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[ What.

This is EXACTLY how a villain would try to lure him into something sketchy.

Which is to say: he arrives fifteen minutes later, poking his head in through the door. ]

Is this like your secret base or something?

[ you're gonna LOVE his villain cosplay. ]

I prefer "lair", personally. Makes it sound more catlike.

[ he's leaning against the wall, arms folded, relaxed. he looks a lot better than yesterday; still a shade paler than usual, but otherwise normal. and like he actually slept, for once. ]

I made a pact with the psychic birds.

[ Of course you did you DUMB FUCKING CAT ]

For what, exactly?

You know what happened to Perci, right?

[ His expression darkens pretty much immediately ]

Yeah.

[ shrug. Blood Fiend is perfectly chill about all this in contrast. nothing weird here going on, no artificially enhanced calm here nope ]

It's to prevent that.

What could you possibly have offered to keep them from messing with people's heads?

Wouldn't be able to tell you. They must have seen something they liked.

The wording of the pact was incredibly vague, but they did agree to spare Lily from their "gift" for the duration of the pact.

[ Eyes narrowing ]

You don't know what you agreed to give them?

Not really, no. But it's a one on one deal.

Why Lily?

[ nonchalantly, with zero hesitation ]

I owe them a debt.

[ u ever have a conversation where you're doing literally all the fucking work ]

For what?

[ yeah every conversation with Rose, thanks for asking ]

Multiple things. Depends on the Lily.

Anyway, the birds didn't put me in that state; I did that myself. Mental shielding isn't really my forte.

[ Thinks about Perci's mindscape.

,,,, ]

But were you successful?

Seems like it. We shook hands, so to speak.

[ then she flooded him with a big black hole of despair! good thing he can simply override that memory with tranquility!! ]

I was pretty drained after, though. Hence the nap.

[ Thinks about the psychic hangover he himself has experienced.

Yeah Yas probably isn't even lying. ]

If you shook on it, that means you know what the terms were.

"Within the next two weeks, give us a task you want our assistance with. In the two weeks after that, we will give you one, and we can trade off from there."

[ with extreme amusement: ]

"We cannot give you concrete terms, but we will be fair."

That's . . . it?

Yep.

They're gonna ask for something terrible.

They told me they'd never ask for something more difficult than I asked of them, and said that I could bargain down the difficulty.

[ . . . ]

Well, can't say they're not interesting.

[ ohhhhh my god ]

I've had it with these goddamn birds.

[ lmao ]

How's Perci?

. . . The same, mostly. His mind's pretty torn up. If he's gonna pull himself out of it, it'll take time.

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