[Thanks chrono, may all coffee table corners find your little toes]
Sylas’ eyes shot open. But the first thing he saw wasn’t the sky, or the moon, nor was it even the ground — it was a pair of blue eyes that might as well have shone as bright as any one of them. And then his eyes swung down, a curious verb considering the breasts swaying in front of them.
Cassarae seemed to have woken up. Yet, instead of clothing herself, she was kneeling on top of him, staring down as though she was waiting for him to wake up to this specific moment.
She had to have been there for a while, just staring at him for who knew how long.
"Is this a new fetish of yours or something?" Sylas asked.
Cassarae blinked. "...Don’t you know how to speak in anything other than annoying?"
"You? Policing the way someone speaks?"
Cassarae reached a hand up and forced Sylas’ eyelids closed.
"You were better when you were asleep and not talking to my tits like they have my mouth on them."
"It wasn’t my choice to leave them hanging out like that."
Cassarae snorted, keeping Sylas’ eyes closed with one palm as she awkwardly put clothes on.
"Well now you don’t get to see anything at all, asshole."
...
In the far-off distance, Olivia and Nyssa sat with their legs dangling off the side of a building. They weren’t on the roof, but instead on a middle floor. It was just that the previous battle had cut it in half, likely due to one of Cassarae’s wild swings, so they were half on the verge of falling with the rest of the building, and half able to use the floor as a table for what little food they had managed to scrounge up.
Olivia reached over and patted Nyssa’s shoulder.
"It’s hard to make up a gap between you and a childhood friend. I’d advise you give up."
Nyssa frowned and shrugged her shoulder.
Olivia put her hands up in mock surrender before taking a bite out of the leg of beast meat she had.
Though she didn’t say anything, Nyssa wasn’t very happy either. She had never seen Sylas in any mode but serious. Although his face still looked almost entirely indifferent, there was still just the slightest curl of his lip and a hint of... sarcasm in his tone?
"Well, I guess there’s a chance. Who knows. I heard that people in this world live for hundreds of years sometimes. More than that? That’s kind of cool. In our world, living to 70 was already a good life."
Nyssa’s frown deepened and she looked toward Olivia. This was maybe one of the oddest things she had ever heard, but then she recalled that they were from a Summoned World.
"Their relationship is a very weird one, though. Can you believe that before a year ago, they hadn’t seen each other for like ten years? Well, maybe not seen, but they literally didn’t speak. Then the moment they started talking again, it was like they picked right up where they left off.
"Ten years to you might be a blink. Well, I don’t really know how old you are, so maybe not. But to us, ten years is like 15% of our life. They make no sense to me at all.
BOOM!
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