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“Yeah… yeah.” I remember he did sort of say that. “I guess it never clicked that it would mean you guys don’t really do gender the same.”
Elias considers for a moment. “I have a dick,” he states.
Without engaging my brain at all, with zero thought and zero filter, my mouth opens, and I instantaneously reply, “Oh, I amveryaware of that.”
There’s a split-second silence as I process the conversation, then proceed to crack up and laugh until I’m wheezing.
“I’m, I’m sorry!” I gasp helplessly. “That just caught me off guard.”
Elias is watching me through the video feed with an expression of infinite patience, but the quirk of his lips betrays that he is fighting very hard not to laugh himself. “What I meant to say, my dear, was that yes, those closed-minded individuals who judge only on external appearances would therefore assume it to be a straight relationship.”
“Oh, that makes sense.” It was just damn funny the way he said it out of nowhere… and how quickly my brain, running on complete autopilot, had to make an innuendo out of it.
They make me laugh so much.
Being around them is just an absolute joy.
I adore them.
Caelan returns and sits back down, leaning into Elias’ personal space to get a better view of the camera as he cracks open the bottle of cider he’s also collected during his brief departure. “What the hell did I miss?” he asks, eyeing my flushed face and the way my shoulders are still shaking with giggles.
“Just Elias being inadvertently hilarious,” I say. “So, if it’s not a stupid question, or too personal… how did you end up being men, then? Could you have equally been women? Or something else entirely?”
“Hmm… no. We are not strictly just demons, after all.”
If I would just stop being amused and used my brain, that should have been obvious. “Right. Of course. The little fragment of human soul.”
“The ones we were unfortunately entangled with were both males. As this is the only part of us with any tie to a physical body, our current forms are influenced by their original appearance.”
“Isn’t that… weird?”
“They perished at the time. And it was several decades ago now. It is what it is.”
The mood feels more somber now, but I don’t mind that so much. It’s an honor to learn anything more about them. “Could you have chosen a different form?”
“Perhaps, once.”
“Can youshapeshift?”
Caelan snorts. “Whatcha so interested for? Want to see us with tits or something?”
“No,Caelan,” I protest. Not that I would mind that, now he mentions it.
“We cannot,” Elias interrupts before that thought goes any further. “As demons alone, we could have taken any form we liked. Humanoid or… more monstrous. But just as we are bound here, we are also bound to the bodies we have now. We can only alter our surface appearance in the form of a glamour.”
“I understand.”
“I ain’t complaining,” Caelan drawls. “If I’m gonna be stuck in this shitty dimension in a shitty human form for fuck knows how long, I want adick.”
That sets me off again, and I end up with tears in my eyes and my sides aching. I’m laughing so hard that it attracts the attention of my mom. She sticks her head into my room, which is my sister’s old one before she took mine once I moved out for college, to raise an eyebrow and ask what I’m doing.
“Sorry. Funny video,” I try to explain, muting the laptop quickly.
She accepts that, and we say our goodnights. It’s late.When did it get so late?Almost midnight already. I always lose track of time when I get into conversations with Elias and Caelan.
“Sorry about that,” I say, sighing, after I’m left alone again, and the door is closed safely behind me. “I suppose I ought to go before I disturb anyone else.”
“Of course. It’s late for you.”
