Who Brady, NPC demons What Getting some bad news When This morning Where Brady's office. YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE. IT'S A SECRET. Warnings General menace, someone gets killed offscreen. Status Narrative, complete
“Excuse me,” Brady said quietly, holding one finger up in the air, “I’m going to have to ask you to repeat that.” The demon on the other side of his desk stopped the parade of prattle that had taken up the better part of Brady’s morning and swallowed loudly, his host’s pronounced adam’s apple bobbing in his throat. He clearly had no idea what he’d just said, but knew that whatever it was had displeased his boss, and when your boss was only a step below the actual horseman death the write-up from HR was going to be more along the lines of ‘firey torment on the racks of Hell’ than ‘slap on the wrist and sternly worded note’.
“I-I just said,” he stammered, then cut off, choking, as he was slammed backwards into a wall. “You said that a shipment of the Croatoan virus was coming through Lawrence. That the powers that be feel that it is unavoidable given that they want the first test case to be near Lawrence, but not close enough for any of them to interfere until it’s spread. That they need a distraction. When now is exactly the time I want to be staying under the radar.”
Brady rose from behind his desk and adjusted his suit minutely as he walked up to the demon and wrapped his host’s fingers around the throat of the middle-aged used car salesman who had long ago been crushed inside his own mind. “Yes,” he went on, “I know exactly what you said. I was pretty much just emphasizing my displeasure before I kill you horribly.” The demon let out a sound like a strangled squack as Brady reached into his suit pocket for a long, jagged knife.
The guards outside the door didn’t even flinch at the screams that echoed from behind the oak paneled doors. They reacted with equal equanimity when Brady emerged a moment later, wiping his knife with a bit of cloth. “I’ll be back in a bit boys,” he said, “I’ve got an errand at the post office.”