>>6322793When a child is born, they are fostered and loved. Educated and guided.
Told that they, as long as they work hard, can do anything. Accomplish any goal, aspire to any dream.
Lemures are told the opposite. Well, not so much told as reminded.
Being born as a Lemure means a life of eternal servitude.
In demonic society, which adheres to a strict hierarchy, this means always working hard to ensure that your betters remain your betters.
In return, you were fed and housed.
A pretty good deal according to Lemures who received no education whatsoever, but were told by their superior that the deal they had was, in fact, a pretty good one.
When humans took over it destroyed demonic society from top to bottom, but not the very bottom.
People say that there's nowhere to go but up when you're at rock-bottom, but it turns out that isn't true.
You can move laterally to a different area of rock-bottom.
And that's what the Lemures did as they forcibly immigrated into human society.
In a strange way, the destruction of demonic society was a boon for the Lemures.
Not because they suddenly received things like education, gods no, but rather because now no other demons did either.
They hadn't so much risen up in the world as everybody else had come down.
However, turns out that demons, like humans, can make do as long as they have somebody beneath them to kick down on.
Capable of bearing any suffering as long as they're warmed by the knowledge that somebody else has it worse.
Even if all were equal under humanity's torment, the Lemures were still, somehow, less equal than others.
One such Lemure is currently tucked away in the corner of her apartment. Her jacket, three sizes too large, covers her from neck to toe.
Her hair is messy, her clothes are caked with dirt. Though the apartment has no heating nor electricity, the Lemure warrants no pity.
As such luxuries are foreign to Lemures anyway.
There she sits, her back pressed against the glass of the sole, tall window of her room as the few, lingering rays of the setting sun warm her back.
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