Raea walked with Palan next to her down an empty road. She wore a red robe while Palan wore a white cotton t-shirt and brown pants. Palan turned his head and frowned before walking off to the side. The sky was bathed in red as one sun began to set.
“Hey, don’t wander!” Raea said and grabbed Palan’s elbow. “As a contracted demon, you have to stay within thirty meters of me at all times.”
“You can’t be serious,” Palan said.
“Very serious,” Raea said as she tugged Palan along the road. “I can’t draw upon your powers and you can’t draw upon mine if we’re separated more than that.”
“Draw upon my powers?”
Raea smiled. “Did I forget to mention that?”
Palan jerked his arm out of Raea’s grip. “There’s nothing actually stopping me from going more than t