"I see." The woman then tipped back her glasses and returned to buttering her muffins after the questions were asked. It seemed as if she was relieved from the dread of trying to anticipate what kind of questions will be ask of her. However, the questions proved to be more serious to her than what she wanted. Still, she said to herself, she had no choice but to answer the questions, for she does not know what Unknown can potentially do to her. She also had little actual regards to the secrets of the Society, so she saw it as a chance to finally let out what she knew.<br/><br/>"The ritual for summoning this demon was long and complicated, I tell you. It took a few weeks, many tries, special conditions and an elaborate ritual." She said, buttering the muffins. "I did not care to know many of the details of this ritual. All I knew was that it always involved the life of a infant child, and this infant was killed. But the thing is that, even after the summoning ritual was a success, more infants were needed to nourish the familiar afterwards, in order not to starve and anger it. That was where, I think, Mr. Vernon failed."<br/><br/>She took a little bite on her muffin, before telling more. "You see, Mr. Vernon, basically, was the most capable and knowledgeable magic-user among us in the Society. But he was also vainglorious and thought he could impose himself like royalty to everyone he thinks he can control. As such, he also thought that he could teach the demon familiar to be satisfied with the nourishment he thinks is enough for it."<br/><br/>She sipped some tea. "I saw where and how he kept the demon once before it escaped from its containment. To put it simply, he kept it in an iron cage suspended in a ceiling and it was so small that it was obvious that the demon didn't like it by the way it pummeled the cage in a futile attempt to escape. I was chosen by Vernon himself, among a few others, to help him feed the demon once. One of us carried the baby to be consumed by the demon, but we all saw the demon up there in the cage, still trying to free itself. But Mister Vernon was scolding the demon for this behavior, threatening not to feed it if it doesn't act in the way he wants it to. Only when the demon calmed itself down that the feeding ritual began. Another child was killed, and so we left the demon alone."<br/><br/>"Of course, Mr. Vernon was so possessive of the demon familiar that he cage, obviously, was at the cellar of the Manor. People who weren't in the Society cannot enter the cellar, and even us who were members had to have a strong excuse to venture into it." She bit her muffin again. "As for how the demon managed to escape, I don't know the details myself. To be fair, nobody does. Thus, I cannot tell you what is in the Vernon Manor either, or why it is such in a eerie state."<br/><br/>She exhaled and said, "I hope those answered your questions."