me kind of demon blunderbuss?" asked -Spyder.
The Count sighed. "The way you people use words, its a wonder you understand each other at all. Every vaguely inhuman creature you find unpleasant or frightening or just strange is a demon to you. And everything conjured or made by these creatures is demonic. "
"Back in San Francisco, there was a fat fucker with a monster mouth right in the middle of his chest. He wanted to eat me. You telling me that wasnt a demon?"
"He was no more a demon than Primo. Primo is Gytrash. Simply another humanoid race. A different kind of human animal. A more interesting and durable species than you ordinary humans, and probably a bit scary to you First Sphere bumpkins. "
"So, what was Mister Mouth?"
"He sounds like a Bendith," said Primo. "Theyre a particularly ugly sort of troll and arent averse to human flesh. "
"A Bendith or possibly a Nagumwasuck," said Count Non. "You boring one-headed, two-eyed humans are scattered through all the Spheres. Take our Butcher Bird. Like you, shes an ordinary human, but clearly she didnt grow up in some First Sphere backwater. Shes lived with other intelligent races and understands the infinite varieties of life, the magical possibilities, that spring from the conjunction of different living species. "
"I was right there with you, Count. Up until the bestiality stuff right at the end," said Lulu.
"Humans and animal entities have been mating and producing offspring since the world began, little sister. Its still quite common in regions of the Second and Third Sphere. "
"Okay, Shrike, Lulu and me are white trash, Primo is a Second Sphere er-mensch and your
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