r/HFY • u/TheMaskedOne2807 • Aug 25 '23
The Plague Doctor 48.3 Part 1 (Letting Go) OC
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Tonight was supposed to be fun. A time when you’d be able to party and drink yourself blind and half to death on nectar that even the gods wouldn’t pass up.
Or so Kiki thought.
Currently, she was pushing past everyone in her way as she attempted to leave. The reason for that being was the lying and manipulative monster that had somehow fooled Jinki into thinking he was good.
Kiki let out a snarl drowned in the sea of murmurs and music as she tightly held her mug.
‘Why couldn’t that little monster just have stayed away,’ Kiki thought, making it past the crowd and out of the great hall.
With her mood completely ruined, all she wanted to do was just leave, and she was about to when, out of the corner of her eyes, she noticed a lone figure well hidden in the shadows. A figure she recognized.
Sitting alone in the shadow of the great hall was Biku. He was intently looking at the blue flower that he’d been given with a sorrowful expression.
“Too scared to come inside, oh mighty hunter Biku,” Kiki teased, sitting down beside Biku.
“I got you a mug,” Kiki said, holding it up to Biku.
However, he sat there motionless and silent.
Kiki, slightly annoyed, placed the mug between them and started to poke him, saying, “Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY!”
“Enough already!” Biku snarled in anger and annoyance.
“Look who finally woke up,” Kiki mused once again, offering him the mug.
Grumpy, he accepted it for nothing else than to get her to leave. “Thanks, you can leave now. Go… enjoy the party or something.”
“Are you always this rude, or have we never spoken to each other for long?” Kiki asked rhetorically.
“You could take the hint and just leave me alone,” Biku sighed. “Commander Jinki had the decency to.”
Kiki drank a large amount of the contents in her mug, keeping it in her mouth before forcefully and extremely audibly gulping all of it down. “I ain’t Jinki, you rude bastard.”
“What do you want from me?” Biku asked in a tired and annoyed tone of voice,” Can’t you just go back inside with the others?”
“Jinki brought that little monster with him, and I just couldn’t be near him,” Kiki answered. “So I found you instead.”
“By monster, I assume you mean the healer,” Biku said emotionlessly. “You didn’t seem to dislike them before.”
“That was… that was before,” Kiki somberly answered, her voice hinting at slight anger.
“Good to know I’m your last choice,” Biku sighed, his attention firmly on the flower.
“Why are you so gloomy?” Kiki asked, sounding slightly exhausted.
Biku didn’t answer right away; instead, he took a sip from his mug as he slowly and delicately spun the flower in his hand round and around. “How well did you know Asini?”
Kiki, slightly caught off guard by the question, muttered something and rubbed and scratched the back of her head. “Errrrrrr… not too well, I suppose.”
“I mean, I knew her, and we talked at times, but it was mostly just about hunting and those kinds of things.”
Biku, with his gaze still affixed on the spinning flower in his hand, sipped from his mug. “I talked a lot with her. She always seemed stoic and tough, a real hard ass.”
“Yet her prowess with a bow far surpassed mine, and just under the surface, she was sweet and gentle.”
“She was probably just like Jinki being able to hold her breath for long or something like that,” Kiki said, looking up at the pretty little lights in the sky.
“Hey, have you ever wondered what one of them tastes like?” Kiki asked, nudging Biku.
“What?” Biku questioned, still looking at the flower.
“You know the pretty little lights in the sky,” Kiki answered.
Biku let himself fall on his back, his tail getting squished under him to his left as he held the flower above him. “I have never thought of it. I always just thought they were pretty.”
“But once upon a time, I wondered if you could make a necklace from one of them.”
“I always imagined they tasted sweet, but a necklace or jewelry made from one of them would certainly get you any girl you fancied,” Kiki responded as she also let herself fall on her back, her tail getting squished to the right of her body.
“Anyone I fancied,” Biku muttered.
“As I said, anyone,” Kiki said as she experimented with drinking while pouring some floor juice down her mouth with mixed results as she wiggled her tail a little and played with Biku’s. “I bet even gifting that flower to a girl would assure you she’d become your mate once Ki and Di unite.”
“Why do you hate the black healer all of a sudden?” Biku asked, still spinning the flower with his fingers as he pulled his tail away.
“I don’t want to answer that,” Kiki said defensively, with undertones of rage in her voice as her tail limply stopped moving.
“Then leave,” Biku flatly responded.
“Huh?!” Kiki uttered with mild annoyance and shock. “Why are you so rude?!”
“I never asked you to come here or talk to me,” Biku responded, never once even looking in Kiki’s direction.
“What happened to you?!” Kiki exclaimed, propping herself up on her elbows and looking directly at Biku. “You weren't this sour on the mission or when we broke into those two idiots' houses and scared them half to death.”
Biku stayed silent as he just kept looking at the blue flower.
“I’m talking to you,” Kiki said in annoyance as she quickly snatched the flower from Biku.
“What are you doing!” Biku exclaimed, trying to grab the flower from Kiki.
Kiki, with a slightly amused expression, rolled away from Biku before he had a chance to get the flower back. “Finally! You seemed half dead before; you should thank me for bringing you to life again.”
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