morning before work. Now that she was dealing with vampires? Those days were long gone.
A mansion on a hill. Didn't that sound lovely? The thought of mansions intrigued Calypso even more and it was clear on her face that she wanted to know more about this mansion. "What do you do at this place?" she questioned. "These nightly things that you do, are they fun things? And if you do things at night, then why are you here?" she asked her, tilting her head just slightly, inquisitively.
Well she was full of questions now, wasn't she? This was not Tanith's first encounter with the merfolk, but it was the first time she'd ever met one who seemed to give a shit one way or another about human life. Now, how to answer said questions? Normally, Tanith would have been very tight-lipped. Even if she bore no shame in what she did, it was part of her agreement with Domina. Discretion was everything. "I work with vampires," she decided on. "And yes, they can be fun." A lot of times it was just... work. You had good days and bad days. It was better than a lot of other jobs she'd had. "I have the night off. I just moved in today. I thought I'd unwind with a swim, and I didn't want to use the pools there. Do you have a pod here?" Might as well ask some questions of her own.
"Vampires?" Calypso asked, brows arched, though more in curiosity than in surprise. She knew of vampires. She'd come across a vampire or two in her days on the planet, but it had been quite some time since her last encounter with one. "And what do you do with those vampires?" she questioned the woman. Of course she had a question of her own to respond to. "I don't." she said. "I travel alone. I haven't been with a pod in many years. I'm surprised to hear a human talk about a pod." she admitted. "Do you find merfolk interesting?"
Once again, Tanith was weighing the options. If she told the mermaid what she did - who was she going to tell? And she didn't know any more than 'a blonde woman living on the hill'. And technically, what Tanith herself was doing wasn't illegal. If questioned, she could claim she practiced independently of her, ah, room-mates. "I'm a dominatrix," she answered, "which means I inflict pain to those who find pleasure in such a thing. It's not an easy thing, to bring pain to a vampire." Unless you knew what you were doing. A little silver was all it took. Often, her clients were interested in humiliation just as much - if not more - than they were with pain itself. That was more complex. "I'm a water elemental... born of the same element. Naturally, merfolk are a curiosity."
"A dominatrix." Calypso repeated back, amused at such a thing. "Interesting. And you enjoy this? And it's your job? You get paid to inflict pain? Quite the interesting little set up you've got going on up there in your mansion on the hill." A sort of place she'd love to be herself. Getting paid to do something as fun as tormenting something? What sort of life could be better than that? "Humans are a curious thing too, you know." Calypso told Tanith. "Such interesting creatures. Obviously if they've got such jobs as being a dominatrix."
"People get paid for much stranger things," Tanith pointed out, which the mermaid may or may not have been aware of. "I'm good at what I do. Many think you should stick with what you're good at. I need to work to live, so the arrangement works well for me. "I suppose your people don't have to worry about such things. Unless in a pod you have chores. A hunter, gatherer society. Do you do well by yourself?"
"I do alright." Calypso said. "I steal the clothes I need to run around on land with. I eat humans, obviously you already know this, and I don't really need much else. I do like shiny things though." she sighed. "And when I want a shiny thing that costs that money crap you people use, I must pick a pocket or two in order to achieve it. But I deal with the means I make for myself. It's not exactly easy to get a job when you can't speak on land."
...Why, oh why, oh why were ideas forming in Tanith's head? She was nobody's pimp, nor would she care to be, but... the ideas. They were there. All the more solidly, since she saw moving trucks constructing massive tanks in the mansion earlier. They had been large enough to warrant Tanith's asking if the brothel had a mermaid, only to be told, "Not yet." "If you could get one, would you want one?" Tanith asked, raising an eyebrow. "It seems like you do well without one. Unless you find yourself bored. Perhaps you need a go-between."
"I do get bored." Calypso said, heaving a little sigh. After over a hundred years of swimming and going on land and going back to the water again, you do get bored of the same old same. That's why I've moved from lake to lake over the years. Changing things up just a little. I suppose I'd like a job if I could get one, but who's going to hire a mermaid?" she questioned. She doubted that anyone in the world wanted a mermaid if not for their blood or a trophy or something of the sort.
Tanith shrugged casually, and stretched out in the water, lazily lounging in the water away from Calypso's personal space. "Depends on what kind of job you'd want. What you're good at. Like I said... people do strange things. Stranger than you can imagine. A supernaturally-sympathetic employer could be found, in theory."
The more Tanith spoke, the more that Calypso wondered if she had a job in mind for her. "I'm good at plenty of things." she told the woman. "I have been around for over a hundred years, remember. A girl picks up plenty of things over that much time." She watched closely as Tanith lounged herself out in the water, studied the curve of her chest and the flickering glimmer of the moonlight bouncing off the water droplets that clung to her body. "Do you know of such a supernaturally-sympathetic employer?"
Tanith was certain the mermaid could pick up quite a lot over such a period of time. Stuff that the vampires who frequented Ad Gustum would pay a boat load of cash for. "I could probably hunt down a few," she answered. It was then that she noticed the direction of the mermaid's gaze. Excellent, she wasn't dead from the waist down. Or she wants to eat them. Let's not think about that. "One, in particular I know of, but many would find the idea repulsive. It's not exactly legal or acceptable in our society."
"I'm not technically part of your society." Calypso pointed out with a little smirk. "So what your people find 'illegal' technically is for me to decide if I care or not. Chances are that I don't care. What are they going to do to me? Lock me up? I haven't eaten a police officer in a long time, it would be a handy development, honestly. But what is this illegal job you speak of?"
That actually drew a small, amused smile from Tanith. That had happened a couple of times today! How rare! "There's a high class brothel that caters to vampires. Vampires will pay handsomely to be intimate with people of rare races and blood types, and for the added permission of biting them. I know of arrangements that have been made with sirens that even provides, ah, human meals, along with a lot of money for their work."
"They'd pay me to fuck a vampire and let it bite me?" Getting paid to have sex? People could actually do that? That was just amazing to Calypso and intriguing and something that made her want to rush at the chance. "Well does your brothel have a mermaid?" she questioned, brow arched just slightly. "And would I live here still or would they figure out a way to house me?" That was really the question. And then the food. They'd feed her? "They'd feed me? Really?" No more having to tease and lure unsuspecting bastards? That would be amazing. It was like someone had handed her down the best offer in the universe.
Now Tanith just had to laugh. Not at the person she was conversing with (for a change), but with her. "They'd pay you enough to buy anything you wanted. Houses, cars, jewelry, designer clothes... it's a very lucrative business. Just highly illegal. I shouldn't even be telling you of it, but... creatures of the water should stick together." As long as they weren't really, really annoying. "They're looking for one," she answered. "Tanks are being installed for survival in the house, and there's both an indoor and outdoor pool. Depending on what you need to survive, you may do very well there. You'd have a bedroom and bathroom of your own, too, to decorate however you please."
A bedroom of her own?! With a bed!? And she'd have two pools AND a tank. Now that! That was certainly drawing her in. But being told that she could decorate however she pleased, that just took the cake. If she had money from this lucrative business, she'd be able to buy all sorts of shiny trinkets. The more she thought, the more Calypso wanted to go to this place now, now, now. "Do you think they'd hire me?" she asked the girl. "And they would really feed me? And they wouldn't turn me in or sell me off to a hunter?"
"As far as I've seen, they don't sell to hunters. Buy, maybe. In all honesty, I think you'd be too valuable to even consider selling off." And that was no bullshit on Tanith's end. "Your kind don't regularly deem human ways of life - or vampires - as anything worth their time. If you would do the job willingly... that's priceless. I could set up a meeting with my employer immediately."
"Do it." Calypso said with a bright grin. "I'll go now if I can." she admitted, as wrong as that probably was. "I agree though, I'm much more valuable alive than I am dead. At least blood taken comes back eventually. Keeping me alive equals more blood and more money. Smart people would realize this but apparently they'd prefer to drain us for the little bit of blood inside our bodies at one time. Moronic if you ask me. If your employer is smarter than that and won't sell me off, then I won't have to eat him." she smiled. "So... where do I sign up for this meeting?"
"She is, regrettably tied up this evening. But when I send her a message of your interest, I'm sure she'll make time for you immediately. I could come fetch you at first light - if that's agreeable." Meanwhile, Tanith was beyond pleased with how this worked out for her. She was picturing a big, fat bonus. A finder's fee, of course! If this didn't make her employee of the month, what the fuck would?
"First light sounds perfect." Calypso agreed. "Spectacular even." Oh yes, she was very much in agreement for this one. She'd have a job. Oh a job! How marvelous. And she'd get laid which was just a bonus if she'd ever asked for one. Vampire or not, she didn't give a damn, a dick was a dick after all. "I can meet you over there by that tree." Calypso told her. "I'll be dressed and ready first thing." she promised.
"Perfect indeed," Tanith grinned. "I believe this is going to work out quite well." For the both of them. And the fact that she could smile sweetly when she told Lex she did his job better than he did, well... consider that her Christmas bonus. For the next five fucking years.