Some days you go to
the Universes. Some days they come to you.
I awoke to find
myself staring at a demon or 4th dimension being. Its head
was poised on a long muscular neck. I could not see the rest of it
but it appeared to be a cross between a cat and a dog with tiny shell
shaped ears. It had no skin. All the muscles and ligaments were
visible and oozing slime. My, but it did have huge teeth and a lot
more than a dog or cat. It was a deep orange. The Kartika under my
pillow was comforting and the thought of it caused the thing to
withdraw and disappear.
Once my stupor was
dispersed, I turned on my back and was shocked to see a swirling
portal about ten inches in diameter on the ceiling. I often see them
but what startled me about this one was that it was orange, the same
orange as the demon.
I wondered who
would send a demon of that kind to me. It takes a bit of skill and a
lot of stupidity. If you were going to win a bargain with a demon,
you would have already won the Lotto several times and be relaxing on
a beach somewhere with little concern for me.
I had no trouble
thinking of a plethora of dumb people who would pay someone to
conjure one not knowing that the conjurer was going to shift the smut
onto them.
You never win with
a demon. The best you can hope for is stalemate or a truce. You see,
demons like their payments immediate. They do not like to be in debt
to anyone. Their price is always very high. They are not human. They
do not think like humans. They do not feel like humans. They really
hate to be bound and once free, they go after the person responsible
for the binding, not necessarily the one who bound them. It is on the
return they are most likely to get free.
My particular
specialty is unbinding.
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