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Chapter 15: Damsel’s offer

While I was gawking at the beauty of the woman, Emi had already started to charge up and get involved with the situation. I didn’t think I could do very much given the situation and I was more interested in what caught my eye to the person.

“Wow real great that 3 burly men gang up on 1 small girl. That must be so manly. I’m so impressed.” Emi was starting to insult them, which was always a great way to stop conflict…

“Look lady this woman stole our money so we’re trying to get it back off her.”

The blue haired girl, who I had just noticed had animal ears that reminded me of something, interjected very emotionlessly, “No you have the wrong person.”

“Look blue haired girl”, one of them putting a hand on the blue haired woman, “we saw you bump into us and one of us felt some of our gold being taken. All we want is our gold plus a little extra for the extra trouble caused.”

Nonplussed Emi inserted herself between the man and the woman and continued the barrage at the men, “Really looks like you want some else from the woman. Do you want to scream and see what happens?”

“You’ll regret this. We’ll make you pay.” Warned one of the men as they left.

“Come on why don’t you join us at our table,” offered Emi, gesturing to me.

As I saw the blue haired girl nod in agreement I also saw something below her dress also move. Immediately I recalled where I had seen her before, it was a drawing in the book “Sentient Species of Alexandria” my mom had given me for my fifth birthday. She was a Kitsune! A girl who’s ancestors evolved from foxes!

As she sat down, Emi offered to buy her a drink or some food but the girl declined. I decided to at least introduce us to this girl,

“Hi my names Clover Aurora and this here is Emilia Rassi we’re from the nearby town of Trinia. What’s your name?”

The girl replied in a flat tone, “The name’s Rene Foxworth, and I came to visit because I heard a tournament was on.”

Emilia joined the conversation, “Oh wow what a surprise that is, isn’t it Clover? We’re also going to be competing in the tournament.”

“Yeah it is a pretty nice coincidence that we all came early to compete in the tournament.”

“Thanks for saving me back there, Emilia, I don’t do so well with confrontation especially when they are guys.”

“No problem Rene, you can just call me Emi if you want.”

“Alright you both can call me Foxy as that’s what everyone seems to call me.”

I thought this was the best time to interject the thought I had previously, “So is it correct that you are indeed a Kitsune?”

Her eyes slightly opened and then narrowed a bit, “Yeah how did you know?”

“The slightly visible ears and the tail wagging underneath the dress gave it away. Don’t worry we mean no harm, its actually the first time I’ve ever met any other species before so I’m actually fairly happy. Sorry Foxy but is it okay if we can change the topic for a bit? ”

“Yeah no problem.”

“Thanks, Emi we’ve still got a problem of what to do with our remaining money after the horse problem.”

“Yeah I don’t really know what do with the rest of the money. It’s the first time we’ve been away from home.”

“I think we’ve got enough for food to tide us over for a week but we’ve got no money to pay for lodging…”

Foxy suddenly interrupted our conversation, “You can stay with me in my room if you want? It’s the least I can do for getting me out of that situation.”

I looked at Emi and she nodded so I accepted Foxy’s offer, “I think we’ll have to take you up on that offer.”

“Thanks a lot Foxy.”

“No problem Emi.”

We made our way back to the room that Foxy had booked and saw that luckily it was a fairly big room.

As we settled down Emi brought up a rather big question, “What do we do with trying to replace our belongings and other stuff? We lost all of it when we fell down that hill.”

“I guess we can make do I hope.” I replied.

“But we’ll definitely need to buy some new clothes as this is the only set I have right now.”

“You can borrow a pair of mine if you want,” Foxy suggested.

“Really? That would be so great.”

After the two girls had a bath I had mine. I tried to forget that the two girls had had their baths already but it was a fairly difficult thought to get out of my head. So I just lay in the bath relaxing and winding down a bit my mind which I had used fairly extensively in these past few days.

I thought about many things most at the forefront about magic.

What did it mean to Emi and I?

What type of magic innate magic?

Does that cover all magic or only a small fraction?

What on earth was that dungeon?

How was it able to use my thoughts and previous memories against me?

Was someone able to read my past thoughts?

Who was the person who created that dungeon?

All of these thoughts swirled round my mind. None of them had any answers and many of those would probably would never have answers. But we really needed to find out what type of magic we could use as it could be key in the future.

I came out of the bathroom and saw Emi wearing one of Foxy’s tops. I suddenly realized how much Emi had changed from the girl I had known before. Foxy was rather modest in her proportions I would liken her to a Barbie doll while I suddenly realized how much “more” of Emi there was now.

Emi suddenly realizing I was staring the area that was eventuated by the small shirt immediately narrowed her eyes. She let it go but I knew later I’d pay for it.

We soon organized sleeping arrangements and it was decided that Emi and Foxy would sleep on the bed together and then it was decided, mainly by Emi, that I would sleep on the floor with whatever things I could find. Emi decided this was punishment enough not being in the comfortable bed. And I couldn’t agree more. The floor was hardwood and the bed would have been much softer for a number of reasons… However I soon fell asleep as tiredness took over.

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