Everyone Needs Someone, Sometimes

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The family was thankful they wouldn't be eaten. Clarissa and Demurra had helped them on their way with Demurra telling them the most likely place they could get to that wouldn't get them killed. Clarissa kept wondering where the military is in all of this. They started this war and now people were getting hurt and they were no where to be found. Demurra and Clarissa moved on from the family and back to Ellensburgh. Clarissa just wanted to gather some things to help them going forward. Demurra assured her Gilbert had basically given up his home and office no longer caring about what happened in our world, he had become consumed by his hunt in the Fey.

Ellensburgh had become a war zone. Buildings were on fire, creatures were roaming the streets and country side. Demurra was able to get them in and out of most areas without trouble, but everywhere around her Clarissa felt like the world had lost its damn mind. There were no police or military anywhere. People had been left to fend against literal monsters and hadn't done at all ok.

"The whole world is like this?"

"Yes and worse people are turning on each other now that the facade of society has been cast aside." They had gotten to the Exterminators office, it looked like the army had ransacked it for things Gilbert wanted, but they had left a lot of things Clarissa could use behind. The wards that protected the building kept the monsters at bay for the most part.

"We're not coming out of this are we?"

"You as a species or you and me? Because you and me are fine." Demurra gave her a hug and a kiss on the nose and Clarissa blushed.

"I mean humanity."

"Yeah you're fucked."

"Cla rissssssaaaa Shipley." Santinni would choose to arrive in the middle of the apocalypse. His suit and hat were uniform white today.

"Demon." Demurra had her fist alight with fire, Santinni seemed amused by it.

"A for mer de mon? Hooooowwwww delightful, but I am not here for you, here for Cla risssssa."

"I didn't start this Santinni."

"Natttttt urally, but your sponsor did, and thus here I am." Clarissa tensed up, she knew the Warden had the power to literally trap the Devil and she was far below that level of anything.

"So what do you want me to do?" Santinni smiled, his teeth were black and the smile creeped her out.

"Obvi ous llllllllly stop it."

"Stop what? The world's gone mad Santinni."

"It's gooooooing mad, but if someone was capable of doing something, it can be..... stopped. If you just had a little..... nudge." He presented a card and put it on Doris's former desk. And then he was gone. Demurra spit as he left.

"I hate that guy."

"What the hell is this?" Clarissa had the card up and on it was just an address.

"A trap most likely, but yes we're leaving I don't have to read your mind to know the answer."