Demon by Spark Riley

Author:Spark, Riley [Spark, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

K ieran took a breath as he prepared himself to knock on Chevonne’s apartment door. She wasn’t always the easiest person to communicate with, and at times she could be plain weird. He took a moment to be thankful for Takeshi’s ability to calm him down, but tried not to let his thoughts linger on what had happened last night. If he wanted more of that, he needed to learn how to become calm like this on his own.

Kieran knocked on the door before he could change his mind. He heard a thump and a shuffle before the door opened and Chevonne poked her head of tangled blonde hair out the door. “Hello? Oh, Kieran, you’re even more different than last time. Did something happen to you?”

Kieran blushed, but he guessed her assessment was a good indicator that she and her group weren’t complete crackpots. Maybe they could help him at least start learning what he needed to know, even if they weren’t the real deal.

“No, I’m fine,” he said quickly. “I feel pretty good actually.”

Chevonne raised an eyebrow, suddenly not appearing to be quite the airhead she normally portrayed. “Would you prefer to talk about it in private?”

Kieran wasn’t sure if she disbelieved him because she already knew what he’d done last night, or if she was just offering privacy in a more general sense. “Uh sure, ok?”

Chevonne stepped back and held the door open for him. He stepped inside, somehow unsurprised to see the chaotic mess that had arisen in the few short months they’d been here. She turned away and moved a pile of washing further down the couch so he could sit, before flopping down herself.

“How did your energy get to be so low and orderly? Well, low for you, I mean. I can see you haven’t transformed it into any other form, and no amount of… well, ‘activity’ would have burnt it off that much,” Chevonne said, looking away awkwardly.

“A friend was trying to show me how to manage it,” Kieran lied. “I’m not sure what happened, but I definitely don’t feel worse for wear. He recommended I get help off someone else.”

Chevonne still looked sceptical. “If you say so,” she managed to say neutrally. “You’re welcome to join us at training again. We were all going to meet for a session tomorrow night. We might be able to give you more helpful instructions.”

Kieran was glad she had agreed so readily, but then, she was the one who had been trying to convince him to go to another class to begin with. “All right, I’ll see you then. Still in the same room on campus?”

Chevonne nodded, and stood up when he did. She looked concerned, which wasn’t an emotion he was used to seeing from the usually airy woman. “Are you absolutely sure you’re all right, Kieran? You haven’t been experiencing any other strange symptoms? Visions of monsters, or, um, recurring intimate dreams?”

Kieran wondered if that was how an incubus, or whatever Takeshi actually was, normally appeared to its victims.

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