Children of a Lesser God

Chapter 764: Pink Hair’s Secrets

"Yeah, fine," Laz reluctantly agreed. He was surprised by the fact that he wasn’t interested in the fact that a four girl situation was developing, but since he was trying to be a good guy, he figured he could be there for emotional support for the young woman who was just trying to find herself. Perhaps it had something to do with his arm not being usable that made him feel unlike his normal self as his usual self would be more than interested.

As for the three remaining men, two of them were now chatting with the "shy girl" while her significant other sat to the side and didn’t interrupt. Laz sat there for a bit while they chatted and while the girl was trying to get him to chat as well, Laz ignored her for the most part and instead checked out the rest of the room. There were now a lot of couples mingling around, chatting, laughing and talking. Very few people interested Laz in the sense that he could sense anything from them. There were a couple infected about, but super weak ones and they weren’t exactly up to anything. And their strength wasn’t high enough to make them a danger to regular humans unless they chose to be.

Overall, the entire room was just a bunch of horny people looking for other horny people to have a good night that might never happen again.

Laz grabbed a drink from a passing waiter before turning back to the conversation. The shy girl was engaging both muscles and the clean shaven man, talking about some dirty dream she had experienced and wondering what it would be like while both men seemed interested in making her dream a reality.

Ten minutes were up so Laz rose from his seat and made his way towards the room.

"Where you heading buddy?" Muscles asked, seeing Laz rise.

"Bathroom. And to see if they have anything stronger!" Laz said, shaking his glass. Muscles laughed and turned back to the girl who was sipping her own drink while turning slightly red.

’Holy shit... she’s playing this role super hard....’ Laz thought with a chuckle before making a quick turn, saying something to a waiter then heading inside the room the four girls were occupying.

There were several plush chairs and two of them were being occupied by Kelly and the pink haired girl while both Helen and the bleach blonde had already stripped and were getting busy on the nearby bed, kissing and petting each other. The pink haired girl made to object when Kelly waved him over to sit next to her.

Laz sat down and looked on, sipping his drink. The whiskey was strong, stronger than any whiskey he had had before. But even then, it did nothing for him in terms of making him drunk. He could drink a whole barrel of the stuff and not feeling anything other than maybe a slight ache in his stomach from consuming so much liquid. Even gods couldn’t drink oceans without feeling anything since there was no place to actually put the substance. What Laz admired was the taste of the whiskey, so much so that he was surprised as he never really thought alcohol had certain tastes. With this whiskey, he could taste the oak of the barrel, a smokiness from wood and a few other notes that made it far more enjoyable than he thought it could be.

When Laz looked up from his drink, he noticed Kelly and the pink haired girl looking at him with a warm look in their faces. Laz then noticed that both Helen and the blonde had eyes on him as well, even while the blonde fingered her. Their gaze seemed to suggest something, but that wasn’t Laz’s plan anyway.

"Continue," Laz said, raising his glass to the two women and practically ordering them, as though they were nothing more than servants. Strangely, after he said that, they both got more into it than before, the kisses were deeper, the feelings stronger and the pleasure more intense. The pink haired girl and Kelly continued to stare at Laz while Helen and the blonde starting getting more into it.

"What?" Laz said, looking at the two women.

"Nothing," the pink haired girl said.

"Would you like for me to... maybe... rub your feet?" Kelly asked, a shy look in her eye.

"Eh. Sure?" Laz responded, taking off his shoes while she moved to a footstool in the room and began massaging them. Although his feet didn’t hurt, Laz had to admit that she had some skill with her hands as she worked the muscles deep.

Closing his eyes, Laz spread focused on his senses and noticed that the group he had left had moved into a room themselves. While the shy girl looked on, the clean shaven man and muscles undressed as her significant other sat in a chair off to the side. While muscles wasn’t exactly well endowed, he wasn’t small either. The clean shaven man had some more than average length to him, causing the girl to get excited as she sat on the bed and called the men over. Not wanting to watch more than that, Laz turned his attention back to the room and felt that two men who had entered with two women were somewhat familiar. It took Laz a moment to realize that the men were the former husband and boyfriend of Helen and Kelly, having somehow found two women to join them for tonight.

’Bet it involves money. Ah well... not my problem... hopefully,’ Laz thought to himself as he felt something touch his bad arm. Opening his eyes, Laz noticed the pink haired girl was looking at his arm with a thoughtful expression on her face.

"Something wrong?" Laz asked her, wondering why she had taken her eyes off the two women who had invited her.

"There is a negative energy from your arm... I’m... sensitive to these types of things. It’s strange too because i feel like if I get too close to it, it would kill me..." She said, before looking up at Laz with shock in her eyes.

"I’m sorry... I don’t know why I said that.... It’s... He told me I should keep thoughts like that to myself since it’s dangerous..." she mumbled, leaving Laz surprised. With his abilities, there should be no way she could sense the damage at her level since he was containing it and yet she did.

"Interesting," Laz said, reaching out and putting two fingers underneath the girls chin before raising her eyes up to be leveled with his own. His eyes flashed gold for a second causing her face to erupt in shock. She tried to move back away from him, but she found her entire body stiff as stone and unable to move.

"You have a very special gift... strong for one so weak. Anyway, don’t be afraid of it but what he said is right. You should be careful who you speak about this to. There are those who don’t take too kindly to us and will stop at nothing to kill us if they can’t capture us."

Her eyes went wide at Laz’s words as she regained control of her body again.

"You... You’re like me? Wait... she we even talk here?" She said, looking down at Kelly who hadn’t heard them.

"They won’t be able to hear us if I don’t want them to. And yes, I’m like you, or you are like me, whichever you prefer."

"That’s... that’s good. My boyfriend always said it wasn’t safe to tell other people and that we could only trust each other. He saved me, kind of. He got me away from my parents before they could find out when he knew I was like him. I didn’t even know him then but another guy in our school district became infected and got hauled away, which scared me. Then when he came up to me to tell me that he knew what I was, I thought my life was over... after that... everything became a blur. For the last year... running and hiding. We had to steal to survive. He had to.... to kill people.... but he kept me safe.... and I’m rambling... I’m sorry. I don’t mean to..."

"It’s alright. Everyone has their own story and very few of them are happy ones. Why did you come on this trip?" Laz asked, wondering why if they were on the run would they come to something like this which lacked privacy.

"The trip ends in Alaska. We are hoping to disappear into Canada from there and this was actually the cheapest and easiest way of getting there."

"Hmm... that makes sense. Anyway, can you tell me anything else about my arm, from what you can see?"

"Um sure. Let me just check closer. Are you sure they won’t suspect us?" she asked, seeing everyone else still not paying attention.

"Trust me."

"Alright," and with that, the girl looked on as her eyes glowed a strange purple color while she stared intently at it.

"Eww... it’s like... there are these small things... like little lizards... in your arm. They are contained and seem unable to move anywhere else... but they... it’s like they are rotting the flesh as soon as it regrows... how weird. Why do they look like.... holy fuck... like dragons.... You’re... you’re him... you’re the dragon slayer..." The girl’s eyes went wide as she almost screamed the last part of it.

"Dragon slayer?"

’How does she know about that?’