It had been three days since my last meeting with the young Earl. A sigh escaped my lips as I lean against the wall. My gold eyes watch the sun set from atop of big been, colors of red, pink, orange, give away to a dark blue. A soft wind blows a fresh sent to my nose… it was the only fresh thing in this dirty city.
Walking over to the edge I sit down, legs draped from the sand colored stone. How long must I remain in this dreary world? Nothing ever happened here… what that is not true. Recently there had been a string of murders on prostitute woman. The people called him Jack the Ripper. How funny they name struck me, mutilating corpses till they're unrecognizable that was a crime of passion, or it could be staged… my guess on the later. It was none of my business any way.
Laying back I look up at the sky clouds rolled in, a drop of water fell on my face. Rain… how lovely. Sitting up the strong scent of blood reached my nose… and it was not human either. Rising form my seat I fallow my nose. What awaited my eyes was something very interesting.
The Earl and the Demon butler.
O know this is entertainment.
My eyes rested on the two other non humans that where standing in front of the Earl along with a body of a lady in red. It did not take a genus to figure out that she was dead, the amount of blood leaking form her body was clear enough.
Keeping myself hidden with in the shadows I watch the scene unfold, the red headed man was soon dragged off by the other dude that I did not care to notice any detail. There scent reminded me of the dead…. My eyes then wandered back to the corpse laying on the ground such a waist. Standing from my position on top of the building I see no need to stay, the child has not yet found me so why stay?
But unfortunately the demon smelled me out.
"Showing up at a time like this, what a nascence you are…" the butler said with distant.
I chuckled.
"If you sir had been careful not to spill so much blood I would not have come." I retorted back. He grimaced, the Earl stood up with a coat draped around him. My purple gaze looked at him. "Have you figured out what I am yet kid?"
He glared at me.
"Who has time to waist on a being such as you? You show up when nobody is wanting you." He growls, I laugh.
"O kid you have no idea how true that statement is, would you like another clue?" letting out a mock sigh I rub the bridge of my nose to over dramatize it. "I thought you and your demon butler would figure it out by know!" I laughed. "But this is a good thing, it means I have been doing a good job staying out of the business of you mortals."
Earl sneezed.
My eyes widened a fraction.
"Humans are so easily erased from existence… led by temptation like a pig to slaughter." I mumble. The butler approached me with glowing red eyes, he was not happy with my games. His fault not mine.
"If you would excuse use my master is needing to take shelter, and I believe that you yourself need to as well." He said with a fake smile, I laugh.
But before the left I let another secret slip.
"The shadow of death passes by
Looking for wanderers outside late,
Nonchalantly strolling homeward bound
Unaware of how they are tempting fate.
The homeless and those far from home
Slink along the streets at night,
As a dark shadow falls upon them
Soon they're feeling death's vile bite.
The homeless stand around a brazeier
Down dark alleyways and lanes,
Hoping just to live the night out
Unknowing that death is on its way.
A shadow passes across those sleeping
And no-one sleeping does awaken,
Though many here lay down to sleep
Very few will ever rise again.
A brazier topples and the fire races
Across the long and sun-dried grass,
Sleeping men to slow to awaken
Sleeping die, while a shadow goes past.
Only charcoal is now remaining
Where twelve good men lay down to sleep,
Too late a fire-truck pulls up nearby
As away deaths shadow slowly creeps
A shadow slinks along the sidewalk
At the commencement of twilight,
Lovers out strolling, arm-in-arm
About to reach the end of life:
Blackness overwhelms the lovers
Like a blanket thrown by death,
Gasping, crying, screaming, dying
The couple pass their final breath:
A sweeper passing by the verge
In the minutes just after dawn,
Discovers the lovers' ashen remains
Bloodless, lifeless, in the early morn:
The aroma of death surrounds the place
As gawping passers stop and stare,
But death's shadow most surely has passed on
To avoid the sun's unwavering glare." My voice is haunted as I say a poem that has pelage my kind for all eternity, it is a sad curse that fallows us till we once again become one with death.
The butler stops and turns around eyes wid.
"What do you mean by that girl?" the Earl glares.
"That child, is a curse that has pelage my kind for a very long time… I think your butler had finally put the peaces together…" my eyes watched his face form over my shoulder. A smirk placed on his lips… o how a demon can smirk and make girls swoon… it is revolting.
"My I propose a deal?" the question was aimed more towards his master then I, the Earl nodded. "If my guises is close will you accompany my lord and I back to the estate? This weather is not place for a lady."
I frowned he was up to something… I can smell it in the air, but I nodded nonetheless.
"Amuse me demon, what do you think I am?" my face was void of any emotion.
"That my lady is very simple, as it was stated many times in the poem… are you perhaps a Shinda Otako no Kage or in English Dead Mans Shadow?" he said with a smirk. I smirk at his answer.
"Your are getting closer but not quite demon. For your try I will take your offer and be a guest of your estate." The rain began to poor; my eyes then went to the body. "Earl…"
He stopped not even turning around.
"You where related to the woman where you not?"
No response met my answer as he walked forward.
What a scary child….
