His Emerald Eyes

Answers

'Thought'

"Speech"

"Singing"

Recap

Tom blinks a few more times to pull himself out of the despair he had fallen into. He looks up at his master. Once Clauneck comes back into focus Tom lets a small smile grace his lips to show the demon that he is back. When Clauneck sees his pet offer a tiny smile to show he is listening again, he offers one of his own closed mouth smile, which, with the abstain of sharp teeth, does its job of reassuring Tom.

The demon then stands up and reclaims its seat on the couch with a content sigh. After a moment of silence, Clauneck looks down at Tom who is staring right back.

"Now that all the rules are out of the way, we can move on to the fun part of this discussion, the questions. I know you must have a lot of questions for me, and I have a few questions for you, so now is the time to ask as many as you want. I can't guarantee that I will answer all of them, but I will answer the ones I can. So, I will let you start what do you want to know about me?"

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Tom is silent for a few moments as he stares up at the demon before he starts word vomiting questions.

"Why were you in my house? How did you get there? Why were you so out of it? Were you on drugs? Is it because you had oral surgery? Why did you start petting me? Why did you decide to kidnap me? Why do you even want a human for a pet? Why did you leave me in those tunnels? Why was there a huge room with so much treasure in it? How did we get out of those tunnels so quickly? Where are we now? Are we in Hell?"

Tom finally runs out of air resulting in him having to stop to catch his breath. After regaining his breath Tom opens his mouth again, ready to continue with his bombardment of questions but he is prevented from doing so by a red hand that covers his lips.

"Slow down, I can't answer your questions if you don't give me time to say anything before you ask the next question, ok?"

Feeling Tom nod his head Clauneck removes his hand. He leans back into the couch, staring at his pet as he kneels in front of him, then he starts answering the questions thrown at him. "Ok, let's see, your first couple of questions I'll answer by telling you what I remember happening that day. You see a few weeks ago my brother-in-law and I were sparing, he got carried away, like he always does, and hit me extremely hard in the jaw, cracking one of my teeth."

Clauneck's eyes grow unfocused as he lets out a small huff of laughter, a tiny smile gracing his lips as he remembers the events that happened that day.

"He looked so terrified when my sister started yelling at him for hurting her baby brother. I took pity on him because I know what it is like to be on the wrong side of her anger so, I distracted her by getting her to fuss over my injury, the look of relief and gratitude he sent me was worth getting babied. After all the saying 'Hell has no fury like a woman's scorn' holds truth to it."

Tom giggles at the joke at the end. Clauneck gives his pet a large grin, proud that he has gotten Tom to laugh before he continues speaking.

"After leaving their home I set up an appointment with a dentist a few days later and they told me that the tooth needed to be removed so they gave me some Nitrous oxide to ease the pain. After that everything is kind of fuzzy, I remember trying to shadow travel home."

See Tom's confused expression, Clauneck pauses to explain. "Shadow traveling is something I mentioned before, only high ranking demons can perform it, it is where a demon commands the shadows to gather around them, then the demon can travel from one shadow to another, it is also the only way to travel between the mortal world and the Netherworld. I must have been so out of it that I accidentally traveled to the human world to your home. Everything after that is too foggy to remember. I woke up hours later lying in one of my tunnels, I was about to shadow travel back to my house when I noticed one of my armbands missing, I was searching for it when I felt something in one of the caves so I went to investigate. The network of caves and tunnels are all located under my house and the only way to gain access to them is my shadow travel or to dig down through the ground to find a tunnel. Imagine my surprise when instead of finding a thief like I expected, I find a little human wearing my missing armband, claiming to be my new pet. I have been thinking about getting a pet lately and you just seemed to have fallen into my lap, so I fitted you with a better collar and shadow traveled us up to my home. The rest you already know. So, now that you know what happened do you have any other questions?"