The Devil's Smile

Chapter 15

“Probably.” He stroked his chin trying to hide his growing smile. “With those 5 you can expect a reassignment at some stage.”

“Like when exactly?”

“When they are done playing with you given that you are still alive. I'm in room 17 in dweller residence find me once you are done and I will send you some clothes.”

“Thanks Gerrit. I will put in a good word for you with the big boys,” I promise jerking our finger over my shoulder to the doors behind me.

His smile stretch taking over his whole face. “Trying not to get yourself sacrificed,” he warned pushing his cart away.

After I finish the Cursor rooms rushing through the last 2 like my life depended on it which almost definitely did I found myself sneaking into the dweller residence with Garrett. He had finished his dorms at the same time as me and decided it was safer to show me where to go rather than leave me on my own devices.

How did he know me so well already? Maybe he was smart just like that. Smart like red. Smart like every other damned dweller in Godville. Next night maybe I was the only stupid person here.

Their permanent dweller residents was set out much as same the recruit site but they had one window and a few squishy looking day beds. I paused at the small structure filled with games and books.

“Books?” I laughed. “For all your free time I guess?”

Gerrit gave me a sympathetic smile. “Once you are promoted to resident you will get one day off per month. We are expected to spend that time learning of the gods and the gifts of Demi gods so that we may increase their chances of access to become gods.”

“Wouldn't be just easier for us to plot all their debts? Since they have to die to get to Elysium. They will know their exact chances…” I trailed off as his face mentor see clean white colour. “What?” I looked around afraid that someone had musted me in their residence.

Garrett shook his head in this manic back and forth motion. “Don't even joke about that Charm stop the gods are always listening here in Godville. And the Demi gods would take any threat against their person very seriously. You never know when it well or might be acting under the influence of a powerful demigod. Sometimes they are happy to act as spies and saboteurs even if it will get them killed because they think their serving as future God.”

I forced my face into sober lines. No worries. I will keep all plans for mass execution to myself from now on.

He swallowed hard seeming unsure if I was kidding or not that mean 2 of us. With the shape of his head he hurried off to dorm 17 rushing inside and throwing things around to find me some clothes I waited in the doorway with my arms out as he piled things into them. He was a lot taller than men really skinny sored was going to have to work Honeywell magic and fix a lot of these are. But at least I was going to attempt to look male.

“And finally this cap will work to cover all your hair. You have a lot of hair. And it is so blue.”

“Well thank you.” It I was taking that as a compliment. Not very much here seemed like an insult. My arms closed around the pile up dark clothing and I hugged it around my body.

“Run along now,” he said giving me a show out of his door. You have to be at the breakfast shift in 5 minutes.

Did they ever stop rushing? here it was all bells this and minutes that. The sun was a pain in my ass. It never stopped moving always making me late.

I took off clipped my elbow on the side of his door and shot put it all of the clothes and my own body across the room and into the wall dorm next door gets. My head hit with a decent 3rd and the vision was a washer colour and then darkness all at the same time

“Charm! Holy hell. You can't even walk? How in the gods did you get chosen for Godville?”

Rolling over with a groan I dent my head across the forehead pain sprang back at me sending another burst of light and darkness through my mind. long story I managed releasing another grown. I am totally a secret genius just show me in the corner and throw a sheet over me.

Gerrit who was going to end up on the same s**t list as the Cursor brothers if he didn't stop chuckling ignored my words and hold me to my feet ,”there are no sick days here no matter the size of lump on your head so you better get moving.”

By the time I protect the already raised side of my head get it was back with all his clothes and I was against tumbling out of the room.

“Remember dining hall in now 4 minutes.”

High compartmentalised his words placing them away for when I could think around the splitting pain in my brain. My natural healing would kick in soon my body was good with injury but until that time I was in half dead mod.

I somehow found my way back to the hall that led to the domed room with double points were not falling again on my way and then I was down the stairs back in the dungeon. “Holy crap Charm you look like well… crap.” Red was talking on my foot. I was back on my bed spread eagle across my bed. I had made spread eagling on the better priority so I had even bothered to look at her after barging into the room.

“You weren’t at the dining hall,” she continued. “I was worried you had forgotten. Some teachers were there this morning and Sarath. They are observing the recruits. You need to get up.”

I dropped one eye open in the tiny slit spending 4th all my dark thoughts. “This is all your fault Red. You made me come here.”

She's not yet before grasping my leg and holding me off the bed. I landed hard on the rocks below and now I had a bump to my butt which would match the one on my head.

“Get up now before I make you get up,” she ordered. Damn she was mean. “Charm.”

I glanced up curious at their just a tone of her voice. She was clasping her hands in front of her lines deepening between her Bros. She was about to give me some shitty news.

“What?” I mooned.

“If they kick you out of here you don't get to go back to the village. I don't know what happens to the dwellers but trust me it isn't anything great.”

And there it was.

I was suddenly up on my feet and out of the door Red right behind me. I only had to clean and Sir one table at breakfast while red took the table next to mine. Both tables had been thankfully filled with perfectly normal sacred spoiled and slightly sadistic demigods. Not the special demon demigods room rooms I had cleaned. It felt like the 5 of them were the other side of the room spent a lot of the morning locking their bright gem like eyes on me but I could have been wrong full stuff I hoped I was wrong because the only reason they were all paying attention to me was because drone had told them that I was their new dorm beach. I would be the first female they had probably had to deal with and probably they were thinking about new tortures to suit me. Specialised torture.

“Where are you going now?” Red murmur to me as she dashed into the kitchen with an armful of plates. I was on the way out heading towards the classroom.

“Classroom 357. We need to stand in attention and attendance in case any of those Demi gods need us to blow their noses or wipe their butts.”

I was almost out of the door when I said that which meant my voice carried further than I intended. As I turned and towards the dining hall life rose. Every single Demi God within hearing distance was looking at me. No glaring at me. Holi baby gods.

This was it. The moment I was kicked out of Godville to be changed into Bullock feed. As I slowly started backing up towards the kitchen doors one of the Cursor brothers got to his feet. it took me a few beats to recognise which one because terror had my eyes functioning at half site.

Yeti stood.

Maybe he was about to persuade me to take my clothes off and parade around as punishment.

He was the first to stand but his brother soon followed. One by one they stood and somehow all the eyes in the room shifted to them. I was just about to make run for it since this was a golden opportunity when yet he spoke.

“Nothing happened. Nothing to see here.” His voice was low hypnotic. It rolled out of his mouth and avalanche across the room as I found my words fuzzing over as I tried to follow his words. “You have not heard or seen anything out of the ordinary just go back to your food..”

Just like that the room resumed its previous levels of activity. A group of female demigods to my right West quilling over there here or something. Ohh no wait one of them just had a spider on her head. Those were in squeals of excitement. a group of males to my left resumed bicep curling to one of the recruits.

Blinking rapidly trying to clear my mind identity stepped into the room. I waited for the jeers. But the teachers did not pounce on me. No one noticed. No one was paying attention to all.

As we will get back to the face the accursed table full Dravid was the centre of everything the entire hall the entire Academy Populus. When it was empty.

Empty?

Why had Yeti used as persuasion to help me? Had they saved me just so that they could take me down themselves? I don't no and I wasn't sure what was worse. Knowing that I owe them one now or things were about escalate like that one time I told a little lie. I don’t recall what it was right now.

I stumbled out of the dining hall towards the classroom just as I crossed into the first hall I could have sworn there was a whisper on the wind.

We are not done with you yet.

So now I was hallucinating. Like actually hallucinating. Hearing voices and crap. Hearing the voices from hell maybe they were calling me about the Cursor brothers were about to end me. It was given that I was going to hell all the dwellers date. The Demi gods got to go to heaven unless they were chosen to become a God in which case they went to Elysium. They got more than a second chance life. They got first chance at an immortal life of living in heaven. Or actually still a dead heaven but a dead heaven that was still connected to the living world somehow.