The Devil's Nest [Friday night]

[texted3times]

It was cold, dark, and threatening to snow, which was Eric's favorite kind of weather, which was why he was in an excellent mood as he wandered down to the Devil's Nest to make sure Tiny was manning the bar to his satisfaction.

The new DJ (it was always a new DJ) looked panicked as Eric came in, stammering something about equipment malfunctions and how very sorry he was before fleeing into the night, leaving the bar listening to "If You Like Piña Coladas" --and only that song--at a volume that was just too loud to be ignorable.

"If you make piña coladas a special tonight, I will snap your neck," Eric told Tiny flatly before disappearing to his normal seat in the VIP area.

The Devil's Nest was open. And verrrrry tired of walks in the rain already.

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Re: The Bar

[okteiviakom]

"Sounds like a lot," Octavia replied, on the dry side, but only a little. "Is she a good empress?"

Something of a loaded question. Octavia's relationship with leadership was a complicated one.

Re: The Bar

[texted3times]

"I think so," Eric said. "She's a pretty reasonable person most of the time but...she's not the boss of me."

Very few people were the boss of Eric.

Re: The Bar

[okteiviakom]

Octavia had been around him for all of ten minutes and already that was not a surprise in the sligtest.

The slight eye brow raise was a given. "Is anyone?"

Re: The Bar

[texted3times]

"The queen of Louisiana," Eric said. "Vampire hierarchy thing. She'd snap my neck and not even really notice."

Re: The Bar

[okteiviakom]

Octavia took this information, and sort of just let it sit there for a bit. While she watched him.

Then she said, "Good." Just that one, even word. Almost light.

Re: The Bar

[texted3times]

"It's good that she could snap my neck?" Eric asked.

Re: The Bar

[okteiviakom]

"You seem big and powerful," Octavia replied, shrugging. And not seeming apologetic in the slightest.

"It's good there's someone above you, too."

Re: The Bar

[texted3times]

"For now," Eric said blandly. "Maybe I want to take over."

He didn't. Too much politics.

Re: The Bar

[okteiviakom]

"Maybe you do," Octavia replied with the ease of someone who'd already seen her share of shifts in power, and the unstable situations that went with them. "But until then, she's there to potentially snap your neck."