<span style="font-family:Assistant"><span style="font-size: 15px">"Oh, I am just delighted you remember me," he gloated.  Deimos hopped down from the rock and glided over to Eva with near palpable glee.  He could almost see the memories going through her head.  While their first encounter, and the many after that, had never ended well for him, he couldn't help but feel now that he had an edge over the once mighty Angel.  Heaven's Grace or not, she had still caused a lot of problems for him over the years.<br/>
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It was an almost tangible change once Eva got her bearings.  Her insecurity quickly changed to confidence and it only made his grin wider.  "Oh Eva, even like this, I have a feeling it won't take you long at all to figure it out.  You always were such a cunning little angel."  He took one more drag of his cigarette before draping his arms over her shoulders.  Blowing the smoke out in her face, he grinned, and gripped her jaw between her fingers.  "The problem is, how will your friends get out of this?"<br/>
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He stepped away, going over to one of the little tide pools on the edge of the grass.  He dipped his finger in the water, watching it ripple outwards.  As the small ripple expanded, the water changed.  At first, it showed nothing, but then it fell on a red head sprawled in the sand.  "Honestly, I think she looks better red headed, more like a Rose if you ask me," he smirked, looking over his shoulder at her.  "Tell me, do you think she will ever find her voice?"  <br/>
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He waved a hand over the water and the scene changed to an ugly beast roaring.  "Perfect representation of the demon inside, don't you think?"  They could almost hear the villagers banging angrily on the door of the castle.  "I wonder if they'll succeed in killing the beast inside, though Lucas has always been a little bit resilient."  Another wave and another shift in the water, this time on an ornate bed.  "Your human friend though, way too smart for his own good.  His nightmares, I didn't even need to tamper with them."  <br/>
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He smiled wistfully before waving his hand and standing up as the water returned to normal.  "The people who scorned you can only be saved by you.  Tell me Eva, do you want to save them?  Maybe they deserve to exist in their nightmares after the way they treated you.  Why do they think they're better than you?  They each have their secrets yet when you were open and honest, not a kind word was said by any of them.  They all turned on you.  Will you turn on them now?"<br/>
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He dropped the cigarette on the ground and snuffed it out with his boot.  Walking over to her, he reached up and tugged on a tendril of hair that had fallen from her bun almost as if he was flirting.  "Oh, before I forget.  I have a present for you."  With a grin, he snapped his fingers and beautiful translucent wings stretched from Eva's back.  With another snap, the former angel began to shrink and he made sure to catch her in the palm of his hand.  "Can't make this too easy on you now," he grinned and set her on the rock.<br/>
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"Tick tock, Eva.  The clock is ticking."  With that, the demon disappeared.</span></span>