>>6303073You thank Rath for teaching you things you should probably already know, and leave back to your dorm with breakfast. One of the pancakes gets stolen by Ivy on the way there, but you’ve dipped the top pancake into extra spicy sauce beforehand, so you know the victory will be yours.
You put the plate near Table, and she gives you a weak smile. You go for a kiss, but you recoil the moment your lips meet, as an acrid, almost rotten smelling odor leaves her mouth.
Table laughs it off, but she still looks hurt by your reaction. “Sorry, I’m shedding, I should’ve warned you, but I also really wanted to kiss you.”
“...what do you mean, shedding?” You lift the blanket, and you see some of her tendrils crawls out of her skin like parasites. They look a sickly pale green, and unhealthy. She picks the ones she can find up and drops them in a glass jar.
“Maybe shedding isn’t the right word, but there’s times when my tendrils need a bit of replacing. Gotta expel a bunch of them, then I’m bedridden for a while before I feel better. It’s pretty gross, it might be better if we’re not sleeping in the same bed for a while.” She laughs, then coughs, with some tendrils crawling out of her mouth.
You help her put what remains of the tendrils into the jar. “It’s fine, it’s not like it’s contagious, right? What do I even do with the tendrils?”
She smiles. “I don’t know, throw them wherever, put them in a stew, I don’t care. It’s no more alive than a dead worm at this point.”
You decide to keep it for study later. You didn’t really get to do a lot tendril autopsy before, and comparing her tendrils to that other thing in the vault could yield some good insight. “You’ll be alright on your own, right?”
“I’d feel super bad if I had to force you to stay with me when I can’t even get out of bed. I’ll read books and play- nevermind, just read books I guess, don’t feel like playing games anymore.” It looks like she’s still not over her last gaming experience. “What I’m saying is, go have fun, magic boy.”
It’s a shame though, you were planning on making extra fire in a bottle, but without her help making crystallized fear will be harder. You’ve heard it’s possible to induce the fear artificially with magic but the results will be lesser, and you’d rather not spare any expenses when it comes to exams and duels.
Who could you ask for help…
>You could ask your spirit to find fear, what’s the worst that could happen?>Ask another student, but which one… (specify which one)>Going into the forest at night should be scary enough, but it’s certainly not safe either.>You could buy some with your money, it would save you time for other things too.>Something else? (Write in) 