And she also does Legal Majority parties. I mean, who doesn’t love a good orgy?

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na-Nilina
Weird Al.

Magenta
Say what?

na-Nilina
My hair. I’m fan of Weird Al Yankovic.

Magenta
Oh? I never asked β€˜cause I was afraid it was some High Born thing. Like how The Countess and her henchmaid, have their hair.

na-Nilina
Realy? Sure I kept my birth name, but I broke with my family and that High Born slash Purist crap when I joined ExCorps. I thought everyone knew that. I must rethink how I do my hair.

And please don’t be so hard on Hand na-B’Lili. She’s not really into the elitist High Born traditions either, but she’s her mother’s only surviving family.

Magenta
Wait. A child given to the demon, Belili, is a sole survivor?

na-Nillina
Yes. Hand na-B’Lili was in a medical center intensive care unit as a baby when Habit Aesop broke up. The rest of their family was lost.

Akane
Given to the demon?

na-Nilina
The β€œna-” prefix in High Born tradition means that the child’s life is given over. One, like me, is dedicated to a goddess. Nilina in my case. Another, usually the sickliest, is dedicated to a demon. The tradition is that will keep the rest of the family free of evil. And if the child survives, she becomes the family scapegoat. So having the β€œbad baby” be one’s only surviving child must be like a curse.

Akane
So na-B’Lili tries to be a good daughter?

na-Nilina
And I was supposed to be a temple priestess. Tho, the family temple was lost with that same habit breakup. I’m a real disappointment to my mother for joining ExCorps and not establishing a new temple.

However, I do still officiate bond and wedding ceremonies.