A Wolf's Howl, A Fairy's Wing

Emma and Emily sat comfortably on the cold, damp cave floor, their enchanted clothing providing a barrier against the chill that seeped from the stone. The air was thick with moisture, and the sound of dripping water continued to echo through the cavern.

They leaned up against the wall, while Amelia and Anders stood in the middle of the chamber, doll-eyed, and unmoving. Their minds locked away.

"You… ugh," Emma groaned, as she palmed her face after Emily's outrageous statement. "Now you're a voyeur as well? I thought that was Astrid's territory."

"Am I a voyeur?" Emily grinned, a little strangely. "Maybe I just like to watch other women succumb, because if I submitted to him, than what right do they have to defy him?"

"I don't know…" Emma narrowed her eyes suspiciously at her big sister. "That sounds an awful lot like you'd be okay even if he forced the issue."

"Absolutely not!" Emily quickly shook her head as if offended by the very notion. "Convincing them to give themselves to him willingly is part of the fun," she grinned lustfully.

Emma rolled her eyes, "You know, if I didn't trust Master, I'd almost think he did alter your mind somehow."

"Don't worry, it's all me…" Emily chuckled.

"I know," Emma smiled confidently.

Their trust in Erik was so high that the idea he might do something like that was inconceivable to them. Emily's playful demeanor shifted to something more serious. "I'm just releasing a lot of suppressed desires all at once," she admitted, her voice tinged with vulnerability. "But if you don't want to hear about them…"

"No, no!" Emma quickly denied. "I like the new you! You're freer, happier! Perhaps not nicer, but I can live with that."

"Good," Emily smiled, before standing up. "Anyway, I believe it's almost time. We should take up positions and prepare."

The girls hadn't been entirely idle in these last few hours of waiting. Instead, they had prepared for the moment the new guards would leave the bunker to relieve Amelia and Anders.

According to Emily's newest slaves, there were 5 more second-rankers inside the bunker. Four more guards, and a man called Lars, who was apparently Sigurd's right hand man, and also the man who was on the intercom earlier.

Now, if Emma and Emily only wanted to take down the two relieving guards, they could simply start a fight, and would likely win. After all, it would be two against four, with Amelia and Anders now on the sister's side.

But they wanted more. They wanted to take down the new guards silently, so that they could continue to infiltrate the base without anyone being the wiser. In a perfect world, they would take this bunker without any real fighting.

Emily's ability made this entirely possible.

Unfortunately, that meant they couldn't make a ruckus when the new guards arrived. They had ambush them.

For the purpose of this ambush, Emily had put down three sigils she had learned from Elora. The first was an obfuscation sigil.

Thus, when it was almost time for the relieve guards to arrive, the sister's took their place on the blind side of the door, while Anders and Amelia put their chairs in the middle of the chamber, backs turned towards the bunker.

"Are you sure they won't see us?" Emma asked, a little anxiously. Despite the fact they would be hidden by the opening door when the time came, there were still plenty of ways they could be spotted. If that happened, the plan would go awry very quickly.

"They might," Emily shrugged. "But that's what the obfuscation sigil is for. It doesn't make us invisible, but as long as they don't look directly at us, they won't consider us as actually being here. We only need to stay hidden for a few seconds, so it should be fine."

Plan B was to let Amelia and Anders simply reenter the bunker while Emma and Emily stayed hidden outside until they could take down the new guards in the same way. Unfortunately, that would not only delay their take over of the base by another eight hours, it would also significantly increase the chances of discovery. After all, it's not like Amelia and Anders were acting quite themselves.

Finally, with everything prepared, they waited.

After ten minutes, Emma and Emily were getting a little worried, thinking the people inside had figured something out after all, and their tension rose. But then, after fifteen minutes, a heavy clang echoed through the chamber, and the door slowly opened.

Emma and Emily quickly held their breath as two new vampires stepped out.

There were two men this time, one with red hair, the other with brown, and they walked into the cave laughing. "Hey, Anders!" the red-haired one exclaimed. "Was that really you earlier? Man, you should have seen the commander's face, he was livid!"

"Right?! His face was all red!" the other agreed, laughing with his partner. "You're in for a hell of an ass-whooping, my friend!"

Neither Anders nor Amelia answered, however, and the two vampires quickly became confused. "You think they're meditating?" the one with brown hair asked hesitantly, not stepping any closer, as he didn't want to disturb them.

Suddenly, Emma's and Emily's hearts stopped, when they heard a third voice coming from deeper in the bunker, a female one. "So what if they're meditating? Are you going to be the one to explain to the commander that the guard schedule has become all messed up?"

"Yeah, just wake them up," a fourth voice added, another male, annoyed and impatient. "You dragged us out of bed to hold your hands, and I wanna get back to sleeping! Clearly, Anders and Amelia are fine."

Emma and Emily grew even more tense now. They had expected two second-rankers, but it looked like all four of the remained guards were here. The other two remained in the for bunker for now, however, so they couldn't see them yet.

"Screw you!" one of the first two vampires cursed over his shoulder, his face twisted with irritation. "We woke you on the commander's orders! He wanted all four of us here to make sure there wasn't anything more going on with that quaking earlier!"

At this point, the vampire looking over his shoulder was technically able to see Emma and Emily, but the obfuscation sigil was messing with his perception of them.

"Crap," Emily cursed bitterly through her marriage bond so that Emma could hear. "Guess they suspected something after all… I hate it when our enemies are smart."

"So… what do you want to do, big Em?" Emma asked, perfectly willing to follow her big sister's lead.

At the urging of the two vampires still in the bunker, the front two started approaching Emily's slaves faster, meaning Emily's window of making a decision was closing quickly.

She bit her lip and her eyes darted back and forth. At this moment, she hated that the distance between them and Erik was too large, meaning they couldn't communicate right now, only find each other.

Finally, however, her eyes became determined. "Master is counting on us, Emma… We need to be in control when the Enclave and Dominion start fighting, which means we can't wait. We follow the plan, and improvise with the other two."

"Alright," Emma nodded with determination that equaled her sister's. "I'm right behind you, big Em. Just… be careful."

"You, too, little Em," Emily smiled fondly, and gave the orders to Anders and Amelia.

At that same moment the first two vampires reached their motionless comrades. They were about to shake their shoulders, when the two slaves suddenly jumped up, turned around, and tackled the red-haired vampire at the same time; one went low, the other high.

The red-haired vampire, Anders, and Amelia all rolled over the floor, away from the brown haired one, who was still in the process of reacting to this sudden development.

"Wha—" he began, with wide eyes, but he never got any further. Emily activated the second sigil she had placed in the chamber. Lightning chains erupted from the ground, snaking around the brown-haired vampire and binding him in place. Even his mouth was gagged, causing him to release muffled roars of anger as he struggled against his bonds.

This was the sigil Elora had used to bind Seraphina in London, and Olaf in Frostvik. Emily was far from capable of making it as strong as Elora did, however. Thus, it was only able to hold a single vampire for a short time. Which was why the red-haired vampire needed to get out of the way.

The choice of which vampire to immobilize was purely guesswork, however. Emily had no idea which one of them was more powerful or had more annoying skills.

Next, the last two guards came storming furiously out of the bunker. "What the hell is going on here?!" a male black-haired vampire exclaimed angrily.

"Anders! Amelia! What the fuck are you doing?! And who put a sigil here?!" a blond, female vampire followed right after.

"Wait, don't come out with me!" the black-haired vampire cried out at his female companion. "We don't know what's going on! Go get the commander!"

"Right!" the woman nodded quickly, and turned around to go back, but suddenly found her way blocked. The open doorway into the bunker was overgrown with a wall of plants and roots.