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Chapter 14 - Are you?

"Your new clothes are in the corner like before, I'll be outside the tent when you're changed." Said the devil as she paced back and forth along the tent's opening. It was a pair of denim jeans with a graphic tee and a bomber jacket. Raphael was confused, he only felt cold the one time when he got to Purgatory. "Why do I need the jacket? I thought I was fine after you touched me." Raphael stated as he slipped the jeans on. "You won't, I just grabbed from your closet." She said, stopping in her tracks. "I thought this was on the coat rack, but if you say so." He replied, going along with it so he could finish putting clothes on.

"What happened this time?" The Devil said as she walked beside Raphael. "What do you mean?" He replied confusedly. "Last time you said you had a dream about me. Did anything happen this time?" She asked calmly. "I don't know, a little bit happened but I was odd compared to last time. I was back on the cliff, for a while you weren't there" He said trying to recollect. "For a while? So I was there again at some point?" She asked, intrigued by the comment. "You were there later on but for a moment it was just the peaceful scenery until I walked to the cliff, I felt like I was getting pushed towards It so I turned around and then you were there in another elegant dress."

"Last time you just said a tight red dress, you didn't say elegant" She said jokingly. Raphael did a double take for a moment but tried to go on. "That aside from it, you asked me a question, you grabbed my hand, and in a span of maybe 1 minute we were dancing slowly until we spun around and fell."

He said shakily. The Devil stopped for a moment and tilted her head up before she continued on. "It felt like we were falling for a long time, everything felt slow despite falling down to a bunch of jagged rocks. The only strange thing about that was you, you were smiling the entire time while we fell, you looked both happy and sad about it." He said confusedly, once again starting to sweat.

"Do you have any ideas of what that might mean?" He asked taking the bomber jacket off and placing it on his arm. "Well on one hand maybe you don't want to have sex with the devil. On the other you keep depicting me as close to you." She said as she turned around to talk to Raphael. "And we have been over that before, I think I feel safe around you." he replied as she stared into her eyes. "The other bit is you danced with me but off a cliff and said I looked happy and sad. I don't think you truly feel safe around me, I think you tell yourself that. As much as you seem to like seeing me in the dresses, I have to ask you something." She said gazing through Raphael's eyes. "Raphael, are you afraid of me?"