She's A Demon

I was a demon, I won't lie. I spent most of

at, before an answering scream, higher in pitch called in the distance. I

d up through the floorboards. I rolled my eyes when it happened on the

emon passed nearby. It took them long to understand. If so

floor, and head-butted the wardrobe door. It bounced back. Clothes flung o

ne. I was the kind of person who could

nderwear, rubbing my kn

shirt with some pre-Rupture band on the front. Not the best gear for

e grounds, darkness lingering before morning's arrival. Fire drums by

sources during the day, and after dark, focused on Wall hotspots, places dif

skipped over the Temple grounds, and every graffiti wal

but now it was the stomping ground of the Sect

out from the forest bordering the region. Past that elec

e whistling to the security guard who barely looked

The Sect had a library of course, right here at Temple, but you

ages of a book on a regular basis, even if

s and placed it on his lap. He waved m

d flat lane gravitating toward the fore

was defying Sect Doctrine and stepping past this point w

sight. Confident I was alone; I slid through the sliver of sp

ed of plodding the same ground, and I'd looked out into the forest with its thick tree

es had just unraveled without setting off the klaxon. I remembered thinking with a horrible kind

t was a coincidental gift from the universe, or something

g the beat of my own footfalls. Cold wind whipped past pushing hair into my

s-country; it took a lot to tire me out. I ran until the fores

experience, and only could experience when I ran Outside. Pushing a

at my heel and pulled it back into a me

ting past drew my attention from the task of managing

he daybreak."Hai?" I called my voice low.The retreating shape paused, onl

op at the slope summit, I let out a surprised grunt. I could see down and fa