A Deal with a Demon
The woman placed the ingredients within the puddle and stirred with the tree branch a star with a circle inside. Her hair was bunched together in a ponytail like a river of fire. The woman's eyes glittered with green emeralds. Anxiously she waited as the demon was summoned at midnight.
A flash of fire touched down upon the concoction, burning it in an earthly smell. A woman with caramel skin and black hair stepped onto the road and in front of the red hair woman.
"Hmm…" She spoke seductively, "What does a ssssinner want with me?"
The Green-Eyed lady snapped at her with blazing eyes, "A family."
The Demon curled around the red-head like a snake, speaking, "Interesssting. I have been called many namesss dearesssst. The Egyptianssss hailed me asss Apophisss, a great god of Destruction and Chaossss! Ahh…. But now I go by Essshu of Nigeria.
So speak your needs, and I shall my own."
The first woman stood straighter and spoke with confidence, "I am sterile, I wish to have but one baby of my blood. Magic does not work for these things, but… Other sources can."
Eshu, as previously identified, narrowed her eyes and stopped pacing.
"So you would sell your soul to give but one a life?" The Demon asked.
Green-Eyes shook her head, "I would rather not as it is the one thing that will always be my own."
Eshu smiled, "Then, a different proposition must be put into play. I shall become one with you on a night of sensation, and your baby will be mine, as will it be your husbands. "
A year later on July 31st, Hadrian James Potter was born.