It Started with Slime - Part 1

Chapter 83 - Learn the Basics

"The ride to Brewyn is roughly four hours. So if you behave, I will let you out. How does that sound? Though your words don't fill me with much confidence, anyone wanting me to trust them would say, 'you can trust me. I would be a fool to believe that. Still, your actions thus far speak for you" Aarav nodded in acquiescence. Also, you know that if I try to escape, you can catch me again in a heartbeat. So letting me out of the bag is a minor inconvenience at worst. I simple snatch job at best. I am so screwed. "About what you were going to ask, that was obvious." Haemish stared at Aarav at this point in the universally accepted expression of 'no, duh' the little captive was sure he would have put it more eloquently. Then he paused for a moment as if considering his following words carefully.

"You are sentient. That is obvious to anyone who speaks to you, whether a Boss Copycat Slime or anything else. However, you are still a monster, and in any situation where it mattered would be considered as such. Under normal circumstances, with you as a human, it would make sense to put you in the Academy and learn the basics there.

"However, seeing as you are a monster, and if I am honest, I still don't know what your motives are. I also cannot see anything that I understand in your status screen apart from the complete gibberish that I penned for you-" he quirk is brow at Aarav at that, perhaps suspecting some deception? "-I cannot allow you out of my sight until I understand what you can do and what danger you pose. That being said, I am not inherently mistrustful of you. If you do not give me a reason to suspect you of nefarious dealings, then I will treat you as; not an ally, but at least not an enemy."

"Oh wow, strong words indeed! Not an enemy!" Aarav wasn't going to mess around. He had minded his own business on their gryphons. Flying around the forest just like any of those other creatures, and biting the one human he encountered, perhaps slightly poisoning him, and just living his life the way he wanted, that one I can own didn't do anything wrong there. Come on, conscience! Would you stop cropping up at inconvenient times? The Way Forward is... Forward, I am looking at you! A hard look, damn it. I wish it would leave me alone once, just once. Can't I rant and rave and just blame them!?

"Hey, best I can do, and considering how well we know each other so far, I would say that is a lot more than I should strictly be giving." Haemish raised his hands in a pacifying gesture to the Slime.

"Yeah, yeah...fine, whatever. You have all the power here anyway. Nothing I can do about it," then, under his breath, "yet."

Haemish frowned as he looked at the Slime but said nothing more. The conversation lapsed into silence. I'm feeling tired anyway, I'm exhausted, those potions did something weird to me, and I had a hell of a day almost dying and whatnot. It's time to nap since I am unlikely to face imminent death anytime soon. It had only been a few hours since his startling awakening, but it had been a lifetime. His eyes closed as he drifted off into what he hoped would be a pleasant slumber.

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Rain pelted his eyes through his eyelids. The droplets were heavy against the thin skin. He couldn't feel his legs for a moment until a moment of realisation. I'm Slime. I don't have legs. But then, why were his arms and torso on fire? Everything hurt. Where was he? What was going on? The irritation of water hitting his eyes seemed tiny by comparison to his other pain. How had he not noticed that before? What was going on?

Come on, man, you've been in near-death experiences before. Take one step at a time. Aarav thought to himself as he tried to take stock of the current situation. What had been doing?

Okay, I was riding a gryphon. Hey, wait, I fell asleep? What kind of idiot does that? Now I am lying on a tarmac road and a view of the suspension cables of a suspension bridge. Why does it seem so shockingly familiar?

Only when the looming figure silhouetted against the full moon came into view did he understand what was going on. These were his final moments. "Haha! The RASH finally bit it. I can't believe that was the code name he wanted to use!" Even over the rain, Aarav could make out the man's words and his laughter. His boot swung for Aarav's ribs, and even in his current state, reflex made him flinch away. Even more, pain flared through his upper body, lower body unmoving and unfeeling from the sternum down. The boot still caught him in the small ribs, and a grunt burst from his lips. He would not give this thing the satisfaction. He would not scream with his last breath, instead he would go with a bit of dignity. Of course, pride may have flown out the window when his bowels had emptied upon lower body death.

The idiot's insult echoed in his mind as his vision faded for the last time. "The RASH"..."The RASH"..."The RASH"

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Aarav or Rash or was it Resh?...woke with a start. Pleasant slumber by the tiny slimy ass! It turned out he had been wrong about that.

Those guys, even when I was dying, couldn't allow me a little dignity? A single incident, and they label you for life! I hate the lot of them! No one ever treated me with any respect. I'm glad to be rid of them.

Aaarv had no idea if it was the captivity after all the times captive in enclosed spaces or just that he was still feeling claustrophobic in the bag, but that nightmares had come back, and with a level of clarity he hadn't had in life. After that brief moment of realisation, he again drifted off into uneasy sleep.

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