The Devil & Jekyll in ❝The Divine Comedy❞
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“Oh well… Hm.. I can’t remember exactly, but maybe around our late teens. Y..You see Hyde always wanted to be one, and so did i. But i wasn’t exactly as confident as Hyde was about those sort of things.” He took a sip out of the cup and then continued, “So we decided to do stand up comedy night, so i guess it happened from there that we started to work here… Still hahaha, i think i’m doing better… But Hyde tends to get upset whenever we get hecklers during my shows. But look at me, i’m talkin’ too much… I’m sorry, Mister.”
The Devil rested his face upon one of his hooves, the other hoof circling around the rim of his drink glass while he listened to the comedian tell his tale. Man… this guy was so boring. Like he was already about to drop dead from the amount of years this fella just put on the Devil.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t that bad.
The young man apologized for all of his talking. Yeah, too little too late, pal, the Devil thought to himself, though he kept his expression as friendly as possible.
“Talking too much? By no means! I’m always a willing ear. I know I can talk just about anyone’s ear off if I get the chance. Now, I can’t believe you’re not the confident type! What you do seems so effortless when you’re on stage! You have a real natural talent for it. I could see you making the big time in the future, yessiree. You can’t waste skill like that.
“I wasted a lot of my life on makin’ money rather than doing anything I wanted. You don’t want to wake up one day and realize you’ve wasted all your time… I think you won’t. There’s plenty of avenues you can go for here on Inkwell. So many good places for you to work at and grow your audience. I know you can do it. You just need to make the right connections.”
He gulped, “Your...Too kind to someone like me, and i don’t know where to start from here now. Odd to ask i suppose but, you wouldn’t have any ideas would you?” His ears perked up, “Because i would love to hear your opinion on what to do next from here.” The jackal was interested in the devil, not realizing he was like a fly in a spider’s web of lies.








