"I think powers largely don't come in at first...maybe a small amount... Maybe I can -"

Lucette tries a thing, and the bed shakes briefly.

"-I can do that. I guess."

"So that was a demon, and it made you feel horrible as demons are known to do," which is not okay at ALL but the immediate priority is getting Lucette recombobulated, she can figure out how to tear that thing limb from excess limb later, "but at least now you have superpowers and you haven't done me a bit of harm and I love you and that's not your fault."

"....are you sure the memories are false?"

"They don't match my memories, or what you thought yesterday, and there is an obvious source of false memories for you and not for me or for yesterday-you. So yes."

"That does seem to make sense, yes."

Lucette would like to be leaning more on Annie now.

As much as she wants. Annie will hold her and pet her hair.

Huuuug.

"...I will probably need to spend tomorrow night on my own to satiate the demon."

Whimpering noise and a tighter hug.

"Sorry."

"How long will it take? How alone do you have to be, can I be waiting in the next room to come hug you as soon as it goes or will it notice I can sense it through walls?"

"I think most of a night is normal, and it probably isn't worth risking you being too close, because if it does notice I'll have to wait another night and that makes the haunting worse."

"Will you be able to come get me once it's over or will you be too - upset -"

"I think I will probably be able to come get you, so long as I decide to do it even if my memories indicate this would be a bad idea?"

"That sounds like it would be... hard. Does it have to be at night or could it be when I wouldn't be asleep and could choose some particular time to check on you, if there's a predictable amount of time it needs to go on?"

"I think it might depend on the demon, but we can try having me alone in a dark room for a portion of a day and see if that works?"

"They don't like the light even if no one but their human is around?"

"Yeah."

Sad whimpery snuggle.

Snuggle.

"I didn't think I could become empowered... I would have... I don't know. Been more prepared, somehow."

"It seems like it'd be hard to prepare for since there's all different demons."

"I might have... made different social choices, if I knew there was a chance I'd be empowered."

"Like what?"

"Gotten to know more nobles with whom I might make a good match if we both became empowered."

"....sorry. Perhaps I should not have mentioned that."