Conversation in the ruin
Presentation of the characters:
Opal is a succubus, known to turn the essence of men into beautiful opals (hence her name. She got stuck in a half real state after her curiosity got the better of her and she made a deal for half a soul, with results she did not expect.
Tsuki is a small but powerful demon (small but vicious according to Opal), sent by a demon lord to bring Opal back to the pits, where they wish to free her from the infestation by a soul…
She looks like, and acts, like a cute child.
She is now exploring an old ruin, where she knows Opal sometimes wanders around, to learn more…
It’s sad to see the teeth of time. This place, once a castle, the birthplace of a king, now just heaps of stone, where the sheep graze unknowingly…
I remember this old king, as he played on the slopes; a carefree youth in his grandmothers castle…
And I remember him as death crept close, foul of breath, and foul of temper, and his despair over his sons future betrayal, that we revealed to him in his dreams. And I gloried in his souls despair…
I, who am now have to carry a sliver of a soul inside me, fooled by my arrogance, it grows and possesses me… But still those strange feeling that I never had before, a hurt that is sweeter than…
“Opar!” “I zee you, ere we come!”
The voice I fear, she found me! And no one else around, I fear this will be it…
"Come foul creature, but don’t think I will give in without a fight!"
Tsuki: Aww, Opar no happy fo zeein Tsuki? Tsuki iz like Opar…
Opal: You can drop the charade, there is no one here to impress with your cuteness!
Tsuki: Well missuz Ice Queen, Iz not aezy to get to talk to ya…
Opal: So what is the deal, what do you want from me?
Tsuki: Don't play innocent, you know as well as me. I was ordered to bring you home; they do not take it lightly that you experiment with souls in this way. I was to recover you before it is too late.
Opal: So I have to break a contract, one that they made as binding as the ones that will bind human souls their pits. Such a thing is not broken so lightly…
Opal: If I break such a contract, wouldn’t that void others as well.
Tskui: They know well about that…
Tsuki: So I am here to observe.
Opal: Observe? you don’t fool me. You are here meddling…
Tsuki: So how come this deal was done, how come a demon like yourself was fooled to nurture a soul?
Opal: Do you really care? Or is this only to get me off guard?
Tsuki: I do want to know, I am an aspect of you, and I still don’t understand…
Opal: He asked me if I understood emotions.
Tsuki: No demon has such, he must have known.
Opal: He said he would give half his soul to help me know…
Tsuki: You don’t deal in half souls!
Opal: So I told him. But he continued: Half a soul to for keeps, and he guaranteed that I would have a whole soul when this was over. Unless I would like to return it.
Tsuki: So you have his soul in your net, you just have to wait, so there is no problem!
Opal: It’s not that easy… A split soul is still part of living, and will dissipate if not cared for, he made me carry the soul within me, thus get to know what feelings are.
Tsuki: Ooh. But a sliver of a soul you could cage up inside.
Opal: So I thought, but when nurtured ever so little, it takes root, it grows, and…
Tsuki: So, the thing you carry becomes a part of you…
Opal: So if you really want to salvage this demon, you need perhaps to help me with this burden.
Tsuki: You will give me a piece of soul.
Opal: Perhaps just a sliver to lighten my burden when it gets to heavy… You know as well as I do that I need to stay until the contract ends…
Tsuki: Your contract will bind you to the task; we have to see this to the bitter end.
Opal: Then a truce?
Tsuki: But I have one condition.
Opal: What do you want to make this truce?
Tsuki: That you won’t avoid me, my big sister.
Tsuki: Tsuki wontz zu kuschel wit Opar…
Opal: Take care little one or I might strangle you…
Tsuki: Tihi, Tsuki not so easy to get rid of...
Opal: Or worse, start to love you…
Tsuki: That on the other hand would hurt…
Some bonus images:
Behind the demons, so to say
How to pose on an uneven ground, make use of the natural support (I promise I didn’t mean to put that branch there)
The demonic pair!
Tsuki: You were only joking about giving me a piece of soul? Weren't you...
Opal: [sigh] What would one expect....
Originally published October 2009