Made This Little Creature

Made this little creature

I need to punt her to the moon

Writing fiction on the phone is hard

I just need to say this for myself, posts help me think because I'm stuck right now. Rough outline for the next chapter or 2. So spoilers yknow

Furina has a nightmare and wakes up in a new place, the secret third floor of the Adventurer's Guild, and meets Sandrone, whose guise is Miss Cio Pynoc, the 5th ranked adventurer and higher up from the HQ in Snezhnaya. In reality, she is the Guildmaster, but the title is held by a puppet account, so people don't know that the Guildmaster is a Harbinger.

Furina wants to go back to her shitty little apartment, as both her self-exile punishment and mostly just a stopping point for her story because she's tired of things happening. Sandrone doesn't accept this. Not for truly caring about Furina, but because the contract dictates her well-being should be taken care of. Sandrone laments that she is the worst person to be a caregiver. She doesn't want anything from her beyond her being alive, but Furina is upset that her existence is once again being used for others benefit, and once again she is powerless to object.

A new wrinkle presents itself when she finds out that she is late on her rent, because she was abducted (saved) right before the landlord came to collect. And so she "asks" Sandrone to get her stuff because she's afraid she'll lose it all.

The story switches back to Sandrone's point of view. She does wonder if she was too harsh, but dismisses her words as necessary. Sandrone is also unaware if most people truly hate Furina, or if it is just a few bad apples, like landlords and reporters, and Furina is merely traumatized. She has more meditations on the gap between the rich and the poor, before spotting the newspaper's own pink-haired reporter heading the same way as her, which isn't a good sign. Outside the apartments, in the alleyway, she sees Furina's couch, soaked from the rain. The money hidden inside is gone.

Inside, there is the landlord, being interviewed by numerous tabloid writers. She heads upstairs, but Charlotte tries to talk to her. Sandrone fishes out a little information about how people think about Furina. The third floor, writers are trying to interview clueless neighbors and Furina's own apartment has been remodeled to invoke the image of a prostitute or a sinthe den. Nothing that was originally hers remained so it is quite likely that they were sold. Sandrone leaves out a window the next floor up. She finds Furina's plush in the drain

Thanks, Anon!

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