Miss Belinda's Bordello

I think I found a great song to represent Miss Belinda's sinful Bordello.

Sexy Silk

Jessie J

Cryse Thorne

Having grown up in a small town in Texas, Cryse has always dreamed of traveling to far off countries and doing some major sight seeing. Moving to Queens, New York, for college is her very first chance to do just that. But sadly it won't be all fun and games like she'd like; she has to work as a maid to earn her keep.

Back in Texas, she lived alone with her father, her mother having long since been out of the picture. Despite the fact that her father was successful in owning his own bank, they never grew up with much money. Cryse never really got along with those at her previous school, but she was able to find a second home at the stables she worked at. She managed to save all of her paychecks for she didn't have a car, choosing to take the bus to school and walk to work. She was planning on using all of that money to start her traveling fund, but when she attended a fund raiser at a nearby animal shelter, she fell in love with a mustang -- of the horse kind. She still didn't have enough money on her own, so she made a contract with her father to pay him back what she borrowed with interest. She also made a deal with the stable owner she worked for, having him take out a portion of her paycheck to pay for rent. She named the horse, a girl, Elphaba, after the Wicked Witch of the West in Wicked the musical.

Growing up with ADHD, Cryse Thorne always had fun, except that she has this tendency to get lost easily. Her biggest fear is of not knowing where she is. She also hates cats, having been attacked by one when she was five years old. Plus, because they're natural scavengers, they'll eat your dead body if they get the chance.

One of her best friends is a man by the name of Calvin Dunagan, though she doesn't know him as well as she could, and he is a couple years older, too. 

Dead Night

Wanted: Live-in maid for vampires. Must be good with dogs.

"He pushed me up against the wall, his hot breath fanning my face. As he leaned in to kiss me, his hands roamed my body, leaving no space untouched. My fingers knotted themselves in his hair and I moaned between our kisses. His lips moved away from mine, his grip on me growing tighter. Soon, I could feel his teeth against my neck."

Leaving home for the first time, Cryse Throne is headed to New York where her friend snagged her a job as a maid for the mysterious "Master Valentine". It may just be her ADHD running off with her mind -- once again -- but it seems that things in her new home aren't quite right. As of lately, there are more shady guests that usual, all who have their own secretive agendas. And it may all be in her head, but Cryse is almost certain that Valentine has been checking her out. Does she even want him to be checking her out? Most certainly yes.

Dead Night

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Thomas Merchant

Being born as Thomas Carver, him and his family were rich enough to have two homes, one in Dragon Stone, the other in Dragon's Harbor. Coming from a long line of merchants, Thomas took after his father well, though he did hate to travel. At each home he'd get to spend maybe two months each, the rest of the year was spent traveling between the two. 

Since he was a little boy, he always spent the summer in Dragon Stone with a girl named Cassia. Through those two months that flew rather quickly for him, they were inseparable. Cassia even asked him to marry her when they were six.

By the time he was twenty-one and first arrived back at Dragon Stone, Thomas found his Cassia to be engaged to another. He had sulked off, looking for comfort elsewhere, which is when he found himself at the Trader's Alehouse run by a man named Colt. There, he was able to get a room above the tavern, which was the home to Colt and Boltteg. 

After the first month there, the three became good friends. That's when he met Luther, a man in love with a woman he couldn't have. Being able to easily sympathize with him, he found he was constantly giving Luther advice, which he decided to take himself. He found Cassia, declared his love for her, and she ran away from her fiance to stay with him above Colt's tavern. They became engaged themselves soon after.

After he and his good friends became immortal, Thomas whisked his human fiancee away and they traveled to distant lands in Avellana. They were married. Though Thomas never aged, Cassia did, and when she was in her early thirties, she died of natural causes. 

Having to spend the rest of forever alone, Thomas moved further south in Avellana where he bought an expanse of land. That's where he started his home where he could live in solitude and grieve over his lost Cassia. 

A few years later, Luther, Colt and Boltteg came to Thomas, seeking to create a pack to help protect themselves against the Queen's crusade on all the immortals who wouldn't bow down to her. Thomas' land became a sanctuary for the four of them. And soon after that, Luther brought his pack of werewolves with him. Thomas then named the land the Merchant's Isle. Though Luther was an Alpha, he always treated Thomas as if he were above himself, and soon his pack did too. 

After the fall of Avellana and the four territories that sprang up around the Isle, Thomas had twenty feet high walls built up around the land to keep out anyone who could intrude. But into all of the new territories, there is one secret passage for each where their own can use to travel outside the Isle. 

Being proud of what they created, Thomas, Luther, Colt and Boltteg, changed their last names to Merchant.

Nunnally Teller

Nunnally Teller

The oldest daughter of King Clovis and Queen Agnes Teller of Colichemarde, Nunnally was considered by everyone to be the very definition of perfection. She was tall and thin with straight ebony hair and crystal clear gray eyes. Every movement of her's was graceful. 

Just like her father, she was loved by all, considering everyone in Dragon Stone, where the Teller castle resided, to be family, and the townsfolk felt the same. They were also very musically inclined, Nunnally, or Ally, always seen in the courtyard playing her harp. 

When Ally was eleven years old, she found an abandoned baby dragon that had just hatched, in the woods near the courtyard. Taking him in, Nunnally was able to convince her father Clovis to let her keep him. She named him Gaspar, after her favorite Island. Gaspar didn't like many people, but he loved Nunnally, always hopping around after her. 

She had two younger sisters, Laylani and Wrin. Laylani was six years younger than her, and Wrin was twelve years younger. Because of the age difference, her and Wrin were never very close, having not much in common, though every other night Ally did spend time trying to help Wrin with her harp playing. However, Ally and Lani were the best of friends, and whenever Lani was feeling better than usual, they would always attend the theater or opera house together. When she wasn't feeling well, Nunnally would play dolls with her, an activity that Lani enjoyed and Ally pretended to. 

By the time she was five, Clovis set up an arrangement to marry King Florian of Kraken Island when she was of age. But, when Clovis died, the setup was dissolved. When Nunnally was seventeen, she fell in love with Jefferson Jules, her's and her sisters' tutor. He was a commoner and tutors weren't well respected, so Nunnally and Jefferson decided to keep their relationship a secret. When she turned eighteen, Queen Agnes thought it time she get married and threw a ball in her daughter's honor to find her a suitable match. That night, Ally became engaged to High Lord Gamzee Gillian, a man her mother showed preference to. 

A week before her nineteenth birthday, Princess Nunnally, along with Princess Laylani, was found  murdered in the streets of Dragon Stone. Well, actually, Laylani's body was found, and the fate of Nunnally was sealed when Witch Clarissa declared a rather large puddle of blood belonging to her. 

Delma

Delma 

Coming from a poor family, Delma was kicked out by her father because there was too many mouths to feed and very little income. She was fifteen at the time. That was when Miss Belinda found her sleeping on the streets and offered her a place to stay and earn her keep as a whore at her famous bordello. 

Her very first client was old, fat, balding and completely drunk. When she started sobbing uncontrollably, she scared him away, but luckily for her, remained innocent. However, Miss Belinda wasn't happy, and though she's usually a sweet person, she hates to lose money and clients, so she punished Delma by locking her in a broom closet for a day. 

The next day she came to work, Delma's client was Luther. Not wanting to be punished again, she did sleep with him, but couldn't help crying afterwards. After that, Luther bought all rights to Delma's body, establishing her as the bordello's only Look-But-Don't-Touch girl. Instead, she serves clients drinks.

From then on, Delma eagerly awaits for Luther's return to the bordello to see her, which he makes sure to do at least once a month. There, she tells him anything of importance that he'd might like to know, making her his informant. He always brings her candy, and sometimes after his travels, he'll bring her something special, like her porcelain Nonie that was made in her image, her golden locket with Luther's picture, and an expensive pink silk gown. But her first gift from him was the black ribbon that she always wears in her hair. 

Delma is madly in love with Luther, though she knows he doesn't feel the same. She always calls him "my love" and likes to pretend that he loves her as well. Because Luther takes up the last name Merchant, she often refers to herself as Mrs. Delma Merchant. 

As the series begins, she is sixteen.