Click! The sound of heels walking down a dim hallway echoes into a dank room. Clack! Inside the room is eight hooded figures kneeling around a pentacle on the ground. Click! Inside the pentacle is a boy on the floor. Clack! The boy sits up, then stands and looks around his surroundings. Click! The sound grows louder. Clack! Click! Clack! The steps stop right outside the door. The boy looks out the only doorway in the room. A pair of bright red eyes stare at him. Then the body of a woman, who could come off the cover of a model magazine, materializes inside the room. She wears a dark red, tight dress and red heels. Her long, blood-red hair, flows down her back with waves in it. But her eyes still bore into the boy, bright red. The men in hoods part for the woman to pass through. The boy stumbles on his long black cloak and falls backward. The woman stops five feet away from him.
"Finally awake are you?" She says in a light voice that fills the room.
"Who are you?" The boy squeaks. "In fact, where am I?!" He continues.
The woman holds up her hand to stop him. "I'll tell you." The woman now bends down toward the boy. "I'll start with where you are and why you're here. You are in hell. Yes, you died, and I personally took your soul to make you, my servant. Come now servant, we don't have much time. Oh, you may call me Lady Salene." She walks off. The boy pushes his blond hair out of his face and follows her. "Good. Now you have to be cleaned up."
The boy stops, "Wait. Why do you need me? Why don't you take someone else?" Lady Salene laughs. "You're full of questions. Would you rather be tortured for eternity?" She looks at the boy intensely. "N-no," the boy says. "I thought so. Count the lucky stars I picked you then." She starts to walk again but stops. "Oh. I almost forget to mention. You have no idea who you are. So, I'll tell you this. There may be times when you have strange realistic thoughts with you in it. Those are your past lives. Forget those, you can't go back to being human. And you're my servant, don't forget that." She starts walking again.
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The demon's servant
Short Story"Welcome to Lady Salene's Mansion! And I'm the servant, Hariio. Now let me take your coat." This is a story about Hariio, a servant for a demon named Lady Salene. His soul was brought to hell and Lady Salene decided to use him to gather information...
