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# tales for dreamers: a deal with the devil
- URL: https://thedreampedlar.com/tales-for-dreamers-a-deal-with-the-devil/
- Published: 2022-11-04T01:00:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-25T08:49:02.000Z
- Description: If the devil shows up to grant you a wish, what will you ask for?
- Author: Anitha Krishnan
- Tags: tales for dreamers

I had been trying to summon an angel but Satan showed up instead.

He did not look particularly frightening; he looked like he had been painted near-black from head to toe with occasional splotches of verdigris and sienna, as if parts of him were peeling away to reveal a more colourful self hidden underneath.

I tried to shoo him away but he refused to leave the pavilion where he had popped up.

“You summoned me,” he stated the obvious. “I cannot leave unless I grant you a wish.”

His voice was deep and smooth, rumbling up from the bottomless depths of his netherworld and rising up to his throat like a wicked yet sad laughter, both dangerous and poignant at the same time.

I knew better than to make a deal with the devil, we all know how badly such things end, and so, touched by his generosity although I was, I nonetheless declined his offer politely.

“No, you do not understand,” he stood his ground. “You summoned me. I am bound to you unless I grant you a wish. It is the rule of such things. I cannot leave until I have fulfilled what I was sent for.”

“Isn’t it true that devils cannot grant wishes without taking away a part of the wish-seeker’s soul?” I asked.

He hung his head sadly and gave a slight nod. “But I used to be an angel once, you know. A very, very long time ago. I am not sure if that counts for anything at all.”

I could not think of a suitable response.

“They used to call me Lucifer back then,” he continued, his gaze abstractedly fixed on something beyond the edges of the planet. “It means the morning star.”

I made my wish then, and asked him to send me back in time so I could seek out Lucifer and summon him before he falls.

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