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Chapter 9 by pablosrules pablosrules

A careless act, or a smart play?

A snap decision.

"Amina Malika is a devout follower, incapable and unwilling to refuse the will of her Master: Rose Atkinson."

Rose feels the red letters change at her will. The realization of what she'd done only dawns on her a few heartbeats later.

It was an impulse decision, one Rose made in an effort to free Amina from the clutches of John Doe. Clearly, this woman had been manipulated into servitude. She almost called him "Master" instead of "Mister" Doe.

Amina's eyes glaze over for the fraction of a second, before she seems to regain focus. "What did you need Master? - erhh I mean Ms. Atkinson?"

Amina corrected her sentence out of reaction, but then her eyes widen as she seems to truly focus on Rose.

Where Linda's expression changed from indifference to genuine fear upon learning what Rose was to her, Amina's expression showed revelation. Amina stands frozen with big eyes and mouth agape as if she'd solved an incredible puzzle by accident.

Rose heard steps echo into the sitting room from the entrance hall.

"Act like nothing's changed. We'll talk in a bit!" Rose hastily whispers to Amina, standing up from the couch.

She's felt like she's swimming in jello ever since that man looked into her eyes at the bus station. Ever since the reality of her power hit her, she's been feeling out of it. Like her thoughts are unable to focus, in a perpetually confused state, struggling to adapt to a new perspective.

She's changed the fetish of a random woman on the street that caused an impromptu sexual public display, coaxed a bystander into being an unwilling accomplice in a lackluster attempt to get to the bottom of this power she gained without rime or reason and walked right up to a massive mansion that apparently belongs to a guy that also has reality breaking superpowers.
She's been so hellbent on finding something to focus her restlessness, her confusion, her incapability of grasping at the ramifications of her new reality on, that she blazed a trail of careless decisions without taking even a second to breathe.

Now she'd actively used her power to make someone believe she was a "master". She willed someone to view her as more important than others.

As the steps in the entrance hall come closer, Rose desperately tries to spin her action into something that her conscience could digest.
She only did this to save Amina. Once this meeting with John Doe is over, she'd be able to order Amina to live her own life, to be free.
That would make it better, it would make it right. Right?

Rose's vision tunnels and her breath quickens. Her heartbeat rises up and up in her chest until each beat feels like she's swallowing a piece of food that gets stuck in her throat.

"A panic attack. Of course, Rose, great fucking timing." she thinks to herself, just as she sees Amina rush towards the door, where a tall man in a blue suit enters.

Uh-oh.

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