Chapter 9
I opened my eyes slowly. I was in another person's body and so I had to be careful to make sure that I didn't break the will of the mind. If I broke the will then I would be locked in this body until I became powerful enough to break out. The damned curse of a min controller that is.
I moved the body slowly, checking the limbs, checking the head for any mental damage. Good. Now just to take over and …
Except before I could there was a tug on my body—not the body I was in but the body in which I truly belonged.
I blinked and looked out at a room that was large. Before me stood a young woman that seemed to have been on the verge of being angry at me for not waking up.
"Come on you big slouch! If we don't hurry up we'll be late for our rounds." She was saying. Despite the words, it was obvious that she was trying her best to be polite. She, after all, knew what I did when I was 'asleep' and what I could do to her if she angered me too much.
I stretched and rose from the barrack's bed, stretching as I did so.
"Lin, do try to be quiet." I grumbled before moving off down the corridor towards the woman's side bathroom. Despite the female body that I possessed, I had long ago developed a deeper voice that most of my female companions and thus I was sometimes mistaken as a guy when stealing a person's mind.
"Of course." Lin said in a quieter voice though she tagged along, watching as I stripped and cleaned myself. "Oh, by the way, lord Ethan has returned with another capture. He just went to see Lord Koenma about the next assignment he is going to do."
At the mention of 'Lord Ethan' I froze and turned black eyes on the girl. I was so much her opposite. She was bright with blond hair and blue eyes, and with a frame that donned fat in just the right places to make her appear healthy. I was far skinnier than many thought I should be though I pointed out that I work too much to hold any pounds on. My black hair was dangling down around me until it ended at my knees—an annoyance that I was fond of for it tickled the back of my knees when I was showering.
"And…?" I asked, knowing that Lin wouldn't be standing there watching me with my rather flat body wash without having a good reason.
"Lord Ethan slipped a message to me earlier. He wishes your presence in about ten minutes. He told me to tell you he wanted you on time." She said as I watched her with slowly growing eyes.
I sighed and continued to clean myself at a slow pace. Then, naked, I walked back into the sleeping quarters and got dressed. Opening my eyes after tying my hair up into a braid, I left Lin in the room to go find Lord Ethan. When I left the barracks I looked up at the sky and smiled. Far above was the building that served as Lord Koenma's palace. Oh if he only knew what criminals he hid in his regular troops. I chuckled and left to find Ethan in the clearing we used to speak in when he wanted updates on the Hiromi problem.
I moved in with less than five seconds to spare. Of course, Ethan already was there. He turned when I entered and smiled. He looked the same as I had seen him the first time all those years ago—tall, American, black wings that sent thrills through me for unknown reasons.
"Ah, Bleathe, what news do you have?" he asked and I smiled, recounting what I had found most recently about the Hika/Hiromi coupling.
NOTE FROM AUTHOR: Some of you may be confused. Well, this is rather simple: I felt like writing a small, quick chapter from the point of view of the 'demon' in which everyone has been going 'who is it and why are they doing what they are doing'. Well. It doesn't exactly tell you everything, but you can expect to see another sometime soon in which a little bit more of the plot is revealed though prolly not for another ten chapters or so if it lasts that long. Bye! ROSEY