Xeno Washington, that's your name. Your skin is the color of a cloudy sky at midnight out in the country and your hair pulled back in a snarled bun. You are 31 years old, but have no children, because you didn't find a man worth your time until later in life...
Now you hear the voice in your head that isn't your own, and you are afraid...
}Hello Xeno, you don't know me, but I know you...{ The voice begins.
}My name is unpronounceable by members of your species, but you may think of me as Xarlaxis.{
}I'm what you think of as a demon, but not just any demon, I'm one of the 300, the angels who accompanied Lucifer into exile following the War in Heaven. I've been assassinated by a group of younger demons in a coup, but they couldn't finish me, just mortally wound me. I'm bleeding out, there's no way to stop it, but that is an agonizingly slow process from the perspective of someone in your world. It will take me 69 of your years to die, only a few minutes as Hell measures such things, but already I feel a change coming over me. As I lie here dying on the floor of my office, I feel the poisons of fourteen billion of your years in hell leaving my body, and the essence of the angel I was before the rebellion and the fall begins to reassert itself. I'm not an angel anymore: heaven is forever denied me, but I feel the sudden need to atone in the last few minutes that remain to me in-so-far-as-I-can. This is why I have contacted you. You are a woman of virtue struck down by unjust circumstances, and I present you with a gift.{ The Voice Explains.
}There are no strings attached to this except those that God has already attached to your very soul from the moment of your first breath, but be warned, it will not be easy to use. As I am a demon I cannot craft virtues anymore, but I can play with magic, luck, and sins: in specific, for you, the sin of Lust. However, lust is not always a sin, now is it? Think about it, without lust there would be no sex, and without sex, all life on your world would die! So, the question then is: where does Lust become a sin? It becomes a sin when it becomes harmful: when it ceases to be a tool of growth, joy, and joining and becomes an instrument of pain and suffering. That line is often hard to see: this is part of my gift to you, you can see it clearly and know how to avoid crossing it! Ah, but I am far from done! The next aspect of my gift is that you can harness the power of sex to do magic. Your world is notably opposed to magic, so what I give you will be subtle, but potent none the less. Each time you have sex with a 'safe' partner, who you will know by the aura around them, which will range from Violet to Green in color on it's outer ring, (as well as any with a white outer aura, though these are very rare and fantastically dangerous to you: for a white aura indicates a living saint,) you will gain one or more charges based on the strength of their aura. Each charge can be used to activate a single spell of the first circle, and each circle beyond that requires as many charges as that spell's circle squared. There are nine circles of spells but you will only have access to the first seven as the spells of the eighth and ninth circles are all unstable and destructive in mortal hands. I gift you with the power of sorcery, and three spells of the first circle which you can use it for.{
}The First Spell is that of the Lucky Coin: when you find a coin lying on the ground that you didn't drop: pick it up and charge it with a single charge! That coin will give you good luck for the rest of the day. A greater power is available if you combine this with an act of charity, however! If you find someone with a blue or higher inner aura and give them the coin within an hour of you picking it up, the coin's charge will last for one lunar month, being passed from that person to each worthy individual who holds the coin during that time. You to benefit from this, though you do not hold the coin, for until that coin returns to you or the month expires you will benefit from the charge of good luck it generates as well...{
}The Second Spell I give you is that of the Joy Pulse: spend one charge when you are in a crowded area, (the spell has a range of about 30 feet,) and each person in the area's least harmful sexual memory will flash through their mind for a fraction of one of your seconds. I warn you not to use this power when on a highway as that fraction of a second's distraction could be fatal. For those that do not have any non-harmful sexual memories, like all children or absolute virgins, the spell has no effect what-so-ever.{
}The Third Spell I give you is the most obvious of them, but the most difficult to use, especially to use properly: The Echo of the Heart. Using this spell is difficult because the target must have a green or above outer aura and a green or bellow middle aura, but a violet or higher inner aura. A tall order, that. To use this spell you must have a charge already available, and then seduce the target of the spell, while you are having sex with them cast your magic. When that happens: IF they have already met and had sexual relations with the person who is their true love, that person's face will flash before their mind's eye, and be forever burned into their memory. Now I'm sure you see why this is so difficult and dangerous a spell, not only are the conditions for its success very exacting, but even if it does succeed it is problematic because the chances are quite small that the person it is used on will see YOU in their memory, and in turn this means they are forever saddled with the memory that they had sex with someone other than their true love... Now, "Why would I give you such a spell if it only causes pain?" That's simple, it doesn't. I can't tell you all that I know for various reasons, but there is a small but statistically significant chance that this spell will lead you to your own true love, and magic is also iterative, the spells I am teaching you now are each the beginning of a spell chain that leads to more advanced and useful spells later, especially this one. If you pursue this spell chain to its conclusion you will be able to do things like clasp hands with someone and transport them to their true love's side no matter the miles that stand between them as long as they are on the same planet... That is why this spell is important.{ The Voice Explains.
}I know of your world's legends of making deals with demons: so understand that this is not a bargain: you now have these powers whether you want them or not, whether you accept them or not, whether you USE them, or not, they will always be there, waiting. There is one final aspect to this gift, you are already 31 years old, but will now live to the grand old age of a full century unless you die by violence or poison, and will retain your youthful vigor and alertness all of your days. Though the outward signs of aging will still touch you, by the end your skin will sag and your voice will be old and cracked, inwardly you will remain sharp of mind and hail of limb. Moreover, your body will 'age gracefully': you will be an old woman but become what the youngsters of your culture call a 'G-MILF'.{
}I will continue to speak to you from time to time, but for now, I must go, there are four others I need to empower, and I had best be about it...{ The Voice says, and you...
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Write in time: What do you do now?
