Wrote this at like 5am for a friend. It’s extremely rough around the edges but no harm letting it loose out there.
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The smoke cleared. Inside the circle stood a figure: the form of a copper-haired woman with an air as beautiful as it was menacing. The vanishing haze revealed a full body with red-tinted skin and a forked tail. The slightest of horns poked through her hair.
The apprentice began to panic. The summoning was never meant to actually complete and he’d not set up the runes to send the creature back. For his own safety he would have to bind it while he prepared its banishment. Fumbling for words he got halfway through his spell when the demon’s head turned and her eyes flashed red. With unnatural speed, she crossed the room and loomed over him, wearing an unreadable expression. The apprentice opened his mouth to speak and was cut short by the demon’s tail coiling around his throat.