The Demon Of Lust

25: Epilogue

Demina's POV

I'm surrounded in darkness and I look around.

I call out,"Ink!"

No response.

I call out,"AGMOS!"

I get no response. I turn in a circle and see nothing but darkness.

I yell,"Bittie! Swindle!! ACHILLE!!!"

Still no response and I take a seat.

I wrap my arms around myself and I say,"I just want to go home!"

A voice asks,"Then why are you here my daughter?"

I look around but see nothing.

I ask,"Can you help me get home?"

A female voice I don't recognize says,"Of course but you can be with us."

I reply,"I don't know who you are. I just wanna be back with Agmos and my friends. I want Achille, Bittie and Swindle. I want Morganna. Let me go home. Please."

The male voice says,"But you will have to go through a war."

I reply,"Life is a war from the very beginning."

The female voice says,"She needs to learn. She has to. In order to help defeat him. She also has to become stronger so she can control it when it's time."

I have no clue who these people are or what they're talking about. I'm surrounded in darkness.

I say,"Please send me home."

The voices say,"As you wish."

I sit up gasping in my room. How did I get here? I look around and see the stone on my chest is still there.

I call out,"AGMOS!"

No answer.

Panic sets in and I hear Calli's voice,"Demina, my child, you're alive!"

I say,"Show yourself please."

A pale woman in a black dress appears in front of me out of a thousand bats. She lifts her head and I gasp. It's her. It really is her in the flesh. Her neck is stained red and her face has markings.

I breathe,"Calliope."

She smiles and her fangs stand out.

She says,"Demina."

I run to her and throw my arms around her neck. I'm back. I'm back home. Her arms wrap around me and I pull away.

I ask,"What happened?"

Calliope looks at me confused and I ask,"I remember the fight. I remember the sword and blood and...."

I look down as I try to remember.

I look up at her and say,"And Agmos."

Calli's expression softens and she says,"My child, you died. Not even I could raise you."

I look at her confused and she says,"You endured MONTHS of torture and lost a lot of blood."

I reply,"But I just closed my eyes."

Calli guides me back to the bed and says,"Darling, you've been dead for a month. The warlocks that we're there encased you in some old magic. You didn't decay at all."

I ask,"Then...how am I?"

I look down and think back to the darkness and the voices.

Calli says,"The warlocks must have done something."