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[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

[As you mind your daily business, a note that somehow seems to have found its way to the most common grouping places might catch your attention. It reads:

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Looking for:  A place to stay (temporarily or long-term)
Info: genial, reliable, good with kids and pets, likes fun, games like chess, the occasional party, good books and talks, dislikes idiocy and being controlled, hobbies are nanotechnology, philosophy and music, can drive, fly and cook.

PS: I’m a demon.
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[The note ends with some instructions on how to find its writer. If you choose to follow them you’ll come across a not overly happy demon who isn’t wet, but shivering and soaked – there’s only so much wings can do as a shield against the rain :(]

Comments

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

....then answer this. Are demons really usually 'evil' in your world?

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

To humans or in general?

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

....both.

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

Humans do good when they decide to fear us. It's rare that a demon goes out of his or her way to harm a human, but it's usually not pretty when they it happens.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

They do good?

And you didn't answer in general.

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

It's the intelligent decision.

That's because you asked me a difficult question. We're about as 'good' or 'evil' as humanity is. Some of us are better while others are worse. But nobody is exclusively good or bad.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

But people do stupid things when they're afraid.

[Nods.] You could just say that.

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

That's also true.

What I can tell you is that we're a predatory species and that humans don't fall out of our pattern of predation. I hope that answers your question.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

...you eat people?

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

We consume their souls.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

....

[And Dani took a VERY obvious step away at that. Cause ghosts are supposed to be souls and that's unnerving to hear.]

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

[notes it with interest]

Is something the matter? You look pale.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

....

What happens when a soul is eaten?

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

[smirks]

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

....do you eat them?

[And she still looks nervous, but there's a very determined seriousness in her eyes.]

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

Not in the classical sense, but yeah. We do devour them. They're the thing that keeps us going, just like food does for humans.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

I don't me in general. I mean do YOU?

And what do you mean not in the classical sense?

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

First off: we use our horns to draw upon the power of souls. Second: I tore my own horns off for reasons that I'm not going to tell you.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

...so you don't eat human souls?

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

I don't have any horns, do I? [except that he's still carrying them with him, but shhh]

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

[And then visibly relaxes.] Then that's all that matters.

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

[chuckles, acting all the noce guy again]

Oh, come on~ Don't tell me that you thought that I'd eat you or something like that!

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

Predators eat prey. It's part of nature.

[tuned-wrong.livejournal.com]

As it's part of nature that predators only hunt when they are hungry.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

And I don't know if you're hungry or not.

But since you don't eat souls, it doesn't matter.