Concentration is Key

Great, another mishap from that dull beast.

Raj was beginning to lose count of how many times Salamar had to come to him for help, and each time the task he had to carry out for her became considerably harder to cover up. He only had to wonder how she was able to stay hidden after all these years, since she seemed to leave trails wherever she went. Perhaps it was only because of Raj that she didn’t get caged up like an animal.

Not that she wasn’t an animal.

As he dashed around the street corner with his dark trenchcoat and hat, he eventually found her waiting at the edge of an alley, dressed in a long skirt and coat to conceal her monsterlike qualities.He only felt anger when he saw her, and once she made eye contact with him she could tell, and tensed up in his presence.

“You’re lucky I even agreed to helping you,” Raj signed angrily as he approached her, annoyed that he couldn’t use telepathy to speak with her as that would seem strange to outsiders. “If you keep acting so stupid like this one of these days I’ll leave you to deal with the angry mobs.”

“Stupid? Xansur, this isn’t an act of stupidity, I really did have a reason to screw up again,” Salamar argued, though not usually hurt my Raj’s string of insults, seemed to be worried that he would stop helping her. “I thought I heard someone coming, so I didn’t have time to clean up the evidence!”

Another late night in the mortuary, another body to embalm.

With no intern currently employed as usual Raj was left with an eerily quiet building that night, and with an old building such as this one prone to frequent creaking, it was rather unusual, to say the least. Not that he was complaining, though the silence was off-putting, it meant that he didn’t have to worry about a human walking in on him having a meal.

As he slipped caps under the eyelids of the deceased boy he took care of, the ** d͏̰͓̼̪e͖m͙̗̯͜o͠n͚͚̣** thought about the irony of how despite his efforts to remain alone and hidden, he was always surrounded by humans. Dead humans, yes, but he often had to meet their loved ones to get his job done. But no matter how many saw the mortician, they only saw his persona. They’d never know what hid behind the mask, what went on in the mortuary at night. After all, looks aren’t everything.

Right, Raj had been on Earth for quite a while, so perhaps the customs he would’ve had to go through to come to another dimension were not present now.

It seemed to have slipped Raj’s mind that this one was extra-dimensional, so of course he would be able to change form while present on Earth.

Demon of...gluttony?

So that's what they called creatures like him. Raj supposed that being isolated from other damned creatures like him made him unfamiliar to common terminology of his kind, but that's what happens when you end up on Earth instead of Hell.

@angelofgluttony

Raj wasn't used to sensing another one of his kind, other than an old friend, so it came as a shock when a nearby presence filled his senses, foul and unholy so that he knew that this one was fallen, just like him.

"Help me!"

"Please! Please don't leave me!"

"Come out, come out where ever you are."

"I'm not going to hurt you."

"I lied."

"Don't let them in."

"We have to help them."

"We don't need to help them."

"They wouldn't help us!"

"They would help us!"

"We can't lose our humanity."

"We lost our humanity once all this started."

"It's over."

"It's starting."

"The fun has only just started. We still have a whole night of fun with our new friends."

"We're your new friends for the night."

"How about a bet?"

"We bet that you won't survive the night, and you bet that you will."

"Just don't listen to the screams."

"Is it over yet?"

"They're monsters!"

"Monstrous."

"Is everything locked up tight?"

"Listen, if something happens to me..."

"Please don't go out there."

"I don't have a choice."

"I love you."

"Fuck you!"

"She's dead."

"He's dead."

"Mom's dead."

"Dad's dead."

"He didn't make it."

"She didn't make it."

"Let me in."

"We're going to get you before the night is through."

"We're going to do some real bad things to you when we get you."

"We survived. It's over."

"No it was nothing."

"What was that?"

"Did you hear that?"

"I'll be back. I'm just going to go check what that noise was."

"Lock yourself in the closet and don't make a sound."

"No. Now you do what I say. Understand?"

"You're not going to survive what I have planned for you."

"You might survive if you listen to me."

"I'm not going to make it."

"They stole our fucking car!"

"Fuck!"

"Is that a gun?"

"Is that a fucking machete?"

"Is that chain saw?"

"We can't fight them."

"We can fight them off together."

"I don't want to kill you."

"I'm going to kill you for what you did tonight."