A Satisfactory Negotiation

It had been three days since we arrived in Ermata.

Huey was holed up in the kitchen with Jason, trying to make some food called kimchi.

And then there was Lucy, sulking in her room because she couldn’t cover her wings as punishment for teasing my back.

Leaving those two behind,

“Oh, miss. You’re here again today.”

“What did I tell you I’d do if you called me miss one more time?”

“…Whoops. My apologies.”

I was in one of Ermata’s five districts,

at a small stall in a back alley in the district known as the Commercial District,

“So, what did you find out?”...