Skybound Volume 2: The Witch Of Jubilee.

Chapter 7: Reset

Midus walked along the mansion, Jenna had always kept this place rather tidy, though he never could figure out why.

He looked down to his chest, his armor was still broken of course.

But his wound was healed, he couldn't recall when that happened but he surmised it must have been while he went through the portal.

But his thoughts drifted back to the mansion.

To him, it just looked like any other dirty building... albeit, one with strangely long hallways.

He paused as he saw Jenna appear in front of him, "You know why you're here?" Jenna said with an arched brow and scowl.

Midus said nothing at first, he hated answering to this girl after all.

But soon enough he spoke, "Because I tried to kill the Shadewalker." he uttered the only logical answer, "And because you owe me a favor."

Jenna closed her eyes, "While I'm not thrilled about your little bout with Skylar, she's alive. And that's good enough for me at the moment, as for the favor I owe you... I'm sure I don't need to tell you why my hands are tied at the moment, I can drop you off somewhere but that's about it." Jenna declared as the hallway behind her began to melt into a staircase, the same staircase that led into her dining room, she was famished after all.

Midus nodded, walking down the stairs alongside Jenna, "In that case, you can drop me off at the Empire, particularly the airship docks."

Jenna arched a brow at that, "Oh? And here I thought you'd want to see your empress right away..."

Midus glared at Jenna even as she sat down on a chair and uncapped her dinner, it was a set of fingers, ripped right off the hands of children this time around, Midus wasn't the least bit disturbed by the sight, "Don't be absurd, I've been bested by this Shadewalker twice now... And if I can't beat her, there's no way Lust can."

Jenna reached forward grabbed her fork and forcefully stabbed it into the flesh on the fingers, "Yeah that never made any sense to me... Why serve someone who's weaker than you? Seems like a stupid choice." Jenna started waving her fork around the air, "Or did you have something planned with her? Maybe you were hoping to drag her into bed and get the good stuff eh?" Jenna smirked suggestively trying to evoke some sort of reaction out of Midus.

She was met with disappointment as he simply walked up to Jenna and spoke, "The portal please."

Jenna looked up to him with a frown before sighting and extending her free hand the portal opened up just behind Midus, "You're no fun." she muttered with a bored expression as she stuck the severed finger into her mouth biting down upon it.

Midus didn't respond, instead, he started to walk forward toward the portal, "Ah, one more thing." Jenna spoke with her mouth still full, she paused for a second before swallowing, "I'm sure this isn't something I need to warn you about, but I'll give you the courtesy nevertheless, next time you see Skylar... She'll kill you."

Midus stopped at those words before walking forward through his portal, uttering his response, "We'll see."

The portal closed behind him, Jenna sighed looking down at her plate, "You try to give a man a warning and he just ignores it... Maybe that's why I've never been fond of men." Jenna then squinted at her plate, "Course women aren't much better in that regard... Seems to just be a human problem." Jenna then closed her eyes for a moment, "... Eternals are the worst in that regard, at least humans can change their views."

Jenna then looked up to the roof of her building, "Humans, Gods, and Eternals... Light, Dark. And All in between... The one true struggle."

Chapter 7: Reset