I crunch on a bag of chips, Effie sighs staring at her empty plate with a almost remorseful look.
"Can't we just have a few days off before getting to work? The world won't collapse if we take a small vacation… uh, I think…"
Sunny shakes his head, i wonder if he can attack someone with his tail? Can he use his horns to ram someone? How does having 4 arms work? I have questions and they all seem very awkward.
"If we do, Noctis might grow… impatient. I promised to give him an answer after I find my friends. He has already been gracious enough to abstain from killing me, putting my soul into a doll... or a mop... and ordering it to give him the knives. So, we better not linger."
Hah sunny turning into a mop. Wait that explains the sailor dolls. That's a little scary, he's a saint so I'm not shocked.
"An answer? To what question?"
Sunny's weird new face twists into a very not so nice expression
"...Right. All of you must have already understood what the conflict of this Nightmare is. Hope, the Demon of Desire… Noctis is preparing to rebel against the will of the gods, kill the other immortals, and break her chains. And we have to either help him achieve his goal, or somehow prevent Hope from escaping. The former seems insane, but the latter… the latter seems impossible, considering that she is already able to influence the world from inside her prison."
He stays silent, no matter the body his tells are the same. He's nervous and a little scared
"Each of the immortals represents — or rather, embodies — one of Hope's eternal shackles. They can only be destroyed by one of the Sun God's knives. I am in possession of two of the remaining four knives, Noctis knows where the third is being kept, and the fourth one is in the hands of Solvane, who will freely offer it to anyone who can grant her a worthy death. So… while his plan means going to war against three ancient Saints, it is not entirely crazy. Just… mostly so."
He gets himself some tea, sunny likes tea?
"So, we need to decide whether we want to help him in this craziness, or not."
Kai looks between us with in a nervous one edge way, he looks at sunny who nods. Effie stands at the door?
"So uh...■■■■ you... you aren't a spy right?"
I keep munching
"No? Who the hell would i even be a spy for?"
Kai slumps down clearly released from some deep pit of paranoia. I slowly turn to sunny, who turns his head away, then at Effie, who fake kicks a rock.
"You. You fuckers thought i was a spy."
I slowly stand up
"And why is that. Sun, Sunless, did you bring it up?"
He stays silent for a little
"Yes?"
I walk over and I slap the back of his head hard
"Ow what the hell!?"
"I am not a damn spy! I am probably one of the most loyal of all of us. Is that why you gave me that drop of blood? Because if I was a spy for, what the great clans, then I'd save it to give it to them?"
He looks down messing with his hands in not a small amount of shame
"Yes it was and yes that's what I thought would happen. What did you do with it anyways?"
I summon singer
"Talk to the echo about it since you can't trust me!"
I storm out of the room in anger. A spy?! Those fuckers thought I was a spy.
I walk around, I am not going back, singer asked to explain it and you know what, she can. A pleasant voice rings out
"hello, you're one of sunless's little friends"
I sit down hard
"Sorry I don't remember your name. Not personal. But yes I am, if they would only trust me."
He sits down next to me
"I heard that you don't tend to be able to remember names very well so I won't take it personally. And don't trust you, well I"
He glances at the deer skull over my head
"Can not possibly see why"
I look at him quite a bit annoyed
"Really."
He beams like he's proud of himself
"Really really"
I sigh deeply
"Well i don't have much to do and I've made it a hobby, so can I draw you?"
3rd person pov
Kai sits with his back straight. Athena goes to eat but thinks better of it. Sunless keeps his focus on her. Cassie keeps her head turned towards the woman. A beautiful woman in a frozen dress her skin a blue that could put most at edge gently takes a simple tea cup and a biscuit. Words appear in the air made of ice
"What do you all want to know?" Sunless puts two of his arms on the table hard nearly breaking it
"What happened to the drop of shadow gods blood?!"
She takes a lazy drink lifting her veil
"Awakened Heat Seeker was unaware of what it did. So i asked for and and they gave it to me. From there I turn it into a chain and it fused with the one around my neck."
She lifts her neck showing the chain to them without any worry. Kai eyes widen and he goes to speak but then gets confused he blinks a few times like he's trying to find his train of thought
"She's telling the truth.... or my aspect didn't go off"
Sunless groans the noise that could only be made by a shadow spawn
"So its gone. That idiot didn't even get shadow gods lineage like I thought"
Athena turns her head towards him a look of jealousy
"How did you even get a drop of shadow gods blood!? And why would you give it to ■■■■!?"
Sunless raises his hands into the air in surrender
"I got it from my aspect legacy. I gave it to ■■■■ because when we got trapped in the Night Temple I thought they where going to attempt to fight Mordret and I needed to power them up, or they'd probably lose the fight"
Kai speaks up, his voice like nails on a chalkboard
"But why didn't you use it"
Sunless glances at kai
"Well i was going to but ■■■■ got home when I was going to. It reacted oddly, like it was trying to separate into two. I thought it was odd so I made up my mind to not use it."
Cassie nods
"Thats what you gave them when we were all locked in that room. That makes some sense"
1st person
"Okay so this one goes with your... skin... better but this one goes with the helmet more"
Saint N lifts one then the other
"Maybe instead of making the outfit fit the helmet we can make the helmet fit the outfit"
He snaps
"You genius"
He takes the helmet
"So why do you wear it anyways?"
My voice comes out of the helmet and he nearly drops it
"Well I'm made of ice, I'm not sure how you thought i spoke"
He lifts it looking the helmet over closer
"Well i never. I truly did not expect this to be the way you spoke. That explains why you wear it"
He puts it back on me
"Maybe we can decorate the antlers. Hanging things off of them shouldn't be too hard"
He nods
"Maybe we could also make those floating ice... things, into rings."
I clap
"you are a genius N a real fashion genius"