By all means, give me a reason to decline,” Ronan suggested as Felix moved to stand. “You came with high demands, and everyone knows a warlock collects in blood.

Certain things are expected of you when you’re a demon. Take the grotesque bodies, for example. Powerful, lethal, but definitely not beauty pageant material. Which is why the more talented among the demon race normally reverted to a basic human form. Those that couldn’t take human form were destined to a life of servitude or as a meal on legs.