August 6, 2022

Harmonia’s in bed, on her phone, watching TikTok.

THE SCREEN STARTS GLITCHING CHARLI DEMELIO AND FUCKIN UHHH SCRIBBLEPRIEST.

"Ew wtf???" Harmonia tries to click off of it, annoyed.

A message pops up on the screen: I am in your home Harmonia.

She stares. "WHO’S HERE???" Harmonia looks around in confusion.

Azriel is at the foot of her bed. "Hi~"

She screams in surprise. "YOU!"

"Me!"

"I have questions for you, buster," She says playfully, sitting up and putting her phone aside.

"Ask away~" Azriel responds.

"So uh. About Abaddon being in my head. How- how much is it in my head?? Like can it control or possess me??"

"Barely. I'm not sure exactly how it does it, but it's a thing more of instinct and inserting thoughts into one's mind~"

"So he can put thoughts in my head?" Harmonia asks nervously.

"Mhm.”

"That's fucked up..." Harmonia says, scratching the back of her neck. "And she can see my memories?"

"Mhmm~"

"So basically I'm compromised," Harmonia says with a scowl.

"Not necessarily. You can use it." Azriel replies.

"How so?" Her eyes widen.

"Reverse engineering. It can read your thoughts. If and when you feel it happening, think of things that could affect her. Block her out. Try to gain control." He says with a smile.

"I'll be able to feel it?" Harmonia smiles.

"You will."

"I see... so I just feed it different thoughts until it goes away?"

"You've got it~"

Harmonia nods, processing this information. "And uh... about being a dutchess. Do I have a job? Am I expected to do things?"

"Do as you please~ I doubt anyone will notice," Azriel says with a shrug.

"Epic." She pauses. "Are there other dutchess’? Or dukes?"

"There are, but you wouldn't want to meet them~ They'd have your head on a pike~"

Harmonia rolls her eyes. "They could definitely try. How did they become dukes and dutchess’? Like with me it's for more control over me or whatever but what about them?"

"Some are just born into it," Azriel smiles.

"Weird. Whys is it a thing? Like what's the purpose?" She asks, resting her head on her hand.

"There needs to be command when the Princes aren't around~" Azriel replies.

"Fair enough." She sighs. "Y’know, your pet name thing is weird but besides that, you’re pretty cool. Most people just tell me not to worry about it when I ask questions." She huffs. "Like Kalius. Didn't tell me shit about Empryeans and sicks his dog Sondar on me. In her domain, I pick a rose for shits and giggles and now the order of the world is fucked up or something." Harmonia sneers, thinking about it. "Stolas is such a fucking cunt. Motherfucker came into my own house and scolded me like a CHILD. Can you believe that???"

"Mm, Stolas can be quite uptight~" Azriel replies.

"I wanna wring their neck like a rubber chicken," Harmonia says, slipping into a growl.

"Now, now. He doesn't mean any harm."

"He's a grade-A cunt." She snarls, huffing and staring at Azzie. "What are your horns made of?"

"Keratin."

Harmonia gets up and gets near them like she's going to bite the horns.

Azriel stands still, smiling.

SHE BITES ONE. Not hard but like. to taste test.

It tastes like keratin idfk what keratin tastes like.

Harmonia licks it and pulls away. "Interesting. So why are your horns significantly less cool than mine?" She asks, sitting back down.

"Why don't you have as many as I do?" He moves some of his hair, revealing five other small horns on his head.

"YO, YOU HAVE MORE???" Harmonia’s eyes widen. "Nevermind, that makes up for it." She grins at him. "I'm bored, wanna do something fun?"

"What do you have in mind?"

She pauses. "Uhhhhh uhhh." Hold on, she's loading. "What's your favorite place to go?"

"Hm. Not sure. How about you?"

"I liked the space L1MB0 made for me before he got killed," She says, clearly missing it.

"Oh?"

"L1MB0? One of the princes of Limbo in Metamorphosis hell? They like, made me a space in Limbo before Beezlebub fucked them up."

"I see... That's interesting." Azriel replies.

"What, that were friends or that Beezlebub messed him up?" Harmonia tilts her head.

"Just in general, really."

Harmonia shrugs. "I'm assuming you don't know much about other hells?"

"It's not exactly my area of expertise."

"Wanna learn?" She smiles. "Or will Stolas be up your ass?"

"What Stolas doesn't know can't hurt him," Azriel smirks.

Harmonia grins. "Wanna see Pisslantis?"

"What.” Azriel stares at her.

HARMONIA GRINS WIDER. "My kingdom."

"I'm not opposed to it~"

"Bet." Harmonia gets up and puts her gluttony key in the door and turns into a portal. She holds it open for Azriel.

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