Chapter 84: Uneasy second thoughts

Screwtape was feeling uneasy. More uneasy than usual. Something was seriously wrong. He could feel it. What could it be? Suddenly he remembered something that idiot Slugthorn had said, moments before being devoured. Some foolishness about the children. What? At the time, Screwtape had completely ignored Slugthorn's screamed words. If he thought about them at all, it was just as the last desperate hope of a doomed demon; anything to delay the inevitable. But what if Slugthorn had really been on to something? That could help explain the trouble he was having with this Mary character and her whelps. He should have pushed the abortion option more forcefully. Screwtape had a sinking feeling in the pit of his cavernous stomach. Mistakes like this got even the most powerful demons obliterated in the most horrifying, torturous death imaginable. Screwtape didn’t have to imagine. He had witnessed several fellow demons go screaming into nothingness. He shivered.