QUOTE : Kamala trotted beside me, her lips a ghastly shade of red.<br />I bowed to her. “You can have a bite of my arm now if you’d like.”<br />She tossed her head, gesturing at the fallen demons around us. “I am quite sated. I would, however, ask another thing…”<br />“What is that?”<br />Kamala bent her head to the ground, her voice low and shy. “…I could stay with you. If you’ll have me. And I wouldn’t eat anyone. That is a promise. Unless you asked me to eat someone. In which case, I would be easily persuaded.”<br />I drew her to a hug. “You may stay.