Chapter 5 - Conversant

Looking at her current surroundings, Suki notices that they're already halfway to Kyokusha. She yawns and pauses to stretch herself, looking to Legat afterwards.

"Do you know the way to Kyokusha? Because that bout earlier really took it out of me."

"Umm, that way?" he guesses and doesn't point or gesture in any way.
Suki sighs, "I guess you don't know then do you? Well, it's a little ways north of Bedlam. You do know where that is don't you?"

"Umm…" he says before looking around in a panic, "That way," this time pointing in a random direction that to his luck, ends up to be right. He combs his hand through his hair, "Ok here's how it goes, I'll carry you and you tell me where to go. It can't be that far."

Suki laughs at his sheer luck, "That'll do for part of the way."

"I'm sure you can sleep like that, I'm very agile," Legat says before letting out a howl and his wolf companion rushes to his side from the woods.

Suki smiles and reverts from her white fox form to her red one. "And who is this?"

"A friend I've known since I was 'younger.' Trust me, she'll come in handy… Well now that she's here we won't have to walk," he says as he watches the wolf change into its wolf-demon form, standing five feet tall at her shoulder. Legat jumps onto her back, "You coming?" and holds his hand out to Suki. She nods and jumps into his arms. The wolf starts running off with the two friends on her back, Legat's arm moving with the wolf's running to keep it a smooth ride for the fox to sleep.

Just as she said earlier, five minutes later and Suki's awake, refreshed from her nap.

"Are you sure you're not part cat?" Legat asks.

She laughs, "I'm sure."

"Ok, for a second there I thought I would have to explain that to you," he says while laughing and smiles warmly. Suki smiles and watches the surrounding scenery pass as they travel. Legat yawns before pulling a drink from his inside coat pocket, "Thirsty?" he asks before taking a drink.
"Yeah, I'd like some," she replies and Legat cups a hand and pours some into it for her.

Suki laps the drink from his hand, "Thanks."

"No problem," he says as he puts it back in his coat pocket. "How long do you think it will take 'cause I think I might take a nap as well?"

"Oh, at this pace we'll be there in a good twelve hours but that's only if we don't have any more distractions." Legat stretches and yawns before dozing off.

Waking from his nap with a stretch he yawns, "We there yet?"

Suki looks to the city, it's lights glowing brightly in the distance. "We're nearly there. Only a few hours left."

"Hours?" Legat says in a whiney childish voice.

She looks up to Legat and bops him playfully in the jaw with her muzzle, "Yes hours…"

"Fine."

Suki thinks for a few minutes while watching the scenery pass and then looks back to Legat with a slight smile, her eyes asking a million questions of him. He grins slightly and the looks to the side and starts to laugh. Suki thinks a bit more, recalling the house they visited before… its very walls holding a history untold. And shifts her weight in his grasp, laying her head on his arm as she thinks things through. Legat tightens his grip to let her know she's safe, smiles at her, then opens his mouth to speak and with a slight delay says, "What do we do when we get there?"

Suki's right ear swivels to his voice before she turns her head to look at him as she casts her wandering thoughts aside and back to the present, "We should act as we normally would while visiting but still keep an eye out for anything suspicious. As for where we'll be staying, there's an abandoned church on the eastern side of town that'll work out nicely."

"You've stayed there before?"

She nods, "I've lived there a few months in my travels."

"Umm," he says while looking all shy like, "I don't really do churches."

Suki smiles and turns her head to the side slightly in question, "And why not?"

"It's a long story but lets just say my death. Yes my death, as in I died so lets just leave it at that."

Suki's smile fades, "That's understandable."

Legat looks at her in a puzzled manner, "That's not near the normal response I get when I tell people I've died. Although I haven't told many… Thank you," he says before grinning his childish but evil grin.

Sighing slightly while smiling Suki stretches a leg that had fallen asleep from sitting still too long, " You're welcome. I'm not surprised too much of you because I've met a few people such as yourself over the few centuries I've lived… I just haven't had much of a chance to befriend anyone until now because of the clan trials I had to go through."

"People such as myself? What kind of person is that?" pausing for a moment he continues, "And also what of this clan you speak of?" he asks with a hateful cheer.

Her ears swivel somewhat at his questions but her emerald eyes still remain fixed upon his own before replying in a steady tone, "I'm not exactly sure what you call yourselves but your abilities and character match—such as your ability to conjure the ancient darkness spells as you did earlier as well as the vampire like moods," she laughs at herself and continues, "well most demons have that but your kind have it unequally so…"

Legat thinks for a moment and says to himself, 'Yes, I'll let her think that for now. It's too much bother to let her think otherwise and I'm not in the mood to talk about it… Who knows how she would act if she knew.' "So what of this 'clan'?"

"Well as a Kitsune I'm born into a clan and work my way up the ranks through various trails of sorts to prove myself in a way that shows the elders that I'm more than a kit fox with some talent."

"Hmm, interesting. So what kind of ranking are you?"

She smiles while still watching the scenery go by, "I've been credited the title of scouting seeress for the Nanki troop… Nothing too fancy," she replies and sighs before laying her head back on Legat's arm.

Legat looks to see where they are only to notice that they're right outside of town and his wolf-demon companion is slowing down. He clutches Suki in his arms and flips off the wolf to the ground. Suki listens as a few people walk the streets, their voices muffled by the wind and hops out of Legat's arms to investigate. She looks around the nearest building to find an empty street with many small shops and an apartment, following the voices to a shed nearby she hides behind a bush. Legat watches Suki and falls behind and waits in the shadows. Suki watches as the two men bicker about a lost item and looses interest, turning around and quietly trotting back to Legat

"It's nothing."