War Room

[Solara]

“What are they planning?” Solara demanded. “Where was this meeting?”

The scene shifted to the various women Bartyn had been with until it settled on him and a brunette. They were in bed laughing about something. Bartyn brushed the woman’s hair back revealing a face that looked very much like Kinsey’s.

Solara took a step back trying to pull herself from the memory and back to the meeting with Dominus. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't pull free she only sank deeper and deep into the memory.

[Bartyn]

"Like what you see?" Bartyn taunted. "Empress K'n'zy... only woman in the multiverse that I wouldn't kill because she actually earned my admiration." he said and smiled wickedly. "Dominus was defeated in her reality, one of the few in which a K'n'zy dominated a Dominus. Dominus doesn't quite like that, but the one I work for... he remembers these things, stays away from those where a version of him lost. Keeps an eye on the ones who survive. After all there is a Prime version of each of us... just a matter of weeding out the weaker ones from the mulitverse."

[Solara]

Solara turned her lavender eyes on him, ones that looks so much like her mother's. She could see clearly what her mother could have turned Clint into if he had stayed with her. What would her life have been like if he had? For a brief moment a pang of jealously ran through her. She would have had a father and she would still have been a child. How many versions of her were out there? Their pairing didn't seem to be a multi-verse norm.

"If he hates her then why are you working for him?" Solara inquired, forcing those thoughts aside.

[Bartyn]

"He values those who can achieve his goals." Bartyn said as he looked at her. "Of course I am getting out of here. Only a matter of time. Ajem are nothing if not patient." he could certainly see some of K'n'zy's distinctive features in her face, even a little of his own. "So... a K'n'zy and a version of myself created you. Nice work... of course your telepathy is nothing like her's. She could make a man or woman peel the skin from their bones with a smile on their face. She could find any secret she wanted. Crush anyone that got in her way. You don't have that."

[Solara]

"You don't know what I have and I think I know exactly what that telepath found." Solara said as she nodded towards K'n'zy and Bartyn going for another round. "We all have our weaknesses and this is one of your stronger memories."

[Bartyn]

"Oh I don't consider it a weakness at all... strong because she's a good lay and pays me more than I ask because I deliver. Just like I deliver for Dominus." he replied. "What did you find?" he asked, he tried to block her but in trying to block her, he gave her more entre into his mind and his memories, but she was unskilled, they came flooding at her more than before. Dozens of kills, brutal beatings, Ajem style beat downs. All punctuated by some aggressive and brutal sex with K'n'zy before he left her reality to aide in trying to ensure her realm remained her own.

[Solara]

The wave of memories flashed by quickly until they were nothing more then a blur.

“Stop.” Solara said softly closing her eyes against the images but they only played faster. “Stop!” She yelled collapsing to the floor clutching her head.

[Bartyn]

"Guess you bit off more than you can chew kid." Bartyn said with a wicked smile. "Need a bit more trainin'... funny, my Empress never really had kids, or at least none that survived. Probably blew their brains out when they couldn't hack goin' into other people's heads."

[Solara]

“Get out!” Solara screamed clawing at the memories in a vain effort to find her way back out. Her screams echoing in the real world.

[Bartyn]

Bartyn smiled. "I'm diggin' the screams..." he had a wicked smile. "There's even more in there... but yeah... I'm not your daddy in the least."

Jonas rushed to her side. "Here... inhibitor... " he slapped the door and closed the window blocking Bartyn off from view.

"I'm still in her head... and I will always be in her head now." Bartyn laughed wickedly.