Lilith closes the phone and drops it on her bed. Holding the towel around herself with one hand and sitting down on the bed. A loud sigh escapes her lips and my eyes fall to her thighs, then back up to her face. A droplet of water from her hair slithers down her pink cheek, catching on the corner of her mouth and running down her chin. Her lips look soft and inviting. Unconsciously, I think how tired I must be to think such a thing about a woman. Her eyes seem tired. She leans down to open her bag, holding the towel tight to her chest. "Um, could you turn away?" It takes a moment before I remember that she's talking to me and do as she asks. I know that behind me she is pulling her pink girlish pajamas over her completely naked form. "You can turn back now." The bow on her top is crooked and the sleeves are slightly too long for her short arms. I walk over to her to try and help but my foot catches on something and I find myself sprawled out on top of her. We both fall hard to the carpeted floor.

"Ow," she moans as her pajama's tightly hug her curves underneath me. When she recovers, and looks into my eyes again, she asks, "Stiyl?" her voice just above a whisper and the warm brown of her eyes, shimmering.

"Haaay!" sings Index as she opens the door to the hotel room. She stops abruptly seeing me straddling her friend. One of my hands is over her wrist so it looks like I'm holding her down. Oh god this looks bad.

"Index, why did you just stop in the middle of the doorway? Hey are you even listening?" urges Toma. He follows Index's gaze until our eyes meet and he knows exactly what happened. A coy smile is plastered across his lips. "Oh, I see. What a naughty guy you are Stiyl, I had no idea you were into this kind of thing." He seems eager to get revenge for all the times I made fun of his relationship with Index. He knows this is just a misunderstanding. Damn you Toma!

Lilith's face flushes again and I can hear whimpering noises coming from her mouth as tears prick her eyes. Index, noticing her friend's distress and wishing to take her frustration out on someone, begins grinding her fangs together, "Tooommmaaa!"

The young man screams before her teeth clamp down over his skull and she ravenously bites him.

"Rotten luck…"

"Um," says a tiny voice below me. "Could you, maybe, let me go?" stutters Lilith with that same blush dusting her cheeks. I fall off of her awkwardly without a word, leaning against the bed and coughing to hide my own embarrassment. She sits up and goes to calm Index down, convincing them its' okay and they can go.


"Everything seems alright," says Toma after they exit the hotel building.

"Yeah, almost too alright by the looks of it," mutters Index.

"I think we can probably leave her with him for now but we should definitely check on them again tomorrow."

"Yeah, good plan," Index agrees as they walk back to the school dorms, calling it a night.


Noticing my discomfort, Lilith opens her mouth, "What is it? Is everything okay?" she asks me as she crawls into her bed, the pink pajamas still clinging to her small body. Her voice is sweet. It's hard to imagine this person could ever have anything to do with evil magic.

"Just fine. There's no need to worry," I reassure her as I turn out the light. I'm so tired. Exhaustion threatens to overtake me as it pulls at every muscle in my body. I make my way to my own bed on the other side of the room and climb in. The clock reads 12:22 AM. Too much has happened today. First work, and then the drinking party, then we were attacked, and now this. I glance over at the girl in the opposite bed one last time and see her gentle face. Her body is angled towards my own and she looks peaceful but with a hint of fear as she clutches the bed sheets protectively around herself. Before sleep takes me, I wish I could comfort her, though a man of the cloth like myself probably shouldn't be thinking of such things. Before I fall asleep, I have to remind myself that growing too close to her might really get me killed.