>>28815493>"ARE YOU TELLING ME. I WASTED MY MAGIC DIGGING YOU UP. FOR NOTHING?Now, calm down.
>"I AM PERFECTLY CALM."Like I said, I can help you, but only if you help me. I need mana to regain my strength. As you can see, I can't exactly run off and get it myself.
>You can still feel her fuming, but at least she's a little more composed now.>"And how exactly am I supposed to get you 'mana'?"I'm Nocturne, the embodiment of the predators of the night. Naturally, I need blood. Well, I suppose I could collect ambient mana too, but that's a whole lot slower. The problem is that there's not to much to get blood
from around here, and there's just about NO ambient mana lying around.
>"So you want me to kill people?Well, it doesn't have to be
people. It just has to be something that's alive. It'll be like hunting. You've gone hunting before, right?
>"No."Oh. Well, all you have to do is find some critter and kill them with me. You know, rabbits, fish. Bears.
>"You want me to fight bears? In case you haven't noticed, I can barely do more than telekinesis right now."It'll be fine. You won't have to get me that much mana for me to be strong enough to protect you from whatever critters you run into. It's not like you're going to run into the freaking Hydra, you know?
>"So in other words until I find a forest or something, it'll be the same for me as it has been, except I'll be lugging around a glorified piece of cutlery."Didn't you say earlier I was small though? Besides, it'll be less boring with somebody to talk to. You could tell me the story of exactly how you ended up like this!
>"Hmph.">Apparently, she isn't in the mood for talking.>Well, her loss. Asking her about it brought it to the forefront of her mind, so you can hear it anyway while you travel.>Well, she travels. 
