boyutpedia Chapter 1618 Kamiko Worries About Everyone Else
Chapter 1618 Kamiko Worries About Everyone Else
--- Kat ---
Kamiko kept speaking about the others living here for a while, just speaking on things that didn't matter too much to either of them. Church and Brook's plans of what to bring, the workout crew wondering what equipment was worth taking and easily maintained. The best parts were always when Kamiko talked about Pip.
It was clear that the younger girl had been helping out Kamiko just with her occasional check-ins. Pip was busy, and didn't spend all of her time with Kamiko, barely any really... but it was enough.
Kat decided in that moment, and Lily agreed, that they'd do something nice for Pip. Lily was going to write up a document with everything she knew on magic for the girl. It might not be as good as some of the old documents Corela may or may not be able to produce for them to learn from, but Lily hoped the fact it was personalised meant something.
Kat on the other hand was debating between simply leaving a good deal of valuables with the young girl to help smooth things over in places and perhaps pay for magic books... or to provide one or more carvings.
One was a lot more personal. Even if Kat hadn't made them specifically for Pip, something she could correct if it was a sticking point... but ultimately the carvings were just slightly fancy wood carvings. Kat didn't know how to make use of any special properties the trees here might have so they were just what they appeared to be. Somewhat amateur wooden carvings.
On the other hand, compared to Lily's gift just dumping a bunch of jewels on the girl felt impersonal and somewhat flippant in a way Kat didn't want to be with the gift. No matter how useful the extra money may or may not be.
[You know we can just be very clear our gifts make up a set. Personal, if quite amateur notes on magic combined with some extra personal funds just for her. That way it's a good mix. She might not know the value of the gems we're handing over, or the value of the magic notes... but honestly we don't either. So a nice set of gifts, one practical and one personal.]
*9Well, if you think it's fine I'm happy to go with it. I just feel like compared to your own gift it isn't much. You could offer the gems as well...*
[Right but even getting her the gifts at all WAS your idea. Plus, we come as a package deal at this point. The gift is a SET from both of us. Saying one part is worse then the other is missing the point. We want her to have both. Though if it really bothers you, you can hand over the notes and I can hand over the gems.]
So she's also trying to work out what she can afford to give out, how much she can afford to sell the stuff she's giving away for all while trying to balance the risk of allowing the others to keep fancy stuff without it being too tempting to sell.
"Like, if she gives out a data pad, they might realise just how much info is stored on them increasing the risk of theft... but if she doesn't hand one out? They might start being considered priceless by random people which is also likely to increase theft... and I think I saw her trying to work out a program that would use the other data pads to triangulate the stolen or lost ones.
Of course if one gets broken that's a whole other issue and the chance of magic from this current time interfering is possible.
"Yet it IS magitech, advanced stuff. So why would the spells specifically target that sort of tracking? On the other hand maybe it doesn't need to? I don't really have a good idea of how those sort of spells work, or the sorts of programs you'd need to track them down would work.
And Corela's a biologist at heart so this isn't really what she's good at... but she's the best person they have for it so it's all a mess."
Kat wanted to just beam at Kamiko, though an overly bright smile might interrupt the topic. It was just like her adorable friend to be worried about someone else while still personally worried. Much easier to deflect and help others rather then address personal issues. Not something that Kat or Lily would know about. Certainly not.
"Brella is also there. Not sure how to help her. She's just pretending not to feel sorry for herself while ensuring that Corela is kept fed and watered. Which is sort of amusing to watch but also quite sad. Brella has made it her mission to help everyone... but she's really only helping Corela... and only in like minor ways. As I said, food and... well not water but tea mostly.
Which... hmm...
"Honestly what Corela NEEDS is some sleep but I get the feeling she thinks the moment she stops working Meg will convince the rest of us that we need to head out ASAP which... yeah I don't know what to think about that. On the one hand Meg clearly doesn't like hanging around with these people... and to be fair Hunter has mostly vanished, not wanting to spend time with them either.
On the other hand though? If they keep waffling on this, Meg gets to spend more time with Hunter so she's not going to really rush. Honestly I wonder if she's just trying to make them uncomfortable about the whole process for some reason... a bit like..."
Kat waited for Kamiko to keep speaking. It was clear she wanted to say something more, while equally clear that she wanted to completely avoid whatever issue was plaguing her. Kat just waited. This was the moment. If Kamiko didn't want to let it come naturally Kat would force it... perhaps with a calming aura to start with. Might be easier.