"That's one way of putting it," Ariadne said, smiling grimly. "But it's also taken on a connotation of something...evil. Like the mountain trolls that sack villages. Or the mermaids who drag sailors to the depths. All of what they do gets rolled into the word demon and...those of us who aren't murderers tend to get...blamed."

It was complicated. And there was a history stretching back thousands of years, long before Ariadne was a part of it.