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“Yeah, but why are they dressed like that?” I hissed, trying to see under one of their hoods. A strange darkness was all that greeted me, no face, completely hidden in shadow apparently.
“They aren’t sentient or living creatures, Lily. They’re created from magic simply to serve those at this Academy. We call them keepers,” Dezikiel spoke up just past Jack.
I just frowned, glancing at the hooded figure stepping up behind the students across from me to place plates on the table.
Non-sentient? So what, they were just tools?
“Right, you have so much to learn,” Jack smirked as he dug into his stack of pancakes topped with berries and cream.
“Seems that way,” I muttered. I wanted my questions answered now, but Jack had said after breakfast.
I suppose I could wait. I was hungry.
I focused on my meal, savoring the deliciousness of it as Chumley leaned back so Bug and Creeper could talk to me. Honestly, I was still wrapping my head around them being somewhat human.
And all cute as hell.
Creeper was the most quiet of the four, only asking me how I was feeling before going silent, and I even spoke with some of the other students briefly. They were curious as to what I was too, and I learned many of them were some kind of demonic creature, which still stunned me.
Dylan and Hershel were demon-borns, humans with demonic abilities. Hershel was conceived whilst his father was possessed by a demon, and Dylan’s mother was possessed when she gave birth to him.
This led to a wonderful conversation on demon possession, which Xander jumped in on. Since he was a demon himself, but had somehow retained his soul and was cast out from hell.
He revealed that demonic possession was achieved via rituals or simply bad timing if a demon was in the area. I had so many questions, but Dezikiel cut me off, saying he’d tell me everything after breakfast, which caused the other students to stop discussing such things with me.
Instead, I ended up speaking with them about Netflix shows, since everyone had a TV in their room and we all had access to Netflix.
This lightened the mood considerably, and I enjoyed a blueberry danish before the keepers returned to begin clearing away all the plates and leftover food.
As the chatter died down, my gaze was drawn to Dezikiel, who nodded at me and rose.
I drew in a deep breath as all my monsters rose with me.
Time to finally learn everything.
