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Finally Free

Who: Kaito Watari and YOU! Open of all the people
Where: The Cancer District
Summary: Kaito is finally feeling better and he's out wandering the town, but mainly in the Cancer district. Backdated to the 20th.
Warning: X-treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme silliness

It was a little warmer, and Kaito was feeling less sick, so clearly this was his chance to go outside and get some fresh air. Yes.

This was clearly the best time to window shop in the Cancer district instead of going to, let's say, somewhere more outdoorsy. Like a park. How about it, Kaito? Feel like going to a park?

...No? Just going to press your face against the glass and stare at all the cool shit?

Alright then!

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"Sure."

He took a slow step a little closer, tilting his head at the little device. Curious, yes. Wanting to invade Kaito's space, no.

With that, he pressed a button a couple of times and there was a "click" noise. Kaito then turned his phone around to show Avitus a...photo of himself.

"This is what you were talking about, right? With photos?"

Avitus just stared a second before nodding. "Sort of. I-- how did you do that? That's--

"The one Winnoc showed me didn't have color, and it was on-- it wasn't paper, but--"

Congrats, you've pretty much both stumped him and made his night there.

"You're talking about photography. It sounds you had a really really old camera. This isn't one, it's a phone that has a tiny camera in it."

Wh...wha...

??????!!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?

Yeah, no kidding. So Kaito's getting a better idea of the tech level this budie came from, by this point? Because the burdie's getting an idea of just how lost he's going to feel here for a while.

"...And it makes the picture with color, too."

Silent a moment. Wings got a little floofy-feathered, so he puts those behind him more again, gives them a brief shiver to try knocking the feathers back into place, and tucks them more tightly against his back again.

"....how long did it take to come up with something like that?"

"...The pictures with color thing or the putting a camera in a phone thing?"

"Either? ....both?"

"Well...I dunno about the color, that was awhile after black and white photos, but the phone camera thing is kind of recent. I think that was like...it started being a thing ten years ago?"

"Really?"

Looking back to Kaito again. Kid, you have him fascinated with your phone now. Or the idea of there being a tiny color-picture camera in it. Or something like that, who knows. And you're doing nothing to dispel this association he's making, between the humans here, and the old Empire-era Rahabim clan. He just about freaking idolized those guys and all their brainpower for coming up with the coolest stuff. Like cameras.

"And if those things are common in your world too...." He glanced at the store's display models again, then looked back to Kaito, a bit confused. He tilted his head a little. "Nosgoth would probably be pretty boring to you."

"I wouldn't say that. If it's different, then I doubt it'd be boring, right?"

"Mm..." He'll take half a pause to consider that. "Maybe I've just lived there too long. I think... in a lot of ways, I'm starting to like this place a little better. Except, people keep saying there's demons that get into the city."

Hasn't seen any yet. Eyes have been too busy looking into the shops; one could've walked right by him, for most of the day, and he wouldn't have realized.

"Oh, haha, yeah, they're not a huge deal though, if you know how to handle them."

He said as he gripped his phone a little too tightly.

"Oh. ....how do you handle them?"

He didn't quite get the memo, whoops.

"With something a friend of mine made. Wanna see?"

"Sure." He's not sure what to expect, but why not. Could be great to know, right? Right! ~~And he is such a chicken.~~

"Okay!" And again, he opened his phone. "This, uh, isn't normally in phones, but watch this." And with the press of a few buttons, the air next to him wavered, and a fairy woman in a green dress appeared.

"This is Titania! She's a type of demon. Not all demons are bad, see. It's just a general term for spirits and stuff. Titania's a Fairy."

"I'm the Fairy Queen, dear."

Psssh, whatever.

Staring at her a second... closing his mouth now. But his eyes are a little wide, looking her over with obvious curiosity.

"So you-- that thing-- calls your friends, and they come?" Looking to Titania. "You can teleport?"

So many questions to ask. So many he can't hardly brain them all right now.

"And... if demons aren't--"

Paaaaaaause. This is still sinking in... but at least he does seem to be getting it, about demons and stuff here?

"....so it is much like in Nosgoth, after all."

"Um, well no, I can't teleport." Any...more, at least. Titania, for her part, merely chuckled.

"Friends is a stretch. We're bound by contracts with humans, you see."

"Right. That's what the app does. It takes all of the guesswork out of forming contracts."

"So you don't-- I mean... your kind of... demon...?" He seemed a little hesitant to use the word to describe her, lowering his head just a hint, as though in apology or something. "...they're not... I mean...."

This would probably work better if he could manage to collect his thoughts on the matter before he opened his mouth, wouldn't it.

"Maybe there's a lot more that I still don't get, yet. ....Sorry."

Have a sheepish look. At least he knows when he's lost?

"Well, some demons will help you out if they feel like it and they like you, but that's not really...normal." He shrugged. It was what it was, with the whole 'forming contracts with demons' thing.

"...Very different from what I'm used to."

He was quiet just a second or so, considering it, and then shook his head, still not sure. "In the Citadel... like I said, it's just mostly my clan and the humans now, and we live together. And the guards and hunters are mostly human... my clan's ranks are an extension of them. My brothers do what they can to make sure the rest of the clan is of the best who're willing, mostly. It's just us, against... nearly everyone else in Nosgoth.

"And I know there's one Turelim that joined us, but he's pretty much the lone exception to the rule. We don't have those sorts of contracts and alliances like that. I've never really heard of such a thing before."

"Neither have I, until recently. Apparently it's been a thing for awhile! I dunno much about it, myself." He said this as he de-summoned Titania by pressing a couple of buttons, the demonstration over.

"So... how do you get something like that, and for other demons to come, to help?" He gestured to Kaito's phone.

((omg, I thought I tagged back... sorry! Wouldn't blame you if you'd lost interest in this though, it's been so long....))

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