The Ahara Chronicles, Chapter Two: An Infernal Awakening
June 17th, 2007
And so, as the prophecies had intended, some nine months later did the young mortal woman give birth. She did not survive the ordeal, of course, on account of her progeny’s two sharp little horns and spindly little wings. She bled to death over a period of about three hours.
The first despicable act of her infernal daughter, for that matter, was to lap up the blood as it drifted out of her, and, since her incisive teeth were already fully formed, and had actually proven themselves useful in the womb, she also took quite a few healthy bites out of her flesh once the blood had dried up. Thus did she earn her name, Ahara, which in a certain language roughly translates as ‘the eaten one’, or even ‘the eating one’, or something equally similar and distasteful.
She was psychic, to start with. Once she had finished her first meal she looked up to her father, the Balor Lord Malevans Phn’Glaz Razz’a'el (the third), who had been there to witness the unholy birth, together with his faithful right hand fiend the Molydeus Lydus, and daughter the Succubus Lilith, and telepathically sent to him that she was pleased with the feast. The attendant company smiled.
“She’s going to be a feisty one, alright.” Remarked the Balor to his daughter, “Didn’t I say her mother would produce excellent offspring?”