Chapter 20: City of the Dead and Not So Dead.
"Mmmmmm I could really get used to all this human luxury you know, nice human home, nice human bed, gorgeous human boy to warm it for me..." Ven said playfully smacking Gregory on the rear with his hand as the slender human man walked past into the main living room where all the others were already up and about.
"Hey! I am nobody's bed warmer!" Gregory snapped, actually sounding quite angry at that comment which the very sour look on his face also backed up.
Ven looked both surprised and taken aback by his human's sudden change in demeanour and a look of concern crossed his face, "Hey now I'm only joking my beautiful one, you know you are so much more than that to me, you're my everything" he said trying to embrace Gregory but Gregory shrugged his hand off him and stepped out of range leaving Ven standing there looking both hurt and surprised.
"What's wrong my love?" he asked.
Gregory hung his head and looked down at his feet, "I hate that term it's degrading, it what Legionnaires used to call the slaves they took a liking to, women and men both, they would be forced to work all day and then carted off at night to 'warm' whatever Legionare's bed at night, it was fucking horrible" he said sadly and instantly Ven balled his fists in anger.
"Rapist pieces of shit! They can't get someone beautiful for themselves so take them by force!" the big claw male snarled angrily and that's when Seven saw the weight of his own words hit him and his eyes widened.
"T-T-They didn't do it to you, did they? Oh please tell me that they didn't do that to you" Ven said and Gregory shook his head.
"No, I was one of the lucky ones," Gregory said and Ven stepped forwards and wrapped his long arms around his slender human and this time he didn't shrug him off.
"I'm so so sorry my wonderful man, I had no idea and I promise I'll never say that to you again, you are nobody's slave and you are certainly nobody's bed warmer, it is my greatest happiness and pride to share a bed and my life with you, the very fact that you look at me the way you do makes my heart sing the most beautiful of music and I love you more than life itself, you know that right?" Ven said softly.
Gregory sniffed softly and Seven could see that his emotions were getting the better of him which was utterly understandable knowing only the fraction of what that man had seen and been through.
He embraced Ven and clung to him burying his face in his claw boy's broad chest, "Thank you Ven, I love you too, thank you for understanding me" he said his voice choking up softly and trying to hide it against Ven's chest scales.
"Hey now you never have to thank me for loving you nor do you have to ever hide your emotions from me, don't you ever be ashamed of them as they are as beautiful as the one they belong to and if anyone ever wants to try and belittle you for feeling what is yours to feel will answer to me," he said gently holding his man tighter now.
"You got that last part wrong dear brother," Visa said from her perch on the sofa, she had actually figured out a way to sit herself on Seven's lap without crushing him by using the arms of the sofa to support most of her weight so she could nestle her bum right on Seven's lap and coil her tail around him possessively.
Both of them looked up and Seven could see the tears on Gregory's face even from behind Visa, "They will have to go through US" Visa said proudly making both of them smile.
"Thank you Visa, thank you, everyone, you have no idea what that means to me," Gregory said.
"Ahh don't mention it, Gregory, we're family and that's what families do, they protect each other" Wisp said and Gregory nestled his face back in his man's chest as he held him tight, Seven saw it plain as day in the way they held together, it was going to take far more than the Enclave to ever tear those two apart, just like him and Visa.
Thinking of which he looked at the back of his big claw girl as she sat proudly upon his lap, he very gently ran his hands over her wide hips and squeezed her making her stiffen slightly before relaxing and turning to smile back at him, "Mmmm I love the way you touch me my human" she purred softly and Seven smiled up at her.
"Trust me the feeling's mutual but when faced with something this beautiful it's damn near impossible to keep my hands to myself," he said rubbing his hands very gently over the top of her rear and the root of her tail making it tighten its coil around him.
"I never want you to keep your hands to yourself my human because I never will" she growled softly.
They were all kinda loathe to leave their refuge behind but none of them wanted to give their pursuers a chance to catch up to them or for any others to stumble across them, so after carefully closing up the bunker door and concealing it as best they could in case they had to return here they set off into the dead city.
Moving between the ruins of the city at night was creepy as hell, they couldn't afford any light sources so all of their lamps were out so all they had was the light of the moon to go by, fortunately, apart from the two humans in the group, everyone else could see perfectly in the dark, so both Seven and Gregory were in the middle of the pack with Wisp bringing up the rear thanks to her advanced sensors and night vision which would help them spot their pursuers before they had the chance to spot them hopefully.
So Riss was out in front using her cloaking and acrobatic skills to move quickly between the buildings without being spotted, there was Visa, then Seven, then Gregory followed by Ven and lastly Wisp.
Seven was painfully aware that every single footstep he took echoed badly, the sound bounced so badly that for every step he took in the powerful and heavy suit of power armour it actually sounded like he was taking three or four steps, which was rather disconcerting.
But the sound was the least of their worries as they plodded along through the echoing streets, Seven was once again blindfolded to prevent his eyes giving away their position so he was being led by the hand by Gregory who much to Visa's annoyance had been the obvious person for the job as they needed both claws on guard duty, so while he couldn't see any of the debris that Gregory was trying his best to steer him around Seven was watching his onboard Geiger counter like a hawk.
Even now hundreds of years after the very last of the bombs had fallen this city was still heavily irradiated, but then given how much ordinance had been thrown at it was hardly surprising, but it was also now home to a great many nasty creatures with neither feared the radiation nor those unlucky enough to be trying to thread their way through it.
A great many of them had managed to work out how to use it to their advantage, before they'd even got halfway into the city they had avoided no fewer than ten ambush sites set up by the Super Mutants that called this city home.
Fortunately, they were big and for the most part not incredibly smart so not only did they have a habit of announcing the positions of their camps with rather large fires which gave away their positions for miles around but they also didn't really understand the concept of camouflage so they showed up rather easily showed up on Wisp's sensors.
Riss was running along a rooftop ahead of the main group as they passed through the streets below, her eyes saw through the darkness like it simply wasn't there so she was an absolutely perfect scout, in fact, it was those eyes of hers that picked out something very odd against the backdrop of the dead city.
Everyone jumped a mile when Riss dropped down from a roof right in front of them, both Visa and Ven instinctively pushed their humans behind them and dropped into fighting stances with their bodies low and their claws fully extended before they realised who it was.
"Fucking hell Riss don't do that! I nearly sliced you into three!" Ven exclaimed as he retracted his claws back in and stood up allowing Gregory to peek out from behind him as he loosened his tail grip on him.
"I found ssssomething ahead! Come quickly! I think itssss bad!" Riss exclaimed in a very animated way which set all of them on edge.
"Alright lead on," Seven said checking his weapons and gesturing with his hand before Riss ran on ahead leading the group at a run down the street.
Seven's footfalls had gone from simply echoing to utterly booming now he was running but right now he didn't care, the very fact that Riss was worried about something was more than enough to get them all moving at top speed, they'd only known her a very short time but her drastic change in manner worried him.
They reached a large open tower that was standing towering into the sky like the builders had wanted to try and touch the sun, it amazed Seven that it was even still standing after the number of bombs that had hit this city.
All of the sides were made utterly of glass or at least had once been, now the open metal frame looked like some kind of grim skeleton that still reached for the sky after having the flesh stripped from its bones at its moment of death.
But it was hiding in the base level that had obviously grabbed Riss's attention, even from their position in a bombed-out diner across the street they could not only see the group of Super Mutants that had taken over the place turning it into a camp with a large cooking fire at its centre, but they could also see all the makeshift cages that they'd set up for storing prisoners, or rather cattle.
Super Mutants were not exactly known for their compassion towards others, to them if you weren't like them you were inferior and that made you food.
Animals, insects, hell even humans they simply didn't care, if they caught you you were utterly screwed, they were among one of the horrors of the wastes that you hoped killed you outright rather than captured you, because if they did what awaited you did not even bear thinking about.
Even now as they watched one of the groups of ten or so was preparing a meal for them, what they saw filled Seven with both a profound sense of grief and anger.
Upon a blood-covered stone and metal slab in the centre of the area next to the fire lay a young red-skinned human woman who was screaming in agonising pain, both of her arms and legs had been cut clean off while she was still alive and were in the process of being fastened to a roasting spit above the large fire.
"Oh my god! Oh fuck I think I'm going to be sick, that poor poor woman" Gregory exclaimed his whisper so filled with grief that they all felt it pouring out of him.
"Look! There" Riss said pointing to the left side of the bank of cages and the group all turned to look where she pointed.
It took all of them a moment to realise what she was indicating, but when they saw it Seven felt their collective heart sink as low as his did.
In the centre cage sat all alone was a man.
He was sat with his head pressed into his knees and his arms wrapped around them, he looked like the young woman who now had stopped screaming as the tremendous loss of blood due to the severing of pretty much all of her major arteries had sent her soul onwards to what Seven hoped was at the very least a peaceful rest given the horrendous way she had died.
He was young-looking, no older than twenty by Seven's approximation though it was kinda hard to tell at this distance, his red skin seemed to glow an amber colour in the lick of the fire's golden glow.
His long jet black hair that seemed to be filled with an assortment of feathers and beads flowed down his shoulders like a waterfall made of ink as he pressed his head in between his knees in a vain attempt to block out the horrors of what he was being forced to witness.
Seven huffed and checked the chamber of the hunting rifle as well as the charge on his laser rifle, "Alright guys what's the play?" he asked and everyone turned to look at him all wearing the same expression well all except for Wisp who's face was expressionless, but he still felt it.
"We going in?" she asked.
"Well don't know about you but I can't just walk on by and let that poor guy get eaten, I'd feel that for the rest of my life and there no fucking way I'm carrying that for the rest of my life however long or short it is, the way I see it we promised to show both Riss and these two noble claws here how not all humans are evil, how can we do that if we simply walk past a soul in need and ignore it like he doesn't matter? Every innocent life matters in this world, how many times while we were on that airship did we lay awake at night simply praying that some noble person would burst in and pull us out of there, well now we have the chance to do just that and I for one will not walk on by and ignore him" Seven said with such fire in his hushed voice that both Visa and Ven drew themselves up proudly and nodded at one another.
"Well said my beautiful one! Every day you find new ways to make me proud to be the one who walks at your side and holds your heart, lets go save that human and show the world one life at a time that just as you say for humans, not all claws are bad, we are noble and we will stand for those who cannot stand for themselves!" Visa growled proudly.
Ven nodded in agreement, "Well said sister, so what's the plan?" he asked and Seven looked over the scene playing it out in his head before a smile broke out on his face when his eyes picked something out among the mess.
"I got just the thing," Seven said and they all turned to him again and they huddled up while he explained.
The group broke and moved to get themselves into the positions that Seven had set out, with a bit of luck they would be in and out before the mutants even knew what the fuck hit them, but just in case shit hit the fan Wisp was standing by to pour a wall of fire onto them to cover the group's exfiltration, the timing would be everything here so all Seven had to do was wait.
"Ugggh these humans are so stringy, wish we catch a bucket head, they always have fat on them" one of the mutants sat around a makeshift table said as he bit a chunk out of what appeared to be an arm that had been cooked over the fire.
"Yeah haven't had a good fight with the bucket heads in ages, they must be scared of us," another said.
This set a few of them laughing, Seven simply watched and waited, then it happened and he was ready.
The mutant acting as chef turned back and lifted down the spit from the large fire and as he did Seven gave him a hard telekinetic shove while also locking up his legs so he couldn't stumble and catch himself.
The result was he went face-first into the fire pit, the screaming was instant and incredibly loud, as the mutant tried to haul himself out of the incredibly hot flames Seven could see his skin was already beginning to peel off, the others at the table instantly rushed to help their fallen comrade.
No sooner had they clustered around the fire to pull the fallen mutant out Seven reached out again, though this time he wasn't pushing something he was pulling something, more specifically a whole group of somethings.
The spoon leavers of the grenades in the bandoleer the leader of the group were wearing around his chest all flicked off at once as Seven tore all the pins out simultaneously, "Fire in the hold motherfuckers" he said silently.
The blast was utterly incredible as the ten grenades all went off at the same time, the mutant who had been wearing the bandoleer simply ceased to exist except for a single leg that simply stood where he had a second before stood.
The whole group of them was caught in the incredible blast that sent a cloud of deadly shrapnel out in every direction catching all of his comrades full in the face, this was the signal Seven's three hidden friends had been waiting for.
Almost Immediately as more mutants rushed in from another room to figure out what the hell was happening they were caught utterly off guard by the two angry deathclaws that simply seemed to spring out of nowhere and rush right at them.
The pair were on them before any of them could even get a weapon into the raised position, not that they could even fre them when they did because for some strange reason all of the ammunition just jumped out of their weapons all at once like it simply didn't want to fight the two angry claws that were tearing into them with their wicked claws.
While that was going on the door containing the now utterly astonished human popped open as the lock holding it shut was picked open by invisible hands.
"Come with us if you want to live!" Gregory said from right in front of the utterly confused and frightened man.
"W-W-Who y-y-you!?" the man said in what sounded like broken English.
"No time to explain, Riss, get him clear we gotta go more of them are coming and Visa and Ven are going to get overwhelmed!" Gregory said quickly.
"With pleassssure" Riss said and before the man could even say another word he was yanked from the cage and thrown roughly over the large invisible Nightstalker's shoulder.
Just as Seven saw the captive human apparently floating arse first across the street towards his position more mutants began to spill into the fray from above, "Wisp you're up!" Seven yelled as he focused on disarming any projectile weapons he saw the mutants wielding, his brain felt like it was full of needles being shaken around but he would not let the pain beat him, the life of both his friends and the woman he loved was on the line here.
In a stand-up fight without firearms, the mutants were not matched for the incredibly strong and angry claws, both Visa and Ven were kicking and slashing left and right moving like a pair of dancers in perfect sync.
Every single slash of their huge claws was opening vicious wounds and sending sprays of hot blood into the air to paint the floor and walls, that's when the air around them filled with burning hot laser beams.
Both of them didn't bat eyelid as they both know this was part of Seven's master plan, plus they both knew that this was their cue to haul tail and get out of there, so as the mutants scrambled to duck into cover to avoid the barrage that was being aimed at them both claws turned on their heels and sprinted out of there back towards the diner.
"Clear! Seven now!" Ven roared as he dove into the cover behind the counter.
Seven blew out his held breath slowly and squeezed the trigger of his scoped hunting rifle.
The weapon roared and kicked but in his power-assisted hands, the rifle didn't move from its target.
Seven swore that it felt like time slowed down as he threw himself down behind the counter and pressed himself flat and in his mind he worried that he'd missed, but the white flash that bleached out all the colour in the world for the briefest of seconds above him said he'd hit his target square on.
The roar for the mini-nuke detonating inside the building across the street was utterly deafening, but then no one said splitting the atom was a quiet affair, all of the mutants hiding in the building across the street vanished in the blink of an eye.
As Seven dared to lift his head above the counter again he was just in time to see a huge pillar of pure golden flame rising upwards through the floors above creating a mushroom cloud about halfway up the building with the metal skeleton at its centre.
"Holy shit! Well, that fucking worked!" Wisp exclaimed as she hoisted her body back upright from her hiding spot behind a metal counter, most of the counters and walls of the diners were now scorched black from the heat that hit it from the nuke going off.
Just as Seven dared to get to his feet again he was instantly tackled back to the ground and found himself buried under a writhing mass of scaled muscle.
"Are you ok my male!? Tell me are you hurt in any way!?" Visa's voice exclaimed and Seven could feel various body parts being pulled out and his armour inspected for breaches by his overly concerned claw girl.
"I'm fine Visa, counter and the armour did their jobs," Seven said as he managed to hoist her off him thanks to the servo-assisted movement.
As he popped up from under her he looked around the diner just in time to see the others appearing from their cover spots, "Everyone ok? Sound off people" he called.
"My fucking ears are ringing but all good over here," Gregory said decloaking next to Ven who instantly scooped him up and hugged him tightly as he obviously hadn't realised his human was there with his cloak still on.
"I believe I am uninjured," Riss said appearing from her own cloak and Seven noticed she was still holding the human guy she and Gregory had pulled from the cage in her hands.
"How about our new friend there?" Seven said dusting himself off as he finally managed to make it to his feet while basically wearing the very clingy visa like a scaley coat, it was amazing what setting off a miniature thermonuclear weapon could do to amp up the emotions and the worry around here.
Riss hoisted the incredibly scared and confused man into the air and proceeded to turn him over like she was holding up a mannequin.
"He appearssss to be uninjured but I can check more thourghaly if you wissssh" she said looking him over and Seven could actually see her tongue flickering against his skin even from here.
The poor guy looked utterly scared out of his mind, "No that's ok Riss he looks fine, set him down, I believe introductions are in order and we'd better make it quick as something tells me a nuke going off does not go unnoticed around these parts" Seven said.
Seven clomped his way over to the now utterly stunned man and it was only now that Seven realised that he was a Native American tribal most likely from one of the tribes of Zion.
He looked up at Seven with wide dark brown eyes and he noticed that he had some kind of decorative paint drawn in very intricate patterns and shapes, "Hi there please don't be afraid, I know this group looks scary but we're honestly nice people, my name is Seven and despite what I look like I'm a human just like you under all this metal, so is the guy in the tight rubber suit currently being hugged to death by the big claw boy right there, the guy in the suit is called Gregory and his boyfriend slash life mate is Ven, the big beautiful claw girl who thinks I'm utterly unaware of her trying to sneak up on me to hug me from behind is called Visa" Seven said just a second before a pair of hands appeared on his chest and pulled him tightly backwards into her placing a rather large scaley boob on each shoulder pauldron.
The shocked guy looked from face to face that Seven pointed out, "The large rolling armoury over there is actually the sweetest living cloud girl you'll ever meet and she's called Wisp" Seven said pointing to Wisp who raised a gattling gun covered arm retracting the guns so she could wave at him.
"And finally the very friendly NightStalker girl with eyes like dishpans who looks like she's trying to find a way to push her tongue through your ear and out the other one is Riss, trust me everyone here looks scary, but we're really not," Seven said gesturing to everyone.
Finally, the guy spoke, "T-Thank you for life-saving, I called Runs-With-NightStalkers, I is from tribe of Dead Horses" the man said pressing his hand to his chest and that's when Seven noticed that partially covered by the paint on his chest was a large tattoo of what appeared to be a man running with what had looked like wolves but upon closer inspection were actually a pack of quadrupedal NightStalkers all running through what appeared to be a forest together.
"Huh well, would you look at that, looks like the stars just aligned, what are the chances of Riss being the one to spot you of all people in that cage and getting us to help her pull you out of there with a name like that?" Seven said grinning at Riss under his helmet.
RWN turned to look at Riss as her tongue which was flickering next to his ear actually touched it and tickled it, this was the first time he got a truly good look at her as Seven had guessed his initial shock and surprise had blinded him somewhat and now his mind was catching up with him.
His expression changed from one of curiosity to one of utter shock, "S-S-Shadow Walker!" he exclaimed loudly and instantly threw himself to the floor on his hands and knees with his forehead kissing the floor right at the very confused looking Riss's feet.
"Shadow Walker?" Seven asked curiously.
RWN was utterly shaking like he feared Riss would reach down and smite him, "P-P-Please f-f-forgive S-S-Shadow Walker! G-G-Green ones steal family and friends and eat, w-w-was, not they fault, w-w-was mine, did not see in time, please guide to realm of spirits!" he said in a voice that was filled with fear and reverence.
Riss looked at the others with a look of pure confusion painted on her face, "I umm think he thinks your a spirit of some kind Wisp said looking at Riss.
Riss knelt down and placed a hand on the shaking man's bare shoulder, "Rissss is not a sssspirit pretty red human, Rissss is just Rissss, I am a NightSSSStalker" she said and he lifted his head to look at her as she tried her best to give him a warm smile all while her tongue flickered a few inches away from his face.
"B-B-But Riss is NightStalker who walks like man, talks like man, saves one of the people from the green ones, Riss must be Shadow Walker!" he exclaimed.
That's when Wisp heard something, or rather that array of sensors of hers did, "Err guys we gotta go we got incoming" she said in a very stern voice.
Seven looked where she was incidacting and instantly he began to hear the distant hooting and growling of what had to be Ghouls a whole lot of Ghouls.
"Time just ran out guys, Riss grab Runs With You and let's get the fuck out of here or we're going to be up to our asses in rotter's" Seven yelled.
For some reason, he didn't have to prompt her twice and Riss grabbed the surprised-looking tribal man up and once again threw him over her shoulder and the group were out of there like all of their tails were on fire.
There is no sight quite like seeing two deathclaws running down a city street one of which was being ridden by a human in a rubber stealth suit, being pursued by a human in full power armour, a black painted sentry bot that already had its gun arms spinning and was periodically spinning on its body pivot to fire backwards while also being pursued by a human in full power armour as well as a Bipedal NightStalker girl who was also carrying another human over her shoulder.
"Keep running they're fucking gaining on us!" Wisp yelled as she spun around again to spray the utter horde of feral Ghouls that was filling the street stampeding down the road behind them with laser fire.
"We need to find a place to hide!" Gregory yelled from Ven's back as his big claw boy thundered along like a champion racehorse below him.
"There! Go there!" Visa yelled pointing into the distance.
Seven followed her point and saw a huge very official-looking building looming up in the distance, it looked like it might be a capital building of some kind, but given its size and by the look of it being in incredibly good nick it should hopefully be easy to secure and lockdown.
Even in the power armour with it taking most of the load Seven's lungs were still burning like crazy as they ran up the huge flight of steps to the huge reinforced doors which thanks to whatever metal they were coated with were still standing.
Visa and Ven hit them like a pair of living bulldozers and the pair spun on the spot sliding on the marble floor to grab a door each waiting for the others to rush past them and into the huge atrium, Wisp was the last one through and no sooner was she through they slammed the doors hard with a huge bang.
"Find something to brace it!" Ven yelled as he and his sister struggled to hold them shut, their large clawed feet screeching as they dug them into the marble flooring.
Seven instantly spotted a huge brass and cast iron banded beam standing against the wall next to the doors in a large decorative style stand, "Wisp hep me!" he yelled and the pair dashed forwards smashing through the display and hoisting the heavy beam up which caused Seven's servos to scream with the strain.
The pair struggled over to the door and with a tremendous effort, they slammed the huge bracing beam into the slots on the door and walls with a huge echoing bang that pealed away into the darkness of the huge building.
Seven collapsed backwards onto his ass with a bang which was drowned out by the growling and howling not to mention the banging against the heavy doors, "Holy fucking shit that was a close one" he breathed.
"No time to rest my love, we don't know if the rest of the building is secure, we need to find a safe place to lock down just in case they get inside somehow," Visa said puffing heavily as she hoisted him back to his feet, he felt her lean against him and he instantly moved and propped her up.
"You ok my love?' he asked and she nodded.
"Sorry just out of breath," she said and he shook his head.
"Don't you dare apologise sugar tail, you just saved all of our lives, here, lean on me and don't you dare argue with your human, he knows what's best" Seven said smiling inside his helmet as he wrapped her long arm around his shoulder and held her up.
Ven grinned and did a little whip cracking motion with his large hand, "That told you" he said grinning.
"Don't get cocky there claw boy, you answer to me remember? Now come along let's get you some water to drink and get you rested, then you WILL submit to a full foot, leg and shoulder massage because I will not have MY claw suffering in any way on MY watch" Gregory said taking hold of Ven's hand leading the now surprised and rather meek claw away in search of somewhere to rest him, much to everyone's surprise including Runs-With-Nightstalkers who was still hanging from Riss's shoulder.
Visa watched her brother being led up what looked to be a circular staircase that leads to the first floor of the large building to go in search of a place to rest, then she glanced at Seven with a slightly worried look on her face, Seven grinned inside his helmet.
"Don't give me that look you're not getting off without a massage either claw girl, now come along your human is going to be looking after you now" he said grinning evilly inside his helmet and he knew she could feel it.
Visa huffed but then she smiled softly, "Thank you, my beautiful human," she said quietly as Seven led her limping along towards the stairs as her brother.
"Umm I'll find another way up" Wisp called looking at the stairs and Seven gave a wave of his hand to acknowledge her as she rolled off deeper into the lobby, he wasn't exactly worried about her given that she was in the body of a heavily armed sentry bot and was basically a living cloud.
He also noticed that Riss had not placed RWN back down on his feet and was still holding him clamped tightly on her shoulder and he couldn't help but smile to himself and shake his head slightly as he helped his own huge non-human girl up the stairs after her brother and his human love, at least no day was boring with this lot of crazy tails around.
"In here guys! This will be perfect!" Gregory's voice echoed back to them from further down the narrow landing that was full of heavy wooden doors, apparently, he'd found an open one and had headed inside.
Seven led Visa towards the door and was pleasantly surprised to find that Gregory had found what looked to be some kind of luxurious office and by the time they entered the door Gregory had planted his big claw boy on a huge leather seat and was currently in the process of propping both his huge feet up on.
"Nice catch Gregory, this will be perfect, alright sugar tail plant that perfect rear end of yours in that seat there and get ready for the foot massage of your life," he said pointing to a second huge leather armchair and Visa obediently moved over and planted her big sexy bum in it while Seven promptly grabbed a second footstool and made his way over to her to place it in front of her just as Wisp rolled in holding the next thing on Gregory's list, a giant water bottle filled to the brim and designed for a water cooler.
"Check out what I found near the wheelchair ramp," she said holding out the bottle to Gregory who gratefully took it from her and turned back to his claw boy.
"Right pampering time claw boy and don't you dare try to argue with me, you're getting all the human love that big heart of yours can take," Gregory said popping the bottle and trying to find something to pour it into just as Riss placed Runs-With-Nightstalkers down on what appeared to be a leather couch.
"Alright Runs, while we pamper our big beautiful claws here why don't you tell us what happened to you and what you're doing here so far from home, don't you guys live in Zion?" Seven said as propped Visa's very tired and sore looking feet on the footstool.
Runs-With-NightStalkers nodded and taking a deep breath as Riss sat herself down on the couch next to him began to tell his tale as best he could.