I didn’t want to admit what it reminded me of. Didn’t think it would help to have it on my mind in a room full of mind readers. So I locked it away in the guise of my burning hunger to kill them all, to get out of that musty place and feed on the “beautiful ones” as Prince would say.

Fire pit with heavy pieces of charred wood. Ten blank dead faces, one pale yet tanned face. 11 to 1. I was so ready.

The leader he stood next to Carmen his mind open to me like an invitation. He spoke to me. Told me in my head that he didn’t blame me. He himself could not resist the charm of Carmen. She clung to him. It made me want to set them on fire with my mind. I tried…it didn’t work. Jaw clenched fist in a ball. I walked toward the stairs to leave. This was not my problem anymore. If they were going to end my non existence well……..

“Shame on you Carmen. She turned you against the rule of the void and left you uninformed….”

“What do you mean?” I asked half way to the stairs.

“Well my child you can’t hear the thoughts of your maker, the bond is too close….”

“So you are Guillaume?”

“Yes I am….Shane right, very nice indeed….I can see why she took to you….”

“It’s my will I made her…I will destroy her…..” Carmen says staring dead at me.

I looked at Carmen…she was as serious as I have ever seen her. Something happened in the time they locked me up till now.

“You are very astute Shane….Carmen her existence is null…..it’s the price for turning you against the rule of the void.”

‘I don’t care about your rules….I came down here to die so do it already, fire right…what do you say….?”

They all stood on Carmen’s side of the room. She was right we are demons.

Then the room divided. Some wanted me to me to become ashes. The others thought we needed some new blood around here. They where tired of the rules, they wanted someone new to talk to. Suddenly what I thought to be some kind of dangerous situation turned into an internal squabble.