"Now seems to be a good time." I mumbled to myself as I snuck away from the music-filled dorm. One filled with laughter and joy so I could wander off into solitude and anxiety. All so I could see someone important again, someone I have been meaning to see for a long time. Yet, even as I walked, jumped and ran there in various orders...
I just could not shake off certain feelings about how it might play out. I have not seen Vapooliar since I said I would deal with Rose back at her flower... And she has not seen me since she cut me in half. From shoulder to hip in what must have been one clean cut. And as I thought on that, my hand went across my exposed scar.
I had not put on the bandages or mask again, but, I had put on my cloak and hat again. Just so I could potentially hide my form from her when I finally saw her again. She hated my left arm being the way it was, it was clear she would hate my body being like it too. Not even my voice was safe as I just could not stop the chitters.
"Undwote stay away," I started off with a stutter in my voice before moving on to a prayer I hadn't used in a while, "Loyal Pack of Seven I tell you: begone! God of Death, I tell you to remember your other calling, that of Friendship..." I began to say before remembering it would not work here. It was one used for someone else dying. Not for yourself.
Either way, I guess it didn't matter as now I was here at the place I was asked to be. So far away from the Academy named after this ruin I was now at. I was surprised I even got out here without issue. I just kept expecting airships to run me down!
But, I was just too nervous now, so I turned to move away before I heard footsteps. Moving back in fright as a shadowy figure moved through the darkness of the ruins. A soft green glow about them that went on to go away as they stepped out into the moon's light. And I looked on with widened eyes at what I saw.
A woman with tanned skin and short, brown hair with a green tint to it with her eyes being the same. Her figure was slender and gifted yet it was still very clearly defined with refined muscle. It was the body of a warrior and the way the air changed around them made it clear. My magic training having made me much more sensitive to her aura and external-magic.
The magic that saved me so many times... That of Vapooliar, my friend.
"So it is true." she quietly said with hurt in her voice before she stepped away slightly.
"Vapooliar... You don't have to worry, this isn't a trick, it is me! I am Nin Urtuan! We were in a camp together for a week or so with a tailed-woman called Vadei and a pair of slavers! They were furry and had spines all over their backs and..." I quietly said at first before I began to pick up the tone and speed along. Listing off as many details as I could to get her to listen before she raised her hand and silenced me.
"I don't need you to tell me that, I never doubted it for a moment when I saw your face."
"My face?" I repeated in confusion... What about my face...?
"Your eyes, those are yours. I could never forget those eyes. Nor can I forget the face they are now on." she said to me as her eyes focused intensely on my chest and its long scar.
"I see..." I respond with while slimming down my posture. Nervously rubbing my claws together before I then watched the simply dressed woman strip down. Her body standing proudly under the moon despite its exposure. And as I did not know how to react, I turned away, trying to hide that view from my sight.
"And now I know it is not an osibindah in that head of yours." she said as she turned around and showed me her back. One of her hands eagerly moving about as if it wanted to grasp something. Was... Was she waiting for me to give her an excuse to cut me in two again!?
"Is there a reason you wanted to see me after all this time...? Why now? If you saw my name or heard it why didn't you come sooner!?"
"I was not ready to, that is all I will say."
"Okay..."
"And I fear this may also be the last time I will ever speak to you like this." she then went on to say. Something that made me flinch and regain some confidence in my movements. At least, until I saw a more aggressive posture from her...
"But why...? You're my friend! I am your friend!"
"A friend I was forced to kill because he turned into a monster." and then it happened, tears began to form.
"I'm not..." I tearfully mumbled while stepping back slightly.
"Yes, you are. You are a monster here to make a mockery of me. I don't know how you are back or if you even really are Nin. But he is dead, I killed him. I had to..." she said coldly at first before she too began to break down.
"I'm not here to do any of that... I just want to see my friend..." I tell her with the chitters in my voice sounding so much louder now. Her magic ever more imposing and scary.
"Goodbye... Nin." she then suddenly blurted out before she shot off into the sky with a boom. The force having brought me down to the ground as I was not prepared. And as I lay there, on the grass, watching her magic trail get smaller and smaller. I just cried, I just laid there and cried without stopping even as my claws tried to block my eyes.