I'd have thought she might have just slipped into her early 30s. This, combined with her other less-subtle features, gave me an idea of just how powerful she was. Of course she could have been much more powerful and simply be hiding it from me but the truth was that she was already probably much more powerful than I was so why should she bother? At least, that's what I hoped.

“What do you want?" I took the direct approach.

"I want you to come to me in this Little circle so that I can peel you out of those garments and see what your cock feels Like on my tongue.”

To emphasise her words she let her pointed, pink tongue slowly lick over her upper lip and then opened her mouth to wiggle it at me.

“Then I'd be dead." I said that more to myself than to her. Right then it was helpful to say aloud the reason I couldn't run over there and let her do anything she damn well pleased to me.

“But you'd be happy. Very happy." Well, she didn't exactly need to tell me that. A certain part of me was already extremely happy for her to just be there.

“But not for long." I brought my common sense to the fore and stifled that Little voice in my head telling me to go and enjoy my Last moments on earth with her.

"Oh, come now. We could be at it for hours and hours," she lowered her voice to a promising whisper.

“Are you kidding? I'm an 18-year-old virgin. Ten seconds would be an accomplishment ."

These words obviously surprised the succubus. It was almost funny to see her expression shift from that damn near panting, wanton Look of lusty desire and into wide-eyed shock. She held that expression for a few brief moments before my words sank in and she flung her head back and let out a peal of lyrical laughter. One of her hands lifted from the floor to settle the backs fingers loosely across her lips in a half hearted attempt to hide her widely upward curved lips.

“Oh, my boy! You're certainly not Like the others are you? It's a shame you're so new at this. I think I'd have enjoyed seeing you again." Her eyes narrowed upon me and her smile became less amused and much more vicious.

“What do you mean?" I felt an icy wave of fear wash over me and steeled my face in order to hide it from her. She shouldn't have been able to read my mind with the containment I'd set up for her.

“I mean that you've made a very nice containment circle and the magical energies you've put in here to sustain me are very yummy indeed, but you've forgotten something." As she spoke she calmly lifted herself up to her feet and lifted her arms above her head to stretch her slender body for my viewing pleasure.

“Have I?" I was really hoping I hadn't.

"Yes, it's a common mistake for new warlocks. Don't feel too bad. You see, a circle is not a sphere and your magic isn't infinite. That means it doesn't go up or down forev..."

I knew what she was talking about. The penny finally seemed to have dropped and I closed my eyes to concentrate. You see, she was completely right. If you empower a circle then you essentially end up with a containment cylinder as the walls that bind the demon in that spot form around the edge of the circle. The problem is that those walls aren't infinitely high and they don't go down through the earth very far. Essentially I'd forgotten to put a floor and a ceiling on her cell. If I'd made another circle at 90 degrees, then I'd have been in business. As it was she had two very easy means of escape.

When she saw me close my eyes and focus my energy into sealing over those two big gaps, she quickly bent her legs and leapt upwards with a force so powerful that it snapped several floorboards beneath her. That lithe body shot upwards as she balled her fists above her head and burst upwards through the flimsy ceiling.

Perfect.

Alright, so I've been holding out on you a little. That wasn't my first trip to the apartment building. I mean, you read the compendium's description of the succubus, didn't you? Would you summon up one of those things on your first try without some tricks up your sleeve?

I wanted a challenge, I wanted to summon something cool, but that didn't mean I was suicidal. So I looked through the book for some more advanced imprisonment techniques. Sure enough, I found some. The problem was that demons often had to be forced into these prisons and I wasn't nearly strong enough to force a succubus anywhere. So I set up my summoning circle in that apartment block not just because it was abandoned but because it was a place where there was a decently sized enclosed space directly above and directly below it.