The two women who stood before her stared at Cora in horror. Cora herself reeled with revulsion and a deep and burning sense of shame at what she had done. This was her fault. She’d let this thing take control and now it wielded all the power that she had inherited from her parents. Power that she had suppressed for so long. Wanting to be ordinary. Just another demon. Maybe a bit quirky but not a major player in the grand game. Not a freak. Not a thing to be afraid of. Not a thing of nightmares given form.
But the blood of the Destroyer flowed in her veins. And that power that even other demons feared had passed on to her. And now the thing inside her mind, that abhorrent parasitic abomination, wielded it. Added it to its own formidable strength.
The expressions on the faces of the two
