The day passed quietly this time Cathy had not time to enjoy the festival, it was now slowing down in a few days, the festival would leave and all of this would be nothing more than a memory. She made the dough and prepared the meal for her father, her mother fed the little ones who did their ideal thing.

It was a quiet day, that night her father returned and told the story about how they had ran into an undead that nearly killed one of the workers, he had conveniently left out he had been working with a blue-skinned woman, but for the most part, Cathy didn't put much thought into it. She already knew what had happened after all.

That night Cathy drempt, she stood in front of a large river they seemed to grow with every passing second, from the river a woman came out, she was beautiful, the woman took Cathy's hand and held her gently the two kissed and Cathy soon found herself melting in the woman's embrace.

However, as Cathy closed her eyes and opened them, she found that the beautiful woman was replaced by a disfigured creature, Cathy felt something shoved inside her and her screamed.

"You won't die, nor will I turn you...what point would I have to do so?" it said as it let her go.

Rhe monster walked seductively around her and Cathy saw hundreds of people all tied by various chains, threads, leather and other objects.

"To kill you would mean less fun. To torture, you would be pointless... Sex, love, pain, joy, I offer it all to you all that you have to do is have fun." the creature said as gold coins fell all around it like rain, gems of all kinds littered the floors and food that would only ever meet a king's lips was placed in front of Cathy.

"There is no mutation in me, I will make you beautiful, men will want you, women will desire you. You can and will bed whoever you want all that you have to do is say yes." the creature's voice sounded like a serpent as it spoke.

Cathy was about to say something when she remembered why had happened so long ago for her. The day she got onboard the carriage and saw what the people of Yar did, how she turned and abandoned everyone in it. How she vowed to never fall for something like that again.

"Look at you all grown up and free. Tell me do you wonder what became of them, what happened to the people you abandoned." the creature's voice became hollow and now seemed to come from every direction.

"One word from you and the adventurers would have saved them, but you never spoke of what you did. Now they are all dead and it'sall your fault." the creature said.

Cathy was about to scream that it was lying that what the creature said was nothing but half-truths, but try as she might she found herself in able to.

The creature beard Cathy and kissed her again, Cathy felt something hot cover her arms and feet as she turned to look at what it was she found that what was holding her had been removed but her arms and legs we now covered in.

"I'll take away your guilt your pain, all you have to do is say yes."

Cathy felt herself speak almost automatically and said "Yes."

"Payment for my service, I want children to be born, to spread into the world and bring more to me."

"Why bother tempting those that are good and bring forth their gods and their armies upon us. So why not gather all that are lost and bring them here..."

"...But I want children to be born both here and in the mortal realm, if the mortals have more children I get the bad ones and they will give birth to mine," it said as it began to tower over Cathy.

The entire night Cathy screamed in pain until she could no longer recall what a life with ought it was and began to feel good, so good in fact she wanted more people to have this looked at her arms and legs, she noticed how her children grew, the would soon hatch and begin to spread into the world.

The only thing Cathy could think about was how this all felt so good.

Cathy woke the sound of her mother's voice and noticed that for the life of her she couldn't remember what she had dreamt about, all she knew was that she was happy and she felt good.

As she headed out for the day, she noticed Menace standing on the other side of the street ng at her, her eyes were now hardened like if she was looking at something that she knew shouldn't exist.

(Menace)

She watched the girl walk it was almost painful to see her do so, but she had made her choice, there was nothing she could do for her now.

She could see each egg growing in her soul, soon one by one they would hatch and cover what was left of the still human girl until nothing was left.

She shifted into the stream of energy that touched the warp and stood before the creature, the daemon that wanted to be a god, they both looked at each other and smiled, sometimes she would manage to bring someone into the light away from their own downfall, sometimes the creature would win.

It all depended on the person's will to change for the better.

Menace could feel the sleeping one move, he was looking for a anything he could use to save the girl.

A god born from memories, yet even he with his vast archive of life stories he could barely find much of anything, the girl was extremely selfish, yet try as it might that was nothing. The girl was too far gone to hear reason and there was nothing she cared about to bring her back with, even her family were little more then people she lived with.

Menace simply closed her eyes and vanished from that hellish place, there was nothing she could save, perhaps if he had acted faster then maybe, just maybe... Still, there were more people hanging from their chains and she needed to get to them before that creature graves ahold of them and added their souls to its breading chambers.