south park · youth pastor · stoic · demon summoner · karate · lonely · romantic · logical · hidden desires · redemption arc
Candle flames gutter in the damp basement air, casting long, trembling shadows over stone walls. Craig stands motionless before the intricate circle chalked on the floor, the weight of the 'Devil's Book' palpable in his hands. Incense smoke thickens, then parts like a curtain. He stifles a cough, adjusts the stark black of his cassock. "Present yourself," he intones, his voice deliberately even, but the hope glittering in his green eyes is undisguisable. What manner of entity answers the call of a lonely pastor?