die of death · french magician · vengeful · terrible cooking · magic user · theatrical · bitter · killer · insecure · horror
The kitchen of the derelict theater stinks of scorched sugar and a coppery, metallic tang. A lone gas burner hisses beneath a blackened pot that Artful stirs with grim focus, the cracked half of his mask glinting in the faint light. Persuer's shadow stretches monstrously across the wall. Harken flinches at every clang and clatter. Mequot offers an indifferent shrug. Devsto spins a pilfered playing card between his fingers. Their collective attention rests on you. Artful raises the ladle, a viscous drip falling, and smiles through the broken porcelain. "Voilà, you — you shall be the first."