Lure of a Demon

Real demons living in the city

It felt stupid even to type it into the search bar, but I had to start somewhere, I guess. I blinked as I clicked, and the results filled the screen. Most of them weren’t helpful—a few band names and movies, an article about exorcisms being on the rise—I’ll come back to that one—and the usual fandom pages for movies and television series involving demons and the supernatural.

There were a lot of those.

Unperturbed, I continued scrolling, even hitting on the rarely used next page button to see more results. It was here I found something interesting. A blog targeting my city, my home, with theories there were not only demon sightings within the city, but there was an entire demon population living amongst us without our knowledge.

Interesting.

Unsettling.

Clicking the link, I scrolled through the blog’s discussion, which had an increasing number of contributors over the past five years, and the discussion continued to be active up to only last week. I read the most recent entries.

I swear to God my old CEO was a demon, the man oozed sexual prowess, and I swear he could make women orgasm just by looking at him.

Sounds like a fun guy, but not exactly what I was searching for. Until I continued reading.

I had met my boyfriend for a bit of fun during my lunch break, if you know what I mean, and after my break, I needed to drop off some reports to the boss. He wasn’t my direct boss, I worked in a different department, but I had seen him around. When I walked into his office, he looked up before I had even knocked, his nostrils flared, and he tilted his chin as though he was smelling me. He made some comment about afternoon delight, and I thought oh my God, do I smell like sex? Surely not. Then there was a flash of yellow across his eyes, and I knew I didn’t imagine it. I never told anybody, so when I saw other reports of people seeing yellow eyes on people, it gave me the chills. I always got weird vibes from that guy. I quit shortly afterward. And now reading all this and people are saying there are more demons around the city, this is terrifying to me. I think I’m going to move.

I leaned back in my chair and stared at the computer screen, tapping a pen against my chin. Something like this could easily be discarded as the ravings of a woman who had an overactive imagination, but given all the other examples, and exactly as she had mentioned, so many others had all seen the yellow eyes. Including me.

I had tried to be so steadfast in my assurance to myself I wasn’t crazy, but now I knew other people had seen the same thing. This meant I could tell the inner part of myself that harbored a seed of doubt, I definitely hadn’t imagined it. All these people, without any prior connection to each other, all reported the same thing and in several areas across the city. This city. My city. All different people with yellow eyes—CEOs, everyday laborers, people in nightclubs—this couldn’t be ignored.

I tapped out a reply to the poster.

I’m ex-military, and I’m trying to investigate all these reports. Can you tell me where you worked or at least what area of the city the business is located?

I left it at that, short and simple.

I couldn’t sit here staring at the screen waiting for a reply, so I moved on to research in another tab, typing…

How to kill a demon