The cages were stacked in front of her shop doors, covered by dark cloth, hiding the Beasts beneath, they were silent and not a single cage so much as rattled.
Akirai rose a brow, why were they so quiet, weren´t Beasts supposed to be violent if not tamed?
She shrugged and counted the cages, three total... wasn´t she supposed to get five? Where was the rest?
The E-mail had clearly stated how many Beasts she was supposed to get and when, seems like the people from before had managed to fail at both, Akirai had a feeling she just got scammed by those assholes... she didn´t get their license plate now did she?
Akirai hissed and resolved to catch her own Beasts if the people and company were so unreliable.
She felt her eye twitch again as she already suspected the worst as she gripped the coars cloth, she had all intention of pulling it down, but decided against it as her fingers loosend.
Let´s bring them in first she thought and tried hefting one of the cages up, she used to much force and stumbled backwards a bit before regaining balance.
Why was the cage so damn light?
She had a bad feeling, sighed and willed the door to open and stepped inside, setting the cage down in the middle of the room and left to heft the other two in, neither of those was very heavy.
She didn´t like this one bit.
She stepped inside just as Sylvies voice chimed in.
"You now have a total of three Beasts inside your Store, one (1) is Healthy, (2) are sick, please heal them before deciding what to do with them."
"Three? Did you not count Lynna, Sylvie?" Akirai asked, already knowing the answer.
"No Host, Lynna was included in my count." She replied and Akirai felt like cursing these bastards down to hell, they can´t give her healthy Beasts, no, they even have the gall to bring her a dead one.
And that´s why Akirai can´t stand most people, at all.
She pulled the cloth off of the cages, already expecting to find either a dead or sick Beast in them so the sight that greeted her was unsuprising, she clicked her tung, inside the cage she uncovered lay a long dead rat, a hole going through its stomach, it had been brown in colour once.
She would ask Sylvie what to do with that later as she went on, the next cage was uncovered as a snake was revealed, it looked like a boomslang, just maybe twice as big as the average earth boomslang, it looked sick although no wounds showed on its body... from the outside.
The third revealed an owl with a wing that was mangled and twisted in an odd angel, blood covered the body and Akirai wondered if those asshles had just bagged her delivery and caught these things to replace the original ones.
She rubbed the brinch of her nose, feeling the headache seep in, she hated people like that, did she already say that?
"How do I even begin to heal them Sylvie? I´m a lot, but I´m no doctor." She said, and it was true, she could treat some wounds on animals and humans, but 1. theses were Beasts and 2. she didn´t even know where to begin with the snake, and the owls wing was far out of her league.
"Host can put them in the Beast nursery, although the Silver clawed owl might need further assistance." Sylvie informed her and Akirai sighed, already fed up with humanity once again, she picked the snake up with her Domain and brought it down to the nursery, letting it rest in the stable and told Sylvie to activate it for the day.
"Sylvie? Balance." She requested as she contemplated as to what to do with this owl.
"Host has a balance of 57 Points."
"Great, upgrade another nursery to level 1 and activate it then." Akirai said, already bringing the cage along.
"As you wish Host, 11 Points have been deducted, 46 Points remaining."
A light lit up beside the second stable and Akirai stepped inside, it was identical to the second one.
"Alright, thank you Sylvie, Status of these two please?" Akirai muttered, itching to go back to bed.
[Brown scaled Snake]
[Level 2
[No-grade
[Female
[Status : Sick (???) (tired)]
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[Silver clawed Owl]
[Level 1
[No-grade
[Female
[Status : Wounded (Left wing mangled)]
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Akirai really wanted to go back to sleep now, this was just one giant headache for her.
"Does Host wish to make Beast feed from the scavenged plants?" Sylvie asked, distracting Akirai from her pounding headache that might as well be a migrane.
"Why?" She asked, annoyed at the situation.
"Host can make feed that accelerate the healing factor, or make them stronger." Sylvie informed her stressed Host.
"???" Akirai had question marks above her head, she was sure of it, "What?"
"..." Akirai was speechless yet again because of Sylvie, they were making this a habit, huh?
"---Forget it, you do that, I can´t cook to save my live." Akirai said, done with this day that was just getting worse and worse by the minute.
"You do that, I´m decorating the shop with the plants I brought back, where are they anyway?" She asked.
"In the basement, ready to be taken." Sylvie answered, seeming occupied with something, making the food maybe?
"Basement? Right, the shop did have one." She mused and made her way downstairs, took the door in the right corner and went down a pair of stairs that she had ignored before, it was like walking into a garden, plants of all kinds everywhere.
"Do I have dirt suitable for those things?" She really hadn´t thought this through.
"Left corner." Sylvie chimed in and Akirai nodded and turned to look... yup- dirt.
For now, the pots provided by Sylvie would have to do... and maybe an overturned shelf.
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Beast-System o241- name : Sylvie had just finished mixing the Beast feed on request of her Host as she looked for her Host who stood...
Where did the jungle come from?
They were still in the domain, but Sylvie didn´t remember there being so many plants anywhere, and especially not in the shop area.
... proccesing...
Ah... Host was done renovating using the plants brought back from the Realm.
The Host had even used one of the standing shelves as a pot to plant plants in, the dirt filling up the boxes, now used as DYI pots, of the overturned shelf.
Sylvie wasn´t even joking, there were plants everywhere, and the display window was covered by a sheet of cloth, likely to accomadate the plants need for dim light.
Sylvie did a quick scan and noted that the plants had all they needed to grow and not wilt, seems like the Host had fun, and talent for plants as some needed darker corners to thrive in and others needed wetter soil, they had all they needed, what a suprise.
"The Beast feed is done Host, would you like to take a look?" She asked her Host, ignoring the damn jungle that was the shopping area, it looked nice at least.