The first was very much changed from what he used to be, a chitinous green and ichor-drooling horror no longer. N'astirh currently looked far more palatable, in a very human-seeming body, once you ignored the lime-green skin, lack of pupils, and headband/armguard/greave-seeming sections of horny chitin which looked like applied armor, despite still being a part of the former Demon Rebel. (There were also spikes barely showing out the back of each elbow.) He blinked and asked his companion "Say, you have any reason why I got made a part of this? I seem to recall rather definitvely dying, you know?"
The other demon snorted. He was really built for it, too, not having changed outwardly a bit from this business. Seven and a half feet tall, about five feet wide--check. Purple skin and classically demonic humanoid features--check. Stash of Cornucopia-replicating cigars from that alternate Wolverine, one in his mouth as always--check. Green bolero-style vest, for that finishing touch of oddness--Check and doublecheck, it's S'ym all right.
S`ym was, as always, right to the point. "Twisted magic picked you up from before that whole Inferno mess and fed you info on all later events, what else? Be it ever so ^#@%ed-up, there's no place like Home--'til now, at least. Count your Curses! At least *you* don't have a original who might show up to queer our sweet new shot at living!"
N'astirh heaved out a sigh and a cloud of steam that smelled like clover, as he replied "Which reminds me--you going to make a play? I'd rather not have to get killed again, if what I felt last time's anything like a standard for it."
The comeback from the somewhat caustic-speaking demon beside N'astirh was "Yeah, and maybe I can even take a single step within a mile of the palace? Not gonna happen, pal--I'm dead sure that if we remember what our source material did, then so does the new Boss! I'm not *even* going to get noticed by her unless she wants me, since I like my lungs on the inside, thank you very much!"
N'astirh simply nodded, as that was his intention too. "Sounds like a plan! I'm gonna go explore the new Underplane Caverns here, make sure whether I'm the only resurrectee around here. Between that first set of X-men and that whore servant of the Elder Gods, Belasco, it just doesn't pay to keep your guard down."
S'ym frowned and clenched his stogie between his fangs from the mere contemplation of that gross-out possibility. "I'll do the same up here on the surface. Frankly, I'd rather be done up my purple rear by the Undercloaks than put up with Belly-Up again for even ten seconds."
N'astirh was walking away a bit, but that last comment gave him pause. He asked cautiously "I know I'm gonna regret, but I'm asking.. How many Undercloaks?"
S'ym smirked as only he could while firing back "ALL of them. ..Got a problem with that?"
The green demon shuddered, then thought about it, finally saying slowly "Nooo... From what I remember of Belasco, that about sums it up, I guess. Later!" He then ducked into a portal, the better to check out the deeper darks of New Limbo, while S'ym did likewise in anohter direction.
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