Grimmer Reapers

Sefira found herself in a void. Her mother, the Darkness, had enjoined her, the Lesser Darkness, to introduce herself to the Reapers, then dismissed her by teleporting her out of the Bar. Upon entering the void, the new dark essence took to her true form of a dark cloud.

All around her, countless thousands of her prospective servants approached with grim apprehension.

"Who are you, stranger?" asked one.

"How did you find our home base?" snapped another.

"Why are you here?" inquired a third.

"Answer us!" demanded a fourth, who prepared for an escalated confrontation. Others followed suit.

"Why, I have replaced Death," the dark cloud answered meekly, to the disgust of those around her, "and I have come to summon your allegiance."

"You are not Death, intruder," retorted one.

"We do not suffer those who are not of us to enter this domain," stated another, to exclamations of approval by others.

"Let alone command our allegiance," added a third.

The new dark essence summoned her wits.

"Not even the Darkness or God?" she teased.

"They are exceptions," conceded one.

"But even they do not command our allegiance," cautioned another.

"And you," spat a third, "are neither God nor the Darkness."

"So what does that make you?" snarled a fourth.

The most powerful created being in existence noted their ordering of the two primordial entities, and became determined to change that.

"But I am the Lesser Darkness, the Dark Herald," she identified herself, "and if you will allow me to explain myself and avoid an unnecessary confrontation, I will gladly appease your grim apprehension."

"You had better!" threatened one.

"I'm so looking forward to this," expressed another.

"This had better be worth our time away from reaping souls," suspired a third, to exclamations of approval by others.

"And it will," the dark cloud assured them, before assuming the human form of Sefira once again.

Slowly, but surely, the Lesser Darkness explained to the Reapers the relevant purposes behind her own creation, determined to win their allegiance over when all was said and done.