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Mephisto felt another heavy wave of emotion pass over him as Julian explained his hopeless situation, its density made him grimace. This was all very confusing to Mephisto, he just couldn't understand why he was so affected by this man's feelings. Normally he was adept at controlling his powers and keeping the constant influx of emotion that came from the various beings that surrounded him at bay. Only when he was very young and was still adjusting to his ability did it influence him to this degree, at times it even overwhelmed him, but those days were long past. Or so Mephisto thought.

He initially had come to the man's house for one thing and one thing only: to selfishly and mindlessly indulge in his carnal desires with a human male whose strikingly handsome physical features just happened to appeal to him. It wasn't much that had brought him here, only a shallow, superficial attraction. But now as he laid here in the mans bed face to face with him, being exposed to his emotions, he just wanted to relieve some of that grief, even if it was just a fraction of it. Mephisto had some thinking to do, but that could wait until later.

"It must be painful, to be trapped in that kind of situation," the hand he still had on Julian's chest finally began to stir, he moved a finger across the surface in small circles. "Allow me to alleviate that pain, if only for a little while."