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As Ava raised her hand, a misty stream shot out of her palm and was heading straight for Duke’s howling face. As it passed from her to him, she looked over her shoulder at me and said, “Play your bow.”
Shocked at how serene she looked, I stood there flabbergasted. “Mywhat?”
“Your bow, harp whatever you wanna call it, just play it! Now!!!”
When she yelled at me like that, she didn’t have to say it a third time. Turning it around, I started strumming the double strings like I was a banjo player in a blue grass band. Why? I had no clue. But apparently, she did.
The melodious sound of harps that I’d only ever heard in Heaven, filled the room and everyone but Ava, Duke, Bones and myself, fell limp as if they’d been drugged.
“Now, that I refreshed your memory Duke,” Ava said. Breaking the connection from herself to him, she brought the sword upwards and laid the tip upon the underside of his jaw. “It’s time to get acquainted with Satan.”
He started screaming like a little girl, begging her for forgiveness but Ava was having none of it.
“You made your life the way you wanted despite knowing the consequences of your actions.”
A small nick was all it took. The blade started humming and began to glow an eerie orangish red as his blood dripped onto it. As she pulled it away, Duke’s soul was sucked right out of his body.
She swung the sword over her head and smacked the tip onto the floor. A portal opened, one that went straight to hell.
Duke’s chilling screams resonated around the dim lit room as Satan appeared below, waving and grinning like a fool as he welcomed the new nonphysical entity.
Ava lifted the sword and the floor returned to normal. She walked over to me, tucking her staff and sword under her cape and laughed.
“You can stop fiddling with the strings now,” she said as she waved her hand in the air.
Immediately I stopped playing, not because she said to but because the room shifted right before my eyes.
“Whoa—” Ava smooshed her fingers on my mouth.
“Shhh, I need to concentrate. Just watch.”
Everything that had happened played out in reverse. From the time I had walked in, to when she had and finally when Duke had come barging into the bar.
“He was never here, was he?” I whispered in awe as the patrons that had been knocked out from my exceptional bow strumming skills, came to.
Putting her hands in her pockets she turned and looked up at me. “Oh, he was here alright... They just don’t know it.”
“How can they not?”
“The bow. It zaps their memory. Watch.”
She walked up to the bar and looked at the young woman that was tending the bar.
“What can I get you?” She asked as she pulled down on the tap, filling a mug.
“Do you serve food in here?”
She laughed. “That we do! Best food around for miles.”
An old man sitting a few stools down from where Ava stood, spoke up. “It’s the only food around for miles.”
“Oh, you hush George, you know you love the food here!”
Ava laughed. “I’ll take six cheeseburgers than. Two plain, the others loaded, to go. Excuse me.”
She walked back to me and leaned close. “That is the exact conversation I had with those two when I first came into the bar.”
The smell of her went straight to my loins and my dick but I ignored it, because all I could say was, “Unbelievable.”
