"Vadei! Come on! I said I was sorry!" Einervaene said to the aggravated woman ahead of us. A woman whose head was going down while her shoulders were squared up. She was very clearly annoyed and I found it amusing. But, one thing would be preferable...
"Can you not try and make up with her while I am carrying you? I don't want to be caught in the middle!" I told my saviour as I adjusted my grip on her. Slightly wondering if I still needed to carry her at all as it had already been quite a while. And, thankfully, we were both letting our magic intermingle so we could heal up. Now if only it worked a little better.
"Both of you, be quiet!" Vadei then barked out as she suddenly turned around. Her intense glare mainly being focused on Einervaene, but still going to me on occasion. And the roll of my eyes only made her focus on me more.
"She's the one who forgot about you, don't start getting angry at me." I told her with a slight curve to the edge of my mouth.
"I didn't forget about her!" Einervaene clarified with a huff from above. My chest briefly rose as I let out some air with a smile becoming more prominent.
"Then why did I have to find you!?" Vadei accused her as she also pointed a sharp nail just before her face. Or, well, as close to her face as she could get. It felt nice to be the tall one again. It was very nice indeed.
"You didn't have to! We were going to go look for you!" Einervaene claimed.
"No, you woke up, woke me up and then eagerly tried to take me back to the airship." I lied. Mixing my chitters with gentle laughter as I was then attacked by my passenger.
"No, I didn't!" Einervaene nearly shouted in my ear just before she stopped herself. She even stopped herself from using her magic which left me sightly annoyed.
"We need to talk about your anger issues when we get back." I tutted out before both of the women I was with stared at me.
"My anger issues!?"
"Her anger issues!?"
I snickered some more after that and watched as they both stropped off. Well, Vadei did, Einervaene just refused to look at me for a little bit. But, then, once she calmed down, she went back to what she had been doing prior. That being using my head as a cushion of some kind, couldn't imagine it was particularly comfortable.
"So how much longer anyway?" I then asked Vadei once she too had calmed down a little. And I really meant a little as she was still holding on to what had happened. Her supposed abandonment at the hands of Einervaene. But, I could not say I held her to a strict standard.
She had just saved my life and been badly hurt in the process. So, wasn't it only natural a few things escaped her thoughts as a result? Now if only that wasn't the only thing to escape her thoughts. If only one other thing did too...
"I don't know." Vadei eventually mumbled out with a quick shrug.
"Fair..." I let out slowly before I looked down at her hand, "Need some help with that?" I then asked while I pointed at her hand. A hand she tried to hide before she shook her head.
"Just let your magic flow out some more, it's not like she can stop you." Einervaene then mumbled out near my ear. A slight shrug came from me before I began to do just that. Only to then watch with some bemusement as Vadei got annoyed by this. She was annoyed I was healing her hand and getting rid of her stinging scratches.
"I just told you I did not want your help!"
"I wasn't told anything." I corrected her with before she then jabbed my snout. A slight glow on her nails when she did that. I suppose this was going to be her way of hurting me when I annoyed her? She would need to do better than that!
"Besides... How are your injuries anyway? You'd think we would not have someone putting strain on them!" Vadei began to ask me before her tone rose as she faced upwards.
"They're getting better, slowly, it will probably take a few days to be fully healed, though. Thankfully, after I went to sleep, most of the pain became more of a dull throb." I explained to Vadei, and, by circumstance, Einervaene too. And when I said sleep, I meant when I actually went to sleep, not my fake snoring...
"If you say so..." she began to slowly say as her eyes focused on my burns. A shiver noticeably going across her as her furry parts suddenly stuck up.
"I know it looks bad, but it is not that bad." I told her with what I could muster up for a shrug.
"I just watched puss or blood come out of a burn on your leg, so forgive me if I doubt it a little!" she responded back with while gagging.
"Be glad you only saw it and you aren't the one bleeding and pussing." I said to her while I looked down at my legs. Feeling slightly disturbed by the injuries as I looked at them. But, I calmed down as well. Because, if you focused, you could just barely see my body healing up.
"Indeed I am, but, I am more glad you are back."
"So I have gathered."
"I am being serious, you know? Nin. Now that you are back my chances to save my family are up once again."
"You only saved me because of that? Harsh."
"I didn't...!" Vadei began to say before she went quiet. A slight redness going to her face as she got frustrated.
"Oh, jolly, another one." I said in response to seeing that, moving Einervaene about slightly as I did so. A light tap hitting my head just after once she caught on to its meaning.
"It might have to be delayed, though." Einervaene began to say as her head rose off of mine.
"Why?" I asked.
"Airship was damaged," Einervaene then clarified, "so unless we can repair it on the move."
"I am fine with waiting, I'm sure Nin is too."
"No, I am so impatient I will rather see the airship break down on the way." I joked with a flat tone and expression.
"But, yes, when the wyverns attacked. At least until we got that magic barrier up, the airship did receive quite a beating." the woman on me explained.
"How badly?"
"Most of it just seems to be fine slices in the plating and decking, but, the side in which you were taken down from. That will take some time, and, possibly, it will have to be ignored."
"Ignored? We don't even have an idea how the airship works! We can't just leave it unattended, it might have been gutted for all we know!" I began to say as my instincts flared up at the mere mention of ignoring the damage. I did not like how that sounded at all.
"No, we do have an idea, actually." Vadei then said with a prideful smile as she stood up straighter.
"Why...?" I let out with some disbelief, slightly discouraged by Vadei's confidence. She was not an engineer, mechanic or anything even tangentially related to machine knowledge... Let alone magical machine knowledge!
She then waved her much less injured hand in front of us, "Back during the attack, some things happened and now I have access to information about the airship!" she explained.
I slowly nodded as I took it in, "I guess that explains why I felt iffy about seeing that machine..." I began to say as I thought on my first time in the captain's chair. When that strange device came out of the ground in front of it. That little open space inside of it so openly displayed...
"So, yeah, I am now the expert on our transportation so leave it to me!" Vadei declared before puffing out her chest. That grin of hers baring out all of her teeth while her knuckles went on to her hips. Fingers, palms and elbows going outwards.
"Alright then, Expert, I will leave it in your hands once we get back there. Assuming we get back there in any reasonable time frame." I say somewhat sarcastically at first before I looked up at the sky. Paying careful attention to how the orbital-halo had already gone past the centre of the sky. It was already noon and we did not seem like we would get any closer...
"Don't worry about time to travel, Nin. Give me some time to rest and I can use my magic to get us the rest of the way." Einervaene said to me as she rubbed my scalp. Her attempt to reassure me fell flat, however.
"Would it not be ideal for you to not be using your magic to heal me, then?" I asked her as I looked up at her. A nod of acknowledgement coming from Vadei before she began to take weight off of her feet.
"I just want to enjoy at least one day of travelling." she beamed out with a smile before she tightened her hug. Her breasts enveloping the back of my head and neck as she did so. At least, until I came into contact with the copper frame in and on her clothes.
"I want to get back to a bed..." Vadei then mumbles bitterly as she realises she was at Einervaene's mercy. Her desire to spend time with me would ultimately dictate our travel time it would seem.
"I think it can be said we both agree on that." I also mumbled while Einervaene happily hummed away. My eyes once again focusing on Vadei as she took weight off of her feet. And then, I just decided to hoist her up as maybe it could entertain us a little.
"Hey!" she exclaimed as I did so, but she did nothing else beyond that. Einervaene, however, did make her grip firmer and I guess protective?
"Put her down, she can walk fine!" Einervaene said as she tried to force Vadei out of my grip.
"I'd say you can walk fine now." I told her as I suddenly let go of her leg. Letting her slip down slightly as a result.
"No! Fine!" she let out as she squirmed. My grip apparently being that important to her maintaining a lazy lifestyle on my back.
"So do you want to be put down?" I then asked the oxfuine in my other arm. Already guessing her answer when she curled her tail up and hugged it.
"No." she said just before leaning against my chest like a baby. Her body all curled up and compact as she rode the Nin Express.
"That settles that, then." I said to Einervaene who just moaned out her displeasure. A small smirk on my face as she did that.
"It scares me a little how large you are, Nin." Vadei then commented from behind her tail as she stared up at my chin. And I guess she was right to some degree. She had pretty much compacted herself so that she could fit into a single arm.
"And I quite enjoy the size difference, that Salahma was weird to stand near." I said back to her.
"Salahma? That wyvern had a name?" Einervaene then questioned.
"She did, and that was it. She also had a child but they did not have a name. But, hopefully, they find Undwote soon." I began to say before I slowed down while thinking of the child. That poor thing was torn apart by feral beasts just because I was near it...
"The child, I hope?" Einervaene asked as her head moved down near my left eye.
"Yeah, I'm on about the child. Poor thing was killed by her because apparently, I would have given her better children." I explained with the two women I was carrying gasping quietly.
"I like how it was an unequivocal good that I killed her then..." Einervaene commented as she rested her head once again. A slight nod came from me before I began to mentally ask Undwote for a favour. Assuming he could hear me, and that favour was a very simple one...
Just let that child enjoy itself, just for a bit...