A - 1, B - 1, C - 1, D - 6, E - 0, F - 9, G - 2, H - 1, I - 8
7!
You step forward, still crying, but you manage to rephrase your screams into something close enough to laughter that the apprentice is still puzzled rather than actively hostile. Your mind is a jumbled mess. You let the voices take over for a second and language momentarily slips from you as they take control of your mouth and capability to form speech, and by the time they're done you hear the apprentice laugh - it's not the most awful laugh you've heard. LAUGH WHILE YOU CAN laugh as much as you can
as laughter really is the best medicine, is it not?They don't bother giving back your ability to speak, of course. So what you're stuck doing there is just looking forward, and with the slight control of your body you have left you strike a pose and radiate pure diabolical magnetism. The apprentice keeps laughing until he suddenly looks at you, terribly earnest. You give a smile and the wildest eyes you can manage - though he is changed, underneath the skin of a monster still lies a terribly sheltered sorcerer's apprentice. He can resist you no more than he could the scent of fresh-killed infant IT'S BRILLIANT GET HIM TO LET HIS GUARD DOWN but this is so great to watch can't it go on forever
Oh, things are about to come off in a moment all right.And they do, with sudden and impressive intensity that, to the apprentice's credit, lasts really a lot longer than you would expect and goes to physically unlikely places at that. see it's like a cultural exchange you should trust them they know these things
Transgression is rather their specialty, after all.BUT NOW! Now you're almost regretful you can't let the afterglow last as your hands surreptitiously go for a bit of floor, and with a sudden ferocity bring it onto the exposed head of the apprentice, caving it in with one fell swoop! AND NOW EAT IT yes you suppose you might as well
You can't erase what happened, but you can dispose of the evidence! It takes a couple of minutes before you've wolfed down enough of the apprentice for the demons to start losing interest. THIS WAS GREAT FUN but really it might be a good idea to get back to whatever it was you were doing THE POINT HAS BEEN MADE
BUT LISTEN, the voice says as you locate your clothes strewn about the room and slowly remember how you wore them, THIS WAS THE FAVOR AND WHAT HAVE YOU BUT he's getting sentimental hahaha
Is he ever! BUT HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHERE THIS GOES! YOU'RE FUN! HE'LL BE GOOD NOW HE PROMISES under a loose enough definition of good naturally
A) GET OUT OF MY HEAD
B) Stay, go, just shut up shut up shut up
C) Lend your full power to me!
We're riding this out until the end!