For I came to see, -and saw I did, - may you take back - what once I bid.
Katuki was overwhelmed and unable to properly maintain a clear mind as the days in his castle grew more chaotic. He married a woman he didn't love and was certain he never wi...
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The roads they walked down were filled with people, all looking in their direction and yelling for attention. Katsukis a little greatful that Mirio was accompanied so in the guards he lacked in, Mirio made up for it. He was a little surprised when all of the attendants at the library followed them out, but were later introduced as Mirio's guards, who were also disguised as fellow travelers. All except that one in the dark tunic that had disappeared from his shared table with Katsuki.
The two Kingly figures were stationed up the front, one horse trotting ahead to part the streets if they got too busy to pass through, while the rest surrounded their sides and back in case of a breach. Even so, Katsuki made sure to keep the book Inasa gave him on his person. It was what was most important out of all the things he had and hadn't gotten a chance to read it.
"If I may ask, what were you doing at the city archives?" Mirio asked after a while of their trekking.
"I can ask you the same thing with your curiosity on Elven and Druid spirits and sorcery. Oddly specific." Katsuki counters, not once looking at the man.
"That I can answer. The towns I passed had many folklore about them and I was interested, but towns don't have a resourceful library like one kept behind grand walls. Tho, I see that you were curious about magic, no?" Mirio asks and Katsuki breathes out a huff.
"Not that there's much information on it, besides how to burn and end the life of a person that uses sorcery anyway. I can see why people call us the 'Brutes' of the world." Katsuki sighs. "I might need to venture further if I want to gather more information."
"Do you think that this plague was caused by sorcery?" Mirio asked, intrigued.
"What else could it be? A plague that doesn't kill people directly is not a plague, it's a dearth of some kind. The Plague has only infected the soils and water, making our food rot from both sources and rendering our people hungry."
"You seem to trust me with all of these thoughts you have." Mirio observes, to which Katsuki furrows his brows but only looks ahead of him.
"It's common knowledge, not trust. I was in that Library to look for clues, not to satisfy my curiosity." Katsuki says, remembering the man with green hair and golden strands, always beside his mother whispering his predictions to her willing ear. Remembering Shoto telling him about a change in history of beasts no longer being told tales and children stories, but becoming real. That 'beasts that rule the skies', were real.
The rest of the ride was quiet, their talk descending into mindless thoughts. Katsukis mind was back to the castle and the story Shoto had heard that Veticinator tell his mother and searched for loop holes or clues. He tried breaking it down into different possibilities, but there were too many to keep up with. With Gods, Magic, the hidden plague, and even everything that had gone down with King Enji and his sheltered threats, it gave him a headache. Not to mention everything with the loss of no longer being able to send ships out over to the Glamorian Dynasty in search of new lands further out into the sea.
