D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

Lily jabbed at her food a few times as she considered the question, ”I don’t know. I mean… I’m pretty on the fence about the whole thing but… maybe it would help to have the others there?” Lily finished with a shrug and went back to poking at the sandwich.

”I think we should all go” said Vivian after finishing the rest of her sandwich in one bite. She was surprisingly eloquent despite the food still in her mouth. ”we need everyone to make sure she knows it isn’t a joke and I think we should go through with it now. You’ll have to tell her eventually unless you never plan on seeing your mother again and I feel like we have time now and it could be handled somewhat well”

Lily looked over at Kat who just shrugged back, in her mind this was Lily’s thing even if it was her own secrets technically. Seeing Kat wasn’t going to be any help Lily looked over at Callisto who noticed and said, ”I have no preference. I do not get along with my family and have no desire to ever speak with them again. A more normal person would urge you to reveal everything to them but I am not. I could not care less about never seeing my own parents ever again but I suppose you have a slightly better relationship with them than that.”

Lily grimaced at that response not really sure how to take it. Callisto was normally so logical about things and while she did lay out the details fairly clearly it was such a… tainted perspective compared to her normal one it was actually quite the surprise. Shrugging it off Lily turned to Sylvie who seemed to have finished with the meal and was now just sipping lightly form a glass of water.

”I think you’ll need to ask if you can forgive yourself and how long it will take for Evaline to forgive you” said Sylvie between sips.

”Um… what?” asked Lily confused.

Sylvie paused halfway between sips to look Lily dead in the eyes. ”The way things are, if you tell Evaline now, you can then go off and do the transformation and hope she forgives you once it’s over or some time later. If you wait till after the transformation you’ll need to get her forgiveness while not being able to talk, and while cats are adorable the lack of speech will probably be a major issue.

”If things become a bigger issue and everything spirals without Lily being able to talk, even if she and Kat can understand each other or something, Evaline might not be willing to listen properly and it might be too late. If by the time Lily learns to transform and regain her ability to speak Evaline has decided it’s not worth it or she can’t forgive what has happened it will be up to Lily if she can live with herself afterwards.

”So, the question I think you should be asking Lily, is if you don’t tell her now and the worst happens later and it becomes something you can’t stop… can you live with yourself?”

*Holy shit Sylvie where did that come from? I mean… you’re probably right but still. She doesn’t have parents so why does she know something like that? Even ignoring that why would any child be able to figure that out? She’s the youngest one here and the only one that really thought of it.* 

Everyone was shell-shocked because of Sylvie’s words and when Kat let her gaze drift to Lily the mixture of emotions on her face was especially potent. There was plenty of shame, confusion and determination mixed with smatterings of other feelings that Kat wasn’t really able to parse out. She knew Lily extremely well but it was simply too much. ”I guess we’re telling her then” whispered Lily.

Kat heard it loud and clear but the others could get the gist of what was being said without too much trouble. There were only two answers really and the look on Lily’s face was that of resigned acceptance. ”I’m also not really hungry anymore” said Lily as she pushed away a mostly eaten sandwich piece. It was her third one at the very least but it wasn’t exactly a full meal.

Vivian looked like she wanted to say something but when Callisto placed a light hand on her, she stopped whatever she was going to say and nodded instead. Sylvie, seemingly unaffected by the mode finished off her water before nodding to everyone. Taking that as a queue Vivian sped through another two sandwich slices as fast as she could while Kat and Callisto finished off their drinks. With that, most of the food was actually eaten though Kat wasn’t sure exactly when that happened.

With everyone done they gathered themselves and started to head over to Lily’s though the girl in question paused at the front door. ”Are you going to change?” asked Lily with a look at Callisto who glanced down at the maid uniform she always wore. It still wasn’t historically accurate but it was mostly accurate to popular perception with a few addons for her convenience. How she kept the white gloves clean was a secret many wondered about to this day.

”Why? I wear this all the time” said Callisto easily.

Lily opened her mouth to retort to that but stopped after realising that with the reveal of magic the last thing her mother was going to complain about was inappropriate attire especially on someone who wasn’t Kat. As the left the door, the demon in residence had an idea, ”Shall I just lift everyone over the fence? It’d save us walking around.”

”That’s a great idea” said Vivian taking the lead and headed back into the house, now with her shoes in hand. The group walked to the backyard together and got to the fence. Kat considered just dropping people over but decided to have a bit of fun. First Kat set Sylvie on her shoulder, held in place by the matching hand and took a light jump over the fence, making sure to use a bit of extra effort because it was Earth.

Easily clearing the fence, Kat depositing Sylvie down before hopping back over under her own power. Lily went next because Kat could just grab her into a bridal carry without worry. Lily blushed a bit at the hold but didn’t have too much time to worry over it when Kat hopped her over the fence as well. Once Lily was safely deposited next to Sylvie Kat leapt the fence again and said, ”So, how do you want me to take you both? Just lifting you up by the armpits might not be the safest…”

”However you want is fine” said Vivian, and with a shrug from Kat, the demon just pulled Vivian into a bridal carry as well and hopped her over the fence before coming back.

”I have an idea I want to test if you don’t mind?” said Callisto

”Sure what were you thinking?” asked Kat

”I’m curious about if I could sit on your outstretched arm. You should be strong enough for it, it’ll just come down to me,” explained Callisto demonstrating the arm position with elbow down,” responded Callisto.

Kat shrugged and bent down a bit and held out her arm. Callisto seated herself in the crook and Kat found the weight was still negligible even when keeping her arm outstretched as Callisto requested. Taking a moment to check her balance Kat found she could do it pretty much automatically. Accepting that for what it was, Kat kicked off the ground, slightly more on the left side where Callisto was placed, and kept herself level using her wings to make it over.

At the height of the jump she noticed that Callisto was rising a bit above her so she flared her wings to catch Callisto on the way down so they didn’t hit the ground to hard. Callisto did sway slightly but she kept her balance well enough for Kat to make it to the ground and for her to slide off. ”Hmm, not necessarily recommended I do not think. It requires a level of balance and co-ordination during the ride that a human might not be capable of keeping up with consistently. For such a short trip it was fine but I would not recommend it,” noted Callisto.

Lily silently thanked Callisto with a look knowing that the maid had requested the strange method of transportation to give her a few seconds to compose herself for the confrontation that was about to happen. That’s how Lily was going to take it, and to the surprise of some she would be correct in it.. Still, the backyard was no polite way to enter a house so they made their way around to the front as carefully as they could so as not to spoil the surprise. When they got to the front door Lily sucked in a deep breath before pushing it open…