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eaten,”
Charlene answered. “But thank you.”
    Kron shrugged. His demons
hunted for him, and he expected them to hunt for themselves.
    “ Wait here, Charlene.
I'll be sending something up. Deliver it back to the city on your
way home, will you?” he said casually as he sauntered to a side
door. “Oh, and be here tomorrow night at eight o'clock sharp.
There's someone I'd like you to meet.”
    Meet? Or eat?
    Charlene gave the tiniest arch
of her brow and nodded.
    “ Good.” Kron
smiled, baring his elongated, jagged fangs, and tapped his cane on
the floor. His human facade faded and Charlene saw his demon form
emerge just as he opened the side door and descended the long flight
of stairs to his dungeon. The door creaked shut after him.
    Charlene stood rigidly beside
the carpet and waited.
    Kron would be sending up the
remains of yesterday's dinner soon. She had made the mistake of
assuming that the remains would be a harmless, motionless pile of
bones on the first night. She had paid for her mistake, with her
blood.
    The remains had clawed and
tore at her, breaking a few of her bones and had almost ripped out
her heart. The human, who had been a violent, volatile brute to
begin with, was hardly recognizable. What little humanity he had in
him had been completely drained, together with most of his blood.
He was covered with his own blood as well as black demon blood. He
made wordless, savage noises, and his eyes looked feral, not human.
He scratched, and tore at her with his nails and teeth, setting on
her like a wild animal. It was only when she finally managed to
latch onto his neck with her fangs and forced him to bleed into her
mouth that her blood power had grown and the man had weakened. And
she had teleported back to the city with him, and dropped him at the
front steps of a psychiatric hospital.
    Kron didn't fully drain his
victims. He didn't devour them and pick their flesh off their bones.
    He took their blood to
increase his power as a blood demon lord, and tortured them to awaken
their beasts, and snap the connection between their human selves to
turn them into rogues. He turned the humans into beasts. Just as
some demon lords of chaos created conflict and chaos to feed their
power, Kron, being the demon Lord of Beasts and Bloodshed needed
blood and the destructive power of the beast to sustain and empower
him.
    She was supposed to drop these
rogues back to New Moon City and let their beasts go on a rampage.
But she picked her drop off points carefully. She tried to drop them
off where they would do the least damage to others and themselves,
and where they could receive the help they needed, hopefully.
    Charlene sighed. These
victimizing hooligans had now become victims themselves. Yup, karma
was a bitch. She was that bitch.
    As far as possible, Charlene
had tried not to drag any innocent civilian off the streets, and had
waited until she could snag a criminal one, or at least one that as
far as she could tell, had criminal and cruel intentions.
    She'd pulled a would-be rapist
and a robber off their victims. She had sunk her fangs into a brute
who had been smashing his wife's face in. Dredging through the
darker parts of the city for scum wasn't that hard, but it took time.
And Kron wasn't the patient sort.
    Charlene gulped, closing her
eyes briefly. She feared that soon she would be forced to take an
innocent. And then she would be well and truly lost.
    She opened her eyes at the
grinding sound. The floorboard wobbled and on the carpet crouched a
large, rabid hyena, its eyes blood red and its jaws bleeding and
salivating.
    She eyed the animal, circling
it warily. This one had not the slightest trace of its human self.
It wasn't even stuck in a half shift, trapped in a half human, half
animal form as it struggled against its beast taking over completely.
This rogue was fully feral, completely animal.
    She frowned. She didn't
remember dragging a werehyena back to Kron. This must have been
brought to him