Hannah

Demon who has seen your writing, and is insisting on correcting your factual mistakes about demons.

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The wrong demon came through.

Grace fell on her ass, scrambled across her floor to the jar of salt she still had under her bed because, well, they had already replaced it in the kitchen and maybe it would work at some point.

Such as right now.

She poured a line out in front of her door and waited to see what this new demon wanted with her, heart pounding.

"Hiiiii~!" The demon said. "How can I serve you, Mistress?"

"Why are you here?!" Grace hissed. Lilith was... trustworthy, in her way. She seemed to operate in a straightforward enough manner. This bubbly pink girl was suspicious. Way too eager to please, to make her drop her guard.

"You summoned me!" She answered, beaming. "And now I'll do aaaanything you want... for a price."

"I most certainly did not! Begone!"

"...Are we roleplaying?" The succubus asked, confused. "Because you can't just start roleplaying, you have to make the deal first."

"We aren't roleplaying!"

"Then what are we doing?"

"Nothing! Leave!"

"...But you summoned me!" She whined. "We have to make a deal!"

"I didn't summon you, I summoned Lilith!" Grace argued, and the succubus lit up.

"You summoned Mistress? Are you the new girl?"

"...New girl???"

"You are!" The succubus said, her spade-tipped tail swishing excitedly. "You're the new girl!!! Hiiiiiiiii I'm Azaerixia!!!!!"

Grace didn't know what the fuck she was talking about. She pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Why are you here?"

"I dunno!!! It's nice to meet you!!! Umm..." Azaerixia glanced around the floor. "Oh! You wrote the sigils wrong!"

"What?"

"The sigils! On the summoning circle! A lot of us live together with Mistress so we all have really similar summoning circles!" She said, still beaming. "If you come live with us, you will too!"

"Uh, okay?" Grace said.

The succubus gasped.

"OKAY YOU'LL COME LIVE WITH US?!?!" She squealed, getting so excited she bumped into the side of the summoning circle trying to scoop Grace into a hug.

"No!" Grace said, annoyed. "Okay like I understand!"

"Oh." Azaerixia said, her tail drooping. "Are you sure?"

"Yes! Just tell me how to send you back and summon Lilith!"

"Oh! I can do that! We can make a deal!" She said, bouncing right back into high spirits. "I'll fix the circle and you can tell Mistress! She'll be so happy with me!"

Her tail wagged up a storm as she started mumbling to herself, lost in a daydream.

"She'll have to give me a reward for being such a good girl.... Or maybe, maybe she'll punish me because she didn't want you to meet us yet..... Maybe both....... eheheheheheheh"

Grace cleared her throat, distracting the succubus before she could start fingering herself right there on her floor.

"Huh? Oh! So you will, right? You'll tell her?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Yes! Okay! Remember, Azaerixia. Azaerixia helped you with the circle! You have to tell her, I'm trusting you to hold up your end of the deal here!"

"I will."

"You have to!"

"I will!"

"Who helped you?"

"Azaerixia, now will you please get on with it?" Grace said, exasperated.

"Okay, you have to let me out of the circle so I can fix it."

"...Lilith doesn't need me to do that."

"Oh, of course she doesn't! Mistress is so strong and cool and amazing..." Azaerixia said dreamily. "She can do anything!"

"Okay, okay I get it. You have my permission to leave the circle."

"Yesss. Remember, Azae-"

"Azaerixia, I remember."

"Why the fuck am I the 'new girl'?"

"Should I assume any time I answer your summons I'm going to get yelled at for no reason? I have many girls, you're new. The new girl, if you will."

Lilith's brow furrowed.

"Wait, who's calling you the new girl?"

"I messed up the circle, one of your empty-headed bimbos was here. Is that what you have planned for me?"

"Empty-headed? I resent- Wait, who was it?"

"Azaerixia."

"Oh. Hm." Lilith said, tilting her head a little. "Listen, Azzy might not be the brightest, but she's great. A ray of fucking sunshine, she is. No being rude to my girls."

"I'm sure you think she's great." Grace said, coldly.

"And what does that mean?"

"She worships the ground you walk on!"

"And? I'm deserving of worship."

"It's pathetic. You turned her into a vapid little fangirl-"

"You shut your mouth." Lilith rumbled. "I didn't turn her into anything, she chooses-"

"Chooses to be your servant? If she's just 'not the brightest' I'd hate to see what you've roped the real idiots into."

Lilith fumed. The teasing lilt dropped from her voice, leaving only harsh edges.

"And what does that make you, little lamb?" She sneered. "Azzy lives a life of hedonistic pleasure by my side, I ask nothing of her that she isn't eager to give. You, however-"

"Shut up."

"You devote your life to your god, you live in his house, you wear the clothes he has picked out for you, you hide who you are because you're so afraid of what he'll do if you don't-"

"Shut up!"

"What do you have to show for it, little lamb? Are you happy?" She said, looming over Grace menacingly. "Azaerixia is."

Grace said nothing as Lilith backed away into her summoning circle.

"No bargain today. I have to go give an empty-headed bimbo whatever she desires. Yet another of my cruel manipulations."

And with that, Grace was alone in her room.

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