Silver Fork

Burning to cinders| Inferno Sonata

The thing about working for The Embrace was that very, very few humans could handle the horrors and gore of the Ancient beings tomb. Of course He had other creatures that served under him for many different reasons, but he preferred humans as his maids and butlers.

If they did something he didn't like, it was easy to dispose of them. Very, very, very few humans actually knew how to perform an excorsim. Which meant he had an endless supply of test subjects that couldn't fight back.

And for a particularly difficult conjuring, he needed the right kind of...bait, so to speak. The ruler of the damned was what he had set his sights on. The Embrace wanted nothing more to rule this world and the next, but to gain control from an entire domain, let alone from something more ancient than him! Well, it was a death sentence! But The Embrace didn't fear death or pain. He welcomed it with open arms!

In his observatory, he set the trap and waited, watching from beyond the shadows as his bait walked into its demise.

"Ok, I just have to clean the glass and dust the books," You looked over the to-do list the head maid had given you. You were to enter the lords Labratory and clean. The word was foreign to you! Maybe it came from across the sea?

Inside the room was filled with books in languages you didn't understand. You even looked for one dated with the recent year of the 1400s but found nothing. Just how old was the young lord?

"What is that?" You leaned down to look at some oddly shaped...thing! It was glass, fit in the palm of your hand, and had something in the center of it, "how strange."

Yes, the young lords laboratory was filled with advanced technology you couldn't even begin to understand. That being said, curiosity was starting to take hold. Just what did this thing do? Why was it here?

You were so curious!

There was some little thingy connecting a bunch of copper strips together. It looked like it was a mini version of a lever! So,you pushed it up, and the glass orb started to glow!

"By The Embrace!" You jumped away from it, then carefully tapped the glass with your nail. How was it doing that?! With no fire, no oil, nothing! Was the fire inside the glass? It wasn't hot to the touch...well, it was a little warm. Flicking the lever, it shut off, then you pushed it up, and it glowed again.

"Don't get distracted!" You tore yourself away from the amazing device and focused on cleaning. Any damaged books need to be sat aside for The Embrace to look at! So that's what you did.

You took book after book down, flipping through the pages and setting the ones with damaged spines down and off to the side. You considered it a blessing and curse that you couldn't read any of the books. In the village there weren't many books and it saddened you greatly to not be able to understand them.

That's when the book that seemed to have a spine made of marble opened its pages to you, by itself!

Dropping it on the table, you yelped!

"Come...Come," it beconed, begging someone, anyone to read its deadly curses. Picking up some gloves, you carefully examined the pages. This was also one of the many reasons you'd been hand-picked to sort through these dangerous books. Weak minded people wouldn't be able to resist temptations of power and money.

But all the power and money in the world meant nothing if The Embrace saw fit to have you killed. You feared him more than anything, even when his descendent demanded certain blood rituals from you.

Closing the marble book, you placed it back on its clean shelf.

"One down, five more to go." You had several shelves left on this book case alone! And just when you were about to put the book away, it bit you, as in it formed teeth from its pages and actually bit you! "Ow! Stupid evil book! I should throw you in a river!" You held your bleeding finger and was tempted to stomp on the stupid thing! Chucking it at the wall,  you huffed and went to pick it up. That's when you noticed how...odd the wall looked.