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Foolish, foolish behavior, trying to reason with the undead. This farce could end any minute, and she’d have the upper hand.
“Do you want to use the telescope? I can help you look at the stars.”
We were in the Andromeda, surrounded by fancy machines, but she lacked interest in all of them.
If this was a trick, it was consistently executed. Nothing came out of the demon. No whistle, moaning, groaning, or even following. She was just…aimless.
I followed the ghost for an hour through various hallways, cautious enough not to get too close. We passed countless constellation maps, and despite me hounding her with clues, nothing seemed to jog any memories. It was as if I didn’t exist to her.
How could she not attack? Why would she want to cross over to this side if not to wreak havoc?
I was starting to wonder if she existed when I told Cordelia to meet up with me, and she screamed in terror and ran away. I’d apologize for that later.
Eventually, I got close enough that I tried to reach out and touch. She only hovered higher up so I couldn’t reach her and continually moved away.
“Let me help you go home,” I said gently. Perhaps I could just relocate her rather than slay her. “Gaksi, help me out here.”
“She must have spawned in this building,”Gaksi said, “because she doesn’t seem to know where she’s going or what she’s looking for.”
“I figured.”
“Call your favorite demon,” Gaksi suggested. “This one’s from his realm.”
“What, do I just shout at the sky? Hope that he comes tumbling out?”
“No, press on your bond, silly.”
“Isn’t it treacherous to call upon a demon that could kill me?”
“You thought this was a malevolent spirit, and it was not. Perhaps you misjudged him.”
“He already tried to erase me!”
“Do you want to get rid of this spirit or not?”
My blade glimmered in my hand. I could kill her if I wanted to. Gaksi lighting my blade was his approval to do so.
But she’d been so harmless. It felt immoral to destroy something so disoriented.
Against better judgment, I pushed down on my bond with two fingers, one on each wing.
“I knew you'd make the right choice,”Gaksi said. It didn’t erase my guilt.
Not only did I fail to destroy a lower-level demon, but I invited another to meet me.
No wonder Hunter hated me.
The room gleamed faintly, briefly illuminating the room before light coalesced into my captor.
“What is this?” I asked him before the light settled, pointing at the lost ghost. He looked at it dubiously.
“How did you contain this creature?” he asked.
I put my hands on my hips. “You’re welcome.”
He sighed, shoulders drooping. “This is the gwisin. It’s a rogue ghost from my realm. A reborn version of someone who once was. Scary, but harmless.” His gaze rotated to me. “Like you.”
“You owe me,” I said. “I contained this for you.”
