14. Humans

"I thought only witches and or wizards could open it, so I went in search of them. My mind could leave the coffin as a mist of smoke or a miasmatic kind of darkness but couldn't cause any harm at all. Funny how I thought it would be easy to manipulate the mind of a witch. They weren't humans who were weak and had no powers. In fact, they knew about me, so whenever I'd come, they'd send me back."

He began to pace from his right to his left. "The witches were very smart. Their older ones had told them about me and even if they weren't informed, they knew how dangerous a demon was and how manipulative one can be. So, after trying and failing to get to them for hundreds of years, I decided to divert to another solution. Humans." He paused and looked up at her.

"Humans are weak and powerless. The weakest of all races. One would ask what I wanted to do with a human. I wondered that myself. But it seemed I just needed someone who could say the unlocking spell and so I manipulated the minds o