Week of Flash Fiction, Day 2: The Summoning

Summoning demons is strange business on the best of days.

Belle acted appropriately.

She set her altar with candles in the proper shade,

Again and again, she tried.

She hoped. 

She besought. 

All she got was more salamanders.

They stared up at her with dark eyes. 

And when she had twenty, they spoke with their true voice,

many as one,

and she had no choice but to obey. 

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