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And not a single damned thing about Bael.
“Alright, my girl. Your old man needs to grab a little bit of sleep,” he said, and we said our goodbyes.
Finished with the call, I slipped into some fresh clothes, surprised that I didn’t feel an almost overwhelming urge to jump in a scalding shower and scrape my skin with soap and exfoliants until I ripped a couple layers off, wanting to get the feel of him, the smell of him, off of me.
Somehow, though, that wasn’t an urge I had as I wrapped up in oversized sweats, made a cup of coffee, then grabbed my laptop and sat down to catch up on all the news I missed.
Usually, the big stories were being talked about on campus somewhere, prompting me to go in search of information about them.
But, well, I’d been distracted lately.
An hour or so later, I was still perched on the chair at my small dining table, eyes wide, a strange knot growing tighter and tighter in my chest.
Because I couldn’t shake some niggling little thoughts.
About lightning and storms.
About unprecedented disasters that scientists were having a hard time coming up with explanations for.
Unprecedented disasters I’d just… explained to Bael a few days ago.
What the hell was going on?
Not able to shake the strange sensation, I opened a new tab, typing in his name.
Professor Bael Thane.
Nothing.
Not a damn thing.
He didn’t exist.
Not in academia, anyway.
In fact, he didn’t exist at all. Not on social media. Not on people searches.
“Yeah, because he’s not actually a human,” I mumbled to myself.
But if he wasn’t human, if he wasn’t a professor, if he wasn’t creating an app, why had he contacted me?
Could he think that, well, that the myths were… real? That the old gods were “waking up?” Hadn’t he said something about that? For the “app.”
But if it wasn’t an app, if it was real life, then, yeah, it was starting to line up with the events going on in the world, wasn’t it?
Were the… gods real? The gods I’d dedicated so much of my life learning about?
It sounded insane.
But so did the existence of demons.
So did having sex with one.
Yet those things were true.
If those were real, then so the gods could be, right?
Restless, I jumped up from my laptop, pacing my apartment with a mind that was racing around endlessly.
