Finally the world began to know who I was. In just two weeks I was turning the Golden star fabrics into a major competitor. I had a feeling Slaanesh had something to do with the rapid success, but I didn't care, the world was changing and it was because of me.

People knew of the shop and it was becoming famous thanks to its new range and fast deliveries. It managed to make a huge profit as well thanks to its reorganised competitive prices.

It was also stretching the gap between Josef and Ulein as planned. Already Ulein was trying to compete, imitating our business plans, but because he didn't have enough of a sophisticated mind to understand the first thing about them it wasn't working as effectively for him, all he really did was put more money into his shops but money unwell spent didn't give you any back.

I had also reduced Markus to a cleaner after I had had enough of his grumbling and acting ill-mannered towards the customers.

I circled around the aisle to watch him emptying one of the clothes stands. He was on his knees with a droopy face. It somehow felt wrong to be enjoying it. I had to keep in mind though that tried to oppress me, ruled over me like a tyrant and I was just doing the same to him. But did that honestly justify it.

I needed to relief me of my conscious and remind me what a bullhead he was. I walked up to him.

"Enjoying the new position?"

His silence was enough, but then.

"What's your real name?"

"Huh?"

"Because you have far too much in common with a former employee I use to have."

Crud. "Y-your wrong, my real name is Gretchen. Now get back to work."

"You sure." He got up and faced me. "You stuttered there."

"Y-yes, yes I did, so what? Get back to work I said."

"You know something about Gretchen Ulsware and I want to know."

He was more heartfelt than bitter. "Why do you want to know?"

"I guess- because I want to know she's alright. "

That… That was actually touched, I was so moved. My father did save his life and he had looked after me, given me a job and tried to give advice. How did I forget that? "Y-yes," I spoke. "She's alright."

He pointed at me. "Ha! Knew it! You and that spoiled brat is working together!" He paced around delirious. "I have to give it to her, she is smart. But when is she going to get it that she doesn't make good decisions!"

"Excuse me!"

"She convinced you didn't she about all these ideas like changing the items on the store window?"

"Well it's working isn't it."

"Only because of prince charming right now. Everyone wants to buy from the shop of Ulein Wurter's son and have finally came to terms just how great a shop this is. If it weren't for the changes Gretchen has gotten you do for her I would've had enough money to retire by now."

That egotistical freak! I didn't care what he had to say anymore as he went onto a rant about me. I struck him and knocked the surprise old war veteran to the floor. I then stamped on his face until I heard a snap… Oh please Sigmar.

By the looks of things… I had stamped him just right as he was getting his head off the floor that I had twisted his neck enough…

"I have a feeling I should stop taking snoozes when I'm around you," groaned Gertrude after snoring at the counter. He knelt down and checked Markus. "Really if you want to kill someone have me do it."

"I-I-I-!" I shivered. "D-d-didn't mean to."

"Yeah, find that hard to believe. You just ruthlessly snapped his neck."

I frantically paced around. "No! No! No! No!"

Gertrude got a hold of me. "Look whatever happened can't change it now I guess. I'll just do all the work and you go to Bella."

"But-but what about Jo-Josef?"

"I will say Markus tried to hit you, I threw him out for that and escorted you home after what happened and you decided to get me to come here to tell him you were okay. I'll then have to try and distract him I guess while you see Bella. Okay?"

Thank Sig- Thank Slaanesh I had Gertrude.

I sat shaking in what I assume was Bella's office. It was a room filled with bizarre and yet immaculate colours, even stranger objects and decorations like cackling statues and the skulls of strange creatures.

"It is understandable you lost control," said Bella as she stirred something. "When Slaanesh takes you in under his wing and grants you your desires, but he looks after you mostly by heightening every feeling any your body, senses, desires and especially emotions"

"You mean like anger then?"

"Correct and it takes some while before you can control them. One reason why you might want to move onto another pleasure besides business."

I glared at her. "Business is not a pleasure, it's a purpose."

"Oh please as if we need a purpose. We're simply born into this world and that's it, what more do you need than that but to feel."

"A purpose gives meaning."

"And meaning there is to stop us from worry about why we are here, but Slaanesh does that himself. He comforts us with new experiences and protection."

Obviously it would take too long to butt heads with Bella like this, so I simply needed another approach. "Do you honestly want me to give up business when I've already provided your cult with more funds?"

"Yes," she said as she added another ingredient into the cup. "You've provided us with enough funds to sustain us."

"That drug trade won't hold though without me, I'm the one that made it possible."

"But you've put everything in place that it doesn't actually need you anymore. Josef will continue his trade enabling his employees who work for us to keep up the trade."

That was true, but. "You're thinking too small though; imagine what else I could in my position. Josef's business is growing rapid and I will have my own that will feed of his and grow large itself that there is so much that the Forgotten Bliss could accomplish."

"We're not about accomplishing though. The Forgotten Bliss is about exploring sensation and pleasure, not achieving. We leave the world of strife and struggle, so we may live our lives the way that is truly liberating."

"What about my desires then, my desires have always been to achieve in business and that is what I want."

Bella sighed and the approached me with tray in hand. "You know, I'm probably stressing you enough with this heated discussion." She offered the cup and gave me a warm smile. "Let us do what you came fore and put Markus out of your mind."

I looked at the strangely coloured liquid. "What is it?"

"A special remedy made for soothing the body, it will help forget about your troubles."

I was warily, but took the cup. I then sipped upon it just to taste it; it was strong, really strong. My whole body tingled and ruptured with delight and my vision was out of control. I then began to see a distortion of colours and wild feelings, I didn't know what was going on, I didn't what had happened. I had fallen unconscious I guess.

I gasped awake, I felt a flare of agonising aches and my body tremble, just what had gone on. I tried to get up but I just had no control over my body, just what had happened.

"Easy now," said a voice that echoed around my head. He pushed me down onto the couch. "Just relax until you feel better."

I obeyed but I wasn't sure how much time had passed. I didn't know if it was seconds, minutes or even hours, but I remained on the couch until all the flashed colours went from my eyes and I could make out someone sitting. Was it Gertrude?

"Wh-what's going on?"

"Do you really want to know?"

It sounded like Gertrude alright. "Yes!"

"I'm afraid Bella decided to give you a really powerful substance that we give to our clients. She thought it would do you something good."

"What possible good was there in drugging me?"

"To get a taste of other pleasures I believe she said."

I growled. She had no right! "Just how long was I out for?"

Gertrude sighed. "Two weeks."

"Two weeks!" I screamed. "Just what happened within two weeks?"

"All the chaos you could imagine or at least for you, I just stressed trying to keep it all together like I know you would want me-."

"Just tell me."

He raised his hands to try and calm me. "After your disappearance I told everyone that you went back to your brother after the sudden attack by Markus and had left me. All your love interests then became depressed, especially Josef that I'm afraid he couldn't keep running the Golden star fabrics that it fell apart really and went out of business. There was also a big construction decision that came up that I didn't know what to make so I'm afraid it's been on hold for two weeks."

"That wretch!" I spat. It was only her to blame. I sat up and pulled on my hair, if only it was Bella's neck I was pulling on. "Just when she said nothing would happen in my absence!" And in just a mere two weeks it had collapsed just like that!

"That's not the only thing you're going to be mad about I'm afraid."

"Oh Sigmar! What!"

"Ulein began to rise again when he took hold of the Golden star fabrics and I commented to Bella that you'd want to fix that, so she had me, well, make him disappear."

"And you did it."

Gertrude shrugged. "Well you weren't exactly around to argue."

"But you knew I wasn't exactly going to be happy!"

"Yes, but she's the boss. I do what she tells me."

"That horrible wretch!" I stood up. It turned out not to be the best idea as I wobbled clumsily, but I paced around trying to think. "I hate her now! She's lied to me! Backstabbed me and is ruining my life again! She's trying to take everything from me!"

"That's what happens in this cult some of the times."

"If only I could make her disappear."

"Well it would be a lot harder than killing the witch hunter, but I could if you want us to."

I was in complete shock. I nearly fell, losing control of my whole body. But I managed to regain myself. "What are you saying?"

Gertrude sneered. "What I'm saying is that if you want, we really can make Bella disappear."

"Isn't she your leader? Are you not loyal to her?"

"I would've died for her… But not anymore. I'm more loyal to you know really."

"Wh-what?"

"I've haven't felt more alive in this cult than I'd say six years ago after I had recently became a member of the Silent six. You come up with these thrilling schemes, you have such passion for your ambitions and heck we just killed a witch hunter by making it look like such a convincing accident, now that was feeling alive. Half the other stinking members just want to be like you were for two weeks and forget they're alive."

"But do you not owe yourself to Bella?"

Gertrude began to pick his nails. "No. It is Slaanesh I owe myself to. Bella use to be a good voice on his behalf and incite us. But she's never been a great leader. She may worm into your ear that what she's doing is for the best for the cult, but all of its just so she can remain at the top with no one being able to threaten her."

My eyebrow rose. "So I threaten her?"

"Why do you think she did what she did?" He smirked. "Because you've been the biggest threat she's had to deal with. Never before have we had a member so ambitious and gifted and favoured by Slaanesh. Look at the back of your shoulder."

"What?" I tried to, but it was impossible.

"Here." Gertrude and put my back facing a mirror and then he had gotten a hand mirror so I could then see the symbol ingrained into my skin!

"What is that?"

"His mark. Slaanesh likes to mark his followers to tell that they are his and no one else can have them." He then rolled up his sleeve to show a similar symbol on his arm. "It took me three years to get mine, but you got yours almost instantly, showing the enthusiasm he had to have you. He also gifted you with gold hair and purple eyes, two of his favourite colours really."

"If I threaten Bella then, why would she adore me for this long?"

"To show you weren't either that or she couldn't tell. But you are a threat and now she's treating you like one."

"So why doesn't she simply make me disappear."

"It would be a sign of weakness. We have other members that have been wanting to make her disappear. Not because they desire power, but because Bella has become dull. I'm certain that there are members who will be happy if you became our leader."

"What?" I gasped. "You want me to lead the Forgotten Bliss?"

"Not just me, there are others who speak of you in the cult and already imagine what you could do for us. Like I said, your ambition is enthralling and what this cult needs to feel alive rather than some half-dead cow waiting for existence to end, Slaanesh has never been about stagnation and neither has the cult. We want to expand and become something more, something great; we want the Empire to feel us just as much as you want it to feel you."

I-I couldn't believe this. I didn't know what to feel, but I felt some great force urging me. The only force it could be was Slaanesh. He agreed with Gertrude and now so did I. "Very well." I would not let Bella take my new life away; I would make her regret dare trying to by taking hers. "Make her disappear."

"Isn't going to be that simple I'm afraid."

"Excuse me?"

"What? Do you think it was going to be a simple matter of you telling me to go and kill her and that would be it?"

"I was hoping?"

"She has what she calls her Six sentinels. I would get the other members of the Silent six to counter them, but each of these Six sentinels have been gifted with incredible senses and empathy, they can tell when you mean harm and could hear you tip toeing under a griffon's roar, so sneaking on them is impossible. Each one is also a former solider and so are more formidable fighters than us Silent Six."

"I take it you can't bribe them then or anything like that?"

"The way that Bella keeps them under her control is that she is the only one that knows how to cook their favourite drug that possesses them. If Bella were to die, they'd be driven so mad that they'd die a horrible death. I've seen it happen after Bella caught one of them trying to replicate the thing that holds them."

"If she has such loyal guards that are this impossible to kill bring it up to try and kill her?"

"Maybe because it isn't impossible to fool her guards. They can ready empathy from the simplest eye contact, but wearing just a simple veil they won't notice that me and the Silent six will be drawing their attention, while we do, you'll be able to slip in and deal with Bella."

"Me!"

"The only ones we'll be able to trust is the other members of the Silent six and I'll be needing their each of their help holding off the Six sentinels to give someone enough time to get the job done."

"Can't we just lure Bella into another trap?"

"While Bella's empathy isn't as strong, her senses are just as strong and she is even more cunning. She'll know when she's walking into a trap and isn't like we could kill her in her sleep. No, the only way to do this is for you to walk up to her and fight her."

"And you actually think I can beat her?"

"Often when it comes down to between just two worshippers of the same god, it is the one more favoured by that god that triumphs and I am pretty sure Slaanesh is dulled by Bella than anyone in the Forbidden Bliss is. When you fight her, you will overpower her and if you can't, Slaanesh will come to your aid."

There was a stir in me as if Slaanesh himself concurred. "Okay… I will do that… I will kill Bella personally."