+++ Daydreams +++

| Fifteen |

Incubus' POV

The inside was...damp. It was dark and quiet, the only sounds coming from my own, and Starlight's breathing - with the occasional skittering of insects as they squirmed across the wooden floor.

"Well...I'd hoped to find more...life?" Starlight murmured underneath his breath as he cautiously looked about. He was right to feel disgusted.

"Yeah." I replied distractedly. "Where are the dumb humans though?"

"I, uh..." Starlight answered, equally confused and distracted as I was. We were making our way through the dark, ruined building. I didn't know what it was, but something in this place gave me the feeling like something cold was crawling up my spine - which was saying something.

"You don't know?" I questioned, my mind still focused on my surroundings.

"No, no...they should be here...somewhere..."

"Where?" I snapped, turning my gaze away from a pile of wet cardboard boxes and toward Starlight. My eyes refocused themselves as I looked at him. He was still stuck in his own head, gingerly looking down at something behind the desk he stood behind.

"Oh - uh..." He looked at me from across the piles and clumps of garbage. "I don't know..."

"Then let's find them, and get this stupid thing over with!" I yell, my patience running out. What was it with Starlight? It was as if he had just woken up in the middle of class.

"Shh! They might hear you -" But it was too late. The sound of a wooden floorboard creaking got our attention. Starlight clamped his open mouth shut, listening as intently as I was.

Looking from Starlight's frozen figure and the place the sound came from - a set of stairs that led down to another floor - I listened. I listened for another sound for so long that my ears began to ring.

"Ugh, there was no one there." I said abruptly, making Starlight jump. He turned his attention back to me, agreement in his eyes. With a dismissive gesture that showed my impatience, I flicked my wrist which made the glass rattle until one window shattered. A gasp. I knew it.

My eyes snapped to the same spot again. Of course there was someone there. That's why Starlight and I stood listening for so long. We were waiting for him, or her to do something, make another move. I knew that if I used my tricks, there would surely be a reaction. And there was.

Glancing at Starlight - who still looked a little confused - I made my way over to the stairs. It was much darker here since it led down to the basement. But at the bottom of the staircase, I could see a faint orange flicker of light. A candle. But there was no one I found standing in the stairs with their unholy mouth gaping open. Then where did that gasp come from? It certainly wasn't Starlight, I though as I peered over my shoulder at him. He was grimacing at a pile of cardboard, and other unidentifiable junk, that had gotten wet. Rolling my eyes, I called him over.

"You suck at this. You're like a child - you have no idea what the fück you're doing." I whispered as we both stood at the top of the stairs, gazing into the darkness below.

"I do know what I'm doing!" He whispered - not quietly - back. "It's just...doesn't this place give you...weird vibes?"

I didn't answer. How was it - what was it - that was making us both feel this way? Weary and cautious? It would be fine if only I was experiencing this odd feeling of paranoia. But the fact that Starlight was feeling the same way made it more...real. More opaque. It meant that something was up. I wonder what it was that made two demons from the pit of Hell - demon princes (I keeping forgetting that part) - weary. What could be more powerful than us?