nagpurpolice Chapter 1719 Back at Last
Chapter 1719 Back at Last
--- Kat ---
When Kat and Lily finally returned home it was already dark. Everyone except Callisto was in bed and the maid could be heard downstairs cooking for some reason. Shrugging it off Kat looked over to Lily and asked, "Do you want to head back home?"
Kat was busy putting the various carvings nicknacks off into the corner. They’d manage to carry a few things they wanted to keep between each other. They were mostly things that they’d picked up along the way but they’d also grabbed the tent and sleeping bags as well as some of the gems for currency. The last one was because of Nira’s prompting and not because they’d thought of it themselves.
"No way I’m so tired," yawned Lily as she deposited the things she was carrying alongside Kat’s pile. "I’m just gonna transform and snuggle up here with you,"
"Should we let Callisto know we’re here?" asked Kat as she fought back the urge to yawn as well. She’d... not had the best sleep schedule in recent days and it had turned into one thing after the other. Even if part of that was her own fault. Staying up late for that date was definitely worth it but it meant she’d not had a proper sleep recently. She’d tried to sleep after everything had been finished up with Pebbles...
But Kat hadn’t been able to relax and Meg’s jumpscare hadn’t exactly helped things. So now that Kat was feeling safe and comfortable she knew she’d get some proper sleep... and that might mean sleeping through the morning. Lily hadn’t answered yet but Kat had already decided. "I’m gonna say hello and then pass out,"
"Alright, I’ll just wait here for you," mumbled Lily as she collapsed onto the bed and transformed in the process leaving a tiny kitty that took up almost no space on the bed. Kat carefully made her way downstairs and waited for Callisto to step away from the stove to wave.
Callisto jumped slightly, but smiled back. "Hello Kat, I see you and Lily have returned. I am just practicing some new recipes I am not entirely confident in sharing with everyone at the moment. Did you need something? Some food perhaps?"
"No just letting you know we were back and sort of tired. I mean... we’ll probably be up for breakfast but maybe not?" said Kat.
Kat made her way downstairs and as soon as a certain someone could hear her on the stairs she dropped her cutlery onto the table and sprinted over. Kat had to keep Sylvie from tripping over on the first step and they were soon hugging each other. "Kat are you really back?" asked Sylvie.
Kat winced at the question. Apparently, it had felt like quite a while for Sylvie. "Eh... er..." Kat didn’t know what to say in the face of such enthusiasm... nor that particular phrasing on Sylvie’s behalf. Clearly Sylvie had been thinking about this moment for some time now and perhaps even dreamed of it once or twice.
*Why though? I was fairly consistent with my messages back right?* Even as she said it Kat couldn’t help but wince. Sure she was consistent at the beginning but updates quickly became ’more travelling not much happened’ and a lot of the things that DID happen were glossed over. She’d also not sent anything back since the whole fiasco with Pebbles now that she was thinking about it. Just a quick ’think we got the bad guy’ and then two days of silence.
"I guess I am," mumbled Kat after a few seconds of silence. "Sorry it took so long. Things got complicated. I mean, I already mentioned that but... yeah things got complicated,"
"Mhmh," agreed Sylvie without letting go of Kat to properly articulate things. Letting out a quiet sigh Kat bent down and lifted Sylvie up to move over to the table. Kat took Sylvie’s old seat and let Sylvie sit on her legs. Kat’s hope was that this would encourage Sylvie to finish her breakfast so that there was no risk of Sylvie either missing school or going hungry but it didn’t work. Sylvie simply remained hugging Kat and facing away from the table even though she was now getting poked in the cheek by one of Lily’s horns.
Deciding to ease the tension in the room Vivian said, "Welcome back Kat. It’s good to see you returned safe and sound and it’s adorable that I can see Lily hiding in your chest. You both must’ve been really tired after saving a whole world. Why not tell us a bit about it before we have to get moving?"
Kat smiled at the offer, "Well it started out pretty normally. We spent a lot of time travelling and sharing stories between each other. Hunter, whose name is actually 23HX443 because of... complicated reasons... er... well she told us a lot of stories about herself. I shared some as well of course and so did Kamiko but it was mostly just everyone getting used to each other.
"We had a few more noteworthy interactions passing through a few towns but if we’re just keeping the retelling short? I can probably skip over them all. They didn’t matter too much in the grand scheme of things even if it gave us more opportunities to get used to working together.
"This continued till we started getting hit by waves of monsters. The drake we were hunting was disturbing the environment a bunch. So we had to fight our way to the last town and it was a slog. Once we got there we enlisted the help of this old man named Bower and headed off into the woods. They were full of mist that caused all sorts of strange things to happen but mostly it contained a bunch of pocket dimensions. Some were watery caves, and another was a world made of glass..." Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire@@@@