>>5148458“That will be all, for now,” you tell him. “And do wipe your facce off, before you return to work. Make sure you do something about the glasssess which locked onto the demon—sselect a new target, break them, lose them… Jusst take them off the gameboard.”
Felman watches you go, expression inscrutable. You don’t bother to try to decipher what’s going on in his mind—the ectoplasmic parasite will see to that, you’re sure. You have a date with a cat-madam, a stage, and an identity too long ignored: that of The pretty Kitty’s illustrious Desert Princess and star performer, Kamunu!
The sun is just setting as you arrive—it does so later now than when you first entered this city and took up employment there. Almost immediately, familiar faces ae in your own face: Felia, the middle-aged and chesty manager and counter-woman; Grendelia, the nearly-seven-foot quarter-orc Amazonian beauty, soft-spoke but concerned; Red Annie, foul-mouthed dockworker’s daughter; Helga and Manuela, businesslike dwarf and raunchy halfling; the twins Tricia and Alicia, the newbies Vivian and Robin. Even Laskar, the elven bard who (for reasons all his own) has chosen this brothel as his preferred venue, watches from the corner, where he tunes a lute-like item you expect is part of the one-man-band apparatus he has rigged up in the rafters above the stage where Kamunu—you—do your dancing.
“Kamunu!” Felia exclaims. “You’re alright!”
“Of coursse,” you say with an easy smile. “I gather you heard about—”
“The big fuck-off explosion in the Initiate’s Village?” Annie interrupts. “Yeah, YEAH we heard. Holy SHIT!”
Felia gives Annie a glare, but the pirate-themed exotic dancer just sticks out her tongue. “It’s part of my gimmick!”
“We heard,” Grendelia clarified. “We were worried.”
“Not me,” Manuela says, puffing up her pert chest with pride. “I said, Kamunu? Kamunu’s a Desert princess. She’ll be fine!”
“How’s that, uh, delicate human lad of yours, though?” Helga asks.
She means well, but… Edwin. You aren’t ready to talk about Edwin. Instead, you get change the subject—the show is about to start, after all, and you still need to get changed!
