Eventually, the sun became unhidden, though it would only last for a few hours at best. When that happened, Alaric left the apartment after indulging in a big stretch on the building's front steps.
He looked around and walked over to the bike rack outside the building, unlocking his own Huffy mountain bike from it.
Belphegor watched as Alaric put a helmet on that miraculously fit his big head and started pedaling off in the direction of downtown.
He didn't need to guess what Alaric was doing. There was a hospital down that way that processed all the blood donations in town. As a sort of tax, Vladira had required that they fill Alaric's bike basket once per week with blood donations.
In exchange, Vladira used some of her magic to bestow restorative powers on the hospital, making it one of the highest
performing operations in the state.
It used to be one of the lowest.
But the demon had lost track of his charge.
