Her request was only one out of a sense of politeness for the pitiful child. He would show her exactly where the wannabe necromancer was, or there would be no salvation for him or any of the other specters roaming this dreadful place. Mona would hunch and unstrap her heels, cradling them in her hand. She would need the element of surprise, a swift end to the necromancer before he even knew what happened. She would creep low to the ground, soft, muted paces, quiet like a mouse. But, the girl was not the prey in this scenario. She was the predator. Hunting through the darkness, fangs already bared to sink deadly venom into the perpetrator's veins.
A tongue slips, hisses, and laps along the contours of her lips. Time seemed to slow in the anticipation of the kill, she almost got lost in the inferno swelling in her eyes. The tepidity of her body overheating in the lifeless tomb. Ba-dum. Ba-dum. The boy halts, a hand elevating to point towards a winding bend, a peek upward as if to say that was where the target was. Crimson penetrates the opaqueness of the penumbra, her fist clenching as it taps sideways against her open palm, stifling the cackle she so desperately wants to howl. As Mona rounds the bend, a magic circle manifests in front of her and a snake clad in shadows and dripping ultraviolet blots lunges at the man caught unaware.
He writhed, he begged. He screamed so beautifully. Desdemona would crouch down, head tilted to spectate the macabre scene, gore and mess were strewn about, but just teasing from the periphery of murk. Still, it was enough to satisfy the girl. The presence of the boy had long since vanished, cleansed from this earthly plane in the death of its contractor. and the rest of the infestation was likely to follow. For now, Mona was delighting in greedy decadence, a sin surely, but not one that would attract the ire of her patron demon. No, she certainly did a good deed today. A treat was in order.
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[I really gotta quit going over]