[-----CROSSROADS' POINT OF VIEW-----]


Free City, Truce - Fountain
A tiered fountain marks the center of Truce, water gushing from its
summit and trickling into a deep, wide basin, wrapped by a ring of benches.
Roads flow like rivers away from the fountain, and houses sprout like weeds
all around them. Not far to the east, the ocean roars in the harbor.

Lenai sleeps quietly on a fountainside bench, streeetching her toes,
nestling her face into her arms, snoring rather loudly.

Tyrranis is in his usual place on another bench, passively staring into the sky.

Crossroads is watching Lenai sleep, still wondering what it is like to
have a body (even if it was a robot body) without a soul in it. She
supposed that the individual would die, but Lenai hadn't, and it was
Certainly something she found interesting.

Lenai is still lying there, snoring, and pantsless.

Tyrranis is still staring at the sky, oblivious.

Crossroads glances at Tyrranis, " Something the matter? You've been
awfully quiet."

Tyrranis brings his gaze down to Crossroads as she talks to him, but
his gaze is vacant, and his voice sounds far away. "Relaxing. No
conflict."

Crossroads turns her back away from Lenai and nods looking up in the
direction he had been looking only a moment ago, " You find the sky
relaxing?"

Tyrranis says ' Yes. It is something that is empty.'

Lenai snores loudly and cuddles herself. She looks a little cold.

Crossroads takes a seat next to Tyrranis and continues staring up in
the direction he was looking. Yep. There was a sky there. But
Crossroads couldn't say she found it as relaxing as he did.

Lenai nods awake for a moment, yawning. "...How did I get... Here...?"

Crossroads shrugged, " Dunno. Now that she seems to be waking up I
suppose you could ask her."

Tyrranis stands, and steps over to Lenai, towering over her. "Cat
Form, why are you asleep with no pants?"

Lenai says ' Ehh..? I don't feel like wearing any..!'
Tyrranis blinks for a moment, looks at his own form, and then sits on
his own bench again. "She seems fine."

Lenai says ' It is a little cold... Miss, can I... Cuddle up to you...?'

Crossroads raises an eyebrow in interest. " So..." She began. There
was a question that had been nagging at her since before the witch
fight and now seemed the best time to bring it up " Are you... you
know. Any differen--!" She stared in shock at Lenai, her question
completely derailed "Find some pants and maybe you wont be cold!"

Lenai lazily walks over and lies in Crossroads's lap, cuddling up to
her. "Stop making me move around... I'm tired..."

Tyrranis looks to Lenai and Crossroads, and a look of faint bemusement
crosses his face for a moment.

"Ah.... you....!" Crossroads looks to Tyrranis hoping to find some
help, but when she notices his expression she realizes she is on her
own. "No! Off!" And with that she attempted to push the girl from her
lap.

Lenai wraps her arms around Crossroads's neck and snuggles into her.
"I like you... You're warm..."

Tyrranis says ' Do you need help?'

Lenai says ' No, I'm fine...'

Lenai yawns.

Crossroads suppressed the urge to scream as she continues to try to
fight off Lenai. " He was talking to me!" Or at least he better have
been. "Now. Get. Off."

Tyrranis bends over, and picks up the bottom half of Lenai, completely
uncaring of her current state clothing-wise.

Lenai blushes and pouts. "H-Hey! Let... Go of me..! I'm tired..!"

Tyrranis says ' Let go of the Apple Knower, Cat Form.'

Lenai says ' But she's so nice..!'

Lenai yawns.

Tyrranis says ' She does not wish you to cling to her.'

Lenai pouts and gives up, letting go of Crossroads. "Where will I
sleep that's comfy...?"
Tyrranis lifts the cat-girl-robot, sets her down on the bench next to
himself and Crossroads, and sits back down. "I do not know."

Lenai says ' It's not...fair...'

Lenai nods of and yawns, leaning against Tyrranis.

Crossroads gives Tyrranis a small relived smile, "Thank you." She says
before looking at Lenai, "Try a bed. that is what most people do!"

Tyrranis looks down at Lenai, shrugs his not-used shoulder, and looks
back up at the sky.

Lenai says ' But beds are... So far away...'

You say ' and so much more worth it when you reach one!'

Lenai says ' But you're... So comfy..!'

Tyrranis says ' I do not have a problem with the current state. It
does not inconvenience me.'

Crossroads folds her arms and glares at her icily, Her words are slow
as if she is trying to hammer each word into the girls head. " Find
another place."

Lenai says ' But..! You're pretty and comfy..!'

Tyrranis says ' I suppose I should be hurt by this comment?'

Lenai pokes Tyrranis in the rock hard muscle.

Crossroads cheeks burn, " You are being annoying." She quickly stands
up making it harder for Lenai to use her as a napping spot should
Tyrranis let her go.

Lenai says ' ...'

Lenai begins to cry a bit, sniffling.

Lenai says ' Why are you... So mean...?'

You say ' Because you are giving me reason to be. If Tyrranis says he
doesn't mind you snuggling up to him that is fine. But I am not
interested and the first time I said it should have been enough.'

Tyrranis looks impassive about the whole thing really.

Lenai pouts and cries, clinging to Tyrranis.
Lenai says ' Tyrryyyy, make her stoop..!'

Tyrranis looks down to Lenai, absorbs the situation for a moment, and
then looks up to Crossroads with THE MOST CONFUSED LOOK IN THE WORLD.

Crossroads expression softens a little when she looks at Tyrannis's
face. " She can't always have what she wants Tyrranis. This is a good
lesson for her to learn."

Tyrranis looks between the two woman, and something seems to click in
his head. "I shall get her to the inn. She may rest there."

Lenai says ' ...Can I cuddle with you... In a bed..?'

Panic quickly returns to Tyrranis' face.

Crossroads simply looks at Tyrranis. She really couldn't answer for
him in this situation.

You say ' Do you want to Tyr? That matter is entirely up to you.'

Tyrranis picks up Lenai, cradling her like a child, and shakes his
head. "I will take you to the Inn, but that shall be the end of my
involvement. It is not my place to impose upon people when their minds
are as muddled as my own."

Lenai pouts.

Lenai says ' Fine..!'

Lorastine arrives from the south from training and perks her ears up
when she noticed Tyrranis holding Lenai. "Hm?" she says wondering
what she missed.

Crossroads relaxes feeling relief that this uncomfortable situation
was finally coming to an end, " Would you like some silver to bring
with you in the event that she can't afford it?" After all, she HAD
chosen to sleep out here rather than at the inn or some place warmer.

Tyrranis nods to Crossroads. "It is a good idea. I do not carry much money."

Lenai says ' Hii...'

Lorastine waves back to Lenai a little and curls her fingers as she stops.

Crossroads reaches into her pocket and pulls out her purse, then hands
Tyrranis some silver to help with the fee. Then she spots Lorastine
there, "Hello. How are you fairing?"

Lenai yawns and snuggles up in Tyrranis's arms.

Tyrranis takes the silver somewhat awkwardly, and then nods to
Lorastine. "Hello."

Lorastine nods to Tyrranis and then to you. "I'm fine. What about
her?" she asks motioning toward Lenai snuggled up in Tyrranis's arms.

Tyrranis says ' She too, seems to be just fine.'

Lenai sucks on her thumb, seemingly asleep.

Lorastine held back a slight giggle at watching Lenai suck her thumb
in her sleep. "Well that’s good to hear. Don't let me keep you." She
says with a bow.

Tyrranis sighs, and begins walking to the Inn to put Lenai down for a
while, until she feels the need to wake up.

Tyrranis leaves south.
Lenai leaves south.

Lorastine watches the two leave before turning to you. "How have you
been, by the way?"

"Well enough I suppose." She glances south where Tyrranis carried
Lenai "I hope Tyrranis is okay going alone with her. She did seem
rather hard-pressed to let go. And he did seem to get a little
flustered when she asked to cuddle with him." Crossroads laughed a
little.

Lorastine giggles a little overhearing the event she had missed. "I
wish I had been there to see that." she replies trying to imagine
Tyrranis all flustered with his cheeks red.

Tyrranis returns, and seats himself on a bench again.

Crossroads smiled about to tell the girl that she had never seen him
look so lost but then she noticed Tyrranis return, " I was thinking I
should have asked if you wanted me to come alone but it looks like she
didn't give you any trouble."

Tyrranis says ' She fell asleep soon.'

Crossroads nodded, " Good to hear."

Lorastine looks around for a moment and had something bugging her
mind. "Hey Cross, are we ever going to have our souls back inside our
bodies again?"

Crossroads pressed her lips together tightly at the question, "I am
not entirely sure if that is a possibility." She reaches under her
shirt and pulls out her soul gem, "The contract doesn't exactly have
an end date. And from the looks of it, the only way we get out of it
is to die or..." She briefly glances north in the direction the witch
had been.

Lenai appears in the room.
Lenai chuckles politely.

Lenai stumbles into Lorastine's lap and clings to her. "I'm done...
Resting in bed...!"

Lorastine listens with a little disheartened at what you had explained
to her. "We die, or become one of them..."

Crossroads nods. Then her expression turns from relaxed to that of
annoyance when she hears lenai's voice behind her.

If Tyrranis hears the news of the witch's corruption, he shows no
outward signs, instead he continues staring at the sky. He does,
however, ignore Lenai as she re-approaches.

Lorastine looks over at Lenai a little surprised that she was back so
soon. "Shouldn't you be sleeping?"

Lenai nuzzles her face into Lorastine. "I'll... Sleep here if I need
to...!" she says, yawning, "It's lonely in there..."

Crossroads sighed. Really, it didn't seem as though this girl would
quit until she found someone to cuddle with.

Lorastine doesn't really know how she should react as she was clinged
to. She looks to the others to give her a little hand.

Lenai nuzzles gently and smiles. "Nice and warm..."

Crossroads steps forward and grabs Lenai by the ear and tries to pull
Lenai away. She had quite enough of this for today, "Ask people before
you do thing like this!"

Tyrranis is not distracted from suspended water molecule watching.

Lenai says ' Will you... Cuddle with me...?'

Lenai yawns.

Lorastine smiled kindly with a hint of helplessness. "Fine just
promise to keep your hands to yourself?"

Lenai tilts her head, yawning. "Where else would my hands go..?"

Crossroads watches the two of them for a moment, but doesn't say anything.

Then Crossroads turns to Tyrranis and gives him a quick hug, "Thanks
for earlier. That was a big help"

Tyrranis raises an eyebrow, but remains stoic.