“Derc, buddy, did you eat any of the Umber’s young before she caught you?” “Doctor parasite.” Eidolon nodded at the equipment tray, and Paige, one of their few human nurses, handed him clamps. “Give me something for the pain, you f**king parasite,” he snarled. I’m going to repair this unsightly hole, but it’s going to hurt. The skin that should have been a deep reddish-brown was now pale with pain and blood loss. Putting aside the thoughts that plagued him more frequently as The Change progressed, Eidolon glanced at the patient’s face.

Umbers made good mothers, and only rarely did they kill the unwanted offspring of a Seminus demon. In fact, when he could no longer resist the final maturation cycle his body had entered, he planned to make an Umber female his first infadre.

Eidolon had, on several occasions, enjoyed the application of that strength in bed. Then again, Umber demons were remarkably strong for their petite size. A female Umber demon, the same species as Shade’s mother, had caught the patient sneaking into her nursery, and had somehow impaled him-several times-with a toilet brush. He was all about scraping patients off the street and keeping them alive long enough for the Underworld General staff to fix them.īlood dripped to the obsidian floor as Eidolon probed the patient’s most serious wound. Shade hadn’t wanted to spend that much time in school, especially since his healing gift was better suited to his chosen field, paramedicine. “Probably a good thing our little brother didn’t go the doctor route.” “Wraith offers to waste all the patients.”Įidolon grunted.

Let me wheel him outside and waste his sorry ass.” “Can’t escape your old job, huh?” Shade pushed aside the curtain separating two of the three ERĬubicles and stepped fully inside. It doesn’t prevent me from dispensing a little justice during treatment.” “The Haven spell keeps me from killing him. The patient screamed as the needle passed through mangled thigh tissue, releasing blood sterilization medication into the wound.Įidolon snorted at his younger brother’s words. “Sometimes, being a doctor blows,” he muttered, and jabbed the demon in a human suit with a syringe full of hemoxacin. Had Eidolon been anywhere but the hospital, he would have killed the guy pleading for his life before him.Īs it was, he’d have to save the bastard. The demon is a prince of the air and can transform himself into several shapes, delude our senses for a time but his power is determined, he may terrify us but not hurt.

Pleasure unbound