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a drabble a day with moments from the lives of the inhabitants of hell's kitchen and their daemons.
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"Dæmons are the external physical manifestation of a person's 'inner-self' that takes the form of an animal. Dæmons have human intelligence, are capable of human speech—regardless of the form they take—and usually behave as though they are independent of their humans. Pre-pubescent children's dæmons can change form voluntarily, almost instantaneously, to become any creature, real or imaginary. During their adolescence a person's dæmon undergoes "settling", an event in which that person's dæmon permanently and involuntarily assumes the form of the animal which the person most resembles in character. Dæmons and their humans are almost always of different genders."Matt's daemon is Alstriona, a brown hyena. Day 1: Flickering - 100 Words - A dim room. A singular, flickering light. Maniacal laughter comes from the shadows.
Hired
April 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Fisk carefully surveyed the man he'd hired after the cursed man in the mask had proved particularly troublesome the previous week.
His features were unremarkable- the kind of man no one would look at twice on the street, except for one thing.
He had no dæmon.
Although the man's killings were widely known among the dark underbelly of society, no one knew when or how he'd lost his dæmon. But the fact remained that it was lost, and so the man had none of the weaknesses or human emotions that the rest of the world possessed.
Fisk suppressed a shudder.