A Familiar Void

Chapter 13

Kirche let out a yawn as she entered the classroom, already she was hoping for the end of the week again so that she could just stay in her room all day instead of heading to class.

But class was class, and even if it was Earth Magic lessons today, at least it wasn't Water lessons today. She'd do better with the former than the latter.

When she stepped into the classroom, she turned to where a petite mage was sitting.

With a pout on her face, and her arms crossed over her small chest, she looked like angry puppy that got poked in their nose.

"Louise," she called out to her, causing her to turn to her "You okay?"

For a moment she looked at her, pout still on her face. Then she sighed and nodded with a neutral look on her face "Yeah I'm fine, the exhaustion wore off after I got a good nap."

"That's good." Kirche then noticed that there was something missing. She pointed to the empty spot beside her, which usually held a small child-sized figure scribbling in a notebook and asked "Where Bug?"

The pout returned full force and Louise turned away from her with a 'Hump' "My Familiar," she stressed out the last word "Is currently outside with the larger Familiars."

Kirche raised an eyebrow "You still punishing it for almost letting you drown?" She asked.

"No," Louise shook her head in response "I already punished it for that, I didn't give it dinner for the night."

"Harsh." Kirche stated.

"It's what it deserves," Louise stated back. The Valliere let out a sigh "But that's not why he's outside today. The reason for being kicked out of the classroom is because when I came back from the bath yesterday I found out that it scratched my bed sheets," she let out a small growl "And it didn't even have the decency to look sorry."

There was pause as Kirche looked away with a questioning look on her face, she turned back to the smaller mage and asked "Can it look sorry? It's just a skull with a body of water right?"

Louise gave an irritated sigh "It's not like it can't talk to me, it can but when I asked it about the bedsheets it didn't even see anything wrong with what it did." Her eye twitched "It even had the audacity to say that the bed was wrong because it didn't bounce it high enough."

Kirche couldn't help but laugh "It seems to be reacted more violently to being denied dinner than you thought!"

"Oh shut up," Louise shot back "Before it didn't even want to eat, now that it's been denied dinner once because of a punishment its gone on a tantrum." She looked back at her desk "Besides, it's not like I'm gonna keep depriving it of food, it was just for last night," she muttered.

The Germanian, tired of standing, took a seat a couple chair away from her. Resting her face in her palm she asked "What does your Familiar even eat?"

"Water."

"Water?" Kirche's eyebrows furrowed. She paused, looking at her for a moment "Does a Water Spirit eat water? That be like, us eating humans."

"I don't know!" Louise replied "I mean tried feeding it cherries and fruit, but it didn't do anything according to Bug." She leaned back in her chair "I mean, if it's not water, then what does a Water Spirit?"