My first story.. hoping it's not too bad.

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Rather excited, but also a bit scared of what might come next, you said the final words, trying to mimic the sorcerers from the various fantasy movies you've seen. Then, just like in the movies, the candles somehow blew out by themselves, and a reddish smoke filled the room, while you were looking there sitting on the floor, praying and holding your breath in anticipation.

But... you didn't see anything else. The smoke just disappeared, and the candles lighted up once again, all at the same time. You were almost crying, thinking all the effort just went in vain. That is, until you heard the cat purring right behind you -- she hasn't done that in, like, the last week at all, and all of a sudden... You turn around.

"AAA--" you were scared, and screamed after seeing the demon right before your eyes, already having forgotten it was you who summoned them in the first place. But the fear went away rather fast, because they were not actually scary, it's just that.. you didn't really expect them to be here. "didn't I.. fail trying to do the ritual? well, looks like I didn't".

"Yeah, you did not." the demon said continuing to pat your poor cat. "But what's the deal with your cat? She doesn't look too well."

"This.. is the reason why I wanted to summon you in the first place. See, she is, like, terminally ill, the doctor said.. This is the first time I heard her purr in a week." Then, after a moment of silence, you finally asked them: "Can you.. heal her? Even if for some amount of time only... I want her to live, live to the fullest.. without pain", and the demon has seen the tear running down your face while you were saying that.

"Well, we are not exactly specialized in healing, but this poor little thing really looks like she's gone through a lot.. I'll try my best, okay?" The demon looked at you. They looked concerned for her, about to give all they can and even more.. just to let her be free of the pain. You stepped away to give them more space to work and maybe to get a little bit safer if the things go wrong.

The demon said some words in a foreign language not sounding like anything you've ever heard (and you have heard quite a few languages before), and started drawing some sort of picture made of a few glyphs, connected together. "Maybe this is how they do magic", you thought to yourself, coming closer to get a nicer look of the thing. After finishing the art, the demon placed their hand on it and closed their eyes. You were waiting in anticipation, rather excited for the demon to finish whatever they were doing, sitting on the floor looking at them. What felt like an eternity was just a minute that has passed, and then.. Your dear cat got covered in a greenish substance for a moment, just barely enough for you to notice it, and literally once you did it just disappeared. But it had some kind of effect on the cat.. For a moment she looked and felt rather dizzy, but soon after she was what looked like fully healed! She got up from the bed and jumped first to the demon's, and then to your lap, as lively as ever before the illness.

"You're welcome", the demon said while you were speechless. And drew another thing made from those same glyphs you've seen, touched it, and disappeared -- probably, to wherever they were from. You didn't even get a chance to say "thank you"...