nagpurpolice Chapter 1542: Chapter 1542 Something Food, Something Something Meg
Chapter 1542: Chapter 1542 Something Food, Something Something Meg
--- Lily ---
Kamiko kept Meg distracted while Kat made food. It was clearly something Meg allowed as whenever Lily started to relax too much Meg would shoot her a glance, or when Hunter got a bit closer to having her arms free Meg would throw another layer of blankets over Hunter just to ensure she stayed trapped.
Hunter summoned a bit of demonic flame at one point to burn through it and Meg whacked her on the back of the head. So once again, Meg was allowing herself to be distracted.
This all ended when they sat down for food and Meg directly asked Lily, "So you've had a bunch of time now. What new questions have you got for me?"
*WHY!* "Well how about hobbies, surely bothering Hunter isn't all you do right?" asked Lily flippantly. Woops let me anger get ahead of me there. Meg seemed fine with the question though, and simply finished her mouthful of food before answering.
"My main hobby is actually knitting, and I have a secondary hobby of carving. See, I picked it up because it seemed like the kind of thing my parents would hate a bunch so I started just to spite them but I actually really enjoy it. As for carving, well I picked that up so that I could carve knitting needles out of the bones of interesting things I've killed," explained Meg.
That... ok that's interesting and pretty cool but I think that's the most 'Hunter Clan' thing that I've ever heard. Like is it just me or what?
[No, I agree with you. Hunter's eyes are practically sparkling after that admission. I feel as though Meg, despite her distaste for the clan, is one of the better examples of their policies. Which is weird.]
"Oh, would you get along with my sister Aslena? She does fashion stuff," asked Kamiko.
"Probably not. I don't really DO fashion with my knitting. Remember I picked it up to annoy my parents so I trend more towards making fluffy blankets and little socks and stuff for the kids I see around the clan compound.
Plenty of parents don't give them the care they deserve and if a nice blanket can help them on cold nights, then I'm honoured," said Meg easily as she held up the bowl of food so Hunter could get something to eat with her arms bound, not noticing that the shining eyes of Hunter had only increased.
"Right... and why the carving then?" asked Lily. "Surely, you can find good needles in shops?"
"Well at first it was because I wanted to make them my main weapon but the clan wasn't willing to allow it. This was back before I was even Rank 1 you see. So to get started on knitting I needed to make my own needles and then, once I got better with them I needed to make better needles because well... they break. They're knitting needles after all.
"I didn't realise that bones could be that colour..." mumbled Lily.
Meg shrugged, "Yeah most bones are the same boring white. I've still got hundreds of white needles lying around and I keep making more to stay in practice. It's the special ones like these two sets that I take extra care with and keep around. Even when they get retired from active use, I'll be keeping these around in a nice display case,"
"Do you keep many around?" asked Hunter.
Meg blinked and looked over at Hunter surprised before nodding. "Yes, I've got a few. My first 'proper' attempt at needles though they're broken. I could repair them, or get someone else to... but I think it tells a better story keeping them broken. Um... there's that one set I managed to use to kill a drake when I was still Rank 1.
"They weren't anything fancy but the drake was Rank 3 and I really shouldn't have been fighting it at the time, but I did and I won. They were just a normal pair of needles and not my main set but the blood had a weird iridescent sheen on it and it looks nice enough so I elevated them to 'interesting' status.
"Hmmm... what else. There's the few other ones that are fancy colours but aren't necessarily that strong. I keep them all in the one case mostly to show off my artistic talents instead of my hunting ones. Hmm... there is that one I actually made out of plant matter. Had to take down an alraune and while it didn't have many bones it had a spine... sort of?
Made that into a set of needles and I actually used them to knit for a good while. Very smooth even without varnish... what else...
"There was that one failed attempt at making a metal needle. Destroyed a golem, not one that can think of course, and wanted to make something out of its metal skeleton but it was a disaster. Kept the results around but never used it... hmm... there was that one time I tried to make a set of needles out of this criminal I hunted down.
He was executed after I caught him and they gave me his corpse as part of payment. Initially I wanted to turn them down... but I was like 'needles?' and so I took it in the end.
"Made for a horrible set of needles though. The bones weren't properly solid, or at least, not in the way that I'd want to make sewing needles out of because they had a bunch of little pockets. Carving them was a pain and while I managed it in the end... not particularly usable. Hhmm... hmm... a lot of my collection has the same story really. Went there, killed that, turned it into needles.
"Not all of them turned out great. I needed quite a lot of practice to get good at carving and because I'm carving bone there's things that just aren't taken into account by woodworkers. Obviously carving bone is a niche and I had to work out a bunch of specific tricks just for myself,"
"Have you ever considered putting that information into a book?" asked Lily.
"Not really... but perhaps it would be a good side project?" hummed Meg.