Maya brushed her hair down with her hand nervously. She looked around at the growing crowd of people gathering outside the castle. Were they just tourists, or other people plagued in the same way as her? Before she could think about it any longer, Nightmares spoke. [color=662d91][b]"My good friend Pain is here. We've always had so much fun playing together." [/b][/color]The demon girl's voice was childlike and eerie, she even finished the phrase with a fiendish giggle.

The voice made her uneasy, so Maya rubbed her arm gently before taking a few steps towards the castle. The doors opened to reveal a handsome fair-skinned man. He had ebony hair and crystal blue eyes, and she assumed that he must be Griffon. Instead of verbally greeting them he spoke through a text-to-voice tablet application. Maya tilted her head curiously, wondering why he used that instead of speaking. 

As they walked down the hall together, it suddenly seemed like coming here wasn't such a good idea. If these people had something trapped in their heads that could do awful things to others like Maya did, perhaps they shouldn't be having a little get together. [color=662d91][b]"Oh, don't be such a scaredy-cat. What could go wrong with eight demons being in the same old Scotish castle?"[/b] [/color]The voice chimed in with another menacing chuckle. Maya needed to say something to drown out the other voice, so she asked the first question that popped into her head.

"Can you speak? Or... does something bad happen if you do?" her voice was small and shaky, a few months ago she would have never dreamed of sounding so meek. But, Nightmares had her way of breaking people down, reducing them to one of their most primal emotions: fear.