>>6178124>>6178138>>6178168>>6180034You itched behind your neck. “Are you sure?”
Standing only as tall as your stomach, the demonling curled his fangs.
“What’s that suppose to mean?” he snarled, glaring at you from the flower-laden bed, his stance uneven with one leg awkwardly stretched out.
“It’s just that, I’ve never heard of the Demon King having a heir.”
“Absurd!” he snapped. “Everyone, whether demon or man, knows of me!”
You shook your head, the ache in your skull still throbbing and ringing. This made it hard to focus and sapped your control over the wings. How long would it take for Miranna to find you, if she even would? Did she see where you flied away to? You hadn’t paid attention to the distance, so just how far had you strayed from the camp? Without her own wings, could she even pursue you?
“And why would a human bow to a demon?,” you said. “And what’s with the eye?”
Your fingers wrapped around the sword’s hilt.
All three of his eyes blinked in unison. “Two are not enough to keep watch on you!” he said. “My father is the King of those lands, so it is plain that you would bow to me too, his rightful prince. Do not be a fool, human.”
“I knew not that the Demon King had taken a Queen. Who is your mother?”
Something crunched beneath your metal heel. You glanced to find a woman’s skeletal remains—her bones half-sunk in the earthen floor, etched with pours, and weathered to a sallow yellow-grey hue, her skull resting by your boots.
Alarmed that you just desecrated someone’s remains, you carefully lifted your foot, glad to discover that the sound came from a brownish piece of pottery, and not the skull inches near it. But as soon as your foot rose, a dark serpent slipped beneath the arches of her ribs, its scales rustling as it moved.
“Why, my mother is no other than—“ he paused, gaze rolling upward as if trying to remember her name, oblivious and unaware of the snake near his legs.
> Yell at Mwaus to warn him of the snake, but keep yourself as safe space.> Without a word, pull out the sword and slam the honed bladed between the bones of the rib-cage, where the body of the snake is: a hit certain to land.> Perhaps the sword is not the best thing to deal with small yet fast vermin. Grasp the Grub Hag’s knife and mockingly warn Mwaus about the serpent. Once he has the snake’s attention, using the blade to drive it into the snake’s head.> Wait for the snake to attack Mwaus and then step outside the ruins of a house. Try and focus and lift yourself back into the sky while he’s busy there.> [Write In]