Susanna sat in the bar sipping her drink slowly. She shouldn't be here she knew that all too well but she'd been on her own, not another soul for the last three months she thought she deserved a reward. Who was she kidding. She didn't deserve anything for not killing anyone in the last three months. The wine that they served here was bitter but it let Susanna forget. At least for a time. That was until there was an explosion at the bar.

“I KNOW THE KING!” yelled an energetic man to the high heavens. His drink sliding down the bar and shattering on the end. He appeared to realize that he'd been screaming for he sat down quickly and began talking again in a softer tone. Slowly the normal sounds of the bar which had gone silent returned and Susanna went back her drink.

[i]Do you see the one at the bar, not the screamer but the other one?[/i]
"Shut up, I don't want you here." Susanna muttered to herself hoping no one else had heard.
[i]Do you see him?[/i]
"Yes I see him now be quiet."
Lilith became annoyed at this. [i]I was once a force to be feared. I killed people in there sleeps, slaughtered whole villages. I will not talked down to by a child.[/i]
"You're not that powerful any more Lilith and you don't really have a choice." To keep Lilith from talking about her conquests which was both distracting and nauseating, Susanna turned to the bar. "What about him?"
[i]He's a demon slayer. Well perhaps that is too strong a word. He is more like a demon slayer "in training"[/i]
Susanna had a feeling that Lilith had some other word for it in her head but hadn't spoken it to keep Susanna interested.
"What about it?" she asked.
[i]Take a sniff of the air. You can smell it on him."[/i]
Susanna sniffed the air and sure enough a strange scent came to her nose. It was like freshly baked bread, and an oak burning stove. Not quite, more like fresh bread when the ingredients have been badly proportioned and a stove that's been filled far beyond capacity. The effect was strangely intoxicating and repulsive at the same time. It brought back the memory of smoke and a room hot like a sauna and and sweat covered bodies pushed together.
"He was one of your lovers? Who was he?"
[i]He was not a major demon, not many have heard of him but he knew how to please a girl. His name was Karash.[/i]
The name elected a warm feeling in Susanna and she struggled to push it down. These were Lilith's feelings not hers. She had her own life now and she didn't want anything to do with the beast inside her. At the same time Susanna felt a rage towards this man, this murderer. NO! He was a demon slayer not a killer. Perhaps he didn't care for the host inside but he would not be condemned by her.
[i]Come on girl, it's just a little one. No one would hold it against you. After all you have a demon in your soul. You could get away with it.[/i]
By this time the two men had wandered out of the pub and Susanna was relieved. She would not kill today.
[i]You could still catch him. Remember how Karash used to make us feel? Tell me you don't want to see him dead.[/i]
Susanna couldn't honestly say that because a bubble of anger at this demon slayer was forming in her chest. She wanted him to pay.
"ENOUGH!" She yelled standing up. The glass in her hand shattered along with eight others all around the bar and three bottles of good wine behind the counter. Susanna looked at everyone in fear.
[i]Now you've done it dearie. You're on your own for this one.[/i] Susanna felt Lilith disappear which she was grateful for.

Everyone in the bar was now staring at Susanna and she knew all to painfully why. She had used some of Lilith's demonic energy even by accident. She knew that her eyes, normally a sparkling blue which most would call attractive were now a deep jet black. Susanna heard a shout of "DEMON!" and the whole bar erupted into screams and yells for her head.

Susanna knew trying to explain would be futile so she grabbed her quarter staff and used it to smash the window behind her. Susanna cut her hands climbing out but it didn't matter. She had to run and she did. She ran far from the town till she tripped or more like slipped in a great pool of blood. She landed in an area where the sticky red liquid had turned the ground to mud.

[i]Dearie, go on have a taste. It'll strengthen you. You have no idea the power of elven blood.[/i]

Susanna was initially repulsed but she could smell it and it smelled so very good. Like her father's baking on her birthday. She sat up took some in her hands and licked it, smearing blood on her face. It was the sweetest thing she had ever tasted until she realized that someone else was in the clearing, a man, the companion of the demon slayer. The blood turned sour in her mouth like fruit that's gone bad.

Susanna quickly wiped the blood from her face. She knew her eyes were still black and she feared what he would do to her so with great effort she pushed Lilith and her power down further. A gasp of pain escaped her lips. It hurt, badly making Lilith leave forcibly but when she opened her eyes again they were once more a sparkling blue.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm not a demon I swear just don't hurt me." Susanna pleaded tiredly. For a moment she almost welcomed death but then she remembered that if she died Lilith walked among mortals again. She sat down by a tree waiting for the man's reaction.