Touya snickered as he looked up to the sky and around them. He could see overgrown moss and vines, but very little plants around the courtyard. As he looked over to some birds starting their birdsong up once more, the smile fell off his face. “I had hoped that this would be more interesting than taste-testing a pumpkin soup in a tiny village. Why'd Queenie send me here?”
Basil shrugged. “You're so quick to lose energy.” He shook his head. Touya glanced at him, but not in a mean way. “Perhaps she thought that this might be a way to see what sort of powers you had? You did say she was using her powers to bind you.”
“The farther away I get, I wonder if it's harder or easier for her to do so.” Touya mumbled. His eyes went back onto the strange statue. “What if...it appears before a virgin?”
Right away Basil rolled his eyes and blasted some air into Touya's face so strong that the two were knocked off balance while Basil interrogated him. “Why would you even start asking some stupid question like that now?”
“Isn't that how the myths go?” Touya grappled with Basil's body as he tried to rebalance them without falling. “Some strong beast on four legs that's like a horse, has a single horn made of strong bone, and is low in numbers and hard to spot. It's fond of virgins, has a medicinal horn. That sort of stuff.”
Basil took in a breath of air ready to puff some in Touya's face with a thought struck him. Instead, he exhaled his breath calmly as he spoke. “Medicinal?”
“Yeah...?”
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