The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 8: Bottom of the Food Chain PT1

It had been a long few painful weeks but Prism had been finally free of the house arrest and needless to say, it had been like she had been finally allowed to breathe. Though she still couldn't go anywhere without a personal guard, it wasn't like she minded that sort of thing.

    And the first thing she wanted to do was finally check out the Noble Realm with her own eyes. The very first stop they had gone to had been a little antique store that had sold various items most of them being of magic.

    The moment she had stepped into the store she couldn't help but run to the closest shelf as she started to look at each one as she had been completely in awe. Accompanying her in the store, had been Pluck, Karasu and Noelle, though the person that had been guarding her had been of course Yami.

    "Bime i elena!" Prism said as she had been checking out the various objects, one of them had been a jade bunny, with sapphire eyes and another had been a dog with pearls for eyes, "They both look so cute! I don't think I can choose one!"

    "How about we just buy them all?" Noelle asked

"Well we can't just buy them all." Pluck told her as he lightly tapped her head.. "That'll be overspending!

"Plus we're on a budget, in case you didn't notice." Karasu said nonchalantly.

    Noelle said with a huff, "hmph, excuses."

    "Why are we even in a place where I need to be crapping out golden eggs to afford half of this stuff again?" Karasu asked as he looked to Yami who had been looking at the various objects on display.

    Yami replied taking a puff from his cigarette, "Well Lizard Girl wanted to give the familiars a gift since they got their own grimoires now. But because of your game we couldn't do it until she was free from her house arrest."

    "I told you before, we don't remember who came up with that dare." Pluck said.

"That was like two days ago when Liam and Saorise got them right?" Karasu pointed out.

    "And like I said she was on house arrest" Yami said, "Particularly that one regarding that thief incident where Sword Boy nearly blew her up."

    Pluck flinched at this before he had a nervous smile on his face, "That was an accident."

    Noelle pointed out, "That is no excuse for your actions."

    Pluck simply flicked her head as he said "No one asked you."

    "Can you two try not to bicker today?" Yami asked. "I get enough of that from the wolf boy thank you."

    Prism soon went into one of the aisles nearby, as she took what looked to be a doll with golden hair, porcelain skin and blue glass eyes, wearing a purple dress decorated with flowers and a bonnet had been on its head, "Aww, this looks so cute!" Prism said, "Saorise is going to love this one!" She soon went over to Pluck, "Here Plu-Plu, would mind holding this for me?"

    "U-uuh yeah. Sure!" Pluck said nervously but in his mind he thought "Play it cool. Don't be honest today"

    "Oh, you've got Porcelain dolls here too?" Karasu said, intrigued.

    Yami had told him nonchalantly, "I was surprised too, I thought it was only sold at the black market."

    "Why-Why do I feel like it's staring at me?" Noelle said as she shuddered.

    Pluck had said as his body shivered, "just look away, don't look at it's eyes."

    Noelle soon moved away, and went towards where Prism had been. "Look not that I'm telling you to hurry, but could you?" Noelle asked as she jumped back from a shelf of porcelain dolls, "Any more of this, and I think I might die on the inside."