@alte-puppe has the demon’s attention
A gallery. A painting. A girl and a man... and fabricated child. Oh this gallery had its storied history, of events that seemed to defy explanation. But what was here? For the demon stumbled into this world in search of something to slake his boredom... and what did he find? A burnt portrait... and a pile of ashes...
Oh... but was it but a simple pile of ashes? To a normal person, perhaps, but to the demon?
“Oh my... what seething emotions there are... something that felt cheated... denied something... but of what...? Yes... yes... there is something here... something here worth knowing.”
Standing above the pile of ashes, the demon held his hand out, and with but a single shake of his hand, a single drop of nightmarish essence fell from his finger tip, and onto the pile of ashes.
“Yes... yes... awaken then, so that I may know what story there is...”