The Prophecy

The New Normal

We settled into mutual unease with the Demon. We avoided talking a lot with each other, but would kept on eye on each other almost all times. At school we changed our seats closer to each other, but not side by side. We would eat lunches together during breaks. They were entirely silent lunches, though. Neither spoke anything.

After school we lived our own lives without much interference from the other. Sundays were the exception, we would get together at a nearby Corner Cafe and she would drink a foul-smelling black coffee and I would drink a sweet tea. We sat on the same table and mostly just sat in silence. I would stare at her and she would scowl at me.

Weeks and months went by flying like that. I slowly learned more and more about humanity, though I still had not figured out the human body, but I had a basic understanding of humanity now. I thought Humans were interesting.

The way they were so oblivious to things that went around them and still so focused on some parts of it they missed the entire point. They had to find a logical explanation for everything, and would put everything under tiny labels and into perfectly arranged boxes. They sometimes simplified some things so it didn't even resemble the real thing.

But as long as they were able to label and box it, they were happy. Like butterflies. They dissected them, categorized them and labeled them as biological entities, completely missing the whole point of these magical flutterers whose physical existence was just one facet of their being. It was really weird.

At some point I realized I thought about the Demon a lot, and not as a hellish power incarnate, but as a person. I gave her a nickname 'Tessie', which she disliked so much it was comical. At first she refused to listen to anything I said when I used it, but I guess somewhere along the months and years, she grew accustomed to it.

I learned that her job was to translate an old book, which she had real problems doing. And also to stop my plan, which she called the end of the world. Well, it would probably be for her, if Demons would cease to exist. I didn't see it as such then. Freeing the world for humans was what I was here for.