Chapter 37: I am me


    Two days without incident, and ke was getting impatient. ess to the girl remained strictly controlled. She was escorted everywhere, generally to the closest mess hall and back, with maybe the asional walk. ke hadn’t even gotten a chance to speak with her.


    But the end of his patience had arrived. Seul-ki was having a nap, but he was going to go warp some minds and he needed the extra mana. He walked to her room with his mind full of swirling thoughts, and forgot to knock before opening the door. Then he looked up, and froze.


    “Out! Please! Out!”


    A woman stood before a mirror, topless and wearing only thin, white panties. She seemed to be wrapping her chest in a skin-color cloth, and she had long, dark hair, and a beautiful, tear shaped face that could have maybe belonged to Seul-ki’s distant rtion if she wasn’t so…


    ke knew it was her when he met her eyes. The same, brilliant green, so unusual on a Korean girl. He couldn’t help but stare at the obvious swell of her breasts inside the cloth—the wide curve of her hips, the porcin skin.


    “I’m…sorry,” he said, not moving. “I thought you were sleeping. I mean, I needed your help. I thought I’d have to wake you.”


    At least <em>some </em>of the girl’s obvious annoyance and concern seemed to leave her face, but certainly not all. She sighed.


    “It’s alright. Just turn around. I’ll finish getting ready.”


    He turned, a bit at a loss. “Um, what are you doing?” <em>And, you know, why do you look like an entirely different person?</em>


    Seul-ki let out a long, defeated breath. “My ss can hide my nature, as I’ve said. It can even alter my appearance, though not very much yet. One day, perhaps, I can look entirely different. But for now I must use old tricks to help with the disguise.”


    ke desperately wanted to turn around. Desperately wanted to use Mental Influence to improve his chances, but forced himself not to.


    “Would it be alright…if I looked at you again?” He shrugged. “I just want to see the real you.”


    “I…” ke heard Seul-ki sit on the bed. “I suppose I’m trusting you with my life already. And living here, I guess it was only a matter of time. You can look, if you wish.”


    ke turned back to see the girl still holding the fabric before her chest, head drooping slightly. Her teeth were perfect. Her skin was wless. Her hair was like a dark waterfall sshing off her shoulder.


    “Seul-ki,” he said to himself as much as her, “you’re…stunning. Why would you wear such a disguise? Surely your looks could be…an asset.”


    She pressed her lips together and frowned. “Sorry, but that is very male thinking. You have seen how the men of this town reacted to the neer.”


    “Yes, but they treat her like a princess. Surely that would be useful for someone like…”


    “She is a civilian, I am not. There are no rules which protect me. None.” Seul-ki’s tone harshened, and ke sat on the lone chair in her room and said nothing, finally understanding.


    yers could be killed with no repercussions whatsoever. They could certainly be…taken, against their will, if one had the strength. So the clever girl had tricked the brutal men of Nassau not only into believing she was a civilian, but a rather ugly woman, not worthy of much attention. And the less attention she received, the better.


    “Your secret is safe with me,” he said quietly, then bowed his head. She held the fabric against her breasts more tightly, and returned it.


    “I find I’m d you know,” she said, smiling slightly. “Together in the house, perhaps, I can take a rest from the disguise. It’s very…ufortable.”


    “I can imagine!” keughed, trying not to let his eyes roam over her face and body. Her shapely legs were together awkwardly, her t stomach, her hips and ass curved and sexy, her difort with herck of clothes obvious. She looked like some kind of Korean porcin sex doll, and he just wanted to go wrap her in his arms andfort her, and then maybe …


    “We’re under attack!”


    A voice called from somewhere on the street, and others soon took it up. ke raced to the window to see yers and civilians scrambling all over, then turned to Seul-ki with a smile.


    “Best finish that disguise. I think we’re going to have a rather exciting day.”


    She nodded, her eyes glowing slightly before her hair and face warped and altered into the non-descript, nearly ugly face he’d be ustom to. Her body didn’t change, though, so he understood the need for the wrapping and baggy clothes. “Eh hem,” Seul-ki cleared her throat, and ke grinned and left her room with a final nce.


    Then he ran out of the house and into the town, ready to sow a little excitement of his own.


    * * *


    ke went straight for the new girl’s house, and found a guard outside looking mighty concerned.


    “What are you doing here?” ke shouted.


    “Eh?” The guard grimaced. “What are you on about? This is my post.”


    “If you haven’t noticed,” ke red as he stepped forward. “The town is under attack. It’s all hands on deck.” The idiot still looked confused and ke rolled his eyes. “It’s a rallying call. A gathering. The damn banners are called. Go to the chief and see if he needs you!”


    “Shit.” The guard nced worryingly up at the chief’s house as his shoulders sagged. “Watch the bloody girl, then. And don’t do anything stupid.”


    “I wouldn’t even know how,” ke assured.


    The young man ran off, and ke instantly walked through the girl’s door. He found the beautiful blonde cooking eggs in the kitchen, listening to some kind of old jazz on the town’s digital database. She turned and frowned as the door opened, but her eyes went wide when she saw ke.


    “You’re him, aren’t you?”


    “I am me,” ke confirmed. Then he closed the door and took a seat at the table. With the girl’s identity confirmed, he was feeling a strange mixture of calm and excited, but locked that away behind a wall of will.


    “Over easy for me,” he said, then waited for the slight footfalls he heard outside, and the door to open with Seul-ki awkwardly looking inside. “My apologies. Seul-ki? How do you like your eggs? I don’t imagine we have any rice.”


    She nced around the room shyly before sitting at ke’s side. “Eggs? Um, hard boiled, please,” she said finally when ke didn’t look away.


    “There you are then, two over easy, two hard boiled.” ke smiled and waited for the girl.


    “Oh yes,” sheughed, which was a most pleasing sound. “You’re definitely ke. Your brother’s told me quite a lot about you.”


    “Of course he has. I’m the most interesting thing he knows about. Now if you wouldn’t mind terribly, could you tell me a little about <em>him</em>? Possibly, oh I don’t know, his rtive power. How he fights. If he can kill fifteen to twenty yers single-handedly and if not how we might go about helping him. That sort of thing.”


    The girl blinked, clearly still processing all he’d said, holding her spat as if frozen in the air.


    “But do see to those eggs,” ke added. “We’re going to need our strength.”


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