Kalisha passed out on the way to the house. Thinking quickly, Chloe and Sajida got Kalisha into the warm bath where they could treat her injuries, which thankfully were very superficial aside from a blow to the back of the head that likely caused her dizziness. As Kalisha slept Chloe stood guard by their new visitor to make sure she didn’t slip under it and drown, looking away from her now unclothed and very shapely figure.
While that was going on, Sajida excused herself and walked at the slowest speed possible before approaching the main atrium where Gambit was bleeding his last on the floor. She’d thought about how best to answer Sita’s question, but she probably wouldn’t like the answer. And it was the first time that Sajida had talked to Sita for more than five minutes (while they fed on a waterfoot) since that fateful day seven years ago.
“So, Lady Sita, here we are. I have an answer for you. Yes. Just, do not be angry with me. Give me your
word before you reply,” Sajida began.
After a pause to let Sita say whatever she needed to, “For context, I...may...or may not have drained some Confederate Army elves who got lost in the woods on the mountain.” She instinctively fumed, “And before you judge me, who was the one who said mortals are stupid, that they come to this mountain seeking shelter, and only find death?! That’s right, you! And it was all at night, no witnesses, just like you said.”
“Tonight, though, I was there to ask...something of Kalisha,” Sajida sighed. She was not about to reveal
that just yet. “And then I saw a bunch of elves riding in on their stupid fucking dragons and telling her to accept the third lowball offer of their worthless toilet paper for her entire herd of waterfeet. You know, the creatures we depend on. To live! I demanded that they raise the price, due to the hyperinflation of Confederate script and so that Kalisha could have enough to buy more animals”- apparently, Sajida had taken a keen interest in economics over time- “so they decided to attack her instead.
“I killed several of those thieving bastards- especially one who tried to choke
my Kalisha, who suffered a much,
much worse fate and
begged for death by my teeth- but one of their dragons was about to unleash a wall of fire that would have burned her to a crisp. I bit that creature, but I didn’t drain it before it threw me off with ease, and Gambit charged into the creature’s claw to protect his human mother.”
Sajida started to kneel and tear up as she petted the best and most loyal horse she’d ever seen. “Then she said a few words in a language I didn’t understand”- in truth, she did, but it scared the shit out of her- “pulled down damned
lightning from the sky and smote them like the goddess she is! That’s when she passed out and Gambit insisted on carrying her all the way up the mountain, despite his grievous wounds that I healed as much I could with my blood from what little I learned from you.”
“I don’t know if it can be done. He’s lost a lot of blood. But if anybody can heal him or find a way to turn him into a vampire horse, it’s you,” Sajida groaned as a flash of
something went across her vision.
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