With hope at the request this time also coming from the demon, Stare turned and looked at Vitruvion, her eyes large and bright. In them she poured in her desire to have a friend, just a single compatriot in this world. Of course, there were people like Nevin, but she had but met him once, and once was not enough to truly be able to make the bond that she and Nosdyn had that night.
They had killed together, brought about the destruction of a house with fire and fury and blood. There was no deeper understanding than that, where two people could come and know that both of them were as dark hearted as each other, each capable of committing murder.
And Stare had seen Nosdyn do it with joy in his features, just the same rush of energy and excitement that she herself had known. Would always know now she was 'Stare' and not 'Avis'. By the kami, Avis had been so very, very weak, even though she was a fighter, she would never had sought to kill. Not if she had to. Stare, on the other hand ... Stare was what Vitruvion had made, what he wanted her to be. Both lady and monster when the times came, as genteel as he could be, as ruthless and merciless as he. A being full of hate, rage and horror, that had seen the deaths of her entire family.
Quietly, Vitruvion looked back to her, one eyebrow inching up bit by bit. Her own black eyes forged a pathway into his ice blue ones, and the dead silence went on for some time. No sound, not even a creaking of the old flooboards could be heard as she begged him with no words, only her thoughts. She told him that it was his fault she was like this now, and he entirely admitted it. A sly smile told her that he was proud of what he had created within her, and that it was his right after all.
You are, well, mine.
And I found the answer. We have ended Heysan, she desperately went on, Nosdyn is strong, you saw what he did. Clever and a good killer. Is it really worth getting rid of him now?
Vitruvion sucked in his breath and actually, for one of the only times, paused in his consideration. He would have shrugged were it not of a good demaneour. Looking over to Nosdyn he eyed the demon for a while and then finally, finally, nodded.
"There are conditions to your proposal, for me to accept. First, you will tell nobody of your association with this house. I have a facade to protect, I am sure you understand. Secondly, I will not be constantly hiring you. I do not have the need, right now, for a demon constantly on my payroll, and I prefer to not have one stalking around my home. When you require work, you request it, when I need work, I will let you know and you will come. At those times, for those jobs you will be paid."
And he is loyal. He has literally be sworn to do what I ... what I ... She could not quite finish her sentence.
What you order him to do. Well, what I order you to order him to do.
He paused and folded his arms. "Is that sufficient?"
