Ch.9: The First Objective

Nikolai

We hurried back into town and met up with the rest of the pack.

/"What did you see?"/ I asked Marcus.

/"I saw a demon luer a young woman into the shadows over there,"/ he started, nodding his head towards the alleyway between the two buildings. It was dark and foreboding. A natural spot for demons to lurk. From what we had seen so far, and from what Pete told us, Desdemona had recruited demons to hunt for her. It seemed odd she would rely on others to bring her sustenance instead of hunting herself.

Could she be injured and recovering? She had been in purgatory for decades, and the archangels would have only given her enough sustenance to not die. Maybe she was too weak to hunt yet?

/"When I snuck up to investigate, to see what he was doing to the girl, I noticed the second demon. They put the woman in a trance and one picked her up. They spoke little but did mention it was nice hunting her prey, torturing them before giving them to Desdemona and then feeding on the bodies