Don't Be A Pussy

Story by Mahiri Morahan on SoFurry

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#21 of Commissions

Here is a story about an unkind lion, an ill-informed ritual, and hairy demon pussy. For Thetral!

Contains: unbirthing! And people being melted to a delightful squirt of demon juices. Soul vore too! Plus plenty of worship.

This is from the medium-length tier of commissions!


"Don't be a pussy."

Those were four simple words that Eli couldn't ignore. The lean-framed fox bit his lip nervously when he heard them. Especially coming from Blake, that strong, handsome lion. Probably the most popular guy in the school.

Eli thought he had left this sort of thing behind when he finished high school. But college was pretty much the same deal. Big guys on the football team pushing around the smaller guys. People going off into their bubbles. He didn't really have any friends yet, either. Blake sort of seemed like he was trying to make friends, some days. They sat beside each other in biology, but it was hard to tell if the muscled cat actually respected him.

Still, they did find things to talk about that weren't sports and sex. A few days after meeting and not really talking, Blake noticed the doodles Eli did in the margins of his notes. Just some things Eli had seen in some of the occult books he read. Nothing he really believed in, but he found it fascinating. And to his surprise, Blake proved surprisingly knowledgeable about it all.

He had even joked that his grandfather had made a deal with a demon somewhere down the line. It would explain a lot. Blake seemed to have everything. And had the kind of talent on the football field to ensure he'd have even more in the future. Eli on the other hand came from some pretty humble roots. He didn't even want to think about the debt he was piling up, just being there.

But, even with them finding a little common ground to chat about, they didn't really have anything else in common. So when Blake invited him over that night, he was pretty surprised. And a little suspicious. Even more surprised when he suggested they try something out of one of those books Eli liked so much.

"I'm not sure... I mean, does that really sound like a good idea? I've seen the movies," he joked.

And that's when he got those four magic words.

"Don't be a pussy," Blake said. "Nothing's gonna happen."

He gave the fox's shoulder a playful shove. "We can turn out the lights, light some candles. It'll be creepy as shit. I know you like that creepy shit."

"Sounds kinda romantic."

"Gaaaay." Blake scoffed. "I've got this old book I found in the library. Full of weird drawings. Way weirder than the stuff you read. It's probably cursed or something."

That did perk Eli's ears. For one, geez, Blake's family had an entire library in their house? And for another, that old mansion on the hill -did- go back a long way. If Blake had found some ancient tome it'd probably make for a really interesting read. Assuming this wasn't just some big prank.

"Okay. Yeah. Sounds cool."

A few hours later, and he was ringing the bell beside a great big ancient-looking home. Blake hadn't offered him a ride even though he had his own car, so Eli had walked over. Getting there meant being buzzed through a gate, and striding up an expansive driveway. The manor loomed over him as he approached, the many windows gazing down at him like so many soulless eyes. He was probably overthinking it.

The door itself was decorated by large marble lions. It was pretty tacky, but Eli would keep that to himself. He waited a good while in the January cold before the door finally opened. There stood Blake, all tall and muscular and perfect, his mane all in place. A jersey and sweatpants on. Eli was pretty sure he saw a signature on that jersey, too.

"Hey. Folks are out for the night. Come in."

Eli paced inside, immediately staring up in awe at just how high the ceiling was. An elaborate chandelier hung in the entrance-way, and a twisting staircase wound up to a second floor. Blake gestured for him to follow, and he did, taking in the sights all the way. Paintings that looked like originals. Photos of well-dressed lions that looked like they were out of a whole different era.

When they got to one of the many doors in the wide upper hallway, Blake stopped.

"It's in here."

"What is?" Eli asked.

"The book. And all the stuff."

"What stuff?"

"You know. Summoning shit and whatever."

Eli perked up curiously. He just nodded, and let Blake open the door, following him inside. The library was dimly-lit, several candles already in place and flickering, several more waiting. Shadows danced around over the many rows of books. A collection that rivalled the school itself, really.

In the middle of the room, a table was pushed aside and a rug dragged to reveal an expanse of wood floor. It was marked by what looked like burn marks, as if someone had made a campfire right there before. Scattered around it were a few more candles, an old-looking goblet, and a dagger with a curved blade.

A shiver ran down Eli's spine. On the one hand, he was thankful Blake actually seemed to be taking this seriously. He had been worried all the way here that it was just some big prank to make him look stupid. On the other, he was increasingly feeling like he was putting way too much trust in someone he didn't know.

"So, uh. What do we do?" Eli paced nervously.

"Just sit down," Blake urged, getting down cross-legged and opening up a very ancient-looking tome, flipping through the yellowed pages.

Eli sat opposite the lion, muzzle resting on a paw, watching.

"We light the candles..." Blake began, flicking a lighter over a few of those waiting candles and further filling the room with an eerie but warm glow.

"Then, we fill the goblet."

Eli didn't know what that meant, and was right about to ask when the lion went for the dagger. He flinched away. As anyone would when someone pointed a knife at them.

"Oh, don't be a pussy," Blake said. "We don't need that much. I'll go first."

There were those words again. Eli stayed silent. Just carefully watching. Blake seemed to really know what he was doing. It was starting to make the fox wonder if he had done all this before. There -were- those jokes Blake kept making. About dealing with a demon so many generations ago...

A yelp escaped the fox's lips as Blake drew the blade across the inside of his own palm. It wasn't a deep cut, but it still bled. The lion seemed to do it without even flinching, too. Holding his palm over the old goblet, he dripped blood into the bottom of it slowly.

"Have you done this before?" Eli asked, finding how familiar Blake treated it increasingly odd.

"Shh. Your turn."

Eli flinched again. "This is getting kinda weird..."

Blake was indignant. "I thought you loved this kind of shit?"

"Yeah, but..." Eli couldn't think of a good reason. "Are you sure we should be messing around with this?"

"What, you think something's really gonna happen? It's just fairytale shit. Thought you would have fun. C'mon, hand out. It won't even hurt."

Eli winced, hesitated. But he didn't want to screw up their friendship. Even if it wasn't exactly a strong one. And he didn't want to be a pussy. So he held his hand out.

"Ow!" he exclaimed as that blade drew across his soft paw.

It was barely a prick, not really hurting, given how sharp the dagger was, but it made the blood flow. Blake took him by the wrist and held his bleeding hand over the goblet. Not gently, either. Eli felt a surge of fear go through him. It was starting to feel less like a fun time, and more like something Blake needed to do.

"Is that it?" Eli asked, his voice weak. He didn't like the sight of blood.

"Now we just read this passage," Blake said, flipping through the book again, a sense of urgency in his words and motions. He didn't seem to mind getting blood on the pages either.

"Okay, but... after this, I should really go."

"Shut it. Here we go..."

Blake cleared his throat, and began reading out some eldritch words that Eli couldn't even place. It didn't sound like any language he had ever heard. Just hearing them was filling Eli with dread. Like he was never supposed to hear something like that. He flattened his ears, started to inch away.

The lion grabbed his knee, and kept reading. Eli wanted to get up and just leave, but he was afraid of pissing the big cat off. He waited, and listened, not liking this one bit. He didn't like the flicker of the candles, nor the way the shadows of the towering bookshelves seemed to be closing in on him.

Finally Blake was done reading, closing the book, setting it down carefully. With a strange sort of respect. He sat back, and smirked. Eli didn't like that look. He held still, waiting, letting the terrible tension hold and hold until he thought he was going to have a fit.

But nothing happened. Eli could feel it. That building feeling of dread, and then nothing. It just went away. He felt in fact oddly soothed, finding himself worrying less and less by the moment.

There was an alluring scent in the room he hadn't noticed before, too. It got into his head, made him flick his ears, twitch his tail. He looked over to his maned company for the evening, and for a brief moment a pang of desire ran through him. What would Blake say if he asked him to make out a while?

Those hazy thoughts were interrupted by a third presence. Eli didn't hear her coming, but suddenly, there she was. From shadows into the flickering candlelight came a female figure so striking and imposing the fox was frozen to the spot. He wasn't moving a muscle, simply staring.

The naked woman's body glistened before him, exerting such sexuality he didn't even know how to respond. Aside from a rapid firming of his sheath. She was human, with her dark, shiny skin and her sharp features. But there was so much more to her than simply that. She stared down at his seated form with an intrusive gaze. Like she was looking right inside of him. It sent a shiver down Eli's spine.

Four well-formed breasts were framed by four powerful arms flexed taut, each tufted beneath with thick black hair. She was similarly tufted between her legs. Though that layer of dark hair didn't quite fully conceal her glistening sex. Thick lips were already spread to give Eli a deep look of her forbidden depths. Poised above was a thick, oversized clit that was firming up before his very eyes, leaving him a little confused inside. Especially given that she heft a pair of impressive balls right below that glistening pussy.

To round it out, he noticed she had a long, smooth tail that was spreading slowly open at the end, revealing a lewd, phallic tip. A cock in every way, twitching slightly as she watched him. Her skin glistened with sweat, the room immediately warming up for having her there. And she had a sweet musk that so delighted his senses, making his ears flatten, his muscles relax, and his sheath give way to pink fox cock.

Finally, he managed to tear his gaze away to look at the lion. Given the situation it hardly even surprised him to see the big cat had unzipped his pants to start playing with his cock to the sight of it. He sat back in a chair and huffed softly, not returning Eli's gaze, nor saying anything about any of this. The fox had so many questions, but he remained perfectly silent.

Though he couldn't help a nervous whimper when the succubus knelt and tipped his muzzle up towards her. He stared, shaking a little.

"Hello, sweet thing," she said, her voice deep but seemingly friendly.

She looked over to the lion as his self-pleasuring grew more rapid. He was fully hard, grunting as he worked himself wet, just observing the scene.

"He's here, Mistress. I brought him to you..."

She nodded softly, and turned back to the fox.

"What is your name, young fox?" she asked, her voice helping Eli to forget his many worries.

"Um, it's Eli," he said after struggling to find his voice for a few seconds.

"Eli. A good name for a kind thing. So you are to be the sacrifice."

Immediately Eli's eyes went wide, his breath catching in his throat, his muscles tightening along with his chest.

"W-what?"

"It's a shame," the woman sighed. "But I am bound by the ritual. I have your blood. So you will be made a part of me."

Trying to scramble, to scoot away, to do anything, Eli's expression turned to one of panic. His body wasn't responding. He couldn't even scream.

"Don't try to run, Eli. You're as bound to me as I am to you."

The fox tugged and struggled against some sort of invisible binds, but he was stuck in place. He couldn't move anything but his head. Looking to Blake for help, all he saw was the cat crudely jerking off to it all. So they never were friends in the first place...

He felt himself pushed onto his back when she straddled his chest. That left him staring into the musky tuft of dark hair decorating her nethers. Her balls planted not far from his chin. The scent of sex and sweat filled his nose, nearly flattening him. She had him pinned, and was drawing nearer to his face as she grasped his head tightly in two hands, the other pair stroking down her own form.

Looking down at him, they locked eyes. Her lips didn't move, but he could hear her voice, whispering directly into his mind.

"Don't be afraid, Eli. I may be claiming you, but you will feel nothing but pleasure. Now and forever..."

Though it came at him so quickly, and made so little sense to his panicked mind, Eli relaxed, at least a little. She rubbed him behind the ears, massaged deeply into his scalp, treated him gently. That a demoness could be so seemingly affectionate was making him rethink so much of what he thought he knew.

And the longer he lingered with his nose merely inches from her hairy sex, the more he wanted to bury his face in it. He was hard, through this all. And though he never had been especially impressive in terms of size, his excitement was so strong he swore he was an inch bigger than usual.

She could seemingly sense how excited he was.

"There's nothing you need to worry about. Just taste me, like you desire..."

And so she overtook his muzzle, wrapping her muscled thighs around his head, burying him into her warm tuft. He was in a moment completely immersed in her scent, flooded on every front. He breathed it in, let it simmer in his lungs, roll around in his thoughts, and almost immediately was entirely drunk on it.

A whine escaped him. He wanted to serve her, wanted her to make him hers. She could sense those thoughts, and smiled, holding him by the skull, keeping him exactly in place. The bit of force to it just got him more aroused.

"That's it, sweet virgin. Take a long, deep sniff..."

For a moment he was embarrassed, but of course she would know that about him. She was inside his head. It was true, he'd never been this close to anyone, male or female. And now he was nose-deep in her pussy, sniffing himself full of her musk just like she asked.

A heat caressed all over his body as his surroundings melted away from him. He forgot where he was, forgot all about the day leading up to this moment. His clothes just seemed to disintegrate off of him, vanishing like a puff of smoke. He was naked and exposed there on the floor, while the juicy sounds of a soaked cunt echoed all around his flattened ears.

Eli had never been this close to a female's nethers before. They flexed and moved in ways he never would have imagined. They seemed to tug at him, wrapping around his nose as he drew closer, sucking him deeper into that wet, hot tunnel.

With nose deeply wedged beneath her oversized clit, he took another deep breath and washed himself in her scent. His chest was tight, not quite getting enough air, but he was entirely relaxed. Immersed in her pussy like a sauna.

Her thighs pressed over his arms, ensuring he couldn't push her off of him. He wasn't trying anyway. There was nowhere to go but deeper into those pulsing, squeezing depths. A few inches, and his nose was stuck inside of her. A few more, and so was his muzzle. Her rich juices flooded into his mouth as he gasped, and her powerful contractions let him know just how much she was enjoying his soft fur rubbing her insides.

She rode him like that a while, her powerful hips thrusting in his face. He could feel the strength behind each motion, leaving him knowing full well it was a demoness who was fucking his little muzzle. He squirmed a bit, for a moment feeling alarmingly short on air, but soon that feeling melted away as well. Though he was huffing little more than her musk and sweat, it was enough.

A few inches inside seemed reasonable. But when her pussy stretched and flexed around him to pull him in deeper, it sent a jolt of surprise through him, making him jump. A lewdly noisy slurp and it was more than riding his face. She was taking it right inside of her.

His attempt at a whimper was resoundingly silenced by her humid depths muffling him from all sides. A few more clenches, and he was inside of her right down to the shoulders. Her insides felt infinite. Just dark depths that were completely separate from the outside world.

But from the outside, the fox's head was gently bulging in the succubus. Blake watched with curled lips, a frozen semi-snarl as he stroked himself, trying to get off on the sight. On the cruel betrayal of his 'friend', feeding her to a demon's snatch like that. But he couldn't quite reach climax, no matter how hard he rubbed that hard, dripping lion cock of his. She wouldn't let him, just yet.

A growl came from him as those slick lips hidden by all that dark hair began to morph. Those puffy ebony folds expanded, stretched, engorged. They grew thicker, dripping with her juices, and began to reach out from between her thighs. As wet skin rubbed against each itself, the noise in Eli's ears was overwhelming.

And he could feel her groping down over his shoulders, down his back, over his chest. That pussy had grown massive, the lips like a giant mouth wrapping around him. Kneading him, sucking on him. Squelching around his soon-soaked fur as rivers ran down to the floor. The room smelled powerfully of her arousal, drowning out all else.

Eli began to squirm. She smelled so lovely, she was so powerful. And she was -eating- him. He wanted to be a part of her. Wanted to slide ever deeper, until there was nothing left. As she sucked him deeper, he eventually hit an end point, curling up tightly in her expansive womb. First his face, but she was devouring him faster and faster, until he was snugly wedged inside of her down to his ankles and tail.

The succubus began to squirt, not even having an orgasm yet, just gushing with the pleasure of polishing off the cute fox. Eli too felt his balls growing absolutely plump with the need to cum. Or that was how it felt anyway. His toes curled, his fluffy tail twitched, and then they were gone too. Her massive mouth of a vagina gobbled him down, sealing him away behind those plump lips, and slowly shrunk back down to ordinary size as he vanished.

It was like he was never there, but for the wriggling bulge in the demoness' middle. Blake took in the little details sealed behind her stretched skin. Eli was mostly just a bulge, but as he squirmed the lion could see an outline of his muzzle here, his hand pressing out from the inside there. He kept stroking, unable to reach the climax his cock ached to feel. The demoness must have been working her magic to keep him from his peak, but he didn't know why.

The succubus meanwhile sat back, huffing her delight. To the lion, she didn't appear to speak, but Eli could hear her just fine. She cooed soothingly to him while she rubbed her engorged clit, working up copious amounts of those juices to mat down her well-fed hairy cunt.

"You're a good soul, Eli," she said. "Innocent. Intelligent. Kind. You have a mind worth preserving..."

As she spoke, the walls closed in hard around the fox. It should have hurt, being subjected to such crushing pleasure, but he just felt so soft. Like warm butter, slowly simmering away as he was worked over within her womb. He could feel himself growing tingly and then numb all over. His fingers and toes were no longer responding, as they pleasantly liquified into those potent juices.

"I will make you a part of me, bound as I am. But I won't destroy you."

Eli tried to respond, but found his voice melting in his throat along with the rest of him. Her scent was his entire awareness, the feeling of being whole soon gone. He was sloshed down to her thick femcum, and nothing more.

A glimmering glow in her bulging middle faded away as she absorbed his eternal soul. It was a very different process than destroying it. All his thoughts, memories, his very identity would live on inside of her, to do with as she wished.

But to Blake, it looked no different at all from watching his former friend die in front of him. That bulge of his solid body softened and flattened in the demoness' middle as he was finished off. And that was finally enough to bring him to climax, the hold released.

He snarled and tossed his head back as he squeezed his barbed cock hard, gushing forth with the thickest torrent of cum he'd ever shot. It splatted up over his abs, his chest, even into his mane. It was all over his clothes, and he didn't care. Just kept milking it out, thinking about what a forbidden thing he had done. Sacrificing that fox to the demoness, ensuring he'd never exist again. Or so he thought.

She countered by turning her spread legs towards him as she toyed with her clit. That fox had melted down to a simply massive amount of female cum, and she directed her pussy right at the lion. An intimidating snarl came over her, for a moment paralyzing the lion, leaving him perfectly vulnerable to what came next.

The stream of her juices hit him so hard he toppled over in his chair. She bucked her hips, screaming out in bliss as she rocked herself through her orgasm. The kind of climax that could only come with ending a life. Blake was flooded, drowned nearly as the spray entirely overtook him, marking his every inch as it soaked through his clothes and into his skin. Her scent marked him, and the room steamed with the heat.

The noisy gush lasted nearly a full minute, leaving the lion comically flailing as he was pinned to the floor by the force of the demoness cumming on him, left an undignified, matted mess by the time she was done. Her musk had completely overridden his own. Drowned out that dignified lion musk. He struggled to rise, slipping in the puddle all around him, gasping for air, coughing out some of her juices.

His clothes had melted away during the torrent, ensuring she didn't miss any of his fur. All of his own cum had been washed away as if it had never been there. She stood close, and loomed tall over him, her pussy tuft still dripping down onto him.

Wiping at his face so he could see and speak, the lion cleared his throat. His voice came unsteadily.

"So... he was good, right? I get my wish?"

She nodded, but the lion still felt a sense of menace from her. It shouldn't have been that way. She was bound by the ritual. She couldn't touch him.

"He was a very satisfying meal, yes. What do you wish of me?"

Blake hesitated. He had thought of something already, but watching her at work, seeing the way she devoured her prey so erotically. It changed his mind.

"I... I want to be like you. I want to feast and devour. I want to claim the power of others..."

He rose to his knees, which put him at nose-level with the potent scent between her thighs. She looked down to him, and smiled.

"You wish to be just like me? Oh, dear cat. I will make you so much more like me than you could ever dream."

His ears perked, and he began to stand, a greedy grin spreading across his face. She halted him with a hand firmly grasping his shoulder.

"Pay service to me. Show me how much you want to share in my power," she hissed.

Her grip shifted to the back of that matted mane, shoving him forth. Blake resisted at first, given what he had just watched her do. But soon his nose went swimming into her soaked tuft, for a moment giving him a sensation of drowning. He tugged back, but as soon as he gasped in a breath it was too late.

Her scent, already so richly embedded in his senses, hit its peak. It began to overwrite his thoughts, taking him into its hypnotizing embrace. The warmth went down to his very core. He was swallowing her juices, feeling them heat up his insides. The thought fluttered by that he was drinking the last remnants of Eli. And he liked it.

It was a shame, he thought, that he had to give that fox away. He'd have definitely been his first victim, his first meal, in his new form. Pushing in a little closer, he mindlessly licked and pleasured her. Working his tongue fast, dragging it hard.

Most women he used his tongue on made all kinds of noises if he went too hard. That sandpaper texture was tingly. But she just loomed over him, clutching him in place, solid as a statue.

Blake took that as a challenge, furiously slathering her soaked, dripping nethers in his tongue. Trying to make her moan, trying to show her he could be every bit the sex beast she was. He grew increasingly frustrated, licking, sucking her fat clit. She was making him feel small.

Such a challenge, such a sudden feeling of powerlessness, and he thrust forward. He wedged his muzzle right inside of her, growling a bit. Who was she to make him feel like this? As his muzzle found itself slickly snug within her, he felt her clench.

A tug backwards, and she clenched again, keeping him there. He looked up at her, and then gasped inside of her as she tugged him inwards with nothing more than the power of her vagina. It began to expand. Thicken. Just as before.

Now he had his palms up on her thighs, pushing against her. The fox had been too weak to escape this, but he was stronger. Much stronger. He shoved and struggled with all of his might, muscle rippling over his tawny form. But she continued to drag him inside.

His ears were overwhelmed by the liquid noise all around his head as it popped inside fully. As it did, leaving him scrambling, heels digging in against the floor, she raised her tail. All this time, and she had left her thick tail-cock so woefully unattended to.

It twitched, and began slithering towards her captive. To an observer, it looked to have a mind of its own, sliding along the floor, and then up the back of his thigh. The feeling of it against his fur left him kicking that leg, trying to shake it off.

But it continued crawling up him until it found its mark. Tight, virginal... the lion had never been penetrated before. Not by others, a toy, a finger. So that tailcock, dripping by now, had to push firmly once it pressed in under his tail.

A muffled whine came from the big cat as he was slowly spread open, forced to accept her inside of him while her gaping, drooling pussy-mouth sucked and gulped around him. It was swallowing him whole, and all the while, she was violating him. Fucking him, soon enough, ravaging his powerful body with her lusty strokes.

A moan finally escaped her, just as he wanted. But he didn't want it anymore, crying out, muffled within her pussy, trying to form words through the wet coating that sheened over him in the darkness. She fucked him and she ate him. Swallowing audibly, as if she was gulping him down in a more conventional way.

As he fought against his impending fate, he found himself growing weaker. Not just running out of energy. The deeper she slurped him in, squishing his shoulders together, pinning his arms as she slid over them, the more she was draining his very strength. Bulky muscles grew leaner. Taut abs grew softer and loose. She was stealing his very pride from him as she fucked his virgin ass.

Finally she withdrew from him. Only his legs remained outside of her by then. They had gone from strong, to average, to weak. And then, to withered. The humiliating treatment grew more nasty by the end. She slurped away the very last of him, tufted tail and all, and rubbed at the modest bulge he made.

Near-skeletal by the end, he was whimpering, crying, begging her to stop. Or trying to at least. She simply smiled and patted him a few times.

"I never liked you or your family much, cat," she murmured with pleasure in her voice as she squeezed over what remained of him. "And then you bring me someone so much better and braver than you as a sacrifice?"

Pounding a fist weakly against the walls of her womb, Blake was crying. His fear overwhelmed him as he struggled to even breathe, having grown so weak.

"The fox was a fine meal, I admit." She licked over her lips. "But his soul was far too pure to destroy. Yours, on the other hand..."

Hearing that, even in his weakened state, renewed the sense of panic in the frail lion. It was his last gasp, his last few moments as something whole and alive, melting down, feeling himself being absorbed into her body.

"I will enjoy absorbing yours. You will completely cease to exist. In this world and all others."

Softly smiling, she toyed with her clit as her pussy shrank back down to normal. Rubbing, hard. She closed her eyes and let her body assimilate the lion. Taking all the power he had, and making it her own. Her pussy dripped loudly as she worked him into her juices.

For a brief moment, his screaming face glowed from her belly. And then it flickered, faded, and was gone. Eradicated. As if he had never even existed.

The only thing left of him came spurting out to splatter against the wall as the demoness rocked herself through another orgasm.

"Yes... yessssss..." she hissed out as she sprayed her thick load across the room.

It hit the wall hard, spreading in all directions, running down to pool on the floor. The whole room, already fragrant with the scent of demon sex, became even warmer, more humid. It would smell like hairy demon pussy for good, at this point. Until the walls crumbled.

The arcing stream tapered off after a few minutes, leaving her contentedly stretched out. Another minute to appreciate the afterglow that came with ending a life so thoroughly, and she rose. The fox's soul still lingered inside of her. Perhaps to absorb, but more likely to nurture and shape to her own liking. If she found him agreeable, he might return to physical form some day. Though much different than he went in.

But that lion, he was left to drip from the walls. To run rivers down the spines of old books. To pool on the old wooden floors, slipping beneath the cracks, dripping down to the very foundation of the home. The demoness was fed, empowered by her meals, and had nothing left to do in this world but depart for her own. She stepped off through a portal she opened, and not long after had already forgotten Blake's name.