"Let's go." Ray said, as we walked into the room earlier we had dinner in, after tucking in the kids for bed and waiting in the beds of our own until their breathing and snores filled the air that could be heard down the hall.
"Can we talk to you?" I asked, as the three of us entered to Sonju sitting in the empty room, Mujika no where to be seen, but the room was warm with a fire in the middle with tea brewing, the earthy smell of what smelled like green tea.
"Sue, go ahead. You've been on the run since last night with very little sleep, right? You should rest while you can." Sonju told us, as me and Emma took a seat across from him, Ray standing to the right of me.
"Thank you and also, I'm sorry to have doubted you even though you saved us. I thought all demons were our enemy. I never thought that there would be demons who wouldn't want to eat us." Emma said, though in reality she was speaking for me and Ray, but we wouldn't admit it. Me and Ray had quarreled earlier who would be the one to apologize for both for doubting and verbally attacking them, but Emma volunteered to do it.
"Don't worry about it. You were right to be cautious. Human flesh is special to demons. Especially the brain. Most demons would start drooling and take a bite if they saw a human. So it's better to think all of them as your enemy." Sonju said, his hood pulled up since we arrived, slightly obscuring his face.
"Then what about you guys?" I asked, yawning as I rested my head on Emmas shoulder, her patting my head, my frizzy hair from when I was laying down earlier had not been brushed out, not like it mattered at the moment.
"Religious reasons. We decided not to eat humans for our faith. But only humans. We'll eat anything other than human flesh. We are what you call heretics of this society. Them, the farm, their ideology, profit, authority, everything. All of it is none of our concern we don't care. I only saved you two all out of curiosity. And I wanted to talk to humans. It's been a while. It's very rare. In this day and age, you can only see live humans within a farm." Sonju ranted, and I could sense the loneness. But this day and age to see live humans? He could see the desperation and surprise in our faces.
"What's wrong? Isn't that what you came here to ask me?" He asked, intrigued by how we looked at him. He passed me and Emma a mug of the tea, I graciously accepted, though I feared I would doze off during this conversation.
"And you can tell us? What happened to the humans 30 years ago? What is going on in the world right now?" I asked, the warmth of the cup tingling through my fingers up my arms to the rest of my body.
"Nothing. Nothing happened. I don't know where you got 30 years from. But the world had been like this for a long time." He admitted, and my heart sunk a little.
"What do you mean?" I asked, and Ray finally spoke up since we've been here.
"Could it be that we're not on Earth? This isn't Earth, but a different planet? And that's why this crazy ecosystem, exist-"
"No." Sonju shut Ray down, but he was starting to get a bit jumpy, which was normal. These animals didn't exist in the informative books about the outside world, so for it to all be a lie in our world was disheartening.
"Then the calendar? Is the calendar a lie? It's not the year 2046 but a differen-" And yet again Rays frantic attempts for the way the world was how it was, was shut down by Sonju. I tapped Rays leg, turning around and giving him a look. I know it was stressful in this situation, but he needed to have some control. When he looked down at me he only closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and Sonju told what he knew.
"We are on Earth, and this is indeed 2046. According to one of the human calendars. Let me tell you an old tale. About when the world used to be bigger than it is now..." And there Sonju told us the story of the world, a promise, an agreement. It made my stomach churn, and I held onto Emmas hand, her squeezing my hand back; us sitting quietly, taking a sip from her tea. Honestly, I didn't have the space in my stomach to handle food or any drink at the moment. We were in the demons side of the world, not the humans.
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DISCONTINUED - Promise // Ray X Reader
Fanfiction"You're crazy, you know that?" "I wouldn't be me if I wasn't." Y/N, young and naive, finding out the secret of the world she lived in. She never wanted to leave her past family, but that was out of her hands to decide. Moved into the house of Grace...
