“What do you think our lives are going to be like in a year, wan? …” We hold each other and stare across the water. The sounds of people laughing and living across from us, the lights strung across the stalls reflecting on the water a yellow and red in contrast to the white of the moon sliding slowly across the water.
“I think… we are going to live together in the central region… have Keeks over all the time, if not idk we could get a room for the cute little yeen… get a really nice place, one that has the full house VR so that our Fia’s can exist in a space with us… I heard it really makes them feel more human, not that they don't already feel more human than lots of the people I’ve met in my life… uhh… I think Buta is going to be the same, I just… want us to be happy like this you know?...” She smiles at me like she has our whole lives together, so full of love and compassion… even when I didn't think it could exist for myself.
“Yeah… that life sounds perfect… just means we’ve got to try harder to get there… Keeks said she sent you a bunch of money for the stream since it made way more than she thought it would, so there's our start. With the money I get from my subscriptions from writing fanfictions… which I’ve had a lot more inspiration lately you know heh… but yeah, we can make such a life… I mean, if Keeks would want that of course, she definitely has a lot in her brain despite showing so little of it hehe, you could become an axi-tuber! My Little Big moo and her adventures through vore land wan!” I laugh and nudge her forwards, snuggling into the crook of her neck.
“Dummy, it's never on purpose… seems I’m only allowed to kill monsters on the inside nowadays haha, Oh I've still got the growth crystal by the way. It just says growth, kinda worried that it's not like “bigger muscles” or something as an ability… not that I need them moo!” I flex my arms out and I feel her hands go around them, then her face against them gently.
“You already have the best of everything in the body department love hehe, and here I thought I would be getting all of the tits between us, now look at us, I'm flat as a board, I swear you've stolen all my titty from me! Give it all back!” She has started rubbing her body into my chest making me giggle and moan a little.
“Dummy heh, not in public moo!” We laugh together softly, looking at the scene again, after a few minutes I feel in my chest, I need to ask it, the thing I’ve always felt I was. “Ever since I was… operated on… I’ve had a voice that isn’t my own, deep down when I'm in my worst places, it tells me all the things I don't want to hear, like it's trying to drive me deeper… for me to do bad things, things that I’d never want to do…” I feel her hand on my head, stroking the hair between my horns, “Do… Do you think that makes me a monster?...”
“No.” She gets up and turns herself around so she can hug me, “The only monsters are the people that treated you like they did… the ones that caused you all this pain love, those are the real monsters in this world, that would do such things to my Lilia.” She says it with such confidence it's hard to not nod to her words, despite the voice inside telling me she’s wrong, screaming that I should only ever listen to it, the voice that has been in my brain since I was 14.
I close my eyes and put my forehead against hers, I thank her so deeply in my heart, just wishing that it was only her voice I would ever hear in my mind.
“I'm back! I found a stall with a deep double decker ice cream bowl! Its moon flavored! It tastes more like blueberries and vanilla though, but it was too big so that's all I ended up getting! Praise me nyehehe! Ah sorry am I interrupting romantic times nye?” She pulls back a little and I pull back from Zel and smile at her, “Well at least you found Cali while you were there moo!” She looks at me dumbfounded.
“I… found Cali… uhh yes that was what I was supposed to do… yes… I CAN REFUND YOU NYE!” I start laughing as I don't think she’s realized yet.
“Keeks… Cali is right next to you moo!” Cali is standing a little behind Keeks also with a bowl of ice cream, along with her little girlfriend and another bowl of ice cream.
“I wha AAAAAAA! Dont scare me like that… uhh I mean… yes, oh! Cali! Dont eat too much… see I dids it nye…” She smiles at me guiltily, making Zel laugh then climb out of my lap before sliding up against me and patting her lap, instantly making Keeks run over to find her position again.
“Hey Cali I thought you were going to get a lot of food moo?” She smiles happily.
“We moo’d it all down while walking together and then saw this moo and thought we should follow her and she got ice cream! It looked so good! But we already full moo’s so just got smaller bowls moo!” Her little girlfriend next to her nods and comments that it's not carrots but it's just as good for your goodness, “Moo that's right! Carrots mean you’re good people and ice cream means you're good people, it's just knowledge moo!”The girls sit next to us on my side with Cali and then her girlfriend next to her.
Keeks has her full muzzle in the bowl devouring it without a spoon or anything, acting exactly like the tiny yeen she is. She keeps trying to talk to us at the same time as eating and at one point gets too excited and boops herself on my chin covering my chin in ice cream.
“Oh! Let me get that nye!” She leans up and licks it off my chin bringing a big red glow to my face making Zel giggle at me, Keeks doesn't seem to notice and goes straight back to her ice cream, the little devil really doesn't know what she’s doing to me.
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At some point with the talking we have gathered a crowd of children around us, seeming to be the point of egress for the Orphanage group. Eventually Marshi the muscle and Medris the elegant and graceful appear, her children closely behind, the kids make a spot for them all to sit with them and start enjoying the food.
The atmosphere is full of laughter, Keeks telling us about her adventure the night she got laid by 2 dragon ladies, me having to constantly put my hand on Keeks mouth as she swore and implied lots of sexual things, Cali perking up at certain words, each time Keeks just kept talking with her mouth full of ice cream and my hand like they both didn't exist.
The kids are morose at their headmoostress not being here, but still enjoying the festivities. We are surrounded by friends and love and so much joy that it's hard to be sad even if you’d want to be, besides, we are going to save her in a few days and all will be back to their happy places.
It's getting later and later, the moon hanging majestically in the sky and on the sea. In the distance there is a fog, the endless fog that covers most of Iselgurd, but tonight it stays away from the happiness that we are all cultivating here.
A sound like a trumpet goes off somewhere in the festival and all the people at the festivities seem to hush. A slow somber note starts off, a voice… I look back and all the people at the stalls have moved down closer to the water, in their places are standing people in silver cloaks, of all shapes and sizes, some showing sea-creature appendages, others fur, others scales, some of slimy goo, one by one they join voices and a timbre of noises rises, slightly as if creeping up my spine, everyone here just looking towards the sea.
Then I see it… the perfectly still water has seemed to transform, the moon feeling 10’s of times bigger is now in the sky so close and floating on the sea, white and silver particles are rising from the sea. Gentle and bobbing, traveling like motes of glowing dust, from the sea to the sky, ever rising.
“Souls wan…” Zel stares transfixed but I hear her voice, whispered under the voices of the singers. “The souls of those that died unfairly… those that should still be alive…” Tears start dripping down her face, her body aglow as if reflecting off the moon. “I can hear them, their wishes and sorrows… like how I felt my whole body as thousands when I separated into my moths. They are a part of everything as well, going to a place that will heal them, to be sent back to Iselgurd as angels… is that what the celestial moths are… the reincarnation of peoples wishes… their words feel so real Lil… each hoping for a better life… I hope they are able to have it wan…” I can only hold her as the tears fall on her impassive face, her trance-like state as she whispers to me causing me to panic slightly.
The voices stop and Zel looks up at me, concerned at how I’m looking at her, she brushes her face and feels the tears that have soaked her fur. “Are you okay love moo? …”
“Yeah of course I… did something happen while we were watching the moon?” I look at her more concerned than before.
“Uhh yes you started talking about how the motes of light were souls and that the moths were actually the wishes of the dead or something. It felt like you were somewhere else when you said it though, like you were in a daydream… Why did something else happen moo?” I brush back her hair and she tries to process everything I’ve said, opening and shutting her mouth again and again.
“ I… must have blanked out or something… I dont remember any of that, or the crying… what the fuck… but yeah it must have something to do what the notification I got… I’ve unlocked a new ability from the bloodline…” Okay officially worried but I nod my head for her to continue. “Uhh it's a transformation ability… It says I can transform into some kind of moon form…” I close my eyes and open them in surprise… moon form?... like she becomes the moon!?
Keeks perks up realizing we are talking, “Wh-whats up, you both look really serious nye…”
I try to parse it all in my head and come out with the most concrete answer I can, “Uhh my girlfriend is the moon moo…”
She looks from me to Zel and back to me in confusion, “That's rough buddy nye!” turns her head back to her bowl and sticks her head completely in as far as she can go, her tongue lapping at the rest of the bits of milky goodness at the bottom. “So close! Need to get in deeper nye!”
I bap the back of her head and she yells thanks from deep in her food, “This is not the end to tonight I was expecting moo…”
Zel snuggles deep into my side, “Well there's always when we get home… there's a video to watch after all wan~” I raise my eyebrow questioningly.
“You think you're going to be okay moo?” She shrugs then nods.
“Well not like I remember any of it, best to overcome such things the best way I know how, by writing hot fanfics, or the next best thing, living a hot fanfic wan!” I can't help but laugh at her easy going response.
“Ahh us having sex while watching videos of me getting fucked is the next best thing? Damn I should just enjoy it by myself so I won’t bother you while you write moo!” She feigns distress at my words.
“You would never wan~” I smile and pull her closer.
“You're right, I would never moo~”