nagpurpolice Chapter 1721 Starry Night
Chapter 1721 Starry Night
--- Kat ---
Kat gazed up the stars with melancholic thoughts. The night sky was vast, pretty, and somewhat calming but it wasn't really helping her at the moment. She'd climbed up on the roof after tossing and turning a bit too much. Sure it creaked more than a little under the additional weight her demon physique came with... but that just meant she had to lay over the top of a support beam.
When she heard the door open below her Kat didn't so much as twitch, she could tell who was coming, and soon Lily had pulled herself up to Kat with her shadow hands. Not quite willing to trust her tiny wings for the job here on earth. Kat still struggled to fly sometimes and Lily was not willing to risk injury for it.
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Kat waited until Lily had transformed back into her human form and rested against her before pulling Lily against her with her tail. "Why are you up here?" asked Lily already half knowing the answer. Kat's thoughts weren't exactly quiet but she still felt like it needed to be asked.
"I was tossing about in bed and didn't want to wake you," answered Kat.
"So you came to mope outside?" asked Lily.
"I guess I did," stated Kat. Silence ensued for a few moments after that. Kat could already feel her mood improving just because Lily had come out to find her. Kat hadn't intended for this, and she wasn't sure that she liked the fact she couldn't properly brood about things... but Lily being near did help. It was... nice.
"What's the problem?" asked Lily.
"Oh... if it was just one thing. I mean, it's one main thing but... I guess I'm just not happy with how things went down with Pebbles and his sort of town you know? Like I get it. He wanted us gone and we could take the crystal. Even if I might have wanted to stay and help in that moment he really didn't want us sticking around and adding to the stress... but well... there was Ronldo and what he did with Kamiko as well... and the fact we didn't really help Strdl but like...
"I dunno. It's a mess. We didn't really make it better or worse in the end because we saved the town... but like... we didn't really fix anything at all. Sure our missions usually aren't about fixing things, not really, they're about dealing with problems, or one problem in particular. We did that... just... I dunno. The world is saved but I feel like we sort of failed you know?" explained Kat. Completely shoving the realisations Sylvie's actions had inspired. Nope, none of that at all.
"Right but... say we're called up to save the world again for more tokens... would we really say no?" retorted Lily.
"I... well no I wouldn't but... what are the chances? Favour tokens are rare..." started Kat.
Lily cut her off with, "But Hunter's whole clan has quite a lot. Sure it usually goes to the best of the best within the clan but they can collect them and save them up. Sure they're rare but for Hunter it's probably quite normal to have a good stockpile of them around, and she doesn't mind having to give them away to the clan either... she's got to have dozens, or well at least the one dozen,"
"I guess that's the question then? How often are we gonna get called out for it..." said Kat with a sigh.
"So not thinking of finding a different job? Moving away from Contracts?" asked Lily even though she knew the answer.
"Of course not," Kat said with a sigh and a slight not of agreement. "You know as well as I do that... well they're an adventure. Normally one that's pretty safe and... 'sanitary' I suppose we can say. They're something for us to do, and have a unique and interesting time with for the most part. I might get bored one day... but that day isn't today.
"I suppose I just worry where that sort of attitude will leave us. I love helping people... but despite tech uplift really not being my thing I almost feel like we're going to get conned into it one day. I mean... I don't know much hub tech but even stuff on earth is better then a lot of the places we go to. Though magic does smooth out the rough edges...
"Yeah... I guess... I don't know. Do you think these adventures will ever stop being interesting? Fun seems like the wrong word, I mean we just got done with something that certainly wasn't fun... and I... I dunno. Maybe the reason If eel so off about this is that I know I'd do it again and for all of my current complaining I don't think I'd be willing to make any choices differently. Packing better perhaps, and finding some way to deal with the drake...
"But like even with that in mind. If we didn't, need to go looking for the various pieces we wouldn't have helped everyone in the forest get out of that facility... well not everyone, everyone but you know what I mean? And the towns... well... even if we didn't really help anyone now more people know I guess? I'm still really not sure about that whole thing"
Lily thought it over for a few moments before replying. "I think we'll be fine Kat. Right now... it's a bit of a rough patch sure... but we saved the world. We got to see things we'd never seen before, and now that we know the sort of mess that politics can make of things we can be more prepared for the future! We can work it out between us. So that if push comes to shove... we know when to shove back,"
"Thanks Lily," said Kat as she pressed a soft kiss against Lily's lips and hugged her tightly. She was feeling well enough to sleep now... so why bother moving? It was a nice night and she certainly wasn't cold. Hopefully the roof didn't give way if she rolled over or something...