Yagen’s been sleeping on futons for the past few years, so it took him a while to get used to the bed in his townhouse. But even that can’t compare to this fluffy deathtrap that seems to rise up around his face and drown him slowly in its cloud-like depths. With a sudden gasp of air, the tantou wakes up.
The first thing he notices is a gilded gold ceiling, elaborate enough to rival the wall paintings at one of Nobunaga’s palaces. He’s lying in the biggest bed he’s even seen since coming to this city, on sheets of pure silk and snugly tucked in beneath thick and luxurious covers. There are more pillows around him, at least six or more in total, and a giant effigy made out of white feathers looming above like a--wait.
Did that thing just move?
Motion ripples through the wall of feathers--which Yagen quickly realizes is a neck, attached to a giant bird head with a piece of paper stuck to the end of its awfully sharp beak. The creature blinks once, its eye easily about the size of the tantou’s fist, before bending down to dangle the note in his face.
Slowly, very slowly, Yagen backs himself against the headboard until he’s half sitting up, and squints at the writing on the paper. There’s a lot of excited sentences, something about sorry and Fox Village and most importantly, your weapon had a crack in it so I brought it to the blacksmith there!
At the bottom is a scribble that his sluggish mind takes too long to form into words before realizing it’s only a doodle. Of a face. Smiling at him, with cute hair bows and a wink to match:
Oh. It’s the person from his nightmares.
The creature gives a puff of breath, and nudges its head at Yagen, impatient to get the paper off. The tantou quickly takes the note before scooting to a corner of the bed. He notices that the bird-like beast also has four very large, very sharp talons.
What is this. What is this.
In the aftermath of his speeding accident, Yagen finds alone himself in a fancy hotel room with one (1) lone hippogriff, courtesy of Astolfo.