So Violet went to the mall. She bought herself two t-shirts, two pairs of jeans, a hoodie, some socks and some underwear. She was just heading back to Resuke's apartment, still worrying about the same things as before, when someone grabbed her by the shoulders and clamped his hand over her mouth. He had an iron grip, and had long clawlike fingernails... Or maybe they really were claws and she had been caught by a hungry monster... She started trembling...
"Hello, little girl," the stranger whispered in her ear, in a silky, smooth, unmonster-like voice, "what are you doing, wandering down the street by yourself at night? You could easily fall prey to someone like me... You do look like a tasty one..."
Violet felt a long tongue lick the side of her face. She trembled harder, horrified and disgusted. "Mmm, you're as tasty as you look..." the creature said. "I'll have to eat you nice and slowly..."
Violet started to cry.
Just then another stranger suddenly shouted: "Hey Mortarius... don't tell me you're playing with your food again! You're too dignified for that!"
"Shut up, you foul little worm," the first stranger, Mortarius, growled. "Don't be so cocky, unless you want to be dessert..."
"But Morty, angels don't play with their food! They don't eat people either! Only demons do things like that!"
"I'm not a demon!" shouted Mortarius, making Violet's ears ring. "And don't call me Morty!"
"Morty the demon! Morty the demon! Morty the demon!" sang the second stranger.
"Okay! I'll eat you instead!" roared Mortarius, making Violet's ears ring again. And from the sound of the sheer rage in his voice it was obvious he meant it. He dropped her and with a flash of great black wings flew at the second stranger. The second stranger ran for his life, shrieking with terror and laughing with delight at the same time.
Violet just stood there for a moment, shaken. Then she continued to head back to Resuke's apartment, trembling like a leaf. Her shoulders were bleeding where Mortarius's talons had sunken into them. But she was just glad to be alive.