In the end, Lobco had returned to the fountain she had settled in earlier. Despite it being two weeks, she still hadn’t managed to make her way over to her apartment, and after mulling it over, she thought it would serve her little purpose. Unless they had some means for which she could keep herself hydrated, it wouldn’t be worth the hassle.
Given she wasn’t exactly what people would consider a ‘normal’ shrimp she was able to breath just fine above water, but her body would still dehydrate quickly, and without water she would die.
A most painful way to go.
Not one she wanted to have more personal experience than she already had.
For now, however, she was floating in the water, beady eyes fixed on the sky above. The city was quieter now, but it still seemed to thrive and let out the steady hum of life. It was oddly comforting. The occasional conversation of passerby, growing louder, then fading away as they made their way to their destinations, the soft rumbling of those metal contraptions with wheels, somethings a bark that made her heart constrict as she remembered little Silone. All these noises, all so different from the eerie silence of the castle that had once been her prison.
The difference made her happy, the reminder that she wasn’t trapped made her exhilarated, and both those emotions made her guilty. She had a duty that she couldn’t fulfill here, and a charge that could be endangered by the very fact that Roc could mistakenly take her absence as her having run away. From all the grief that Chlomaki caused her, the cat was a person dear to Lobco’s heart, and she was a girl of great fealty and compassion. Her vows were not a matter she took lightly.
Then there was the simple fact...that she missed her. She missed her rambunctious and exasperating witch. She missed that cheeky, carefree grin of hers. While they spent plenty of time apart, their connection as witch and familiar had always made her feel like she was close. Indeed, so did her connection with all the other familiars.
That was one of the few things that had allowed her to get through those difficult times.
Lobco could recall her so vividly, indeed, it was almost as if she could hear her voice---
A loud splash came from the fountain as Lobco suddenly wriggled around to right herself, then crawled out of it. No, no she wasn’t just hearing things. She would recognize that sometimes grating voice anywhere!
“Lady Chlomaki?” She swiveled around in the direction she heard it from, trying to pick out her form in the dark.