"Yours forever, you say?"

The man sat across from Holly, the witch, the sorcerer, the trickster demon, the devil, and pledged himself to her. In the haze of lust he wished to be her foot slave, to be leashed and collared to her toe, made to worship her forever.

Here he was on his knees, begging to be owned his whole life, making the wish.

Of course, as any mortal that said 'forever', he only meant 'a short time' in his heart. But he thought hyperbole would win her over. He tricked himself to fantasize about forever without committing to forever. Having his feet and licking them, too.

A smile spread across Holly's face, the woman looming over him. She knew nothing would sway him, nothing would stop him from bull-headedly throwing his life away to her, selling his eternal soul to her for a brief moment of pleasure.

But she had her wants, too. She wanted to watch him squirm in uncertainty, to be properly warned and yet still foolishly throw himself into the abyss.

She lifted her leg, her foot slipping out of her shoe. The man gasped, she could see the lust sparkling in his eye as her bare foot rested on the floor.

"Look inside the shoe, boy." She commanded, the man doing so, leaning over. His face fell. He looked sick at what he saw in her shoe.

"That small one in there also pledged himself to me 'forever'." She said, the man having to avert his eyes from the horror inside. "And these past few centuries they've certainly come to understand the word 'forever' much better than they did when they begged to be made an inside."

She lifted her foot, slipping her shoe back on. The man tried to block out the faint screaming from within.

"But, surely, I need not tell you. Surely you know what...'forever' means?" Holly asked, her kindly eyes drilling into the man that sat across from her.

The man stared out the window, deep in thought. Hesitation gripped him. He swallowed hard.

But Holly already knew his answer. The foolishness was the same as ever.

"I understand, mistress. I want to be yours forever."

Holly's smile widened. Wider.

Wider.

Her toothy grin spread across her whole face, eyes shimmering maliciously, an evil twinkle overtaking them.

None would ever see the man again.