"I'm not sure how she did it," Adron said, "but she beat him. Cost her a lot of demons to do it, but she did. And instead of killing him, she planned for the future. She locked him up, and everyone assumes it's so she can break him and make him a servant."

"She hasn't been able to yet, though."

"Right. So, he's a bit of a ghost story, the deadly beast locked in the depths of the tower that, some day, Zel might be able to unleash on Hell."

"That... is scary. How long ago did she capture him?"

Adron shrugged. "A century or two? Before I hatched."

Mia...