Of course!

Karyn, who made few steps back, walked toward the book cautiously. She didn't leave her eyes from it, like it would jump at her face if she didn't. But nothing changed, it was still immobile on the table, next to the box, open on two blank pages. She may have imagined it, and yet, the whole thing was too weird to not give it a try.

Ready to run at any moment, the pink haired girl stretched her arm, touching the book with the tip of her fingers and said.

"Ariel, I call you forth !"

The pages immediately lightened with a strong blue light engulfing the whole room in a blue hue. At that sight, Karyn jumped behind her sofa and watched her table. From the book a shadowy figure came out slowly. Rising in the air, around three feet tall, all in curves, it stopped one foot above the book. The later then stopped glowing and the pink haired girl could recognize the imp from the illustration, Ariel.

The pages didn't have any color, so she discovered that the creature had a gray-blue skin with marine blue hands and hooves that slowly lightened around the ankles and wrist to match the rest of her skin color. She also had marine blue marking starting at the base of her jaw, passing under her eyes and stopping before her nose that looked like vines. Her hairs looked like innumerable silver treads shining under the light of the sun coming from the window. She also had silver gray eyeshadow and eyeliners that highlighted her big emerald green eyes, and her plump lips were marine blue with a shiny gloss. Finally, her deep red dress seemed to be in velvet fabric.

The imp locked her eyes on Karyn and turned toward her before floating to the floor. She put down a knee and bowed like a knight in front of nobility.

"I am gladly at your service, mistress. I am lady Valariel Aaster'ali Gahaltorn, but you can call me Ariel." She said in a delicate but firm voice.

Karyn slowly stood up, trying to process what she just witnessed. A small demon came from the book. An actual demon. For real ! And it's happening before her eyes of all people ! It couldn't be a joke or anything, who would be able to put such a stunt ? And wait...

"Wait... You called me mistress ?"

Without moving an inch, Ariel answered.

"Yes, you have in your possession my tome and called me to you, which makes you my mistress."

Karyn put her hand on her head, she felt like she was gonna explode, so many stuffs were going on at the same time. She got a book from God knows where, she just said a name, and now she had an imp at her service. And she was still bowing...

"You... you can stop bowing..."

Ariel went back on her... hooves and looked at the pink haired girl. She seemed to try to stay as formal as possible, but Karyn could see the curiosity in her eyes.

"Thank you, mistress. What can I do for you ?"

The girl walked closer to the imp. She didn't seem dangerous, quite the opposite.

"You can call me Karyn. You don't need to be so formal. I don't know what to make you do, so maybe we can know each other better first ?"

Ariel tilted her head, raising her eyebrows.

"If it is what you want, mistress Karyn... How do you have pink hairs ? Is it a spell ?" She asked, pointing them with her finger.

It was somehow funny to Karyn that a little magical demon was curious about something so mundane as dyed hairs. She took a strand of hairs.

"My hairs ? It's just a dye."

The imp floated toward her face, she delicately grabbed a strand and then checked her hand with attention.

"It doesn't wash away..."

"Well, no, it's a really good dye. But your hairs is even more impressive, they look like silver."

Ariel puffed out her chest, making her dress going through a though time, and offered a big smile with pointy canines.

"It's my natural hair color !"

"That's really cool ! But on another subject, how did you get here ? I don't understand what you were doing on my doorstep."

The imp put her chin on her fist, the other arm under her chest, and looked down, pensive.

"I'm not sure, I wanted to find people to go on an adventure with, and I made the book jump for that. But I ended up here, in a place that is absolutely not like anything I know..." She floated toward the window and looked down the street. "I don't even think it's my world, I think I'm somewhere else entirely."

Karyn wanted to see the world, to go on an adventure, but she didn't find herself more willing or more capable than most. So why did the book chose her, on a completely different world at that. The pink haired girl felt suddenly so much pressure on her shoulders.

"I'm not sure, I'm the good person for what you seek. Maybe you should find a better person to be your mistress."

Ariel came back to her, raising a finger and wiggling it.

"No no no, mistress Karyn ! You called me at your service, and at your service I will be ! Heroic deeds or not !" She said. "Let me help you with whatever you need !"

"Uh... OK..."

Being scolded by a three feet tall demon was quite new to the girl. Their cohabitation would be quite peculiar, for sure. So maybe she could start with what she had to do this morning.