Fallen Truths

I watch him in silence as his expression slowly loses its teasing tone. There is something different in his eyes now. He doesn’t seem to be trying to convince me of anything. Rather, he seems to want me to understand something that has always been obvious to him.

“Demons are beings like any other race, Lyra. Like you, like vampires, like fairies. We have our own domains, our obligations, our famil