Frostbound

Chris

"Sadly, no, this won't be our last run-in with them," Ryan said, "It is also a problem that two separate Summonings happened back to back in a relatively short amount of time. If it's happened twice in two years just in our area, it will continue to be a problem indefinitely."

I could only agree with his assessment as that was the same as I thought. People would continue to be selfish and continue to summon Demons. There was nothing we could do to stop it.

Being powerless to stop it was annoying. It wasn't often that powerlessness was something I felt. Not anymore.

"So what is it you ask of me?" I asked. You didn't go through all this and not ask something of me. He already hinted at joining this 'Coalition.'

It was something I was amenable to but that depended on what it was for. If it was strictly for fighting Demons and standing together against such a threat, that was perfect but I doubted that would be all.

Just like everything before, good ideals would be saddled down and corrupted with greed.

"Most of this is to get the word out. Awareness of the problem is half the battle," He said, "It's also to get agreements to face the threat together. Those two were our main goals."

I sensed a but coming.

"But," I was right, "We're also working on a solution to the problem."

He let the words hang.

"Research and knowledge is difficult to discover but in the two years since the Change, we've made some advancements towards puzzling it out. That being said, to stop the Summonings and track any Demons that do make it to our world, we're working on a Formation.