The Mist and the Lightning. Part IV - стр. 3
“We are fed up with her, too! We don’t even have a single normal girls here, Arel!” – Enriki sounded displeased.
“Call your sister then!” – He snarled back.
Everybody froze, and Enriki went pale.
“So, we are going to tell stories” – Tol said gingerly. “Nik, tell us about your Rosa, how did it all happen?” – He added, seeing that everybody are still quiet.
“How did the two of you fuck?” – Lis specified gloomily.
“I didn’t lose yet” – Nikto argued, touching his scarred cheek involuntarily, “and I don’t like reminiscing it”.
“Why didn’t you follow her to the “upper world”, if you are still suffering? What stopped you from going up there and finding her?” – Enriki asked.
“Looking like this?!”
“After all, if your story is true, it was all Rosa’s fault!”
“And if she truly loved you, would she reject you?” – Orel added, “Regardless of what you became.”
“While protecting her!” – Tol added meaningfully.
“And be like an endless reproach to her?”
“I never thought you would sweat it so much!” – Enriki was surprised, “You are now talking as a common man, not even a warrior”.
“Like a weak kid” – Orel said, “‘I couldn’t let her see me like this!’ Beaten, mutilated. Who is she, she’s just a woman, and that’s it!”
Nikto was silent.
“You don’t get it” – he finally said. “She was a ‘white’, a genuine ‘white’ “…
“And you are Nikto, right?” – Lis snorted.
“Right”.
“I don’t have any respect for your human part” – Enriki said, – “It would be better if your demon suppressed it completely!”
“Fuck, I don’t understand what’s the deal with still considering Nik a human possessed by a demon” – Orel said grumpily. “It’s so dumb! This bullshit just pisses me off, and you, smart-looking people, insist on thinking of him as of someone redone, undone, possessed! You feeling ok?!”
Enriki blushed: “Fine! And what’s so dumb about it? I don’t see anything dumb here!”
“Andin my opinion, it’s just dumbness! I mean, Nick was living happily in his…what’s it’s called… oh, never mind, and then bam! A demon possessed him! What’s happening?! What for?!”
“Maybe he called the demon himself” – Squint-Eye suggested, “to become more powerful and to get back at his enemies”.
“What enemies?!”
“The Reds”.
“Oh, ok. Only instead of getting back at the Reds, he went straight to the Blacks’ ‘farm’!”
“Well, the demon must have had an agenda of his own”.
“Yes, everybody knows that the demons are just like that. You want something from them, and you end up getting the complete opposite”.
“Well, yes”.
The friends laughed at Orel’s ironic tone.
“I never said the demon possessed him like that” – Enriki tried to argue. “It’s just that if he was sold to a witch as a child, she must have been the one who turned him in to the dark powers. Sacrificed him. You understand what I’m talking about, Arel? Otherwise, why would she need a child? He was meant as a present, a sacrifice to demon from the beginning. Or maybe she obeyed the demon’s command, and he needed a body to penetrate into our world. That’s why Nikto’s human part is undeveloped and squalid. He is just meant to obey and be passive. That was also done by the witch, to make it easier for the demon. I mean, you guys can’t argue that Nikto is obedient most of the time, and resembles a wind-up toy”.