Lyan
Not long after Ashmoder went away someone knocked on the... wall, door? I didn't know what it was, and by when I opened the wall, I was officially calling it that since it had no door, there was no one there. Instead there was a tray filled with food to the brim.
Looking around to make sure no one was nearby, I still didn't fully trust the demons, I took the tray and went back into my room.
As soon as the tray was inside I sat on the bed and began devouring my food. I was starving and hadn't eaten anything for a whole day, longer if I had been unconscious for a few days, which was a very real possibility. Everything on the tray tasted amazing. It also helped that it was all stuff I liked, such as pancakes and magos.
After I devoured everything the bed called to me, begging me to get inside and not wake up into noon the following day, but for the second time this week my common sense won, I was on a row!, and I decided to take the nap at a later time, preferably after I'd tried to scape a few times.
" Okay, how can I get out?" My voice was soft and low. I couldn't afford to be heard by a demon, much less by the demon King that lived just in front of me.
Although Ashmoder had sworn that the wall wouldn't open without my consent I didn't want to risk it.
Of all the stuff in the room only the toy horse could be used to barricade the wall, so I dragged it, pushing with all my might, to the place where the wall had opened before. The horse held the wall and I looked at it dubiously.
Just looking at it made me think it wouldn't even withstand a single breeze, much less a demon, so I did the smart thing and piled up all the other toys on top of it and on the sides, making it impossible to enter without stepping on a toy. It seemed quite sturdy, although it's durability was another matter entirely. I doubted it would even hold up against a child pulling one of the toys out, but if someone did try to enter they would hesitate before they did, or that was what I hoped.
After my amazing barricade was all set up I looked around the room, searching for some kind of hidden mechanism or anything at all that would let me out of the room. It didn't take me long to notice there wasn't such a thing, or that in the off chance there was it was very likely that it opened with some kind of demonic power, which I wasn't really good at. Just great!
I dropped to my bed and watched through the window as the demons went about their daily lives down below, laughing, talking, haggling. It was so lively that for a few minutes I forgot that they were demons and the enemy. The way they went about their daily lives reminded me a lot of humans. I really never got why both mages and humans hated demons so much. Given, they had tried to take their lands and pillage them, but so did the humans and mages with other humans. It didn't make any sense, but I guessed they had to have someone to hate and the demons, so different from both humans and mages, were the best target.
I walked up to the window and leaned in, wanting to see what the things below looked like up close. Maybe I could ask Ashmoder to take me out, or maybe I could just ran away myself. A devious grin started spreading all over my lips as an idea took root inside my head and flourished.
My ideas sucked.
I came to that conclusion while I was hanging from the curtains on the window, my whole body dangling over 30 feet above the street after the curtains had already run out. I was stuck. I couldn't go any lower because there was no more curtain and the wall was too smooth to climb. I knew I should've also used the bed sheets! But it was no use complaining now.
I tried to hold onto the wall, but it was way to smooth to provide any kind of support and I was left dangling, my strength running away from me and I was too tired to chase after it.
" I really hate physical activities" I muttered under my breath. If I could I would outlaw anything that wasn't staying on the couch.
I looked upwards and saw the first window I had come across, but my smart ass self had thought that I could reach the lower window and make things easier and I was now stuck between the two windows, with nowhere to go to. I was that smart.
At first it hadn't been that bad but as the minutes went by holding onto the fabric became harder and harder and any hope I could have of climbing to the higher window dissipated along with any amusement I could've had. At first it had been fun. I had even screamed a little bit and shouted from excitement screaming with a low voice I'm Spiderman! Right now all I wanted was to hit my past self in the head, and hit her hard.
My whole body shivered as holding onto the curtains became harder and harder. My hands started slipping away from the curtain. I could see my body splattered all over the floor and it wasn't a pretty image. I started to panic and thrash around, which didn't help very much, more like it did the opposite, but I was way too scared to think logically right now. All I wanted was to get off. Getting away from the castle, but dying wasn't a good deal, not at all.
I looked at the passerbys down below with fear in my eyes. I was going to fall and end up all over the floor and not even my shadows could protect me from it. If it had been a small distance they may have been able to break my fall, but at this distance? I was dying for sure.
" Should I just scream?" I wondered while I looked at the curtain going lower and lower, making me go down. I looked over my arm and saw that the lower window wasn't that far out of my reach, but as things were going I was sure that if I tried to reach for it the already bended toy horse where I had tied the curtains would break, and if it toppled over all of us, me, the curtains and the toy horse, would all come crushing down.
I looked down one last time and made a choice.
" Aaahhh!!!!" I screamed with all my strength, trying to alert Ashmoder and Ruan, hoping that they'd help me.
All the demons down below snapped their heads upwards to look at me and started pointing and murmuring. Just great, now besides being hurt and tired I was a show for them. Maybe I should throw my shadows their way just to see how they'd react, but I also needed them in case I fell. They wouldn't break my fall, but they could just save my life, if I was lucky, which I wasn't really willing to try.
I was thinking about that, about whether to scare the demons or save myself, there wasn't really much of a choice, but it was fun imagining the demon's scared faces, when a rough hand grabbed me and I was suddenly inside the castle. What the fuck? I had been hanging in the middle of the air, with no windows nearby, how on earth had they managed to reach me?
" Sweet floor" As soon as I sensed ground beneath my feet I went down to the floor and sighed in relief. I could've kissed the floor. I loved the floor. I was never letting go. After I calmed down a little bit and no longer felt like puking if I got up I did the rational thing.
" Thank you" I said under my breath. I had to thank whoever had saved me or they wouldn't do it again when I tried to scape again through the window after I went back to my room.
" Now, can you tell me what you were doing hanging from the window?"
I swallowed hard as soon as I recognized Ashmoder's voice, which was lazed with a hint of anger and fear.
" I was....I was sightseeing" I lied, making it all up on the spot.
Ashmoder huffed, but instead of hitting me or insulting me he just messaged his temples and went along with my lie.
" Next time you want to go sightseeing call me. As long as you give me permission I'll open the door and we can go together, through the front door"
Ashmoder's words were kind, even though a hint of anger and fear remained in his voice, making me feel bad about the whole thing.
" Okay" I said in a sweet voice, finally looking at Ashmoder for the first time since he had saved me from plummeting to my death.
Ashmoder was naked from his waist up and for the first time I could see that he did have muscles, just as I'd thought. His muscles were almost as big as Orus's, but they weren't the bulky kind, more like the defined ones. Once I went back to my senses I looked away, turning a little bit red. I didn't want to see his muscles, he was my dad for God's sake!
" Are you okay?" Ashmoder's hands were on my forehead before I could notice and I was once again facing Ashmoder's bare chest.
" Put some clothes on your making me uncomfortable!" I shouted.
Ashmoder looked down at himself and chuckled while he conjured a white nightgown for himself.
" Thanks"
" Let's get you back to your bed"
Ashmoder took my hand and guided me through the palace, taking turns I didn't even see and making us get closer and closer to my room.
" Did you like the food?" Ashmoder's question came so out of the blue that I stopped on my tracks, thinking for a few seconds before I processed what he was talking about.
" It was delicious" I smiled at him and all of Ashmoder's remaining anger, that had been visible in his bulging veins all this time, dissipated and was replaced by a big, masculine smug smile.
" I'm glad you liked it, bunny"
His hands were on my head, petting me, but unlike what I had done the last time he had tried to pet me this time I let him, too shaken about what could have happened if he hadn't heard me scream to push him off, and maybe and just maybe I liked the comfort and the way he petted me, as if I mattered, but just maybe.
" Can we go out tomorrow to see the town?" I asked, not really expecting a positive answer, but instead of telling me it was too dangerous or making some stupid excuse up Ashmoder thought about it and answered me when we were almost near my room. I could tell it was near it because there was a beautiful painting of a waterfall on the corridor right next to my room.
" Of course. After we speak tomorrow I'll take you to see the town"
I looked at him surprised. I was sure he was going to say no, but now that I knew he was willing to listen to me I wasn't going to let that chance slip away without trying everything I could.
" Then can I return to Earth?" I asked in my most innocent voice.
" No" Ashmoder's voice got deep and dark and for a second I just wanted to run away, all my instincts telling me to run while I still could. " It's too dangerous to go back there"
I let go of his hand and backed away towards my room, the wall already parted thanks to Ashmoder's powers.
" Then what do you expect me to do? Do you want me to spend my whole life here?!!" I was shouting by now, not caring about who could overhear me.
" Yes" Ashmoder growled.
I looked at him with hatred in my eyes and ran to my room, through the open....wall.
" Lier " I muttered" you opened the wall without my consent"
Ashmoder paled but didn't deny it. He just stood there, looking at me with sad eyes.
" Irash, bunny, it's just that I..."
" I don't want to hear it!" I screamed. " Forget about the outing"
Ashmoder massaged his temples and sighed.
" I'll come to your room with breakfast at noon. I know you love to sleep in" Ashmoder said with a weak smile on his lips "Then we'll talk and if you still don't want to go you don't have to"
" Don't pretend to listen to what I say" I crossed my arms over my chest. I hated liers, but I hated hypocrites even more. It would be fine if he said I couldn't do what I wanted, but I absolutely hated the fact that he pretended to give me some freedom. " If you cared about what I want you'd let me go back to Earth"
" I can't do that. It's too dangerous"
" Then get lost" I turned around and went to my bed, no longer wanting to speak to Ashmoder.
All the toys were back to their original places, not a single sign of the barricade I had made not that long ago remaining. Even the curtains that I had hanged from were back in their place, intact as if nothing had happened.
" See you tomorrow" Ashmoder's soft voice came from outside just as the wall closed back again.
After the failed scape attempt all I wanted to do was lay back and sleep, but I had to try at least one last time, so I got back up and remade the barricade, already knowing how to do it thanks to my previous experience and went to the window to try and scale it down again, but this time I had learned my lesson. I wouldn't try to reach the second window, I would stop at the first one and get off there and then walk through the castle until I found the door. It was a plan!
Just as I reached the curtains I tore them apart and found that the window was gone, replaced by shining blue symbol that replicated the moonlight.
That bastard had trapped me here!
I fumed as I went back to my bed and laid there. Tomorrow I'd find a plan, but today I was too tired to do anything else.
As soon as I hit the mattress I was asleep, so I didn't hear the wall creak back open.