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- Author: Lily Mayne
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BERYL
I was already smiling as I tugged up the blinds over my window,
revealing cerulean skies and the orange-and-brown foliage of the
sprawling park far below.
Another beautiful autumn day in The Order of the Greater Beings.
I had already dressed in my favourite flowy trousers and shirt—pale pink
and white respectively today—but now that daylight streamed into the
room, I sat down at my dressing table to do my hair and skincare.
After smoothing moisturiser over my face, I leaned in for a closer
inspection in the mirror. The expensive face cream my aunt got for both of
us mostly fended off the signs of ageing, but time stopped for no one. Now,
as I smiled at myself in the mirror, laugh lines fanned out from the corners
of my eyes.
I sighed, leaning back and reaching for my sunscreen. I was happy here
—happier than I would be anywhere else. Probably. Maybe. So it was silly
to look at my face, now twenty-five years older than it had been when I
arrived, and feel like I was possibly… wasting my life.
I wasn’t wasting it, I thought stubbornly. I was ensuring I had the best life
possible. My methods may have been a touch unconventional, but they’d
worked for this long and they weren’t going to fail me now. Why would
they? I’d worked the system—well, my aunt and I had—to ensure I lived in
conditions that would otherwise be well beyond my means.
If it meant I had to live with a bunch of people who had willingly
dedicated their lives to worshipping the demiurgus, the monstrous beings
who lived among humans? Sure, I didn’t mind that. They could do what
they wanted. Did I find it a little weird that they all stayed here desperately
hoping to one day become a demiurgus’s mate? That they spent all their
time reading about the species’ mysterious history, learning their ways and
I
pampering themselves to look beautiful in the hopes of getting dicked down
by one of them?
I mean, yeah, I found it a little strange.
The demiurgus weren’t human, but they were just… people. A different
kind of people, but people. They weren’t gods. They’d emerged from
wherever they’d lived, deep underground, centuries ago to start co-existing
with humans on the surface. They’d brought with them medicine,
interesting food, beautiful artwork and a new culture, which was how, I
guessed, cults like this had sprung up.
Yeah, I was in a cult. But I wasn’t really in it. I just lived in The Order of
the Greater Beings’ compound because… well. Because it was great. The
building was huge and sprawling, on the top of a big hill that overlooked
the city and surrounding countryside. It was clean and luxurious, and I had
a huge room to myself. The food was good. The healthcare was top-notch.
And my aunt was here.
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