A Hell of A Time

"So she's Bonesaw?" Alec asked?

"Yeah," I confirmed, "she's Bonesaw."

After rescuing Prinnirider from Hookwolf and bringing her back to base to treat her wounds, she'd confessed while half delirious. Apparently, even though she'd been allowed to keep her cybernetic modifications Hookwolf had hit her hard enough to give her a concussion anyway. Nothing a little of Sicily's angel magic couldn't fix.

"So, apparently Jack Slash brainwashed her when she was six but when she got randomly blown the fuck up dying put her back in her right state of mind and she was rendered catatonic from guilt and self-loathing which made it impossible to figure out how to judge her. Then there was a long convoluted series of events that led to her being allowed to come back here to atone her sins and she decided that being a Superhero was the best way to do that. She cut and dyed her hair so that nobody would recognize her, and she's been living in the closet of some obnoxious geek from my highschool becuase they're somehow internet friends."

Honestly, Greg being internet friends with Bonesaw was the weirdest part of this whole thing.

Lisa came walking by and casually stated "Reference to one of the author's other fics" and walked off.

"We might need to get Lisa a psychiatrist," I observed. "Someone who can medicate her for whatever the hell happened to her after her psychotic break."

"So, basically, we have the ghost of one of the world's most prolific serial killers of all time in our house?"

"Yeah it's kind of fucked up now, but..."

I was interrupted by the prompt "Prinnirider has woken up and decided that she wants to be your Vassal. Prinnirider has joined your party without your permission."

"But the upside is we now have one of the best medics and tinkers in the world working for us."

"That repetitive thumping noise is Brian slamming his head into the wall, isn't it?"

"Yeah, I think he regrets joining up with me."

Just then, Rachel came walking out. At first, I'd thought that she'd replaced her costume but then I realized that...

"Hey, Bonesaw's awake. She figured out how to turn humans into demons while she was doing whatever it was that let her copy people's powers. I'm a werewolf now."

Rather than wearing a costume, Rachel was mostly clad with a thick layer of wolflike fur that perfectly matched the auburn hair on her head, which was now a wild and slightly spiky mane. Her head still looked mostly human, but her eyes had turned red and she had a mouth full of razor-sharp fangs that... Did not look like a wolf's. She also had what looked... Kind of like a wolf tail except it was the size of a person.

"I'm going to go outside and chase my tail now."

Regent blinked as Rachel left.

"So... That's a thing that happened."

I shrugged. "She seems happy."