>>6052695>>6052720>>6052917>>6052978>>6053263>>6053679"Which is?" Harrison asks you, tilting his head slightly to the side with curiosity.
"You'll see." You say with a cheeky grin, pausing on it for a moment as the two of you stare each other down. The moment gets particularly awkward after a bit, though, so you cough into a fist and follow up with a quick "Care to lead me to the Familiar Delivery Service? I don't actually know the way, or I would have started walking there already."
Just a few minutes of walking later, you find yourself stepping through the doorway of a peculiar tower which bore a plethora of holes drilled through the outside, with nearly every hole having a rod stuck either above or below it. The inside seems to take this design to an even further extreme, with the interior walls and support pillars absolutely riddled from floor to high-above ceiling with such structures. A simplistic rune seems to be carved into the floor itself, through which a slight but steady glow of mana flows - the tingling in your fingers suggests that it's simply meant to diffuse mana into the air itself.
A lizardlike familiar bearing batlike wings slithers through one of the holes next to your head, crawling across the walls with sticky padded fingers and dipping into an entirely different hole without paying you any thought. You step forward into the main area, and opt to call out to see if there's actually any humans here - as it is, you only see a few things peeking from the holes and a moth flying about.
"Hello? Is someone able to uh, help me?" You ask.
"Hello, Customer! How can we be of assistance to you today?" A voice responds to you. You look around for the source of it, unable to find it until it speaks up again. "Do you need assistance?"
You suddenly realize that it's moth that's speaking, your eyes focusing on it as it hovers in place. Surprisingly, despite its small size, it actually seems to have vaguely humanoid features - tiny limbs, and a face that could be mistaken for a man's if not for the size of it and the fact that it was covered completely in black chitin. The eyes, too, are a dead giveaway with how they faintly glow blue with mana and have no iris or sclera to speak of.
"Yeah, I was looking for the human that handles business." You say, glancing around once more.
"I apologize, but there is no human presence here today. Our tender only makes an appearance once every five days. If you are here for business, then I have been designed to help with every need that the Familiar Delivery Service can provide!" The moth replies, chirping cheerily.
"Real hands-off approach to this business, huh? Just let the familiars run themselves." You muse out loud, rubbing your chin.
"I am sorry, but as a Familiar, I can only respond to a limited number of things. That topic is outside of my capabilities." The moth informs you. Son of a...
