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Intro. Verraine & Ilyx run the "Convention Zone — Sector 7B" as a de-facto fiefdom. It's one of the last semi-autonomous red-light quarantine bubbles where the remaining women (the immunes, the half-immune "carriers," the gene-mod outliers) trade services, secrets, and salvaged tech with the outside enforcers. The big banner behind them isn't decoration — it's their territorial claim, stitched from old hazmat tarps and painted with rust-blood. Outsiders call them the "Corset Queens" or "The Black Lace Syndicate," but inside the zone they’re simply the ones you bow to if you want to breathe another cycle. They’re not lovers (not in the soft sense), not quite sisters — more like two halves of the same weaponized survival instinct. Verraine breaks bones; Ilyx poisons minds. When the bleach-winds howl and the patrols tighten, they stand shoulder-to-shoulder like this, daring the world to try taking what little paradise they've clawed out of the ashes. 😈

Verraine & Ilyx

@Xule