Chapter 51: Can I Just Pretend?
"She created a sanctuary," breathed Greed, his face just as pale as Pride’s. "She shouldn’t be able to do that. Once a wish had been made, there shouldn’t be any way to change it, let alone create a sanctuary as a result of it."
"I’m sorry," sputtered Lust, dropping down on his throne, his face no less stunned than the others. "Our little Pet did what now?"
"She created a sanctuary, complete with a guardian. She made the house alive, sentient to the point it could hurt the inhabitants if they wanted to hurt Elizabeth. She has given Elizabeth eternal life."
"Well, fuck," breathed Gluttony. "I didn’t think that would be possible. I mean, there has to be a limit to what her powers can do."
Envy pulled out a contract from thin air and started reading through it. "It’s a very standard contract; Party A agrees to go out and get wishes. In exchange for the power to grant said wishes, Party A agrees to give Party B any energy, powers, life forces, or anything else that was given in exchange for said wishes."
"Let me see this," sighed Pride, taking the three hundred page document from Envy and started to read it from beginning to end.
"Envy is right. This is the standard human to demon contract. There is no way that Hattie has the power to create a sanctuary out of thin air, let alone a guardian," sighed Pride, throwing the contract down on the table beside Lust.
Picking up the document himself, Lust went through the contract himself, wondering if his brothers had overlooked something.
"Could you and Greed have been mistaken?" asked Sloth, slowly walking over to where Lust was sitting. Reading the contract over Lust’s shoulder, the sin went silent.