Dec 3, 2018
“It isn’t fair —”
“That’s a lie,” the Devil says, so sharply and suddenly that Johnny jerks back again, almost biting his tongue in the process. “This is fair. I am fair. It is exactingly, absolutely fair in the way such things must be. And they must be, Johnny.”
The Devil falters suddenly, looks away. “The word you’re thinking of,” he adds, his voice soft, “is ‘cruel’. And it is that.”
Written by the amazing @notbecauseofvictories