Audience: White

[probe]

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[enfangs]

[he pauses, adjusting his pillows.]

... More like he and everyone else got fired.

[probe]

Whoa...! Even the master was fired?! That's pretty amazing! You all must have done something really crazy!

Did someone have an extremely forbidden exchange?!

[enfangs]

Uh, what? Forbidden exchange?

[probe]

Yeah! A totally illegal, illicit exchange of some kind! Enough to get them fired.

[enfangs]

... Man, you really don't know much about us, do you?

[probe]

We have a chance! But... I don't know! It seemed better to let you guys tell me just like the people do at work when they come right on through.

So I didn't learn everything.

[enfangs]

... Well, when I say everyone got fired, I mean most of us were killed because were kiiiiind of the bad guys.

[probe]

....Ohhhh!

Wow, you guys, like, just died? You know, maybe if you killed them first! At least you didn't stand in lava and melt.

And, hey, you're still alive!

[enfangs]

Hey, it's not like we didn't try to kill 'em. [sort of. maybe white can't actually say he did.] I got lucky.

[lucky enough that lessa saw something worth saving in him, anyway. he's well aware that he should've burned to death with the rest of the demans that day.]

Stand in lava, though...?

[probe]

Oh, yeah. It happens all the time! More than you'd think, considering standing in lava really won't help you live any longer!

There's also monsters... [they are counting on their fingers] ...cultists... the violent, lost souls of the dead... skeletons, witches, a wheel of flame, oh and vermin, too!

[enfangs]

I... Why the fuck is anyone standing in lava?

[????????]

What kind of weirdass world do you come from?

[maybe white can't talk as a pseudo-demon/vampire who eats people's souls but??????]

[probe]

Beats me!

[sometimes, people just stand in lava without realizing.]

That's just how it is where I'm from. Don't worry. Those things don't bother anyone where I work. It's only if you go outside.

If you all mostly died, isn't your outside also pretty bad, too?

[enfangs]

Nah, all of this was in the human realm or whatever you want to call it. The outside world's... something different? Don't really know how it works.

[probe]

Oh. Hm. Well! The mortal place, huh? There's not too much of that up there. Just, uh, you know! Mortals!

Sometimes, they get cursed. But it's mostly just them.

[enfangs]

... Yeah, your world seriously sounds weird.

[probe]

It isn't so bad! You get use to it. At least... it isn't so bad when you're always by the entrance!

[enfangs]

The... entrance?

[probe]

Oh, yeah. That's where I am! I mean, uh, not right now, but I was.

[enfangs]

There's an entrance? When I went to the external world, it was 'cause an angel dude opened up a portal, but I'm pretty sure that was a temporary thing.

[probe]

Yeah, you bet! Every place needs an entrance to get there, right? My brother brings people over.

Well, one brother brings people over, and the other brother brings people over!

[enfangs]

Yeah, you've lost me.

[probe]

Oh well. It isn't that important anyway! Maybe the second part, but most people find their way regardless.

So since you lived, what do you plan to do, White? Not a lot of people get that kind of luck, you know!

[enfangs]

Well, it depends on if my universe manages to stay fucking standing.

[probe]

Ohhh. End of times, huh? That has to be a bummer! So if your universe stays standing...?

[enfangs]

... Well, if it stays standing [and if he lives to see its survival] then I'd probably go back to being human first. There's a doctor who was coming up with a way to do that—turn a Deman like me back into a human, I mean.

[not that white doesn't enjoy his power, per se, but... in the end, it was never meant to be his, or anyone but lessa's, and white's aware that there's no place in the world for a deman anymore.]