The Arks - Chapter 393

“Yes, that’s because she has the same power as me! And she understands me as an individual, not some pet you can just call upon for transport. I want to be under someone that has the same power as me so they would understand how my powers work,” explained Tomoe.

Ysabeau took great offense at what the Kitsune had said but Mavislin halted her.

“You’re just scared to face the fact that because of your mistreatment, you lost your grip on me. You’re supposed to bond with me, not command me to do things straight away! Don’t look at me as if I was nothing but a lowly spirit!” shouted Tomoe, in anger.

Now it was Mavislin’s turn to feel something but it was guilt that she felt instead of anger. Since she commanded her first Familiar to transport ȧduŀts out of an area.

“Plus, if it hadn’t been your fear, we could’ve gotten here if it weren’t for Raiyen debating if we should ride on Fluffy,” said Tomoe, shaking his head.

“Why did you want to make it here sooner?” asked Mavislin.

“Had we done so, we wouldn’t have been late to save the ones outside. We mentioned we saved a couple, but we saw more corpses than living people. They were all in poor conditions, most were foaming at the mouth while some lacked skin color,” explained Tomoe, looking away.

“You and your phobia for riding animals…” complained Ysabeau, mounting onto Fluffy.

“We wouldn’t have made it on time either. Their conditions were fatal, even if we found them, it would be just finding vegetables,” rebutted Raiyen, not wanting Mavislin to know that his fears stood in the way of his work.

Finally, Fluffy was back in her original ȧduŀt form, seeing that the room was quite large. Ysabeua whispered some words of praise. Rina was getting up the beast and Bryan was still asking Tomoe some questions. Raiyen was explained to Mavislin about the new house they built.

“Well, we are halfway but Tomoe kicked up a big fuss about completing the job. He complained it wasn’t worth it. And I got fed up with working with him so we headed back. That was when Gillian ordered us to get over here to help you, girls…”

Bryan coughed.

“And a guy.”

Tomoe’s ears perked up and chimed in after hearing his name being mentioned.

“Initially, we wanted to build it near the main river flowing by the Old Chapel’s outer forest. But Time Tot here doesn’t allow it because of some nasty complications,” said Tomoe.

“Time Tot?” asked Raiyen, seemingly offended.

“Yea, because you refuse to take the chance to put the kids there.”

“Why would there be complications?” asked Mavislin, smacking Tomoe on the head to behave.

“Because he wants to send the kids to a building that does not exist until three centuries later,” replied Raiyen, emphasizing the later part.

Mavislin looked at Raiyen with eyes wide and jaw dropped.

“Yes, I may have accidentally opened a nasty abnormality because of Time Frame Hopping…” said Raiyen, realizing the cause of the future building.

Mavislin could only stare at Raiyen with big, round eyes of shock. Raiyen nervously stuffed his hand into side pockets while Tomoe snickered at him.

“I told you not to tell her…” whispered Tomoe, going over Raiyen.

“Hush it! You’re the one who instigated it!”

“But I didn’t tell her the truth about it, there’s entirely a ‘you’ matter.”

“You know, that might not be a bad idea…” said Mavislin, after some deep thoughts.

The two guys stopped quarreling and looked directly at Mavislin. Bryan took another step back further away from the three. Ysabeau had to stop helping Rina to see the little squabble, leaving Rina on the beast alone.

“You’re not so scary, aren’t ya?” whispered Rina, stroking the beast’s neck.

“What do you mean by that, Mav?” asked Raiyen, blinking slightly.

“That house that you said that was from the future. If I can see it, enter it, and live in it, I don’t see the problem letting the kids live there. It might be a great idea, better than just letting be at a physical location,” reasoned Mavislin.

“But that’s tampering with the laws of TIme! You can’t stick little humans into a place that isn’t supposed to exist years after they would die! It will cause a rift!” protested Raiyen, with his anger bubbling up.

“Who said that they are humans?” asked Tomoe, turning his head to look at Raiyen.

“They were being bred by humans, I don’t see any Mages giving birth here. And we’ve checked all the kids and women, they are human,” said Raiyen, quickly brushing away Tomoe.

“The women are all human but what if the kids aren’t? We don’t know who ɨmprėġnȧtėd them,” asked Tomoe.