Demon Queened Ch. 21 - Sex Stories

Demon Queened Ch. 21

... her actually pick her words before speaking them. "I mean, different people do need different things. The individual jobs I do change, from place to place, but the end results are usually the same? No matter how different people are, they all need to eat and sleep. They need places to stay, and they want safety for themselves and those they care about. They all have needs that need to be met, to get those things, and there's so many differences everywhere I go, but there's just as many similarities binding us all together! And it's not just that way with humans, either, butall living creatures! You know?"

I nodded, slowly, as her eyes met mine. It felt, in that moment, as if she were trying to say that she knew I was different, and that it was okay... That no matter what I told her about myself,it would be okay.

Or perhaps that was simply wishful thinking. A desire, on my part, to come clean. A desire that could cost my people everything, if I was mistaken about the limits of her understanding. She could just as easily be reminding me about our talk on animals and monsters. Perhaps it was Bailey she was truly asking after.

"There's another reason I wanted to bring you here, though!" Lucy added, offering a welcome distraction from my thoughts. "I was hoping you could pick an item to buy!"

"An item?" I queried, arching an eyebrow as my gaze swept across the shelves. There were many things, even in this small section we had walked through. A second sun hat, a pair ...

... of sandals, and a candle to name a few. But honestly, of them all, my mind turned back towards the skewers we had seen towards the entrance. Turning back around, without letting go of Lucy's hands, I spied them still perched upon their shelf. A brief flaring of my arcane magic, reaching out towards and enveloping them with the energy under my command, and I had them floating towards my hand. "Would two work?"

"That's fine!" Lucy confirmed. "They're a set, after all! And I know where they're from, too, which makes it even better!"

"Where they're from..." I murmured, glancing between the items, and her. "Were you hoping to tell me about the place, then? To ignite my imagination?"

"Close!" Lucy's smile shifted a little, taking on a nervous edge. "I was actually hoping we could go there, one day? So that I could show you how things differ! And help you see the world how I see it - full of people who are different, but also still the same! Still just people, living under the goddess's loving care!"

Loving care? I wondered how Lucy would take it, if she knew our goddess had abandoned this world long ago... What would it do to her, when she found out that everything she'd been taught was a lie? That the goddess she believed in was gone, and that her religion was nothing but cruelty and lies... Would she be able to believe it? Coming from me? Her supposed greatest enemy?

She claimed to have feelings for me. No -did have feelings for me. I could believe that much. But ...