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”Yeah, that's it,” Sam said as he pulled up his digital debit card.

”now would you mind telling me why you came into my store, it's obvious you didn't know it was here before.” sam's lip twitched a bit witch's needed high observation skills to survive and it all way reminded him of one of the witches who raised him.' i wonder what she does now.'

”several hundreds of thousand miles away a large burly woman sneezed as she tended to her garden just before backhanding a giant bone eater lotus trying to sneak up on her.

a shiver went down sam's spine not a moment later after that thought, probably still as strong and fierce as ever.' letting out a sigh he put on a serious face, ”I came into here because of a job I was given to prevent a creature older than are planet from influencing people and breaking free from its prison. to do that I need to locate certain people.”

”what do you do to those you find?” she reached a hand behind the counter.

”absorb a form of energy from them, that has no effect on their health?”

”and after that,

”nothing, I leave them alone unless that energy builds up again.”

”how do you absorb this energy.

”simple physical contact, for the time being, I plan to learn to do so from a distance.” the witch thought for a moment before keeping one hand under the counter but handing the other to sam. smiling he took hold of it and immorality feeling the now familiar but Microscopic presence flowing into his hand.

”so how long do we have to hold hands

”depends on how much you have,” she hummed in response and braced he elbow against the counter as the muscles in her arm tensed. sam relived what she was suggesting so he braced his own elbow and tensed his arm,” on the count of three”. the witch nodded ”3..2..1!” the second they said one they each tried to force the others arm on to the counter.

The two struggled for a couple of minutes before sam used a burst of strength to win.”Go again she asked with a smirk that sam returned. For the 8 minutes, it took for sam to absorb her lust and 7 more after that they had 11 matches sam winning 6 of them. After paying for his order sam thanked her for her help and cooperation and she thanked him for the entertainment and information as sam headed out the store.

Back on the main road sam turned all his sense to near zero except hearing, navigating the streets sam spent the next almost five hours wandering the streets finding few people whose lust he had to absorb before turning back and heading home. well that was what he planned to do but that plan was trashed by the helper.' my lord we have an emergency, immediately head north northeast you must cross 2.4 miles in 30...29...28...'

The moment sam heard the word emergency he dashed to a nearby alley, activating the obsidian necklace sam climbed to the roof as the vantablack tux formed on him. flipping on tho the roof sam dropped his shoes there midair before bursting north northeast with enough force to crack the rooftops with each step.

By the time the helpers count down reached six sam arrived above an alleyway where a mugging was going down well, it was a mugging as the attacker was beginning to tear off the victim clothes, half a moment passed before a chill filled the alley and I give you a hint it wasn't the wind.

both the victim and assaulter froze as the chill came over them, ”the he-” he attacker didn't get to finish as his head was suddenly snapped to the right before snapping in the other direction before she sent flying into the right wall. before she could even slide onto the ground she was knocked into the opposite wall back and forth she went more than a dozen times before she was dropped in the middle of the alley where sam landed knees first in her stomach.

the victim blinked in confusion as she couldn't understand what just happened, it happened to fast all she saw was a blur of movement.” call the police,” a quiet voice entered her ear making her jump. the order was repeated with a much more forceful tone deciding not to test the person currently curb stomping her attacker she quickly pressed on her hollo-earing three times connecting to emergency services.

”hello this is emergency dispatch what is your emergency?” she quickly explained what was going on,” a patrol car is on its way.” sam's head snapped up as he heard a police siren in the distance.

'i got a few minutes until it arrives,” he looked down at the beaten women at his feet and gave her one more kick before grabbing her collar and dragging her to the woman she attacked, ”what should happen to her?”

”what do you mean?”

”should she live to be arrested or should her life end here? it's your choice,” she reeled back in horror. ”she wanted to hurt you it's only fair if you decide if she gets hurt as well,” sam lifted her just enough so that her bruised and bloody face could be seen. 'it also a great step to moving on from this experience'.

Silence filled the alley as the attacked female thought swallowing her spit she spoke in a shaky voice, ”let... let the police deal with her...she's... not worth the blood on our hands!”

”so true people like this are not the pain and nightmares, now before I go I have something to tell you. Do not run from today or it will chase, face it and defeat it so you can move forward stronger than ever.” sam then let go of the beaten women's collar before juping towards the right wall and scaling it to the roof.

when she could no longer see her savoir she flopped onto her back her heart beating like she had run a marathon,' what an eventful day this has been when I wish for some excitement this was not what I had in mind, maybe going on a trip or a fateful encounter. I guess this contents as a fateful encounter but seriously.' eventually she got soo deep in her thoughts that she didn't notice the arrival of the police until one of them laid a hand on her which nearly got him punched in the face.

after apologizing she got a good look at him and instantly she realized,” he cute.” seeing his face flush she realized that she said that out loud and her own face turn red in response. the laughter of the other officer who was applying the plasma cuffs broke the atmosphere that was building between the two. clearing his throat the first officer held out his hand to help her stand. their hands remain together as they walked to the squad car just as the ambulance drove up.

upon the rooftops with zero presence sam watched the two women were taken to a police cruiser and ambulance respectively,” so when someone lust draws the attention of the beast it will manipulate them so that they attack someone so the same happens to them.”

'that is correct my lord,' if it had a body the helper would be sweating more then a woollymammoth in the desert on the hottest day of the year.

”I see, ”was all Sam said before he walked back to the train station and head home, 'it seems that my plan of being passive is in need in revision.'

{this is were thing really took off didn't they?}