Today marks your last day of school. Or at least you sure hope it does. It's also the last day you really have to work on Ami before you pretend to be sick and take the rest of the week off. You'll have most of the day for her and possibly tomorrow morning as well if you can set things up so you both end up sleeping in the same house. Shouldn't be too difficult. Whether you will still have enough time to get her where she needs to be is still to be decided. Though right now Megan is the immediate concern.
As it turns out Harmony did indeed implant an instruction in Megan's head. But it's not a particularly dangerous one, considering what she could have done. The instruction and the deactivation phrase indicate to you that Harmony's intentions are one of two. Either she intends to hold the instruction over your head and essentially hold the phrase and Megan hostage for some reason. Or she is trying to determine if you are capable of determining that her instruction is in place and whether you can remove it. Either way you'll need to decide what to do about it.
The way you see it there are three ways of dealing with this issue. The most obvious would simply be to use the deactivation phrase and cancel out Harmony's influence over Megan. It would mean you wouldn't need to be concerned about her again, but it might mean further irritating Harmomy, or tipping her off depending on what her intentions were when she implanted the instruction in the first place. Being underestimated by your opponent might make them take you less seriously, but it might also encourage them to bully you in the future, so it's difficult to make a decision about this.
The second option would be to leave the instruction in place and work around it. It would allow you to avoid tipping off or upsetting Harmony but would mean you'd need to continue tip toeing around Megan from now on, out of concern of what she might end up reporting. The most immediate example of that would be being unable to bring Ami home with you this evening, for fear that Megan reports her presence to Harmony. You suppose a side to this strategy might be having Megan deliver false information, but maintaining that would be difficult and likely could only be pulled off once or twice before Harmony realises what is happening.
The third option, you guess, would simply be to throw Megan out or dispose of her. You could just make her leave but it wouldn't be too difficult to persuade her to sign a Contract and then you could just hand her to The Torturer. While beneficial in the short term it seems somewhat short sighted and potentially wasteful. More importantly you find it morally repugnant to do such a thing. You haven't really put much consideration into morals up until now, your situation having forced you to commit a number of immoral acts in order to survive and prosper. And you don't exactly regret it, as you don't regret anything that promotes your own self interest.
And it is this same self interest that leaves you reluctant to part with Megan. As far as you are concerned Megan belongs to you, she was yours the moment she decided it on Sunday. And you aren't one to casually discard of something you own that can still be of use to you. Just like you would be reluctant to part with Sherry or Cassie. Certainly not because of someone else.
And that brings up another point. Immediately throwing Megan away just because you found a trace of Harmony inside her mind feels too much like allowing the little bitch to intimidate you into folding. And that isn't how you intend to conduct yourself. If you back down now you'll always end up backing down from anything involving Harmony in the future, and how will you ever be able to confront her in that case?
No, there's only one person you will bow down to, and that's only because you have no other choice. Once you've recovered your soul you'll not bow down to anyone! You'll live and die on your feet and fuck anyone trying to control you in the future! As for Harmony, you won't back down from her just as you didn't back down from Aria. She doesn't dare make any major moves against you, so you still have time. For now you'll need to make your choice about Megan.
You'd rather not tiptoe around your own house. You'll use the deactivation phrase on Megan. It might lead Harmony to consider you more dangerous but that's a risk you'll have to take. Besides, there's no way Harmony would realistically believe that a scrub like you that has only been a servant for a couple of weeks for an incompetent and unconcerned mistress would actually be able to remove her instruction.
Maybe she won't even notice? Though you'd need to keep having her make reports for that to work? Maybe you'll just pin the blame on someone else. You could ask Aria to take the fall for you next time you see her. She'd probably be happy to stick it to her rival a bit.
Megan is downstairs in the kitchen same as yesterday:
'Good morning,' she greets you as she continues to whisk the bowl. You aren't sure exactly what she's trying to make you for breakfast but it seems a little too ambitious for her current skill set. At least she's making herself comfortable here.
Your nude mother enters a moment later and begins to make something a little more traditional. During this moment of confusion you slip in the deactivation phrase.
'Harmony is the love of my life,' you say, just loudly enough for Megan to hear you, and making sure not to bite your tongue in half out of irritation that you need to say such a thing. Megan rocks as the phrase takes control, her eager expression fading for a moment before snapping back, leaving her a little confused. Taking advantage of that confusion you hit her with another Suggestion:
'I have to repay Zach however I can.'
She blinks again, then smiles at you.
'I just wanted to say,' she continues, 'I really am grateful to you and your family for letting me stay here. I know it's a bother having me stay.'
'Not at all!' Elisa sounds out behind you, your tampering inside her head pretty much forcing her to accept everything that happens around her with a smile. 'It's been a delight having you, dear!' Megan goes a little red in the face.
'Oh,' she beams, 'but all the same, I'd like to repay you, however I can. So let me know, okay?' You nod.
'I'll remember,' you tell her, grabbing the plate your mother hands you. You need to eat quickly before heading off to work.
It's a shame, but though Soprano is happy to see you there isn't much you can do for him at the moment. Their performance over the weekend went well enough and they'll just be repeating it over the next few days. So you don't have all that much you can do. Even so you busy yourself as best you can, helping to move things around and organise some of the back rooms. You quickly confirm with Soprano that Thursday will be fine to resolve the Gary situation and collect your two soul payment. Next it's time for your last day of school. Hopefully…
You'll need to solidify your control of your classmates today. Not only that but you'll also need to put them to work now, otherwise you'll have wasted all the time you spent on them. So now you need to decide what you want them all to do for you. Not counting you and Roger there are 16 members of the Little Angels. Technically Ami is a member as well but your plans for her are more involved. So you'll stick to the sixteen normal members. Though this will also include Rick, Cindy and Louise. Whether you give these three separate instructions based on their parents or fold them into the rest of the class will be a separate decision.
The way you see it the Angels can work for you in a number of ways and you'll likely want to use a mixture of tasks. Assigning them to Espionage would have them focusing on gathering information for you, throughout the school, their homes and local areas. The value of this assignment likely won't make itself known until after you give it. Of course, it should be possible for your Angels to perform this option to a limited degree while doing other things for you, so perhaps assigning this task specifically may be a waste.
Infiltration will involve you having one or more of your Angels try to worm their way into influential institutions or groups around the city. You doubt many of them would accept seven year olds, but the church would certainly be one of them. You currently intend to use Sherry for this express purpose, but more eyes and ears inside the church certainly wouldn't hurt.
Finances would involve having your Angels pilfer money from their parents, relatives or anyone else. Very few people will react too badly to a seven year old pickpocketer. While funds aren't massively important to you right now, more cash in hand will always be useful.
Recruitment would involve having your classmates look around for useful people to bring into the fold. These would either be potential possession targets or simply potential 'recruits' for the Angels. Expanding the organisation will always be worthwhile. More manpower is better, even if it's actually childpower.
Malice farming will likely be one of the best uses of their time. The main issue with this assignment is that if too many of your classmates all of a sudden become little terrors it will be far too suspicious. As such you'll need to direct your Angels to various different methods of aquiring malice, and as less attention grabbing methods as possible.
Causing issues inside households would be a good one, localised problems are less likely to attract outside attention. Though perhaps having Cindy and Louise cause problems inside their own households might not be the best idea, considering you may still make use of their parents in the future and you'd like their positions to remain stable.
Picking a fight with the bullies might be advantageous but it will certainly cause a big fuss. You'll need to be careful to juggle your assignments with the Angels to try and get the most benefits while causing the least amount of fuss.
Finally, Roger will be the unofficial leader of the group and will be in charge of liaising with the class and conveying to them your orders to prevent you from having to do it yourself every time. You just need to decide how to arrange your classmates.
You Sleep Erikson again and finish your work from yesterday. You shouldn't have any issues with your Angels' loyalty now, so long as you don't order them to do anything to outrageous. With their loyalty and obedience assured you gather them round and start to give out their instructions. Putting Louise and Cindy to the side you give the remaining fourteen tasks. Half of them will be assigned to causing trouble in their own households. You make sure to pick children who live further away from each other in the hope that it will reduce the chances of this suddent change being reported.
Of the remainder, you assign two to espionage, two to infiltration and one each to recruitment, local malice and school malice. You include Rick in this group, considering you'll be taking over his household soon enough anyway. As for Louise and Cindy, you give them instructions to investigate their households in greater depth. For Cindy you add for her to try and gather more information about the university and find out how easy it is to visit. Roger will be in charge of keeping in contact with everyone and reporting their findings to you. Your expectations aren't high, but with these numbers it should help at least.
With all this done you go over a few details before the end of class, once again Suggesting Erikson not mind falling asleep. She's really going to turn into a slacker at this rate. Next it's lunch time. You'll need to make arrangements with Ami and work out the best way to solidify her position as your loving, obedient slave.
Your plan decided you head over to the cafeteria to find Ami. You spot her easily enough, sitting with Sherry at their usual table. No sign of Maria though, that's unusual. The three girls have always been together. You can't help but ask them about it and learn that Maria hasn't shown up for school today. She was fine yesterday though, perhaps her anger has changed into fear? She might be worried about you doing to her what you've been doing to her friends. She'd be right to be concerned, but it isn't going to matter where she is, her soul will still become yours.
You slip your hand into Ami's and invite her to your club room. She's blushing, standing up and allowing you to gently lead her away. A bunch of the other kids likely notice this but you are beyond caring. In a few hours none of it will matter anymore. You'll be gone from this place and Ami will belong to you. Any fall out will be for the other Zach to weather. You activate your Aura as you head into the room, having decided to keep the Little Angels out today.They don't need any more Aura, especially not Obedience Aura. Not that you are sure it's doing all that much right now. This far in it's difficult to say for sure.
Still you spend the time 'studying.' Though you actually spend more time getting Ami used to physical contact. You make sure to keep your hand in hers and frequently caress her cheek or move her chin so you can kiss her. Not on the mouth, you'll wait for her for that, but just touching her wherever you can get away with. While you are doing this you are talking to her, telling her how well she's been doing recently with her studies and how listening to you and following your lead has clearly been good for her. You get her to agree with you.
Then you push her further, if listening to you about her studies was good for her, surely that meant she should listen to you about everything else? Wouldn't that be helpful as well? Clearly this isn't something she can accept so easily. But that's fine, you never intended to let her process that idea unaided.
'You're happiest doing what I tell you,' you Suggest to her.
For the first time in a while you see someone struggle to resist your Suggestion. Her face scrunches up in concentration for a second, an almost accusatory expression on her face, before it suddenly goes blank for a moment as your Suggestion takes hold inside her mind. Then the moment passes and she's back to 'normal' agreeing with you that perhaps she should listen to you about a few other problems she's been having outside of her studies.
Lunch time is almost over so you make your last move, telling Ami that you'll be taking her out on a date this evening and that she should call her parents and let her know. Ami begins to complain, talking about it being too short notice, but you press the issue, bringing her attention back to your previous conversation. Her blush prominent now, she agrees to speak to her mother. Now to work out where to take her.
You'll take Ami to the aquarium. She likes fish so it should be a plus to her mood and it should be quiet enough there that you can keep your Aura on her without too much concern. At some point you are going to have to make the transition from girlfriend and boyfriend or student and teacher to master and slave. Not an easy one. A Dream Invasion will probably be key. But it raises another issue. You are currently prepping her to become your slave. As in 'Zach's' slave. Her loyalty to you will become loyalty to the being that continues in your footsteps when you switch bodies. Meaning all this work will essentially be for somone else's benefit.
Of course, that person will be loyal to you and can order Ami around on your behalf, but it does feel as though you will be spending all this work and effort on Ami without reaping the benefit of her change for yourself. Not that she could provide you with much in the way of benefits in the first place. At least not as she is right now. But the issue still stands. Ami belongs to you, not anyone else, not even a puppet that follows your precise commands. So then, what is the alternative.
You could condition Ami to be loyal to Zach and then order her around through him. Or you could switch things around and make her loyal to your next target. More dubious, Ami likely hasn't even met Damien before. But if you set him up as Zach's mentor it might be possible. If it was his smarts that drew Ami to Zach then she'll have all the more reason to latch onto Damien.
Finally you could leave Ami as loyal to Zach for now but leave a caveat in her mind that she's being groomed by him for when her true master comes to claim her and that when he does she'll be at his every beck and call and so she should start preparing for it. You aren't sure which option is the best, though you don't feel as though any of them are 'bad' as such.
You'll add the caveat, it shouldn't be too much more work and you might need Ami's help for something later on. Until then she can work for Zach or something. Most likely Ami's role will be snooping on her politician father. Her sister works at the university, right? Maybe Ami could accompany her one day? Hmm, unlikely, considering Sierra's personality. Well, you should focus on making sure Ami is yours first.
Ami's face as she hangs up indicates a problem has emerged.
'Mum doesn't want me going out this evening,' she answers, looking decidedly upset. Not good, perhaps you should have forseen something like this. Coming to visit you on the weekend was one thing, going somewhere else is a different matter entirely. And you don't want to go to Ami's place, too many people to stumble in on you while you are adjusting her. You'll have to force the issue. You clasp her hands in yours.
'You want to go to the aquarium with me, right?' you ask her. She nods.
'Of course,' she replies, 'but mum…' You cut her off.
'Don't worry about her,' you tell her, 'I'll ask my mum to explain it to her. You'll be coming with me to the aquarium and you'll be having a good time. Alright?' She hesitates, fear and desire battling with each other. In the end she nods.
'Alright,' she conceedes, her smile widening as she feels your Suggestion working on her, encouraging her to feel happy doing as you tell her. And so you have her. You'll have to deal with the fallout of her mother being angry later, but nevermind. You part ways with Ami and head back to class.
You almost feel sorry for your teacher with the amount of times you've been knocking her out recently, but not sorry enough not to do it. Once she's asleep you have all your Angels gather around and retrieve your Diary. With this many 'volunteers' you should be able to make a pretty decent ritual. Sixteen students and the teacher, assuming you'll go as far as to bleed Erikson after putting her to sleep. That gives you between 17PP and 35PP depending on how badly you want to bleed everyone. And of course you can add up to 50 Malice to add an extra 10%. You'd best not use a soul this time, you are worried about your quota as is.
PP Costs for a Condensed Ritual are as follows:
Base - 10%
10% Bonus 10PP
Extra day length 5PP
BoX increase 10PP
Reroll permitted 15PP
5PP added to cost to repeat an upgrade. For example to achieve Bo3, 25PP must be used
With this many bodies your ritual should be much more effective. You drain all of your classmates a bit then and yourself a bit more. Then you ask for volunteers for who wants to be bled more. All hands go up, but Roger's hand is the fastest. Poor boy is practically begging for it. Well he wouldn't be your number two if he wasn't the most reliable. So you bleed him and Rick as well, using Regen on the two of them plus yourself so you won't be too tired for the rest of the day.
Out of concern of how she might react if you bled her, you leave Erikson alone. You use this ritual to target your interactions with Ami. With this you should be able to achieve what you need to. You might actually need to be careful not to overshoot and overload her poor mind. Though that could be interesting in it's own right. With the ritual complete you resume your seats. Even with the Suggestion, Erikson is still alarmed at having fallen asleep again, seeming to come to a conclusion that she is somehow ill and cancelling the rest of the class. This simply means you end up waiting around for Ami to get out of class.
You wait for Ami to get out of class and quickly meet up with her, leading her to your mother's car before her own mother can find her. Explaining the situation to Elisa you have her drive the two of you a distance away before your mother makes the phone call to Ami's mother, explaining the situation. You can tell even from one side of the conversation that things don't go well. Never mind, you'll have to deal with that later. For now you need to finish what you started. You keep Ami's hand in yours, keeping her focus on you and not her angry mother.
You hadn't initially intended to Dream Invade Ami during the aquarium trip, preferring to wait until you were home. But having messed up with her mother it's looking unlikley you'll be able to do that. Of course, you could ignore Ami's parents and take her to Roger's place. You doubt they'd look for her there. But if Ami is away for too long they might call the police and report a kidnapping, so perhaps you'd be better off changing your plans a bit.
As much as you'd like to finish Ami's programing here and now a rush job because of a bump in the road isn't the answer. It isn't a major problem, Ami will likely take the flak, not you. Her mother will probably forbid her from speaking or hanging out with you for a while but that's fine. You shouldn't need to spend any more time with her. And you already scheduled the evening and night to work on her so this just means you'll need to do this in a different way. You'll have your mother drive you to Ami's house in the middle of the night to visit Ami's Dream and complete her. Wait, no… You'd be better off using Cassie for this, less chance of you being recognised.
The aquarium is actually pretty cool. It's the sort of place you'd really enjoy visiting if you weren't here on business. All sorts of different fish swimming around in their transparent glass cages, completely oblivious of the wider world. You'd almost envy them their simple existences with little cares or concerns. A thought occurs to you, if you die here the odds are you'd end up inside one of these fish and that wouldn't be good. You're Soul Anchor should direct you towards humans, but with this many animals in the vicinity it would likely be thrown off by sheer volume. It's certainly something to consider moving forwards.
Switching your Aura to Affection instead of Obedience, you keep your mother a safe distance away to act as your shaperone and tour the building with Ami. You keep her by your side for most of the time, not letting her move away and guiding her between the various tanks. While you are doing this you are giving her small commands and instructions, telling her where to stand, when to move on, when to stop. You only allow her to separate from you when you tell her to go and grab you a pamphlet or a drink. Ami doesn't question you once throughout your date, her blush almost constant, her eyes on you and on the fish and seemingly oblivious to much else.
As the date moves on you find yourself having to use your instructions to direct Ami to look at the fish as she's finding it more and more difficult to focus on them and not on you. She's muttering about how much this was a great idea and how grateful she is to you for bringing her here. She's forgotten how much trouble she'll be in when she gets back home but that doesn't matter to her right now. She is spending time with the boy she loves doing something she enjoys and that's all that really matters to her. Near the end of the visit you hit her with the Suggestion:
'Your life is so much better now that you have someone you love and trust to tell you what to do.'
She doesn't resist this one at all, gripping you tightly as it rocks her body, her grin widening still further. For a moment you are concerned you've overdone it and overloaded her brain, turning her into an idiot. But she calms down after a moment pressing herself into your side.
'I love you so much,' she mutters into your shoulder, 'I don't even care about my stupid family anymore. All they ever do is yell at me or look down on me anyway! I can't even remember why I spent so much time trying to make them happy!' You stroke her head.
'Don't worry too much about that,' you say to her, 'just do what I say from now on. Okay? I promise you'll enjoy it.' She meets you in the eye and you can practically see the hearts in her eyes.
'Really?' she asks you, 'you'll tell me what to do from now on? That would be great! I've really been enjoying you taking charge, it's so much easier to not have to think about what to do. If you decide from now on that would be the best thing ever!' You hesitate for a moment, thinking that you might not even need the Dream. You could probably tell her what her new role is right now and she'd accept it.
But no, you still need to leave the caveat to make sure she can be transfered to a new master if necessary. And you are on schedule so you'll use the Dream to finish this as planned. Besides, the place is quiet but not so quiet you want to risk people overhearing a seven year old boy forcing a seven year old girl to call him 'Master' and refer to herself as his slave.
Instead you give Ami a present, instructing her not to open it until tomorrow, explaining that she will understand when she gets up in the morning. And with that the date is over. You and Ami share a kiss, a proper one this time, mouth to mouth, after making sure nobody is watching. And then you are taking her back home.
You make sure to give Ami instructions to act apologetic and respectful to her parents and leave her to weather the fire alone. A bit cowardly but you don't have the time to deal with Ami's angry mother. You might need to do something about her at a later date, but not right now. For now you'll go back, get something to eat and then get in contact with Cassie. You'll be back soon enough.
50 Malice earned from a mother's fury! Good job you weren't in the line of fire!
Your mother drives you home and you grab a bite to eat, your sister gluing herself to your side the whole time. You realise that you are going to miss Lucy an awful lot when you move on. Certainly it's going to be a lot more difficult to sleep without using her as a teddy bear. And you feel as though she's going to find it a lot more difficult to manage without you.
Maybe you should try and find a way to smuggle her back to your new home with you once you've taken control of the place. You'll at least need to use the mirror to communicate with her as much as possible to make sure she doesn't get lonely. You spend the rest of the evening spending time with her, putting her to bed with Elisa and then staying up, waiting for Cassie to arrive.
Megan stays up with you. You don't mind, her instruction to report to Harmony has already been turned off so you shouldn't need to worry too much about what she sees anymore. Perhaps it's because of the Suggestion earlier, but Megan seems to believe that keeping you company is one of the ways she can repay you for taking her in. You don't mind too much. Her whining and crying back at the casino was annoying but she's alot more tolerable now that she's all smiles. A knock on the door indicates that Cassie has arrived so you tell Megan to go to bed and head out.
You climb into Cassie's car and give her your instructions. She's to drive you to Ami's house, park outside while you sleep and then take you straight back home once you wake. If she's confused by your order she doesn't show it. She simply pulls her car back onto the road and heads off. While she takes you where you need to go you check up on her to see how she's been getting on with the task you assigned her.
Cassie's Cocktease Instruction will work differently from standard malice rolls. This will signify her roping in a number of marks, stringing them along and then hitting them with the sting afterwards. I'll start by rolling a dice to see how many marks she finds and then another dice to see how long she needs to string them along for before they are ready for the sting. Each day spent on stringing them along will add to the malice gained from the sting so a long time spent isn't necessarily bad. At present Cassie can only work on a maximum of three marks ar a time. This will increase as she improves and grows in confidence.
Cassie has gained Innocent Sin! Her devilish charm makes it impossible for anyone to hate her no matter how much she fucks with them! A useful trait for a naughty little cocktease!
Cassie tells you about the three idiots she's got eating out of the palm of her hand. They all live a good distance away so they aren't likely to want to meet up too quickly, leaving her to string them along for a while yet. She goes into a few more details as you remember to pull out the Reality Notebook. You did say you'd do the last one in front of her, after all. Side by side in the vehicle will have to do. You examine the instruction: Completely and willingly serve and obey me and write 'eagerly' over the top of 'willingly.' She actually seems to feel the change begin to take root inside her, for she glances over at you with sudden concern, seeing the notebook for the first time.
'Dare I ask what that is?' She asks you. You shrug.
'Would you believe me if I said it's how I've been changing you?' you explain to her not seeing any reason not to be honest with her. Cassie shakes her head.
'At this point I think I'd believe anything,' she replies, 'though I think I read something about a book like that once, or was it Lucas? I think he told me once about a story he read. In it a man could kill people by writing their name down in a book.' You have no idea what she is talking about. But then again you haven't read or watched much recently. Only the shows that Lucy likes are allowed at your house. You really do spoil that girl too much.
'Does it bother you?' you ask her. Cassie frowns into the rear view mirror.
'No,' she replies, 'what bothers me right now is that car trailing behind us. I'm pretty sure it's been following me since I left your house!' You look up sharply. Shit! You're being followed? Not good! Who could be tailing you? Whoever it is they are certainly up to no good! But what's the best way to deal with them? If they were following you yesterday as well then what could their aim be? Is this still part of the investigation? If you continue as planned what would happen? They wouldn't try to pull you out of the car then and there, right? Probably not. Making a scene in front of someone's house would draw too much attention. So then, what to do?
A plan quickly emerges in your mind. You'll be smart about it this time. There can't be that many people in the car. If they are just following you around it's likely to be one or two people in there. Not too big a threat. You'll give Roger a call using the mirror, get him to take a picture of the car on his phone and send it to you. Then you'll have Venus and the dogs help you set up an ambush. If those guys are smart they'll surrender without a fight. If not, you might well be able to spend less time working at Soprano's this week.
Unsurprisingly Roger answers quickly, your ability to communicate with your best friend turned right hand man being particularly strong. Always eager to be of use he quickly moves to honour your request, hiding himself at your command. Cassie points out which car he needs to take a picture of and soon enough it arrives in your phone. Only two men inside, nobody you recognise. They could be Ina's people, police, church or really anyone.
But there's only two of them and they are a problem you can probably deal with. If you use Venus and the dogs they aren't likely to learn anything new. So you ask Roger to pass the message on and Venus is quick to respond. She seems oddly eager, even though you know her memories of the previous encounter were erased. Maybe it's her subconcscious desire for payback that's driving her now? The more you know about this woman the more you want her. A weird thought crosses your mind, having her kill a man for you and then bake you some car shaped cookies while dressed in a bunny girl outfit. Another weird fantasy but a pretty cool one.
You try not to make it too obvious that you are aware you are being trailed and have Cassie crawl through some of the less busy roads until Roger confirms that they are ready. Time to spring the trap and hope they don't do anything stupid.
Your trap is simple enough. You pull into a little cul de sac and then have Cassie spin the car round so she's now blocking both lanes. Your pursuer has no choice but to break or risk hitting you. Venus then pulls her car up behind them, popping the boot and letting your dogs loose. You haven't had time to enforce your hold on them yet, so if these guys have Whistles you might be in trouble. But you didn't see any dogs in the car and your experience indicates that Ina only hands out the Whistles to dog handlers. Assuming these people even work for her. Venus opens the door and crouches behind it, gun in hand. She's oddly good at this. The rabbit's taught her well.
'You are surrounded!' She calls out to the men in the car, 'come out with your hands up!' You take the opportunity to slip out of Cassie's car, making sure she keeps her head down and activating Null Presence, hoping they are distracted by Venus and the dogs and don't notice you. The car door opens and a man steps out, his hands out. For a moment it looks like things will be resolved easily and without bloodshed. Then he suddenly reaches into his jacket and pulls out a gun, aiming at the nearest dog and firing.
The dogs spring forward even as he does this and a bullet clips Good Girl's ear before she's on top of him, teeth on his gun arm even as Dog crashes into him on the other side, bringing him down to the ground. The second man is quick to surrender after that. You make sure to finish off the first man as Venus ties the second man's hands behind his back and gags him. This woman is a nurse, right? Has she ever needed to do any of this stuff at work? You rather hope not.
You start by using Regen on Good Girl to heal her ear. She actually was a good girl this time and managed to neutralised the enemy quickly. Neither of your emptyheaded dogs made a sound during the confrontation and the man's gun had a silencer attached to it, meaning the only noise that was likely to be heard was Venus' shout, which will likely be ignored as just some drunk outside. Hiding their car will be more difficult, but it's something you can let Venus worry about for now. You want to finish what you came out here for. Your new 'guest' likely won't be going anywhere.
So you climb back into Cassie's car and continue, though it takes some pretty careful manoeuvring to get out again. It doesn't take long before you are outside Ami's house once again. It's time to finish this. You tell Cassie not to bother you unless it's an emergency and close your eyes, seeking Ami out. Getting chewed out by her mother earlier would only have pushed her further towards you. Yup, her dream is easy to infiltrate and involves her being thrown out of her household for 'incompetance' but Ami isn't bothered. She knows she doesn't belong with them anyway. Her Instructor will know what to do.
You allow her a bit of indulgence, playing house with her Instructor, who acts more like a boyfriend, except one who is making all the decisions. Then you start to tweak things, adjusting the relationship. Ami loves being told what to do, so having an Instructor makes no sense. What she needs instead is a Master. Her Instructor explains this to her and she trusts her Instructor and is happy to obey him. So she starts training. She needs to do everything she can to make sure she impresses Master when he arrives. For now Ami should treat her Instructor as her Master and refer to him as such. But it's only training. Once she meets her 'true' Master, everything will be well again.
'Repeat after me,' her Instructor tells her, 'I love and trust my Master, my life is not complete without him.'
'I love and trust my Master, my life is not complete without him.' Ami repeats, absorbing everything like a sponge.
'I exist to serve my Master and will obey his every command.' her Instructor continues.
'I exist to serve my Master and will obey his every command.' Ami intones, loudly and clearly without hesitation.
'I shall become my Master's devoted slave, waiting on his every desire until my services are no longer required.' Her Instructor tells her.
'I shall become my Master's devoted slave, waiting on his every desire until my services are no longer required.' She chants. And finally.
'Serving my Master will be my greatest pleasure,' she is told to say, 'I shall cherish his every command as they give meaning to my life. Everything I am is for Him.'
'Very good,' her Instructor tells her, 'now let's go through it again. And again. Until you've fully internalised it.' Ami nods, eagerly.
'Yes,' she replies, 'please continue to instruct me. I want to be perfect for my Master when he comes to claim me.' Her Instructor nods.
'Very good,' he continues, 'then again, from the top…'
You pull out, fairly certain that your adjustment will hold. You'll check on Ami with the mirror tomorrow but you don't see a problem. For now you are tired and need rest. Though you instruct Cassie to take you back to Roger's place instead of your own. You don't have the energy to interrogate the prisoner but you want to know about it first thing in the morning. You'll have Cassie stay here and keep an eye on him too. You don't trust Venus not to forget about him midway through, thanks to Usa's weird magic. Cassie won't be happy about it but she can call in sick at work and sleep through the day if she needs to.
For now though your stupid child body has been up too long as it is and needs rest. You sleep in Venus' bed. As much as you'd like her to be in here with you she's still dealing with stuff. A pity, you'll get her in bed with you one of these days, you just wait and see…