The terrible agony of fear consumed her, as Victoria realized: it was something before her. Was it alive? What kind of substance was it? How to accept the creature? An animal? A human?
‘What are you?’ she whispered not wanting to ask anything.
The man was like a stone sculpture. Was he capable of speaking? What if he had a special alien language? The girl kept on sitting under the table and built the guesses.
‘Whom have you conjured up?’ he asked in a low but secure tone.
‘Me?’ her voice trembled. ‘No one. I’ve conjured no one.’
‘Kharon!’ he said loudly.
‘Kharon?’ the girl re-asked, got surprised as if she had heard the name for the first time.
The man smiled, with impressive walk he came up to the girl, sitting on the floor, took her hand and clasped in his arms, held her close.
‘You don’t know whom you’ve conjured up, do you, Victoria?’ he whispered in her ear.
The girl was captured by a strange feeling. She had never felt before. Something was embracing her, touching her, speaking with her but the primal instinct to be feared was gone. She suddenly became so light and easy. She just wanted him to go on holding her closer to him… Idiot!
‘No’ Vic said softly.
She didn’t know what was going on with her, why she became flabby like a washed handkerchief, in some demonic creature’s arms.
‘Oh, Victoria’ he said, pulling her closer to him, ‘An incubus is in your flat and you seem to have no idea what you’ve done, girl, have you?’
She shook her head, but the fear wasn’t coming back for some reason. In the embrace of the man she felt so peacefully. The creature smelled of sex…
‘You’ve called a demon to you, Victoria… With your blood. Why?’
‘With my blood?’ like being high Vic re-asked without understanding anything.
She didn’t cut her veins and let the blood run. Could the demon miss the flat?
He let her go and followed her leg with his eyes. There was a cold single track of blood on her ankle. Where was it from? Victoria exactly remembered not to cut there… Suddenly she got why the blood was there. While she was taking a shower, she could cut with the razor by accident and didn’t even notice it.
‘You don’t remember why the blood is there?’ he asked slyly.
Then Kharon appeared near her. All it took was one soft, but rapid hand movement and the girl turned out to be in bed. The demon stroked her leg, rained kisses upon her inner side of thigh. Vic was hardly capable of managing invading emotions.
‘…Victoria…That was the steel…the sharp one…Cut your little leg when you were in the bath’
The man touched the cut with his lips. She could read a craving in his eyes, but the girl didn’t understand the craving for what? She wanted to wave him away, but her hands didn’t listen to her. On the contrary they embraced the man, wanted to be touched. The warmth of his lips touching went through her body like electricity with a minimum voltage.
But Kharon stopped. Having gazed the girl with cloudy eyes he got up and stared at her again. He was serious.
‘I can take your life for one millisecond’ he grabbed the girl and she slung in his hands like a kitten. ‘Do you need your life?’
Fear came back imminently. Her body was numb, horror paralyzed her mind. The girl stopped getting what was going on: firstly, she was starving with an idiotic desire to bed with the mystic man, secondly, she was in cold sweat because of fear.
‘Yes, I do’ she answered under breath.
‘Do you?’ he whispered being surprised.
His face expression was changing and frightened her, Victoria couldn’t follow up any exact emotion. She got the feeling that Kharon didn’t know how to rule his face as if he put on masks and observe his body and mimic abilities.
‘If your life is so precious then why did you read the text on the paper?’
‘I didn’t believe…I didn’t know you…You exist. That you would come’
‘You? Me?’ Kharon laughed.
He let the girl go and walked around the room, casting treacherous glances at Victoria.
‘Have I frightened you, human child?’ Kharon came up and took the girl’s hand. ‘You should not be afraid of me. I’ve been created to bring great pleasure… at a price. Are you ready to pay me?’
Kharon gently kissed the girl, investigating every inch of her neck with his lips. Vic closed her eyes and left the reality again. The demon didn’t stop driving her crazy, burning her skin, charming with his words. She was almost choke because of unexpected pleasure and enjoyment which the creature was bringing to her, when Kharon stopped.