Mind Of a Woman

Make yourself at home, I tell her while walking to the balcony where Blue is waiting for me.

"Two last things before I forget," Gaia says, walking over to me. "It's about the outsider and your succubus, Angela." Why do I have a feeling she didn't really forget?

"Yes," I ask, or try to, remembering too late my forked tongue.

"That trick you used to scare the outsider away while rescuing the mermaid was a very dangerous thing to do." I raise one scaly eyebrow at her, not quite sure what she's referring to. "You attempted to absorb some of its power. Instead, you were absorbing it. Had you succeeded, the outsider would have taken over your body with ease, and you'd no longer be here."