The Adrift Oath

Chapter XXIV: Avalynn

The devil walked back on the path that she took to guard Dominic back to his village, she had a couple of thoughts back in her mind that swirled all the attention she had for her surroundings, she walked on and on just thinking about that story she read for the child in the most profound depth of that tomb for those unsung heroes

And soon enough, she found herself standing there right how she did hours earlier, her purple eyes were locked with the engravings that she once narrated, the devil lived alongside life itself, birthed side by side by light itself, she chuckled

To her it was ironic that dark would be born alongside light, she looked down as she wondered if she was really that dark deep inside considering what she had done today, but that would hardly outweigh the evil she did in the past

Crossing her arms, she looked up at the hole in the ceiling, rays of light sneaking in to bless the devil and the tomb with little illumination, though she was more comfortable in the dark

Lowering her eyes again and looking at the sarcophagus in front of her, the same one that presumably held the remains of Avalynn, that one demon that had its hatred swayed by that human woman

"Cassidy, Avalynn" The devil whispered to herself, narrowing her eyes in thought, locked with the engraving of a woman holding her hand for the demon

"All you did was for naught" She continued

"All of what you did hasn't changed the world one bit, one race survived and the other was extinguished" Pursing her lips she felt a tiny amount of sorrow birthed in her core, though she was too meddled in her own thoughts to ponder on where this new found empathy came from, nor did she pay any attention to her surroundings

"Have you finished your business with that child of man?" The Devil's lips parted slightly at the sound of that feminine voice behind her, turning her head over her shoulder to take a look at what was behind her, a person with a cloak over her body while its hood covered her head and hair, and her face was hidden by what was a mask in the shape of a fox, orange paint decorating that same white mask at the tip of the nose and at the core of the ears

"And who might you be?" The Devil asked while that mysterious woman only came closer

"I'm nobody, really" She said with a slight hint of slyness buried in her soft tone

"I'm nothing but a mere spirit of vengeance coming to take what is rightfully mine" She stood next to the devil's side and looked at her through that uncanny mask with no holes for the woman's eyes to look out of it

The devil tightened her crossed arms and looked very threateningly at the woman, to the point of bringing the latter to a soft chuckle

"Haha, I kid" She broke the unnerving silence between the two

"Well, one thing of what I said still stands true" She then added with a tiny tilt of her head

"Which is?" The Devil asked curiously, although she didn't have her hopes up as she could feel the smirk through the mask of that woman

"That is for me to know, and for you to find out" She responded to the inquiry given to her, though she could see that the devil wasn't very pleased with her presence, far from it as she looked very irritated

"Are you a human?" The Devil's curiosity had yet to be quenched with the vague answers that the veiled woman gave to her

"Hm" Though it seemed that question brought that same woman into a thought

"I was born a human, though I'm unsure whether I still am" She then shrugged to the Devil who didn't know whether the ''human'' was true to her words or not