♥ - 01
The light of the moon gently basked to my veins and the gentle winds stroked my furs. It would've been a very relaxing night hadn't we get caught in this mess. I was separated from Helena and Arata during earlier attacks. While I wanted to come and help them as soon as possible, such was simply impossible.
I hope they are fine.
There were fifty... no, sixty bandits-not including the fifteen I had knocked unconscious-surrounding me. I was no longer in a shape to prolong the fight. My dominant right arm was injured and my stamina had nearly depleted.
I had been scavenging around for few years and still got caught in troubles. It was a careless mistake for me.
"What's wrong foxy girl, exhausted already? Why don't you just give up here and now?"
"Hey, maybe we can mess around with this one before finishing our job."
"That's right! That's right! It would be a waste if we didn't use these silmans first."
Silman. That is what the others called us. We are those who are cursed to grow animal features, basically a humanoid animals. Our body gradually grow animal features starting around the age of six. The animals we turn into are varied from reptilian, mammal, avian to pisces. I am a fox silman.
For those who remained human, we are considered as cursed beings who must be eradicated at all cost. That was until four years and several months ago when our contribution aided the war effort. Since then, they started to consider us as a part of the society. But with their grudges still lingering, we are simply standing at the lowest of hierarchy. 'We don't want to accept you, but we are indebted to you' was the kind of feeling they were giving.
I don't see any silman amongst them. Are they an anti-silman extremist group? Some of those still exists after all. In any case, the tide of battle are not in my favors. Several of those I had knocked unconscious are starting to stand up, it'll just be a matter of time before all of them do. What should I do? Will this be the end of the line?
♦ - 01
The moon is beautiful tonight, it also seems a bit blue if I have to judge.
A gentle warm spring breeze flowed over my scales and shook the nearby branches. I was sitting on a big branch, leaning on the trunk and looking at the starry night sky.
'I think it'll be another pleasant nights' is what I want to say, but what is this unnerving feels that I can't shake off? There are no suspicious heat around.
Since I couldn't sleep in the plight, I jumped off from the tree I had been perching on for a while. Guided by my guts, I walked deeper into the dense thicket.
♠ - 01
I walked leisurely in a dense thicket. Rays of moonlight seeped through the crevices formed between the leaves and branches, providing little illumination in the dark forest for me to read my book.
I learned today that accepting requests alone is stressful. I'll have to make sure that I don't accept any before Kenzie recovers. Not having someone reliable next to you while the others can't even follow a simple plan is more troublesome than I expected. But in any case, this book sure is good. I wish I can try these soon.
77 Interrogative Tortures was the book I had been reading for a while. Few days ago, I bought this from the book merchant whom I regularly bought these kind of stuffs. He sells a lot of weird books. Since I was alone, I hardly had any spare time to read it during my contract spell. This is my habit-a hobby rather-during free times, reading random books.
