Book 1: Chapter 7: Healing Under the Moonlight

Book 1: Chapter 7: Healing Under the Moonlight

Scarlet Asger

As I walk over to the door, I notice Tar vanishing out of the corner of my eye. And when I turn around to look, I dont see him anywhere in the room anymore.

Huh.

Ive gone invisible now that we are leaving the room and may make contact with people, his voice resonates in my head, making me feel slightly uncomfortable in the process.

Its weird to hear someone talking and not know where the voice is coming from. At least with phone calls and stuff you know the voice is technically coming from the phone. But not in this case.

Neither me nor the tanuki speak for a little while as I walk out of the office and begin heading down the hall, occasionally checking doors along the way in the hopes of finding a storage room. Only to have no luck in that department.

By the time I make it halfway down the hall to where the door of the receptionist area that I was at when this all started is, I finally stop as the sound of the spider stops right outside of that very door. I then stare at the door for a few seconds, slowly spreading my claws outwards while tensing up ever so slightly.

Seconds pass by in silence with only the occasional chittering noise of creaking joints from the spider moving in place on the other side of the door.This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Why is it waiting?

Unless the huntsman demons are too quiet for me to hear, there shouldnt be any more demons on this floor. Meaning it cant be waiting for anything.

Could it be going to sleep?

I wait another five or so seconds before my impatience gets the best of me and I barge right through the door to find the spider demon eating a corpse in absolute silence. One that I do not recognize.

The creature jerks its head up as it hears my entrance, but Ive already swung my clawed hand at its side, tearing a much deeper gash through it than I was ever able to make on the other spider. And thats when the voice echoes in my head, telling me the demons information.

|Demon Spawn Subspecies: Spider Level 2|

That explains it.

The demon lets out a loud screech of pain before I follow up with another strike with my claws, albeit with my wounded arm this time. And the pain that comes along with it has me wincing.

I feel more blood pouring out of the wound, eventually leaving a trail to my claws on that arm before the claws themselves grow in size and opacity.

I nod my head with a smile.

Thats good.

I walk over to the window before looking out it, through the shield that is likely there, invisible to those of us inside of it, at the blood moon hanging high in the air.

For some reason, the moon makes me feel calm. Relaxed even.

Is it because Im half blood lycan?

As I stand here, basking in the red moonlight, I feel a strange tingling sensation arise from my wounded arm. And when I look down at it, I find the wound radiating a faint red light.

Huh?

You didnt know? the tanuki asks in a slightly mocking tone of voice that has me turning to look at him with a scowl on my face. Blood lycans heal in the direct light of the blood moon.

Oh. Thats nice to know.

I pull my arm as carefully as I can out of the jacket sleeve so as to not irritate the wound or get any more blood than I have to on my jacket before going closer to the window. The tingling sensation grows stronger and stronger the closer I get to the window, and soon enough I can see the wound very slowly closing on its own.

Very slowly.

Seconds pass, and soon enough the seconds turn into minutes. Before long, I feel like Ive just stood here for nearly five entire minutes before the wound is small enough that its nothing more than a very faint scab. So I put my arm back through my sleeve, frowning slightly as I feel some blood along the way but otherwise ignoring it.

Guess I dont need any bandages anymore.

I smile at that thought before turning around and walking towards the stairs.

It sounds like there are a few demons on the floor beneath us, with more and more on each floor beneath that. Meaning that the Fractures core is most likely closer to the bottom of the building. Quite a bit far away from us here on the thirtieth floor.

And if I remember correctly from the drills and classes we had to take in high school about Demonic Assaults the Fractures tend to appear close to large gatherings of humans, on a place close to a flat surface. Meaning that its probably somewhere between the first through fifth floors, since those are the most populated.

The tanuki vanishes again as I make my way to the staircase down the hall from the receptionist area.