I Raised the Demon Queen (Now She Won't Leave Me Alone)

The forest was quiet again. Too quiet.

Birds had stopped singing. The usual rustling of leaves was absent, as though nature itself were holding its breath.

Elias tightened his grip on the worn wooden staff he now carried everywhere. It was more habit than anything—he wasn't a real mage, and it certainly wasn't enchanted—but it helped him feel slightly less ridiculous wandering the woods with a demon girl in tow.

Said demon girl was currently chewing on a strip of dried meat and poking a frog with a stick.

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"Stop that," Elias muttered.

Rhea blinked at him, stick still pressed into the frog's back. "Why? It blinked at me first."

"That's... not how that works."

She tilted her head. "What's the appropriate human response to frog intimidation, then?"

"You walk away. Politely."

"You're so weak, Elias."

He sighed and sat down on a mossy stump, ruffling her hair as she reluctantly released the poor frog. It leapt off with an indignant croak.