Itallics represent the dark side of the personality, You should join us, we have cake! Dont Do it! Anyway, on with the show!
I continued my semi-aimless wandering for about an hour. I decided to hide in a nearby cave around dawn. My reasoning was simple, I don't care if it's day or night, and Rumia is nocturnal. Rumia fell asleep with her teeth still in my arm (shouldn't she have let go?). I decided I may as well explore the cave, so I picked up the weight attached to my arm and walked deeper into the cave. This is one huge cave.
The first thing of interest I came to was (cue dramatic music) a small pond. I won't bore you with the details of the rest of my walk. (… Shit, I just broke the fourth wall didn't I?) In the end I found nothing of interest. This went on for many days, many, many days.
Eventually I found the right place (don't ask how long it took, please). So, I walked along the path, ignoring the girl who kept making comments about jealousy. You could just kill her. Ok, I haven't eaten in waaaay to long. After a while more walking (I really need to learn how to fly) I ran into a girl pushing a wheelbarrow filled with lots of dead bunnies, some of them killed in quite creative ways. That one there looks tasty. Shut up, I'm not going to eat something dead in a wheelbarrow. Then I noticed something odd about the girl, which I had to ask about.
"Why do you have four ears?" She looked at me like I was completely insane. "What? I'm just curious."
She smiled, "don't you know that curiosity killed the cat?" I just had to smile at that, followed by a very accurate kitteny meow. After we had both finished laughing she asked, "So, what are you down here for?" I didn't see any reason to lie, so I told the truth (or at least some of it). "Well, I'm headed that direction for a bit so why don't you follow me?"
"Lead the way!" eventually I got bored. "So, a lot of dead bunnies, huh?" she nodded. "Some of them look pretty artistically killed,,," She nodded again. Rumia finally woke up at this time. I was still looking at the pile of bodies and didn't notice. "Wait, is that one a chef?" she nodded, "then I guess you could say that they were,,, out of thyme." I pulled the sunglasses off as I said the last few words. Rumia smacked me, "ok, ok, I deserved that."
"We're here!" hooray! "Just go through that door and (if necessary) explain what you need." We waved goodbye and said thanks, I even told her I will find out the answer to my first question. And I opened the doors (well, technically only one) stealthily. I walked through the large entryway and walked towards the first person I found, motioning for Rumia to be quiet.
"You aren't going to be able to sneak up on me, Rumia. I know you're there," she said. I continued to sneak closer, she continued to tell Rumia that she couldn't sneak up on her. Eventually I was right behind her, all she said was, "Rumia, really, you can't sneak up on me, I can read your mind."
I responded with the first thing that came to mind, in my best impression of my arms permanent guest's voice, "Is that so?" She nods, and I ask a simple question in my own voice, "Then why haven't you said a single thing about me?" She seemed surprised, "what, didn't know there were two of us?" Ah, aren't mindgames fun? But all games must come to an end, so I walked around in front of her.
"So, you are the one who snuck up on me." I nod. "Well, since I'm sure you are wondering, I am Satori. Looking at Rumia's memories, you've already met one of my pets, Rin it seems." So that's her name, good thing to remember. "So, why are you here?"
"I need help," I proceeded to tell her the story to tell her what I needed. She told me that her sister could help, told me I was lucky that she was here at the time, and told me how to get to her. After going through some strange places I reached the room shown. I walked into the room and saw a girl who matched the description I was given. " Are you Koishi?"
"Yes, but who are you?" That's part of the problem! I explained the problem I was having and my idea for a solution. "Yes, that might work, but why should I help you?" Because I asked nicely? "And besides, I couldn't help you even if I wanted to." WHAT? "I can't help you because you have no pulse." Well, at least I know what I need to do.
As I was walking out I asked Satori the same question I had vowed to find out the answer to. "It's a secret no one knows." I almost laughed aloud at that, but decided against it. I waved goodbye and told Rumia to hang on, and took off at my maximum speed, quickly slowing down to 'cruising speed'. And so I ran.
So, the next destination should be obvious, but who will we see on the way there? Oh, the last chapter lied, it's title was a song lyric, not a pun, but, oh well.