❝under their armor is a shining beacon of hope❞
A realm still suffering the aftermath of the original demon invasion. A world splintered from the core. A people frightened of the monsters that would one day rule their lands. A life ostracized from s...
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"Wait, you can read it?" Iaelie asked, disbelief clear in her voice. Daxelle paused a bit and flipped through several pages in the book. She squinted at the page and even went as far as to lick to tip of her index finger to flip the page.
She cleared her throat, "Yeah, I'm very sure I can read this."
"What does it say?" Avanth asked, slightly rubbing his leg.
"I—" Daxelle glanced at the page in front of her. It was weird; she knew exactly what the book was saying, she could read every word, but she couldn't decipher the swirling archaic letters of the demon tongue. She knew what was being described in the book—an extensive history of the demon realm—but couldn't read the individual words. "The book is basically just a history lesson. It talks about the rise of the Demon Queen, the economic growth of the demon realm, which apparently is called Dëirynås o Cyrtheāulaiâd—Realm of Demons, and the . . . reproduction ways of the demons."
"Oh, ew," Avanth made a face and Iaelie snorted.
"It's actually not as gross as you would think," Daxelle said, eyes skimming the text. "When one demon meets another demon and they fall in love or just don't have a mutual dislike—"
"Uh—" Zadyn glanced in between Avanth and Daxelle.
"Through the shared bond, a demon baby spawns—" Daxelle continued on.
"Wait, so to baby-make in the demon realm, you just have to fall in love and then poof, a baby?" Avanth asked, an eyebrow raised in skepticism.
"Like, a baby doesn't just drop out of thin air, there's demon magic involved. When the essence of the two demons meet in between them, the chaos of the realm grants the two demons a child. Using part of their essence to create the baby—which is taking part of the demon themselves—it takes something physical and mental away from the parents and that's why each demon can only have one offspring," Daxelle explained.
"What about emotionally?" Zadyn asked.
"What do you mean?" Daxelle asked, her head tilted.
"Each person has three states of being; physical, mental, and emotional. Why would Chaos take only two out of the three states?" Zadyn traced three circles in the air, the shapes meeting in the middle. It was the universal symbol of balance. Like a Venn diagram, three circles of being meet in the middle to make an organism. The symbol was mostly used by the ancient fae government when the species had thrived in this realm and was printed on every official document from that era.
"Demons aren't human or fae though," Iaelie added. "Maybe demons don't have emotions?"
Zadyn frowned, "But, that would make demons uncreated."
Daxelle waved the book in the air, "They literally live in the head of Aewar, the Chaos God, I don't think normal rules apply to them."
"Ok, enough philosophical shit, what else does the book say?"
