House Party

[Sage]

The Emissary fled the body in prusuit of whatever power it had felt and left him standing there with a singular command "stay". He didn't have any reason to do anything else, and he sure didn't feel like moving much less dancing or even in intercourse. Right now his body hurt, he always hurt after the Emissary left his body. His mind was dull, his senses drawn tight. It was worse than waking up with a hangover tenfold.

He barely registered the party raging outside his body. The dark figure who crept up to him was not completely unnoticed but their ambiguous attention didn't matter. At least it didn't matter until they tried to remove the mask. Faster than he thought he could move given his state his hand was wrapped tightly around their wrist squeezing and pulling it from the edge of the mask.

The glowing eyes turned in their direction but it made no sound to deter them further. Had they managed to gaze upon his face, he was certain they would see nothing but a vacant void. That's how it felt looking in the mirror. The Emissary would be angry if their face were revealed to anyone other than his parents. No one knew who he as, and it was supposed to remain that way. Fleeing from the body would be the only other course of action and he didn't want that. To live like this on a regular basis would be cause for death. He could not live without the light of the Emissary.

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The Emissary followed the circuits through the house. To the source of where the power fled after it had arrived again. It felt different -- strange, but familiar all the same. It wanted to know more. But once inside the room the Emissary could not follow. The circuits were not part of the system. The internet for which it could travel did not penetrate that room. The air gaps between devices too large to jump in this form. How?

In it's fury and frustration the music on the speakers flickered in and out as it raged inside the power system. The lights that had been turned off flickered with its rage before a few bulbs popped in a nearby room. But they remained off when the jolt of power surged through the system.

The enemy was keeping him from something. It wanted to know. It fled back to the body. The body could enter...