Who Are We, Really?

A Red-Eyed Problem

"You two better be careful out there!" 

"We will, I'll be sure to take care of Lena until Alaska wakes back up!" 

"I still don't agree with it but since Lena wants to go... I'll accept it." 

The two girls were finally making their exit from Vale in order to move up to the city or town of Frostleaf but still, the exact details of what type it was were kinda shrouded so they would just have to see once they got there. City or town, it didn't matter as their prize wasn't the place itself. 

Their final goodbyes to their friends, which was really only just a few of the desk workers at the guild and Maka, they had everything they needed to set out. 

Alaska had yet to wake and it's been a whole two days since she last spoke. 

As for now, both girls were sat on horses with them walking their way out away from the city. 

"I'm sure things won't be too bad for now." 

The months had also just changed and with them heading into November, hopefully, things didn't get too cold for the catgirl though, with Electricity powers, it'd be hard to get cold since you can constantly generate heat. 

The same goes for Lisbeth who has fire powers. The cold north won't be a problem but the creatures might be as they have no clue what awaits them up there. 

"I'm not worried about Alaska, AK is always telling me that she's still there just asleep or something like that." Lena then noticed that she had said something about AK even though they never told her about it. 

"AK? ...Alaska really asked for that..." 

"She did." 

With Lena knowing most of Alaska's life and Lisbeth being her best friend, it came as no surprise to Lisbeth to learn about AK's existence. In the back of her mind, she automatically should've assumed that's something Alaska had. 

"You know, some of her choices make a little more sense now. Like the fact she would sometimes eat random berries even though she has no clue what the wilderness is... she had a little robot in her head telling her stuff." Lisbeth was mostly upset at the fact she hadn't been told rather than anything else. At the same time, she can't really be mad since she never asked as well. 

Lisbeth pulled out a map from one of the pouches on the horse and got to making their route, "Well, whatever. This trip should take us about a month and there should be a town in the middle of that so I'll just mark that-" 

"Wait, we can have AK direct us. She will always know where to go!" Lena's happy little face made Lisbeth question even getting this map. 

"Ah..." She felt a bit useless but if it's less work for her, she doesn't really care about that. "Sure. I mean, there's no way she could mess up and she knows the shortest route." Just in case, she tucked the map back into the pouch as she might need it herself one of these times. 

About twenty minutes into their journey, a very large ruffling coming from the bushes next to them caught their attention and when all you have around you is trees, it'd be best to pay attention to everything. 

Even the small things like these. 

Lisbeth pulled her weapon from off her horse and pointed it towards the brush. Lena pulled next to the girl and used lightning Creation: Spears as her main way of fighting. 

What popped out of the bush was a big white fox head. It was sniffing around and once it came out of the bush, it had one more tail than last time totaling up to three now.