The mind scape

Alexis slowly opened her eyes as she found herself standing in the long hallway with doors on either side, that was the representation of Hekate’s mind. She blinked, as she found herself glancing over to the first door that she had opened before, a shiver running along her spine, and tears forming in the corner of her eyes, as she remembered the experience from yesterday.

A voice echoed down the hall, “don’t be afraid dear, we won’t be going back there today, I am not ready to face that again yet. Especially with that look you gave me, I don’t need your pity, I am not damaged.”

Then a full length mirror just down the corridor between two doors began to shimmer with a pale glow emitting from it. Hekate slowly emerged from the mirror looking a bit younger than she does in reality. Stretching as she fully entered into the hallway, “Oh it feels so nice to be eighteen again.” Then glancing to Alexis who was now staring at her. She blew her a kiss, “Oh dear don’t you realize in here you can appear however you see yourself, it is a reflection of our inner identity.”

Alexis blinked, “you mean I could be me again?”

Hekate giggled, “well if that is how you truly see yourself my dear, yes, you could be that boy again. Although judging by what I see before me, you have fully accepted that you are Alexis now.”

She shook her head furiously, “no, no, I, I still am me.”

Hekate quickly approached her, “Don’t worry about that yet dear, as you become stronger, you will have more control of who you are, and how you appear to others.” Taking her by the shoulders, and smiling as she gazed into her eyes, “As for right now, my mind is not where we belong lets visit yours, shall we?” With that she shoves Alexis backwards, who finds herself falling into a void.

Just as Alexis was about the scream in sheer panic at falling, she felt firm ground beneath her feet. Blinking as she now found herself in a dimly lit room, filled with clutter. Among the debris that covered the floor of the large room, glowing orbs lay scattered, some even stacked together in a jumbled mess.

Hekate stepped from the shadows beside her, “Alexis dear, you really need to organize in here, we will have to talk with Amita Fidelisa about adding that to your training. I don’t know how you can remember anything in this disorganized mess. Not only that but do you see where memories are touching one another?”

Alexis blushed at the chiding as she glanced around the representation of her mind, “yes, Miss Hekate.”

The demoness shook her head, “When memories are allowed to touch like that they can bleed into each other till you have memories that never happened. Not only that but when you add your hopes, dreams and fantasies to the mix, you never know what we will encounter.”

Alexis blinked, then tilted her head downwards, “I’m sorry.”

Hekate spun to face her, “why are you apologizing? Is it just some coping mechanism in hopes that we won’t abandon you?”

Shock spread across her face, as she slowly looked up meeting the succubus’s intense gaze, a shiver running down her spine as she is about to step back.

That is when Hekate reached out and grabbed her shoulder, still staring deeply into her eyes. “Stop that, I’m not letting you run away. Amita Fidelisa evidently loves you, she has accepted you as one of her own, and only a few of us problem children can ever earn that place in her heart. And as for me, well Alexis, like it or not you are my daughter now, and we are stuck with each other. After all how could I ever abandoned such a cutie like you.”

Alexis bite her lower lip, and had this been her real body most likely would have drawn blood, as she shifted nervously. She prepared herself to be berated by the woman, ready to sink back and accept what was coming. However she gasped as Hekate growled pulling Alexis into a hug, and reaching up to pet the back of her head, her delicate fingers running through the silky red hair. Alexis found herself wrapping her arms around the demoness’s waist to return the hug as she rested her head in her cleavage.

As soon as she was sure Alexis was okay again, she broke the hug, and huffed, “enough of that, now, let’s see, we need to find a memory here that had life changing implications to you. Slowly walking through the room, first stopping at an orb that flickered with red clouds within. Peering into it for a minute, she sighed, “No, I was there at the end of that one, no need to see those bastards sacrifice you again.”

The mention of his **** sent a shiver along her spine, as she watched intently Hekate’s actions.

The succubus then approached a pile of blue glowing orbs, “this could be interesting, yes, this will do. Alexis come over here dear, we are going to view this together.”

Alexis slowly and carefully walked towards her, and paused when she recognized the orb Hekate was focused on. “Miss Hekate, must we do that one.”

At that Hekate grinned broadly, “Well after that reaction, of course we must, I bet this will allow me to know you, and I mean the real you, not this face you put on to the world.”

At that the red skinned woman grabbed her by the arm and reached out to put her palm against the orb. There was a sudden flash of light and….