Chapter 39: Chapter 37: Meeting the Queen

The faerie queen stood up from her bow, still smiling. “Do you like my gift?” She said, motioning to the transformed Jameson. “Some of my best work, if I do say so myself. I took some…inspiration from your previous work, I was figuring I’d save you the trouble of doing it yourself.”

“Change him back.” Lilith growled. “I don’t want this.” In the back of her mind she was vaguely aware of Kali holding a struggling Carmen down. “She needs to deal with this on her own.” Kali said sadly. “I’ll let you go when it looks like things are heating up, but for now going in guns blazing is just going to make things worse. We can’t protect her from everything.”

“Fine.” Carmen growled. “But I decide when that is.”

“What, you don’t like it?” Titania said, the innocent tone clashing with the sadistic look in her eyes. “You seemed so eager to do that other boy, I figured this would be no different.”

Lilith was beyond angry. “Don’t play innocent with me.” She said in a soft, cold voice. “If you were watching me, you would know that was a completely different circumstance. You’re just trying to get to me.”

“Yeah, you’re right.” She said nonchalantly, not seeming to care that she had been seen through. “Though not fully true. I was bored, and he happened to be there, it’s really not a big deal. No, let’s get to why I’m really here. You see–”

“No.” Lilith said, cutting her off. “You will turn him back. In fact, I’d been planning to come talk to you anyway, so this is a good opportunity. Your people have apparently been running rampant, changing defenseless humans for their own amusement.” She leveled a baleful gaze at Titania. “I can see why, if this is how their queen acts. I expect you to stop them and undo the damage they’ve done. This is non-negotiable.”

Titania rolled her eyes. “Or what?” She said, dropping her polite façade. “You may have been able to stop Winston, but you’re severely mistaken if you think I’ll be as easy to deal with.”

Before she did anything, Lilith set a Watch on Titania. It was clear that she’d be trouble in the future. She took a moment to scan Titania’s HP, then used some Worship to place a Geas on her with roughly twice her maximum health as a penalty, to make sure it couldn’t just be ignored.

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