A loud yawn broke through the gentle chirping of the small birds as they hunt the little bugs that had come out to gather food or hunt one another. Ellie crawls out of the hollow beneath the tree with a frown looking around for the little lizard. Spotting him out of reach on a branch in the tree Ellies frown deepens. "So the branch is a better place to sleep then with me huh?" Looking down at her I frown inwardly and form cloud text before her "I don't care if you need to sleep it's mean to not let me cuddle with you!" Lady I am still quite small and fragile aren't you worried you'll roll over in your sleep and crush me? Not to mention you sleep in that sleep bag/backpack every night and I need to train. With an inward sigh I write another message for her. With a confused expression she looks back at me. "What do you mean train?" with a sigh I explain how creating then consuming my own mist allows me to empower my body. "Oh so that's why you always breathing in and out mist? Also why you keep growing?" Nodding I assume the conversation is done but she continues "So why can't you do that in the sleeping bag?" Sighing I explain the nature of fur and how fur can't survive long periods of time in environments with high humidity and that regardless of the elemental nature or creation of my mist it still acts as a kind of water vapor which raises the humidity. After hearing all of that Ellie frowns again while feeling the inside of her hood and remembers how I never allow my mist to touch the fur keeping the cloud of mist I used to cover her face from touching it at all. "Why can't you just control it to keep it away from the fur like you do with my hood when you block off my face?" sigh she really is reaching for anything here. With some effort I begin to explain how it's not ideal for my training and would slow my growth if I'm having to focus on where my mist goes. Not to mention that she would be in the space that the mist would be constantly at so her skin would begin to prune by the time she woke and she would be breathing in massive quantities of mist as she sleeps so I'd be distracted by yet another thing which would be the feeling of part of me being swallowed and slowly absorbed stolen from me. Nodding she sits down on a nearby fallen tree as she seems to be thinking about something. Well whatever her next suggestion might be even worse... Maybe she's going as far as to consider not sleeping in the sleeping bag I made for her just so she can cuddle me... Sighing inwardly I continue to check up with my scouts, sadly these blind scouts can't give me reports but I can still use them like little fingers feeling up the surface of earth-chan's body.
Luckily, before Ellie can find the next point of question to her interrogation Addie had crawled out of the hollow looked at Ellie who seemed deep in thought then towards me sitting up in the tree. "Ha, you look like you've been teaching Ellie stuff. Is that how she became a pervert?" Hearing the question broke Ellie out of her thoughts "Hey!!! At least let me be the one teaching him. I am the one who raised him since an egg after all!" Hearing her protest Addie looked back to her sitting there below me like a good little student then up to me looking out at her calmly. "Your placement seems wrong if that's true." As Ellie was about to respond I put up some cloud text before her explaining how she shouldn't argue with people so much younger then her as it makes her look very childish.
<--- It was at this point that I stopped to check the worlds in my chapter so far realizing it was 666 I had to make a big deal of that. --->
With a red embarrassed face Ellie nods and lowers her head as Addie laughed and commented again "Ooh teacher yelled at your, Ahh..." Addie turned to me staring as she got swat in the butt with a cloud claw and Ellie burst out laughing. With a leap extending my wings to direct myself and the mist to slow my fall slightly I gently landed on Ellies shoulder as she laughed and swat her in the face with my wing and wrote out that it was time to go. Rubbing her face annoyed Ellie got up and turned to Addie. "It seems he wants to keep going and that there's no prey near here to hunt for breakfast so we should go find something to eat." Hearing the comment and seeing that Ellie had been shut up and punished for laughing Addie's angry stare faded as she agreed. "It's good not to stay put here anymore then we need anyways I was going to suggest we keep going immediately either way. Just because we mislead the necromancer doesn't mean we won't see more undead pursuers it may simply send some undead down this road as well. Nodding along as she spoke I fix the strap of the backpack on Ellies shoulder as she began to walk following Addie. Seeing them walking again I don't bother with making cloud paths as we don't need to rush but finding some breakfast for the girls might be useful so I lay down and meditate as I focus on my mist dome that moves along with the girls as they walk searching along the main road for prey. Along the way Ellie and Addie begin to talk again but I tune it out as it's not important or directed at me. It would seem Addie is in a better mood while not traveling she is still wrapped up tight but she is talking a lot more then she did before in the fort. Maybe she just doesn't like the people of this kingdom?