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The excitement of the day weighs down your legs urging you to get some rest, but Volka’s right: it’s about time you met the rest of the team… and the newbies, assuming they actually decide to catch up! Relaying your decision to your Grand Marshall, the girl practically leaps out of her scales!
“<span class="mu-s">YES! YESYES</span><span class="mu-i">YES!</span> What are we waitin’ for!? Ooh, I can’t wait ta’ introduce you to the others!”
Picking you and TT up like shopping bags and fueled by pure, unadulterated excitement, Volka is mid-darting off when your <span class="mu-b">JUNIOR RECRUITS</span> emerge from the shadows and cut her off!
“H-hey, where’s the fire!?”
“Y-yea! Where ya’ goin!?”
If it was anyone else you’d bet the Skog would barrel right on through, but seeing the kids shatters the spell… “Oh! Recruits! Great timing, you two!”
“Perimeter secured, Grand Marshall!” Barks Vilah as both she and her sister snap to attention! “Awaiting your orders!”
“At ease!” Barks Volka with practiced military timbre, “Your next mission is to escort your fellow officers out of the district! Avoid engaging with hostile forces and remain undetected! Questions?”
“NONE!” Chirp the recruits!
“Outstanding. Begin the operation!”
Even you can’t help but be a little inspired by your commanding officer! Motivated by their new ranks and the promise of something tasty, the recruits lead you out of the district with renewed zeal… you don’t even hear anyone getting butchered this time!
Wait… wait… yep, nevermind… and you <span class="mu-i">just</span> made it to the exit, too!
No one harries or hinders your flight from the Rags District, save for the lingering smell of death and decay strangling its borders. As you leave the guardless district in your proverbial ‘dust’, the sisters flank their commanding officer both out of a sense of duty and a genuine unease at the sheer amount of people roaming the streets.
What begins as an escort turns into the two huddling beneath Volka’s tail–the sibling’s eyes darting from pedestrian to pedestrian like a cat keeping tabs on the vacuum cleaner!
Though the temperature drops and the Belltower tolls six times across the city, you can’t help but join the girls in their confusion when you realize how many people are out and about–is it a weekend or something?
>CONTD.
