"Oh! Finally you got yourself around to buy it," Carlos said, stretching his arms and cracking his knuckles.
"Well... I think now that I can afford it, and that we won some events, having the dedicated system would be good. Also, it's safer to train Maggie that way." Noah averted his gaze as Carlos started changing without any warning. "And you could have asked me to go outside."
"Eh? Since when do you care about it? Also, it would take longer that way. I'm getting hungry already," Carlos said, hastily putting his clothes on and walking to the closet, which had a small mirror. "Also, we eating chicken, ey?" He turned around as he combed his hair now dressed as he did when he was late. That is, slathered with gel.
"Did you get to hear that all the way here?" Noah asked, before remembering something. "Oh, I'll get going to get ready..." he said, making Carlos turn around.
"So I didn't have to hurry at all?" he asked, drawing a deep breath and crosshing his arms with a stare.
"I forgot to tell you, but since I'm still wearing fucking pajamas I thought you would have noticed," Noah said snarkily, before standing up and out the door.
"Fair enough, I'll be waiting at the living-room." Noah heard him say from behind him, raising his hand to excuse himself as he vanished in a ball of fire and emerging in his own room. The door to Carlos's room was locked, and he didn't feel like unlocking it, considering the presences behind it.
'These people either have a lot of free time or...' he thought, but stopped while shaking his head. Of course at least some of the many maids would have those tendencies. Either way, it could be a blessing or a curse, depending on the person, but he had no interest in those matters.
'Guess I better not hire that many people for my place,' he thought, not knowing reality would not be kind to him in that regard.
As he sunk into the bath and closed his eyes, Noah found himself again in that cursed dreamland, that he couldn't move or do anything, cursed to watch history take its course. But, this time, something was different.
'Weird...' he thought, as his eyes saw nothing, all black.
"Luci..." a female sounding voice called him, as he slowly began to feel a plethora of sensations. The silk under his body, he was laying. The wind caressing his body, he was naked. And the warmth of someone's body against his.
"I love you. You already know that, right?" the voice muttered into his ear, sweet and venomous. A voice Noah knew all too well.
'Lilith?' he thought, just in time to hear the voice that left his mouth confirm his thoughts. "I love you too, Lilly."
And the sensation on his body changed, as he felt the warm heat move upon him, and lips upon his, which lasted a minute, before all feelings vanished, and he again felt nothing.
I was... I am..." she muttered, in broken words, and Noah looked down to see the snake covering her eyes with her tail.
"This time, I was there, while the two of you were together. I couldn't see, but..." Noah said, swallowing dry, and sighed. He walked to the wardrobe, and put on his clothes, waiting for the snake to say something, which happened as he was almost done already.
"I was in my human form, wasn't I?" she asked, clearly ashamed.
"Yes, you were," Noah responded in a one-liner, making the snake draw a sigh.
"Is that why you put me on the ground there," she asked, slithering down the bed and coiling onto him once again. "I don't mind, I really don't," she told him, making Noah bite his lip.
"But I do. You're not a pet, you're a woman, Lilith. How can I have you coiling around me, sleeping with me, and—" he started talking, but got interrupted by the snake, whose size increased, and coiled once on his neck while touching the side of his face with her head.
"Look, I am your companion and your contracted demon. And above all, you saved me. If you want to see me like that, wait until I have regained my human form, so I can at least respond to it properly. For now, just let me live in a way that makes me happy," she said, leaving Noah confused.
"And what way would that be?" he asked, furrowing his brows as he imagined what way of living would make the gigantic and god-like snake he saw in those dreams happy.
"Like normal. Clinging to you and helping you and the people you love. You stupidly dense descendant," she said, shaking her head slowly and sliding down his body back onto the floor. "Thank you," she said, as she made her way toward the door, leaving Noah behind with his thoughts.
After a good minute, Noah walked out of the room, still slightly shaken, but now calmer.
"Finally! I thought you had died in there," Carlos' voice rang as he stepped onto the corridor, only to be followed by the quick and rhythmic noises of Bel and Maggie's feet surring towards him.
"Noah!" their voices echoed in unison, as the two hugged him.
"Lilith also woke up! Let's go all together," Bel said with a broad smile, making Noah smile in response while putting his hand on the boy's head.
"Alright, alright. We're going now," he said, as he stroked Maggie's hair while she giggled.
"You're footing the bill today for making me way, you fucker," Carlos said with a sarcastic smile, which made Noah laugh inside at how pissed he was.
"Sorry, Ma'am, I got you covered," he said, as the kids let go of him so he could walk, and ran towards the room to call for the girls. "Now that I think of it, where's Alice?" he asked, as he just now noticed he had not seen her even since going to his room.