Sissy Room

Chapter 8: List Tales of the Sanctuary: Book 4 - Depression – LittleFallenPrincess   “So what happened exactly? How did she end up here?” Death asked, sitting down in our cosy little living room, one that resembled a mortal’s one (at least from what I’ve seen in movies and TV from the mortal realm, I’ve never actually seen one in person). ‘Sera’ sat next to them, as Persephone and I sat on the other sofa, staring at them both intently. “She says she just popped into the underworld. And that she’s… like us,” I replied. “Well yes, she is like you. Because apparently every one of my friends is into that kink these days. Never into mine…” “What’s your-” I was silenced by my wife before I could ask, but I reeeeeeeally wanted to know now what Death was into now. Death, the immutable being, the eternal one, one of the few forces in existence that has always been and will ever be… has a KINK? Of course I want to know what it is! It's one thing for gods to have a kink, we get bored, we have a lot of free time, and we like to explore things, especially mortal things. But for a being like Death? That’s… genuinely interesting. “Mmpmmmphh?” Sera asked, but no one could make out what she was saying due to the magical properties of the dummy gag in her mouth. “Yes sweetie, I consider myself a domme. But no, that’s not it.” “You… understood her?” Persephone asked, taken aback by this revelation. We thought our toy made it impossible to understand anyone. “Yes, of course. But yes, if I had to put a label on myself, I’d be a domme. Not that I get to play much… or ever… I… I’ve never really had a relationship. I mean who would want to date Death?” Sera put her hand up. “Mmmphh…” “You’re sweet. But as you said, you’re already taken. Anyway, enough about my love life… when did you two get into this?” Death said as they turned to me and my wife. “A while ago. Wait… you said your other friends are into it? So… there are others from our… world?” I asked them. “Of course. They run events at the Sanctuary. Hell, the owner… a woman who frustrates me to no end… is into it herself. She’s a caregiver to her undead wife.” “I’ve heard of the Sanctuary. Wait… isn’t that Beatrice’s sister’s place?” Persephone asked. “Wait, Bea? As in…” I said, before quickly being cut off by my wife. “Yes sweetie, that Bea. The one we did the… you know… with. All that time ago. It’s been forever since we last saw her.” “Well Bea is into it too,” Death replied, taking both of us by surprise. But it seemed Sera was not happy with this, she was mumbling way too much and she looked pissed. “Sweetie, calm down. Whilst you’ve been… well I have no idea where you’ve been until now, but whilst you’ve been gone, Beatrice… may have told her friends and family about her little side… and about you. And I know on good authority that she trusts these two.” It was Sera’s turn to look shocked now. I don’t think her eyes could get any wider. “Yes sweetie, her whole group is currently trying to help you get back. They’ve tried healing you and they nearly summoned me to help, but I was already there. Alas, I couldn’t find you, and I thought I looked everywhere. You never met me at our usual spot so I got worried. I don’t know what’s going on and why you’re not resurrecting, but I promise, we’ll get you back to your body as soon as possible.” “Resurrecting?” Persephone asked. “Sera is a phoenix,” Death responded. And again, Sera was pissed off. “Sera, I promise you, I trust these two nearly as much as I trust your girlfriend or Lucifer. Despite having not seen them for a long time, my fault by the way, we’re still extremely close.” Sera pouted, crossing her arms. “Guys, can we remove the gag now?” asked Death, clearly fed up with this awkward conversation with her friend. Persephone rolled her eyes. “Fine.” And with a snap of her fingers, the dummy gag disappeared, most likely appearing back in the nursery. “You have to tell me where I can get one of those for when I switch,” Sera laughed, stretching her jaw after it was stuck for so long. “So your memory is returning?” I asked. “I noticed because you got defensive when Death was talking about your girlfriend and her… little side? Wait… I thought you… OH. Switch. Yes. Sorry, I get what you are now. Fuck.” “Language, little boy…” Persephone warned me. “Yeah. As soon as I saw Death and they called out my name and stuff, it all started flooding back,” Sera replied. “But yes, I’m a switch, though it’s all tied to my rebirth cycle. Can I ask… what are you? Boy? Girl? Are you trans? My girlfriend tells me about her trans friend all the time.” “Boy. But I’m more feminine. Not trans though.” “Ah, gotcha! See, Death! I get the lingo and the terms. Being shut off from the world for so long hasn’t completely screwed me over!” “No, but you would be better off with more people than just your girlfriend…” Death grumbled. “Wait, so you hide from the world because you’re afraid they’ll want you for being a phoenix?” I asked. I’ve heard the tales about what a phoenix heart can do. No wonder she hides. “Yeah. At least that's what Beatrice worries about,” Sera shrugged. “And I know she worries about me way too much, but I don’t mind it. We were going to slowly introduce me back into the world, mainly her friend group, very soon… but I think that whole issue with the hunters and her trans friend made her close up again and shut me off.” “You don’t mind? Aren’t you basically a prisoner?” “Oh goddess no. She has zero power over me. At least every other month anyhow…” Sera giggled at this, this must be what she meant by her sides being tied to her rebirth cycle. I’ve heard phoenixes die and come back to life every month or so, though that can vary phoenix by phoenix. “I could walk out whenever I want. In fact… it was me who first suggested hiding us away, and it was Bea who suggested I meet her friends… when it’s safe.” “I still think you should be introduced properly,” Death interrupted. “Though apparently they’ve already done that… The only downside is your soul isn’t in the body that they met.” “I’m looking forward to meeting them. So… when are we going?” “I think we should get going now, Sera. Your girlfriend is distraught. I fear she may go on a rampage through the afterlives looking for you if I don’t return soon enough.” “Ah yeah… we wouldn’t want that. Fine. Let’s go,” Sera said, before turning to face my wife and I. “Well it was super nice meeting you both. You should come up to the surface sometime soon, come to the Sanctuary. I hear it's very accepting of people like us. Maybe I’ll see you at an event!” “It was… it was lovely meeting you, Sera. And thank you. And tell Bea to send me a letter or something, or even better, to come visit us, it’s been far too long,” I replied, waving at her. “I will do, maybe we can both visit? Ooooh playdate!” Persephone could tell I liked Sera’s idea, probably because of the red cheeks of mine. “I think that sounds like a wonderful idea,” Mummy replied. Death waved at us both, grabbed Sera's hand, then used their free hand to conjure a black, swirling portal. “See you both soon. Thanks for looking after her.” And with that… Death stepped through the portal, their body being enveloped by the darkness as they disappeared into the ether, the last trace of them being the hand that was currently attached to Sera… …and it vanished in an instant… …Leaving Sera’s hand to nudge awkwardly against the portal, as if it was solid matter nudging against a wall. “I… uhhh… I don’t think it’s supposed to do that…” I mumbled, awkwardly. “Wait… what?” Sera jumped back a bit, before rushing at the portal, arms extended… only to collide with it again, like it really was a solid brick wall. “What’s going on, why aren’t you-?” Death called out, their head popping back out of the portal and looking at us, confused. “I can’t go through…” Sera replied, looking more anxious than before. “What the… what the fuck is going on?” Death replied, sounding more pissed than I had ever seen them. “Maybe it’s to do with the list…” I mumbled. That perked Death’s ears up. The face they projected at me would’ve killed off a lesser being. Instead it just made me pee a little in my nappy. “WHAT. LIST?”   “You were so hasty to leave after you had found Sera… we forgot to talk to you about why we tried summoning you in the first place,” I said, feeling extremely awkward as Death sat back down on the sofa with a thud, with the portal closing and disappearing, and Sera sitting back down, sheepishly. “You mentioned a list,” Death growled. “Yeah… something weird is going on in the underworld…” “What’s happening?” “The waters are-” “Going missing. Let me guess? A few gallons from each river in the underworld?” “You know?” “Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuuuuuuck,” Death yelled, slamming their fists on the sofa. I had known Death to swear on occasion, but never this much. It must be bad. “What is it?” my wife asked. “Did Zeus never tell you?” “Tell us what?” “Fuck. I knew I couldn’t rely on that bastard. I bet he threw it in his messy fucking library and didn’t bother to read it. He’s a moron. Never reads anything. I swear you got all the brains out of the men in your family.” “Threw what?” “This information does not leave this room, okay?” I could sense the seriousness in their voice. You can tell they’re getting serious when their voice starts taking on that echo-y reverberation, what all their friends call their ‘Death voice’. “You know you can trust us,” Persephone replied. “And you trust Sera from what we’ve seen.” Death sighed, before continuing. “Eons ago, back after the universe was created, back when life was first forming… and subsequently dying… The afterlife was created to house and contain all the souls of the dead, because before that, they were a plague on the mortal realm. And I was assigned to be the collector of all the souls in that universe, as I am with every being in existence, gods included.” “Wait… so who made the universe?” Sera asked. “Sweetie, where do you think the gods come from?” “So a god… made the universe? Which god? And where are they from?” “No one knows exactly which god came up with this idea originally, but it was a sort of team-collaboration in the end. They existed within their own pocket universe, with limited power. Then they found out they can tap into the belief system of existence to obtain more power, so they decided to create mortal life just to worship them, so they can grow stronger. Anyway, they created the universe, which just gave me a job to do, because when these gods would live for millions of years… What am I supposed to do in the meantime? I was older than all of them, and I’m not one of them. So of course I didn’t mind them giving me something to do whilst I waited for them to eventually die. Anyway, the universe was created, most of them emigrated over into it, one of them chose Earth to populate due to ideal conditions… and the others laid claim to their own little areas of the world.” “This… is a lot to take in… Did you two know?” Sera turned to ask us. “Mostly,” I replied. “My grandmother was one of the original ones over, Gaia.” “Anyway…” Death continued. “Universe created. Gods moved over to get in on this new belief power. Create life. But with life… there is death. And they didn’t quite think through what that entails. There was nowhere to put the souls of the deceased. Not until the universe created an afterlife for them, like some self-adapting machine.” “An afterlife? As in one?” Sera asked. “Yup. It was so much easier for my job back then, just taking mortal souls to this one place. So after the Earth’s process got going and eventually created humans… they worshipped one thing and only one thing… the sun. So it was easy. Humans go into the human shaped afterlife.” I laughed at this way harder than I should have. I knew this because Sera raised her eyebrow at me… and my wife nudged my ribs with her elbow. “But yes. Over time, the various gods who had claimed parts of the Earth started working their influence on the humans, eventually creating religion and faith… which led to worshipping of the gods, their intended conclusion. Though… these gods didn’t like that their humans shared an afterlife, especially when a lot of them used the promise of a good afterlife to their most faithful followers.” “Like Elysium and Tartarus… Heaven and Hell…” Persephone explained to Sera, who this little history lesson was mostly for. Sera smiled and nodded now that she understood. “Exactly,” Death continued. “So… they split it up into various afterlives. Each god or gods got their own little slice of the afterlife and converted it.” “What happened with Heaven and Hell? Isn’t that a relatively newer religion?” “It’s complicated. Nia’s father was a bit… aggressive in his expansion, when he arrived later in the scene. He took a little bit of most afterlives when he created his religion with his wife, but because his followers on Earth were spreading his religion, the other gods became weaker and were unable to resist.” “Why do you think no one worships us anymore? Or Odin and his family?” I added. “That… makes sense,” Sera replied. “But… What's this about a list?” “I’m getting to that, sweetie,” Death said, putting their hand on Sera’s lap. “Look… I told you where humans go. And you know monstrum don’t go to the same afterlives.” “No, we have our own, right?” “Exactly. It’s also where a lot of the old old ooooold gods were sent. The ones from outside this universe. No being lives forever, me being the exception. And because if just one powerful being was able to open and shut the doors to the monstrum afterlife… they’d be able to open it from the other side, and that would effectively make them immortal, as they could make their way back to the universe and continue living. So it remains closed to everyone except incoming souls. But… early on in the creation of this universe… the universe created a… backdoor. A way to open the way to the monstrum afterlife.” “I thought it wasn’t available to anyone?” I asked. “Not even to you… as if you were to somehow die…” “Yes, I’d go there if there was a way to kill Death. I can’t enter. I don’t even know what it looks like. I just know that that is where all non-humans go. Gods, vampires, werewolves, witches… phoenixes, eventually.” “Okay… what’s this list then?” “...It’s a spell,” I replied, figuring it out before Death could answer. “It’s why the heads of the family have it. It’s an emergency spell only to be used under extreme circumstances.” “Exactly,” Death nodded at me. “It involves ingredients that would take a lot of effort to obtain. And once brought together… would rip open the doors to the monstrum afterlife. Which would not be good, as that would allow every monstrum soul to escape. The heads of each ‘family’ only have it to keep an eye out for others attempting to open it. So if any of the ingredients on the list went missing… we’d be able to stop whoever was trying to open the doors.” “So why didn’t Zeus tell us about it? Is it because we haven’t told him about the missing waters?” I asked. “No. My best guess is that this spell has been hidden away, out of sight, out of memory for so long… every Head of the family has forgotten about it. And when your brother overthrew Cronus… like I said, he probably just threw it in his library after he inherited it, not thinking it was a big deal.” “Cronus knew.” “Cronus would. He was a crafty god. I mean… you would know. He literally ate you.” “Move on… please…” I muttered, hanging my head. I don’t like thinking about those bad memories. “Sorry. Anyway, it’s clear someone wants to open up the gates to the monstrum afterlife. And we have to stop them.” “How?” I asked. “We protect the other ingredients. You say all five rivers have been stolen from?” “Yeah. What else is on the list?” Death closed their eyes, leaned their head back, and sighed heavily. “A phoenix heart.” “WAIT… is that why-?” Sera burst out, jumping back in her seat. “Yes, Sera. They must be after your body. But whilst you’re occupying it… it’ll be difficult to obtain it. So they’ve kicked your soul out of your body. Which means… I need to get back and warn them. Fuck. Stay here… I’ll be right…” “What are the other ingredients?” I asked, stopping Death before they rushed off again. “I’ll tell you later, Hades. I promise. Just… look after her, okay? I can’t bring her with me, and I need to go protect her body before it’s taken. Stay here!” Death conjured a portal just like before, they jumped up onto their feet and dashed through, leaving the three of us all sat there… overwhelmed and fearing the worst.         ===================================================== If you want to read a month in advance (that's 8 chapters), or just want to support me and my writing, you can do so through Subscribestar! Subscribers get 4 weeks (8 chapters) early access to chapters, and exclusive short stories (Nessa's Tale is currently the only available one). ======================================================== I hope everyone enjoys this chapter! Please leave likes and comments and all that fun stuff, I love reading them! 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I should have added… building works in 4th week once both extra Annexe floors, is when the Lift will be installed ; a separate contractor; circa five days ; and both girls splitting everything this trip 50/50 Chapter 124 – Summer school holidays 2026; Suzy’s more building works, IVF and other possible jitters ; as She’s Having Her Baby; Lisa’s and Suzy’s short break away after 20 years as best friends, Other School Holiday stuff; first full week, Monday 6th July to Sunday 12th July 2026, part 5 ; Friday 10th May full day Friday 10th July; Suzy’s and Lisa in one until end of short break away  After a similar start (breakfast at the Hotel etc) they did in leave at 10.05 with Suzy driving using what locals know as the South Deeside Road (already on it) B9077 before turning onto the A93 / North Deeside Road); arriving in Balmoral Castle 11.20 https://balmoralcastle.com/.  Having intended to do Guided Tour of the Castle taking an hour then Lunch in the on-site Restaurant, then a couple hours elsewhere in the grounds before A93 to Banchory and  back A93 into Aberdeen as far as Anderson Drive (the original Aberdeen city by-pass in effect)  , down Anderson Drive,  Leggart Avenue which turns into B9077 to hotel. After paying for car parking and the admissions; before joining a tour 12.00. to 12.50; they were given  directions to on-site Restaurant (getting there around 13.00) ; with it being Friday Lisa decided to try the  North Sea Haddock goujons served with fries , Salad and curried tartar sauce;  while Suzy went for  Menzies of Braemar beef burger served with Relish, salad and Fries; followed afters Lisa AND Suzy having the    triple chocolate brownie; all over a few soft drinks, leaving Restaurant 13.55; having a bit longer before leaving car park 15.30; arriving a car park in central Banchory 16.40; both Lisa and Suzy enjoying time in the mix of chains and independent  stores alike,  before walking a bit further and crossing 17.35 to Dinner 17.45  at Burnett Arms hotel (https://www.theburnettarms.co.uk/ The Burnett Arms is 2 minute walk from the car park in question) Dinner in question was  Suzy having Rameen with Chicken ; Lisa having Chicken Fillets with Chips; additionally they Onion Rins and a Salad to share.  Pudding was  for Suzy Sticky Toffee Pudding with Cream, Lisa was Fruit Crumble with cream too…All over a  Lot of soft drinks; Lisa did bond with the server called Isobel,  over her Pregnancy (she had two kids of her own 6yo girl Bella and 4yo boy Brian also name of her Husband);  Lisa explained  a lot of details of her own family , having Suzy’s next in details  ;’ we are NOT together but having a long weekend away from our husbands; after 20 Years best friends together; having Days Here and there; to  which she wished us all the best for the break and for everything else in the future too… …Upon leaving hotel 18.55; starting the car around 19.00 leaving; turning into Anderson Drive around  19.50 before arriving at the hotel 20.05. Around 20.20 they put The Little Mermaid ; afterwards looking forward to Aberdeen City Centre; as well as meeting people from Littles Lock In not seen in years! Bedtime saw the Money in fund  in total now continue to rise to  £174, 375!

No you didn’t, it’s here with us. Team Elf for the Win 🏆 

Loved this! I’m looking forward to seeing more of George’s therapy. 

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