TWELVE |■ FATHER OF LIES ■| I listened to an inner voice that was not mine, in that moment it was important for me to do so. I woke up in my bed, well rested and completely unscathed but memories of last night at the Mauve mansion were still fresh in my mind, much to my dismay because I so wanted, so wished for all the frightening, jumbled madness to have been one long, bad dream. After tenths of minutes rubbing my eyes and stretching my limbs while my mind dabbled on figuring out a way, any way that I made it back to my bedroom when the last I remember Sir Steed in his beastly creature form had cornered me in the guest bedroom- I decided to give up on finding answers. I was not sedated, I was not blindfolded and stuffed into a body sac, I fainted, and only the universe knows what si