Life Drain System

Chapter 118 - Getting In The Way Of Things

    "I have been learning with Victoria, she has been teaching me since a little before we moved to the world we just left. Either way, I am new at baking, and cooking, so hopefully it turned out well." Orslaine replies shyly.

    Not wanting to extend this conversation any further than he already has, Yue struggles to push himself up. Trying to turn his body so that he could sit up, he falls back down. However not letting that get him down, he keeps trying. However with every muscle and part of his body feeling exhausted, including his mind, he falls asleep.

    Seeing this, Orslaine smiles, then picks up the tray of food. She turns around to walk out the door thinking. 'I can always make these again later, of course he would be tired after having a few siezures, and not eating for a while. Although at least there was the gesture, should he remember it, that is.'

    Walking out of the room, Meiren sitting outside the door asks. "Too weak to eat right? I heard from Yin." She says to Orsliane, who hearing her words nearly jumps out of her skin from surprise, even fumbling the tray in her hands.

    Trying to balance everything once more, Orslaine quickly saves it from spilling, and then replies. "Yes, he is asleep. His body is in slightly rough shape as well, not that he noticed, however as the physician said, we should not mention it to him, so as to give him one less thing to worry about."

    Meiren quickly adds. "It is a surprise he could move at all." She says, and noticing Orslaines' surprise continues. "Don't be so surprised, I am a cultivator after all. Anyways, it is amazing he could move at all considering all the chaos the chi caused in his body while he was out."

    Not understanding anything about cultivating, but still understanding the damage caused to a degree, Orslaine nods and makes her way through the hall. Still having to do something with the food, she makes her way to those hard at work in the back of the space ship.

    Meanwhile, Yin is down on the ground, wandering the outer sect, wondering to himself. 'Where exactly did he go?' Not being able to come to a solution even many minutes later he looks around once more. Seeing a sect elder off in the distance, Yin starts running through the street towards her, causing many to look at him with odd glances.

    A few moments later, not noticing, nor caring about the odd stares, Yin makes it to the sect elder. Stopping before him, he quickly gets to the point asking. "Mr. sect elder , could you tell me where the Patriarch is currently? I have urgent business with him."

    Looking the half lich up and down, pondering to himself. A few moments later, having come to a conclusion he replies with a question of his own. "You are not from around here are you? State your name and business."

    Feeling a little annoyed, but keeping it under control, Yin replies. "My name is Yin, now as you know, I am an honored guest here at this sect by the permission Patriarch Shin himself. Would you please either guide me to him, or tell me where he is? Time is of the essence."

    Laughing the young looking man says. "If you truly were here by the request of the Patriarch, you would have been able to call him yourself on a jade slip. Seeing as you are not capable of such, you must be one of the new disciples getting pranked by the inner court disciples right? Just go back, and I will forget this offence, however do such a disrespectful thing again and you will be punished heavily. Lastly, it is not proper to run in the sect unless it is an emergency, now you may be on your way."

    Angered by this young looking person, Yin just walks off feeling extremely annoyed. All the while, the man who angered him just chuckles thinking that it was some hazing. However what did not pass through his thoughts was that it could be true, nor the fact that while hazing did occur is was rare and a punishable offence in many sects. Not to mention the fact that liches are rare, and how the sect got their hands on one would be quite the feat in and of itself.

    Why such thoughts never passed his mind who knows, but feeling that it was impossible that such a case was true, as he was gone during their arrival, the man just continues on with his prior business.

    Meanwhile, as Yue walks off extremely frustrated, Blake is hard at work with the others in the back of the space ship. Moments later, Orslaine walks in with the tray still in hand. She calls out loud. "Blake, could you come here for a moment?"

    ...

    Not getting a reply, Orslaine walks through the massive room until she comes accross a female body laying underneath a block of machinery hard at work. Seeing this body, Orslaine balances on one foot in her high heels with the tray in hand, and nudges the body with her other foot. Despite being quite elegant, and not normally one to do such things, she did not want to set the silver platter down, lest she brakes something.

    Feeling the nudge, Blake looks at where it came from bumbing her head on the machine above her head exclaiming. "Ow." Then seeing the open toe high heels, presuming it to be Victoria, or one of the other fancily dressed ladies, she crawls out from under the machinery. 

    As she gets out from under it, Blake expresses surprise on her face, due to the shock of who she saw before her. A few seconds later mumbling. "Orslaine?"

    "Yes?" Orslaine replies confused by the tone used when hearing her name.

    Blake quickly laughs a little, and then says. "Wow, I never thought I would see the day when you would wear a dress. Loving combat so much, the closest thing I have seen you wear is a combat skirt. Either way, you look amazing. So tell me, what did you come here for? Also, why have you changed, unless..."

    In response to Blakes question, Orslaines' face blushes red, thus giving the answer to Blake as to why she looks and acts a bit different. However, even with her face blushing, she tries to act natural saying shyly, as is her personality. "I came because I made some food, and since I do not want to waste it, would you care to have some with me? It looks like you could use the break after all, and we are still friends right?"

    Giggling a little, Blake promptly responds. "Yes, yes we are. Well, follow me, and we can eat. I just have to wash up a little first." Blake says as she turns, and begins walking towards a side room, presumably one for resting or storage.

    Without a word, Orslaine follows Blake, as they walk through the room full of people hard at work on all manner of machinery trying to find out what is wrong, and fix the problem. Especially considering, that the system did not give them a location of where the problem is despite being programed to do exactly that if the need be.

    Arriving in the room, Blake walks over to a corner, pulling out two bar stools, placing them on either side of a round metal barrel. Then picking up the smooth circular cut of wood laying against the barrel, she places it on top of the barrel, fitting as though it were made to be there.

    After setting this up, she pulls out a rag, and wipes the seats in case of dust or other wise, and says. "Please take a seat, I will be right back." Then Blake walks towards another room where a sink could be seen through the door way.

    While Blake is in the room, Orslaine walks over to the makeshift table, and sets down the tray on the seemingly clean wooden slab covering the barrel. Then as if she had been in this room before, she walks to a shelf and pulls out a clean white towel setting it on one of the bar stools before sitting down.

    A few moments later, Blake walks out of the wash room looking completely clean aside from the blue mechanic jump suit tied around her waist. However, she makes it look natural in the black boots and tank top visible, as well as her hair tied back in a pony tail, with a blue baseball cap to keep anything from falling in her hair or any stray hairs from getting in the way.

    Sitting down on the empty bar stool, Blake examines the food and drink before her, before asking. "Clearly we both know who this was made for. So tell me, how did he enjoy it, or was he asleep before he could even see it?"

    Both reaching for a fork, to get ready to eat, Orslaine answers. "He said it looks delicious, however before he could even get a taste of anything, he feel asleep. Although, who could blame him in his current shape."

    Starting with the Ice cream fudge cookie cake, the two elegantly start carving into it, and eating the delicious tray of deserts. Blake even saying. "Well that is too bad, however you do have next time. Just remember not to be sad if he forgets.. As you know, seizures often cause slight memory loss from the misfires of the electrical signals from the synapses in the brain."