There's something endearing about the way Muu loses her shit every time she tries something new. You figured that she would enjoy sushi, given her previous life as a pontoon fisherwoman. But you never would have anticipated her having a full-on euphoric epiphany. She stood there, chewing with her mouth open as she rambled on about how she's 'never had such a delicious new creation using such familiar ingredients'. She then began to cry and blubber about her hometown of Vorshaw before she grabbed hold of your arms and started thanking you profusely for accommodating her so well.
You didn't have the heart to tell her that you just picked up some maki from the Japanese restaurant downtown.
Still, despite her peculiarities, you can't deny that you enjoy having Muu around. Though saddled with her economics coursework, she's always ready to help you out in the kitchen, and every time you successfully make a dish, the Glutton rewards you with a soft hug and a gentle kiss, before she giggles and runs off to serve it.
Neither of you has spoken about your encounter since, but you can tell that she thinks about it often.
You can also hear her through the walls, late at night. Something tells you that she's unaware of just how loudly she moans.
After a week of dealing with your two demonic charges, you're proud to find yourself shaping up to be a competent manager. The bills are paid, the rooms are tidy, and all of the cupboards are filled. The only lingering issue is the state of the upstairs bathroom, but you've long since written it off as a lost cause. Within the space of a week, Natasha and Muu have somehow managed to turn a perfectly functional bathroom into a mire of discarded clothes and half-full shampoo bottles. The sinks are practically buckling from all of the tubs and bottles they leave lying around, and there are so many makeup stains on the mirror that you can barely see your face in it.
As you prepare the day's evening meal, you silently hope that Lilith doesn't think to go to the toilet upstairs. In fact, you're hoping that she just brings your newest lodger, eats her dinner, and leaves without asking too many questions. You're not exactly sure what the ETI's policy was on their employees fucking their charges, but you imagine that she'd give you more than a disciplinary warning.
One of the steaks spits at you, drawing your wandering mind back to the present. Beside you, Muu laughs as she sautés some onions.
"Don't get burned, sir!" she tells you, playfully slapping your backside with her tail.
You return a smile and tousle her hair, right as you hear Natasha enter the kitchen behind you. Since arriving on Earth, the Succubus has swapped out her hand-sewn gowns and dresses for a more trendy selection of jeans, jackets and crop tops. Grinning at the Glutton's antics, she gives you a nod and hooks a thumb over her shoulder.
"Lilith's here, honey. Might wanna go greet her," the purple-skinned demon notifies you.
Returning her nod, you allow Muu to take over for you as you pull off your apron and dart through the house. With a quick check in a mirror to ensure that you don't look completely dishevelled, you flick on the outside light and open the front door.
It's a horrible night. The black sky is overcast with darker clouds, and rain is pelting down so hard that it's bouncing off the ground and hitting you in the face. Every few moments, the sky above flashes before thunder tears through the sky just a few seconds later. You stand in the door and watch as Lilith's sports car pulls in, its occupants getting drenched by the downpour. While you can make out your one-eyed handler in the driver's seat, you can't quite discern who's sitting next to her. They're tall and slender, but that's all you can really make out.
As the car pulls up to the driveway and Lilith steps out, you wave at her.
"Wanna help me with these bags, kid, or are you just gonna stand there gawping?!" the agent yells, hauling a pair of leather-bound bags out of the backseat.
You make to ask about the other person in the car, but when you look, you find the other seat of the car completely empty.
"Hey! If you leave me hanging any longer I'm gonna drown out here! And you better believe I'll come back to haunt your ass!"
Gritting your teeth, you quickly shake the thought from your head and duck out into the rain. It's absolutely hammering down, and you're soaked through before you even manage to reach the car, but between you and Lilith, you manage to carry all of the luggage indoors. Setting the pile of sopping cases down by the front door, you shake the water off your top and bid your overseeing agent a feeble welcome.
"Yeah, yeah, hello and all that. Let's just get this meet and greet out of the way. Gale and Dallas are busting a trafficking ring down south and I wanna join up with them before the shooting starts."
Quickly glossing over the subject of trafficking and gunfights, you try to broach the subject of the car's disappearing passenger, but as soon as you open your mouth to speak, an explosive thunderclap nearly bursts your eardrums. For a split second, bright light blazes through the windows, before all of the house's lights suddenly fizzle off. Over in the kitchen, you hear Natasha yelp.
"Gah! What the Hell?!" shrieks the Succubus.
"Is that supposed to happen?!" follows the voice of Muu.
Though you can barely see a foot in front of your nose, you can almost hear Lilith roll her one good eye.
"Calm down, it's just a power surge. Go hit the breakers, kid, they're in the basement," she sighed, making her way towards the dining table.
Nodding your head, you stick your hands out in front of you and start fumbling your way towards the basement stairwell, taking care not to bump into anything or knock anything over. Thankfully, having spent the last couple of days keeping the house spick and span, you manage to navigate well enough by memory alone. Locating the stairs, you slowly make your way down, shivering as you plunge into the cold basement air.
Feeling your way along the wall, you eventually locate the breaker box, but before you can open it, another flash of lightning shines through the basement's hopper windows.
For a split second, you see someone else down there with you. A tall, slender figure - as black as pitch - standing in the corner; nothing discernible about their features save the two acid-green eyes burning into the back of your skull.
As quick as you can manage, you flip the breakers and wheel around, but as the lights switch back on, you find yourself alone in the empty basement.
Just what the Hell was that? A trick of the light?
"Good job, kid, now hurry on back up! I'm on a schedule, remember?" calls Lilith from upstairs, snapping you back to reality.
"Steaks are ready!" adds Muu in a singsong tone, which causes your stomach to growl.
Dismissing the shadowy figure as nought more than your imagination, you make the gradual climb back up to the house's ground floor. Stepping into the dining room, you find that all four women have already taken their seats.
Wait, that's not right. There's someone here you don't recognise.
There, seated next to Lilith, is a tall, slender demon dressed in some kind of feathered tunic. Her skin is as black as coal dust and her long hair as white as snow. A single grey horn sprouts from her forehead, looping around her head like a cruel mockery of a halo, while upon her back, you can see a folded pair of grey wings. This newcomer is the only person that doesn't look up as you step into the dining room.
Noting the look on your face, Lilith sighs and prods her, prompting the new demon to snap her eyes onto you.
They're a bright, acid-green. You stand and stare in shock as she gazes at you, her face stony and unmoving.
"Kid, this is Yyvnn. She's a Fallen," she explains, tucking into her steak as soon as Muu puts it in front of her.
Eve... anne?
"Close enough."
"Fallen are demons of Envy. Sit down, honey; staring is rude, remember?" Natasha scolds playfully, pulling out the chair next to her.
Nodding shakily, you take a seat and nervously introduce yourself to Yyvnn. She just inclines her head silently.
"She's from a Sylensyo tribe, natives of Hell's West Country. No verbal or written language, but they've been dabbling in advanced algebraic theorems since before humans figured out the wheel. Here, watch."
Reaching into her pocket, Lilith pulls out a beaten notebook and a pen. Sliding them over to the Fallen, she pulled out her phone and opened the calculator app.
"Yyvnn, what's nine hundred and seventy-six minus three hundred and thirty-two, multiplied by six, then divided by three and added to six hundred and seventy-five?" asked Lilith, typing up the equation on her phone.
Your new charge gingerly picks up the pen between two slender fingers and stares at the blank notebook page, eyes steeled with determination.
Didn't she just say they had no written language?
"Words? No. Formulas? Yes. Watch."
The Fallen suddenly jumps into action, startling both you and Natasha. She begins to scrawl a series of strange geometric patterns; starting in the middle of the page and slowly working her way outwards in a spiral. You can see all kinds of intricate shapes and interconnecting lines come to life on the notebook, meaning little to you but astounding you nonetheless. By the time Yyvnn sets the pen down and leans back, you're left staring at what very well could be a beautiful piece of abstract art.
Lilith nods her head nonchalantly.
"One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three. Nice work," she says to the Fallen, taking her notebook back.
Crossing her hands on her lap, Yyvnn returns her gaze to you and gently inclines her head forward, her left eyebrow twitching ever so slightly.
"She's asking if you're impressed," Lilith translates, tearing into her steak.
You glance over at Natasha and Muu. The Succubus is silently working the equation out on her fingers, while the Glutton is just staring at the newcomer, eyes wide with amazement.
You think she's just impressed everyone here, never mind just you.
Yyvnn's eyes lid for a second as her pupils flit towards the other two demons at the table, before she brings them back to you. Noticing this, Lilith elbows the Fallen, causing her to gasp silently.
"Don't be rude," chastises the agent, heaping some onions onto her fork.
What did she say?
"Nothing that bears repeating. Well, I've made introductions for her. Shouldn't you do the same?"
Nodding, you gesture to Natasha and Muu. As soon as you try to introduce them to Yyvnn, however, the Fallen suddenly screeches her fork against her plate, disrupting your thinking. You try again, only for the same thing to happen.
Lilith sighs and shakes her head.
"Dammit, why do I always get the problematic ones...?" she mutters, pushing her empty plate away.
You look at her, confused.
"She just said that she doesn't really care about them. Only you."
You hear Natasha suppress a quiet laugh.
"Geez, honey. She just got here and you've already stolen her heart."
Muu reaches across the table and puts her hand on Yyvnn's.
"Don't worry! It'll be scary living away from Hell at first, but you'll learn to like it here soon enough! Me and Natasha'll be happy to help you any way we can!" she says cheerfully.
The Fallen's face doesn't change, but somehow you can tell that she's giving Muu a deadpan death stare. In an attempt to break the tension, you laugh nervously and begin to pick at your steak.
Surely getting to know a nonverbal woman isn't that hard?
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It absolutely is that hard.
Try as you might, throughout the course of the dinner, you just couldn't figure Yyvnn out. As you ate, you tried to pick up on the little movements and subtle changes of facial expression that she made, but you were simply unable to properly translate her body language. What's worse was that the newcomer had absolutely no time for any of her future housemates. While she was attentive towards you, she seemed dismissive of Natasha and Muu, even outright ignoring them both at times. Natasha didn't seem too bothered, but you could tell that it was beginning to wear on the Glutton. By the time Lilith made her excuses and drove off into the stormy night, her smile had become strained. Noting the pleading look in the poor girl's eyes, you decided it would be best to take Yyvnn off her hands.
As you expected, she was fairly attentive throughout the entire house tour, though whatever thoughts or comments she had, you couldn't figure out. She definitely seemed to show an interest in taking the room next to yours, however, when you informed her that Muu had already settled into that one, she grew irritated and annoyed. Once you helped her carry her personal effects into her new bedroom - the one next to Natasha's across the hall - the Fallen splayed herself out on the bed and dismissed you with a flap of her wings.
You think over all this as you shower, half-heartedly lathering shampoo in your hands as you think.
Yyvnn seems uninterested in getting along with her fellow demons, and even Lilith herself referred to the Fallen as 'problematic'. You have a hard enough time understanding the whims of your charges when they can speak; dealing with one that can't is going to be a veritable nightmare.
You shake your dour thoughts away as you wash yourself beneath the hot cascading water.
No, you can't start thinking down on yourself now! Look at how far you've come with such little experience! For someone with literally no qualifications, you've done a Hell of a job keeping this place running! What was one more problematic tenant? At least the house wasn't going to get any noisier with her around!
Smiling at your own joke, you rinse yourself, shut off the water and step out into the chaotic bathroom.
Okay, perhaps luck had a little something to do with your success in the managerial field, but surely luck alone wasn't what landed you beneath Natasha and on top of Muu, right? Most guys went their whole lives without landing themselves anything like them! The Succubus' voluptuous, sensual silhouette and the Glutton's soft, jiggly curves... Not to mention the all-too-exciting appeal of their demonic features...
If your experiencing them in all their glory was down to pure luck, then you would be better off in Vegas.
As you think back on your hot, steamy encounters with Muu and Natasha, you begin to feel yourself growing stiffer down south, causing your towel to tent as you wrap it around your waist.
Ah shit. Well, it was nighttime anyway; you may as well rub one out before you turn in.
You reach for the door and turn the lock, only to feel something crunch beneath your feet. You glance down.
There's a feather on the damp tiles of the bathroom, grey in colouration. When you reach down to pick it up, however, you find that rather than being soft and fluffy, it's flexible and tough, like cartilage.
Barely here a day, and Yyvnn is already making her mark on the-
You see eyes in the mirror.
Whipping your head around, you frantically look all around the bathroom, but you ultimately see nothing, bar the girls' ever-present mess.
You're getting paranoid. This storm has you completely rattled.
Rewrapping the towel around your waist so that your turgid dick isn't too noticeable, you step out of the bathroom and make your way towards your bedroom. As you pass Natasha's open door, you hear the Succubus whistle.
"Looking good, honey!" she calls, glancing up from the chemistry book she was reading.
You retort with a lazy pair of finger guns before you step into your room and shut the door behind you.
The lock is turned. The light is down low. Your towel is immediately flung across the room as you leap onto your bed.
Weird, you've had all kinds of strange sexual encounters since coming to this house, and yet this'll be the first time you've actually masturbated by yourself.
Smiling at this, you pull out your phone and begin to type in the address to your favourite website when an icy sensation suddenly coils around the entirety of your dick, causing your whole body to seize up. The phone falls from your hand and clatters to the floor. You gasp for breath, wincing as the mysterious pressure grows tighter. Looking down, all you can see is your dick sticking up into the air, looking as though it was being squeezed by an invisible force.