Keyla turned to Samantha and smiled. "Of course! I was just getting introductions out of the way, don’t worry, I’ll be getting to everyone eventually. Now. As for why I am here. I am here to help out anyway I can."

"Yes, but why?" Samantha asked, prompting Keyla to frown.

"Are you mad at me Sammy? Do you not want me to be here?"

Samantha sighed. "Thats not what I said, Keyla. I just need details."

"Well I was getting to that, dummy, It’s not my fault you didn’t let me get a breath in between sentences is it?"

Samantha let out a silent groan as Keyla continued.

"Anyway. Going back to the beginning, Apollo calls me from the College about an assassination plot."

"What! Is Apollo alright! Was he harmed? Tell me! Is my daddy ok?" Samantha blurted out loud and throughout her under-link, stunning a few bio cultists nearby in the process.

Keyla just stared blankly at Samantha for a moment, her emotional facade dropping. "Samantha, I am in the middle of a story, you need to stop interrupting me every time I take a breath or I’m going to have to bonk you. Now... Yes, Apollo is fine. The assassination plot was regarding Kathrine."

Samantha instantly calmed herself. She didn’t dislike Kathrine, but she wasn’t a cultist. She tolerated her because Apollo liked her. That was it.

"Yeah, Apollo found out someone was trying to off his side hoe and he was not happy about that. He then called me while I was interrogating Xeti, oh Xeti is an Latchak, an alien hivemind, well collective is a more apt term. She is related to Janine, the Sepiidan, the other half of her genealogy. They tried to take her, but Apollo was already gone with her to the College then I had some fun torturing her till as I said, Apollo called me mid way for some phone sex. After the phone sex, Oh that’s right! He didn’t call me during the torture, it was after when mama and I were having some great banter.

He then called me and allowed me to block my link from mama, pissing her off, it was so funny, and called me out of retirement for retribution. Apollo is so kind 100% of the time. So loving. Fuck I love him so much... But when he ordered me to kill that Archon and that Lochagos... I swear I creamed on the spot. It was so fucking hot hearing him talk about death and killing like that... Mmhh~ Just thinking about it gets my rocks off now.

Anyway, after that I spent some time hunting my first target. Piss easy. I even made some art of big mama... Wait, do you not get news down here? I literally went active again as the sanguine butcher, retard one and two even put it on public broadcasting to try and get me with any tip whatsoever... Stupid humans... Anyway, yeah. After that, I joined the military for my next target and it went on for fucking ages. Then while I was rubbing one out to the thought of Apollo, mama suddenly, across star systems, reached out with her link, super dangerous for her to do, but she used the lingering effect of big mama in my Mindspace to pin point me.

She reached out because the idiot detective tracked down Kathrine then went to Orchid to ask questions as the Archon, aforementioned, put a hit on Kat and she was the only lead till she blabbed something I guess. Anyway, after that. Orchid called Mama, Mama called me. I wasted two more months getting ready to kill the Lochagos, Killed the Lochagos, but I am pretty sure I exposed my face doing so, so I can’t go back to the Euc in case I get spotted as my face will be everywhere now if I was exposed. So here I am. One lean, mean killing machine at your disposal for shits and giggles. Questions?"

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"Keyla I said plainly, that wasn’t plainly at all. That was every single bit of information I didn’t need. You could have just said you were here because you couldn’t go home to protect the cult. The fuck?" Samantha said, flabbergasted.

Keyla just shrugged her head. "Meh, i was going to tell you sooner or later, might as well get it all out now. Anyway, what’s the big mission right now? I can’t link up to your under-link, so we are going to just have to chat all day everyday out loud. Fun right?"

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"Why is nobody talking? I just said I can’t use your under-link. Don’t bully me. Why you bully me?"

"Keyla. Hush." Samantha said, feeling a headache coming on, something she didn’t know she could get anymore.

After a moment Samantha opened her eyes after a few needed seconds of rubbing before turning back to her friend. "Keyla. I am attending a dinner tonight. I will find something for you to do while-"

"Oh is that with the Zeona chick? where is- Oh yeah! Wendy. Dyed pink hair. I thought I recognised you. Wow you are pretty. I am going to have to keep Apollo away from you. Hahaha. Just kidding. I ain’t a possessive bitch. He just can’t have any other serial killers, that’s where I draw the line."

"Do you know me, Sister Keyla?" Wendy asked, confused.

"Well of course I do, silly girl. I am the one you sold the information about your mother to! I did all the background checking of you and your brother. While Sammy might be a genius; When it comes to reading human emotions, a psychopathic serial killer who loves to know every microscopic detail about her kills personalities like myself cannot be beat."

Keyla then flashed Wendy a kind, yet chilling, smile before turning back to Samantha. "Yeah, dinner sounds fun. I’ll be there, what time should I get back? Around six? Yeah, six works for me."

"Wait, Keyla, no-"

"-Great, see you at six. I am going to go and see Delilah, she has been trying to burrow her way into my under-link since I got here, but I’ve still got permission to be closed off and thought I should see the local boss bitch first. Laters."

Keyla said and turned for the exit, but Samantha was shocked.

"Wait what? Delilah is still here? Where? It was my understanding she left months ago with her target."

Keyla paused and opened her under-link for a moment before turning back to Samantha. "No, she never left. She is on a private resort by the planet’s equator. Hahaha! She has been shitfaced all day everyday for months! That is hilarious! Ok, I am going to go see her. I’m gonna klep one of your submarines. Toodles~"

Keyla then left the room without another word being said, after she was gone, the first to break the verbal ice was Beverly.

"I like her."

"Yeah, I thought you might..." Samantha muttered before another in the room spoke up. A blonde haired girl named Paige, one of the few that had seen her true form before becoming a bio cultist, then added.

"Did you get a whiff of her scent? There was something special about her, Master, you have the scent as well."

Samantha sighed, she knew what the scent was.

"Really? I don’t think she smelled like anything?" Wendy added, prompting Samantha to speak.

"Yeah, it’s not an actual scent. It’s more an adaptive marking among the families. What you were all smelling was the scent of someone that has had the honour of mating with Apollo. She and I have both warmed his bed. We are both lucky.

"Ooohhhh~" Beverly and Paige let out in unison while Wendy just stood there...

She had gotten close to becoming a bio cultist a while ago, but her genetics began fighting off the poison in a way that was baffling to Samantha. As a result, her progress had come to a halt for a while, she just needed a kick and her genes would be ripe for conversion, then she would finally get to feel this overwhelming love for the mysterious Apollo.

As she wasn’t going to lie, falling that madly in love with someone you never even met... It actually sounded quite romantic, in a bizarre way.

"Don’t worry Wendy." Samantha spoke, reading her slaves face easily. "You won’t be discarded because of your resistance. In fact, your resistance leads only to make me improve my own poison over time so I welcome it. Also, you are far too valuable as things stand. I still have great use for you and your family. So be ready for tonight. In the meantime, we need to take stock of all our accumulated biomass before that gluttonous fiend I call my friend comes back."

Samantha rubbed her head one last time. While she adored Keyla back when they were both cultists. She also knew what she was like to manage. Moth- Sophia always had her link superiority to shut her up when needed, though Keyla got more leeway than most in that regard.

Here though, on her turf, with her own bio cult. She did not have that advantage over her. She didn’t really even have gene caste advantage as Keyla said it herself, she had been literally in front of the great mother and had been to home world. That put her leagues above others of the cults...

Samantha took yet another long sigh before she began to formulate plans on how to keep that blood fiend in check.