A DAIMONE

NINE TAILS IT HAD, AND FIFTEEN FANG-TONGUES

IN A HUNDRED HUNDRED HIDEOUS TONGUES IT GIBBERED, AND ITS WORDS WERE THOSE OF MADNESS

IT CAME UPON A YOUNG MAN ONCE (PITY HIM; OH, PITY!)

THIS IS WHAT IT DID

AT FIRST, IT EMBRACED HIM, OFFERING KIND WORDS

"LOVE ME" IT COMMANDED

"LOVE ME"

THEN IT BEGAN TO TRANSFORM

HIDEOUS SPIKES GREW FROM ITS FOREHEAD

ITS BEARD GREW

AND GREW

AND GREW

THEN IT STABBED THE YOUNG MAN THROUGH THE THROAT

AND KILLED HIM

LESSON: BEWARE OF NIKOLASES, FOR THEY ARE VILE AND EVIL BOTH

ALSO

THEY HAVE BEARDS

(OH NOOOOOOO)