Bitter Demons dialog by R. Wesley Edwards
In this dialog, and
are chatting.
you sound bitter...
yeah...well...when something's green with scales ... you can call it
a lizard. When it has wings and flies, you can call it a flying
lizard... when it breathes fire... then you might call it a dragon...
so... ?
well ... when it flies through buildings and smells bad, leaving a
haze trail...?
yeah... ?
THEN ... you call it a demon.
Ohkay... ?
Well ... you don't play games with demons. You don't pussyfoot around
with pure evil. You don't obfuscate. You don't ... equivocate. You
don't euphemise... You certainly don't worry about hurting IT'S
feelings!
And... ?
and? ... and - ya know - you KNOW big time that you can no sooner
fight it than a tornado; than the sun coming over the horizon tomorrow
morning... if you don't want to see daylight -- you head West and you
don't stop. The best way to deal with demons is to not deal with
them. You see ... you RUN from pure evil. You recognize it with your
fucking eyes closed and you bail. You get the fuck out! Are you
hearing me?
Yeah -- I --
And demons... they don't have to be green with scales-
No?
No. And they don't have to have wings an-
Wha...
Or well they don't have to let them show. And- they rarely fly.
But they can... fly?
Of course they can fly. What else would they do with wings? They
have eyes, they see. They have wings... they fly. They aren't like
angels -- they have no qualms about abusing their power -- their power
manifests itself IN abuse.
But we can out run them?
We better hope so. And I'll tell ya something else...
Yeah... ?
They don't often fly through buildings and as far as smelling bad and
leaving a trail...?
They don't have to?
Right.
How do you know -- how can you tell if a demon is... around?
I know. And don't worry -- I'll let you know too.
What if you aren't around to tell me?
I hope you taste bad.
What the... ?
Don't worry; demons usually won't bother regular humans... unless...
Unless?
Unless they know...
Unless they know about you?
Yeah. Unless they know you are my friend. Unless they smell me
through you.
Can that happen?
I don't know. Before last week I didn't even believe in demons. I've
been all over this planet. I've been in the past, the present, and
yes, even the future -- and there were two things I had no direct
experience of...
Two things!?
Yeah
Besides demons?
Besides demons, one thing. One mystical thing I didn't believe in
because I'd never seen it, never touched it...
This is about that girl again. This is about Lisa...
True love.
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