“I am Tanya and I am inside your mind, muhwahahaha!” She theatrically laughs. “Just kidding, sort of.” She whispers at the end. “I was jumped into your mind when you Finally! broke that button allowing me to co-inhabit your body. I. Am. In. You!” Milking the crazy laugh she starts drifting closer to Tony.

“You mean you are only in my mind?” Tony starts smiling. “ Does that mean if I ignore you, you will fade away?” Tony is openly grinning now, putting his arms back and leaning on the kitchen counter.

“Uhm, yes and please please don’t do that??” Tanya suddenly pleads as her plan backfires. “I'll be a good girl, to you anyway, from now on.” She clarifies.

“Who are you, what are you and what do you want?”Tony demands.

“Like I said, I am Tanya.” She whispers timidly.”I am a lesser succubus or at least I was. I was summoned by a warlock to be his familiar but the idiot didn't do his homework on summoning properly which caused me to be cursed into that elevator. I have been in there for 30 years!” She exclaims.

“What do you mean ‘lesser’? Will you steal my soul now succubus?” Tony says with sweat forming on his brow.

“No, the curse stripped me of all fleshly powers. The idiot wanted to trap me in a lock of hair held in a ring. But he mispronounced the word for ring in demonic and instead said wall while inside the elevator. So I was trapped in the circuits of the elevator. And no inside the electrical currents of your brain. All I have left is knowledge.” Tanya bemoans her fate.

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“What knowledge are you talking about? I didn’t even know demons existed for crying out loud!!” Tony says while clinging to the kitchen counter for support.

Scowling Tanya exclaims “ Don’t you know anything about demons? Magic? Nothing?! By the Screams of the Merciful Whip! You are ignorant beyond belief! Lesser Succubi are the magic users of Hell. We are the least important in terms of battle as most major demons are immune to spells except the most devastating 5th level workings done by a coven of Greater Succubi linked with a coven of Incubi. Since we succubi don’t even get along with each other these workings are almost never done. Greater Succubi are warriors of the highest caliber known for speed and accuracy and their skills as assassins. All demons are created with the skills and knowledge inside of them but only by growing in power do we ‘remember’ them. Then we train until we master either the skill, weapon or magical spell. Magic is all around you, although your world is called a dry world. Your world receives very little mana from the Nether and Higher realms as the portals between our worlds are few and almost never opened. Mana, the building blocks of all spells and the requirement for magical creatures, is a self replicating substance. What I can sense of your world through you the formal linking of our worlds will only happen in another 50 years.” Tanya sighs as she finishes her tutoring.

“Tanya, you just made my brain melt from all that, but that doesn’t answer the biggest concern I have. HOW DO I GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD???” Tony suddenly explodes.

“Well, if there was enough mana and you had the skill and spell you could conjure a body for me which would get me out of your head temporarily. But you don’t have the skill, spell or enough mana so you are stuck with me. Deal with it. You're not crazy but shouting like a demonic bull at a fresh cow is pointless.” Tanya sniffs.

Crumpling in defeat Tony rests his head on his knees. Silent tears of helplessness roll down his cheeks.Tanya slowly kneels at his side and soothingly pats Tony’s back. Startled Tony looks up with red rimmed eyes.

“How can I feel you touching me if you are a voice inside my head?”

“I can directly stimulate your brain, although you can’t touch me and I can’t touch you I can make you feel my touch. Sorry, thought you understood the being in the electrical current of your brain part…” Tanya softly explains. “ Come, let’s get you to bed, you will feel better when you wake up.” Or so Tanya hopes, if Tony loses his grip on sanity she will be stuck in a crazy person’s brain till he dies. Even Tony’s death would not free her automatically. She might become stuck in Limbo between worlds until the two worlds link permanently.

Shuffling to bed Tony lies down with a sigh, hoping that this is all just a weird dream from working too hard.