"On the bright side," Baba Yaga remarked. "At least I've stopped aging backwards."
Merlin nodded. "Given you can manipulate your age on your own, I don't think you had much to worry about to begin with."
"Oh that hourglass is a lot more powerful than you think. I didn't think I'd have to use it so soon though. At least everything so far has worked out. Now we just need to make sure Jack doesn't misinterpret or overreact to all this."
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"Hey, Cece, can more of my friends come and play?" Lili asked, with no scheme or ulterior motive in the least.
"Huh? Oh sure!" Cece nodded without hesitation.
"Okay!" Lili had a smile with all the malice of your average Barbie doll. Lili clapped her hands. "Hey everybody! Let's come and have a party!" Demon portals opened left and right as fiends of various shapes and sizes came crashing through. Circe's anthros were rather disturbed at the towering infernal monsters standing about, but at least they weren't attacking.
As for the fiends themselves, they might have seen Lilith's smaller form, but they knew for a fact even from where they were standing, that Lilith's power hadn't decreased in the slightest. She was still be feared and obeyed without question.
"Hey! Lili! How about your friends try the rides! Then we can be both princesses of them!" Cece said so plainly and directly that Circe as an adult would have run away screaming if those words had left her mouth.
If Lilith was her adult self, she'd have said in response, "No!" and ended Circe's existence on the spot. Lili on the other hand, instead said, "THAT WOULD BE SO COOL! Everybody! Let Cece's friends treat you to the free rides!"
"We hear and obey!" Said the fiends who didn't dare disobey.
"Uh, right this way," Cindy, a zebra anthro said to the nearest towering fiend, who silently followed her to the safari ride, that was still bare bones, but was operational. The other fiends, san Lili's bodyguard who stood by her side, followed suit, as Cece's friends led the newly arrived fiends away.
One by one, the fiends entered the rides... and what came out... wasn't mortal or human, but bipedal fiendish beasts.
The newly transformed fiendish zebra man stomped off the safari ride, having obeyed his mistress' command. Cindy meanwhile, took one look at the new fiendish naked zebra man and thought, 'He's hot!'
"So... what's your name?"
"My real name is forbidden. You may call me Bob." He said simply.
"Uh, nice to meet you Bob."