*Sniff*
*Sniff*
...I'm not crying again.
...I'm not.
"Don't cry meow-dear, the chief isn't feeling well. He's not receiving visitors. I know, you wanted to visit him didn'cha?"
*Sniff*
I JUST WANT MY SWORD!
... What do i do now...
...I guess I really do hafta break into the village warehouse...or whatever the building is. But... I never saw a building like that. In fact, I just remembered that those stupid heads even existed...
*Sniff*
"I...I wanna be alone for nyow..."
"Oh alright meow-dear. Come talk to me if you ever need anything, okay?"
"*Sniff*...y-you Promyise?"
"Hehe~ sure thing. I promise."
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.
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Huhuhu...
Huhuhuhuhu...
NYAHAHAHA!
Now I jus' gotta get the materials, and I'm good to go. I mean, she promised to help me~ Mrahahaha~!
My sword-making slave is here!
I run away, pretending to be sad. Honestly it probably WOULD be smarter to try taking his ceremonial dagger again, if only his house wasn't so scary and booby-trapped with space magic and crazy symbols. Speaking of...
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Tada!
I pull out my I decided to engrave runes into the weapon I use! I am planning to make a metal sword one day, but for now maybe something like a toe claw or a fang of that googly-eyed hydra from before! Yeah, yeah! Maybe I can carve the magic runes into my sword rather than steal something from that sickly chief!
I switch to my cat stance and run on all fours, jumping stealthily from object to object. I hide behind the barrel of boiled water beside the flower shop. Then behind the stack of half-broken planks adjacent to her store. I stealthily inch into view... looking left, then right. My body relaxes, then tenses up again - I run. This process repeats itself as I peek my eyes into windows of varying sizes. My hands part the giant leaves that replace blinds and curtains. Nothing.
Next, nada.
Third.
Then a fourth.
And a fifth.
The boring, bland, and normalcy of these rooms I peak inside of, leave me mildly irritated, and JUST a wee bit smacking my paw against the nearest object to suffer my undaunted wrath, regardless of how sturdy it may be.
But just as my vicious paw threatens to crush the plank beside it... I manage halt myself. Just barely.
Phew. I can't behave like this when deepening myself in stealth. If I allow my impatience to overtake me, judgment collapses and I fail to maintain my stealth.
I know this...
But... how...
How...
HOW HARD CAN A BUILDING BE TO FIND?!?! THOSE HEADS ARE MASSIVE! WHERE A- oh, I think I see it!
A massive building in the center of the village, at least 7 stories high. Jackpot! Also, how did I never notice?!?! Am I... am I stupid or something?! If I wasn't actively looking for it, then I might have never noticed despite thinking I explored every inch of this village. There's a window from every nearby home pointed towards it for easy monitoring. Luckily, nobody is around to stop me! Mwehehe, thank you beautiful necklace of mine - MWAH! I give the scales a big beautiful kiss each before I stealthily enter not from the entrance, but the window a long ways away to the left.
"MRAH!"
OW! The drop was steeper than I thought, I misjudged because I keep thinking I am judging from a human's vantage point when I am at window - height.
My cat booty... why didn't I land on my feet?!
Thankfully, I am inside, and it doesn't look like anyone's guarding the-
"WOAAAAHHH!"
How... How HUGE! The place is BIG! There's so many rows and rows... and rows of pallets! On top of them are tons of...!
Woah.
I walk over towards the closest pallet and peek over it - a large mass of flesh remains, unrotted for some reason. Climbing onto the pallet, I carefully come close to the pallet's tenant and place one noble paw of mine atop it. I...was small.
SO incredibly small compared to it. Like, this thing is clearly a huge mass and there's- hold on.
*FWOOSH*
"Much byetter. I've properly myastered this shape-chyanging flame! Thanks to my magic, I can nyow properly see-MRAAAAHH!"
I instinctively jump back not because of the careful details revealed surrounding this head, nor the fact that I was just about to measure how humongous it was - but instead, because its enormous eyeball was pointing directly down at me!!
Still, after I jumped away, I soon learned that it was not following me. Indeed, this thing was not going to be a troublesome zombie or some terrifying plot twist like that. I catch my breath, slap both of my cheeks and put on my best brave face ever! I walk up to it and...
*poke*
I jump back! J-Just in case.
...
...nothing? Good. Whew. Time to grab something sharp! And look! There are SO many heads to choose from!
"Which one is the byestest head to check ou-"
*GASP*
Are there OTHER body parts here??
I carefully climb on top of the massive googly-eyed head and stomp it for scaring me. NOT just once, twice.
Hmph, that feels good. And the same can be said about this vantage point. The heads look...endless. was spacial magic used in this building?? There are so many flipping heads! The whole entire space just seems to expand and- and at the veeeery end of the room off to the right, I think I can make our a set of stairs. Unfortunately I fail to see a-ah! Hold on, I think I see one! A stack of limbs, or something! A set of skinny things!
*Jumps*
I memorized the spot I saw - fourth row to the right from my current area. I am near a window against the very left of the building, so 4 rows down from my spot, but several pallets ahead.
Dang it, maybe I should have counted the pallets! No, but I already hopped down, it's too late.
Huh?
Wait, was...heheh...
was that eyeball... c-coincidentally, always gazing at this place I landed on? Wasn't...wasn't I further right...?
