Absorption

My body started to numb, so I decided to get up. The Demoness was sleeping, so I moved her carefully for not to wake this sleeping beauty up.

Having put on my pants and collected my stuff I went down from the tree. It was early morning and the fog was spreading around.

After determining the direction, I began to move away from the place of night parking.

And when I was far away enough, I decided to speak to the prisoner of the stone.

"You were saying it was a succubus?"

"Succubus."

"The demon?"

"The demon."

"Do they exist in this world?"

"No. We're not from here."

I stopped short. A bunch of things were banging against the walls of my skull.

Spitting on the ground, I began with the most important question for me.

"So, you're the demon too?"

"Right."

That began to annoy me.

"Hell, would you explain yourself more clearly??"

"I would, but I don't want to."

His strange behavior got me pretty confused. He used to willingly answer all my questions, and now he spoke very drily.

"Why?"

"…'cause I am reflecting, damn it!", he lost his temper.

I've never seen him angry like this before. Before that I used to notice traces of anger and hatred in him, but they were quite dry and old. But that was an outburst of irritation.

I moved quickly on.

After a while I repeated the question.

"Can you share your thoughts? First, tell me what the hell was…

"You did surprise me!", he interrupted me. "It was a strong demoness. I couldn't help you while you were sleeping. But you broke through her obsession. How?"

"I just did the same thing with her as I did in real life."

"WH-what?"

"It was an annoying dream, with very long sex, during which I could not come."

After hearing this, he chuckled.

"You know how she sucked you out? The moment when you have an orgasm, you die and give her all your strength. Good for you, you managed to exhaust her, keeping her from coming. This is the main method of succubus countering - battle of attrition…"

After a pause, he continued.

"You know, when the orientation is normal, that is nearly impossible to when you see them. How did you manage that?

I was confused.

"Well, not exactly. In the end I came in her…ass", I said slowly.

"Ahem."

I heard a cough in my head.

"Well, you saw the whole process...?"

"Uh… no, I didn't look at her..."., he said with empty voice. "I thought she followed my trail... and after I saw you and your strength… I could not resist…

I stumbled.

"What do you mean, your trail?!"

"I told you before that you need to absorb me, otherwise lots of them would come after me.

"That sounded like a lie", I said.

"And here's the result. Although this time everything ended well, but…"

I interrupted him sharply.

"What are the other variants, apart from absorption?"

"The box you had broken partially before was concealing my presence, but it is no longer useful."

I said nothing.

"Do you think we'll be followed?"

He chuckled.

"As you can see, one caught us up in the first day on the way."

He was right somehow, but I didn't want to be under his thumb. So, I decided to change the subject.

"You were so surprised to hear that I came into the demoness. Is that so weird?"

He sighed and spoke, a little bewildered.

"You've surpassed my expectations... Succubus falls asleep only when she is satisfied. She fell asleep, you came. So, she was satisfied before you ran out of energy."

I got used to the world strangeness, but I decided to clarify.

"Can you be direct?"

"You either have too much energy, or your recovery speed is very high."

"I don't see anything bad", I told him.

"Yeah. Just great, actually! You'd make a wonderful artifact or a battery!"

I say…

"And considering how much attention our heads attract, your properties will show up well very soon.

What he just said made me tense. It wasn't the outcome I expected to see.

"You mean, I will become like you?"

"Unless they do with you something else…worse ", a voice in my head snorted.

Somehow, I began to determinate his mood, or, perhaps, he began to project it to me. And now I completely agreed with his irritation. Chickens, indeed.

"Well, enough said. Absorption will solve your problem, but what about me?

"All you need… is to open the meridians... and then form a circle of the current energies in yourself. And stop pouring tons of excess into space.

The last sentence was pronounced slowly, with each syllable pronounced. If he had a mouth, it would have been distorted by an anticipatory smile.

"And you know you're incapable to do anything, don't you? You need someone to show and teach you. And it will take you more than one year…", he said with a slight laziness.

"And you're not gonna just do that, are you?", I chuckled.

"I already told you my terms. A total and unconditional support of mine, in exchange for shelter in your body and the help in finding another one."

I was very much opposed with the idea to let someone inside me. Something is telling me it will cost me dear. And now I'm confused.

"So…?", the voice asked me after a while.

"I agree.", I said these words with clenched teeth.

"What is it?" he asked again viciously. Although he could hear me clearly, but he decided to mock at me. I didn't answer.

The place was sunk in forest. And as I walked, I looked for a place to stay.

I have no idea how to go through this process and I don't want to perform and then fall somewhere in the bushes.

Having reached a small clearing in the woods, I stopped at the edge of it and took off my bag.

"So, you have finally decided! Just swallow the stone, then leave it all to me. Do not resist or oppose, then everything will go smoothly."

"What should I expect?"

"Nothing that could be wrong. Just open the cage and let me in. When you find yourself in that reality, listen and do what I say. Got it?"

"Yeah." I said, with doubt in my voice. I got a black sphere from the bag. It was a few centimeters in diameter.…

"Am I even able to swallow it?"

"Ha-ha-ha! You do care about these little things? The main thing that it should be in your body."

I turned it in my hands, tossed into the air and caught it with my mouth. No more doubts.

"You've made your choice.", the voice said.

It seemed that the sphere lost its volume and simply dissolved in my mouth.

A minute passed, two. But I didn't feel or notice anything. No strange sensations, no fractals in the trees.

"Nothing?

I was about to wonder, but then a familiar feeling of numbness started its journey in all directions in my stomach. My legs buckled and I fell on all fours.

Every breath I took was painful. My body did not obey me and I struggled to keep myself together. It seemed to me that if I lost my will for a moment, I would fall into a thousand pieces.

"Good boy! Now get comfortable and come to me."

I heard ambiguous, nonsense, and humorous phrase that was told my... me?