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9
CREEPER (MAGNUS)
We followed after Lily and Jack, knowing this was a lot of information for her to deal with.
Honestly, she was doing incredibly well. Not that I’d expected anything less.
Lily had endured so much in life, survived the streets and found a way to live. Was it in the best conditions, no, but she’d managed.
We’d asked Dezikiel if she could come to the Academy early in order to get her out of shitty rentals, but his hands were tied. We needed to wait until she was eighteen. Those were the rules.
Angels.
Pretentious, righteous dicks.
I was a little bummed Jack had been the one to first see her as himself. She’d obviously grown closer to him quickly, trusting him now that she knew who he was.
Not that I really cared. Our job was to protect her. That was all that mattered.
Bug was awfully quiet, toying with the elastic band around his wrist like usual. He was always on edge and antsy, something I never understood. Jack was the Alpha of our little group, the strong, determined one. Chumley was the one closest to Lily, having watched that much Netflix with her, and he’d spent time with her over meals and whatnot.
Bug, he’d hung around at times. He’d spent the majority of his time with her when she was relaxed, normally reading or listening to music. Her calm demeanor in those moments were good for him apparently, at least that’s what Jack had said.
Me? I’d mostly been the one who watched over her when she left the house. Walking the streets with her, learning about the human world.
We reached her room, not having spoken a word. It was a comfortable silence, and we all naturally filed in after her.
I headed straight over to the window, glancing into the gardens out the back.
Bug joined me, sitting down in the reading nook and pulling his legs up.
Chumley sat on the end of Lily’s bed as she collapsed onto it, and Jack just stood back, folding his arms.
“Well… that was eye-opening,” Lily sighed as she stared up at the ceiling.
“How are you feeling?” Chumley asked.
“I don’t know. Kinda numb I s’pose,” she said as she drew in a deep, steadying breath.
“It’s a lot to take in. Probably not as difficult as being hellhounds born of Hell and thrust into this world,” I said as I folded my arms. That hadn’t been easy. We were Hellhounds, not humans. But we’d had to learn how to be like them.
And for some reason, we could take on these strange, fleshy human forms. I preferred my hellhound form, and my skin prickled just at the thought of shifting into it.
“What was it like for you guys?” she asked as she rolled onto her stomach to look at Bug and I.
“Well, we were created that day with only one purpose. To protect you. But as we came into being, Angels snatched us up and took us into this white room. Our bodies were forced to take on these more human forms, and they used their divine magic to alter us. They taught us speech and gave us some idea of how we were meant to act. And then we were shipped here in order to learn everything and be more human-like. All the while our projected forms watched over you,” Jack explained.
“That must have been weird for you guys,” she mused with a frown.
“It’s just how it was. We accepted it, since our duty was to protect you, and if we didn’t conform with their desires, they would destroy us,” Chumley spoke up from his seat on the bed.
“Destroy you?” Lily looked taken back by this.
“We’re expendable,” Bug mumbled near me as he toyed with his elastic band. Lily noticed this but didn’t say anything.
She seemed troubled by this statement, and Jack shot us a look.
A look that told us to shut our mouths on these things.
