Chapter 28: The unregulated release of a reckless rabbit
The trio enter the mansion finding it far worse than they expected.
Servants walk the halls like brain-washed puppets, stone eyed, stiff-limbed and barely reacting to the three women's presence.
Penelo, still love-drunk from the effects of the libido booster, skips through the entrance lobby with cheerful obliviousness.
"Your apron is sooooo cute!" she coos as she hugs a zombified maid.
Vuvi, Boombuster at her chin, glares at the staff cautiously. "Are they—"
"Spellbound." Veena answers. "Just like you were."
She approaches a lizardkin maid, her horns glowing as she pokes a finger into the woman's scaly forehead.
The maid gasps, surveys the room with eyes bulging from their sockets and then screams as she runs out of the mansion, limbs flailing.
"Awww." Penelo moans as she cuddles a golden statue and coddles its bits. "She needed a hug."
"Can you drop the plums, you damn fluff for brains!" Vuvi scowls while Veena snickers behind her. "We need to find Pip!"
They advance through the grand lobby of Syraleth's mansion, an eerie marvel of marble laced floors creased with veins of crimson, golden statues line the wide hallway and sleepwalking servants trot about with soft smiles and eyes glazed over.