02/06/21 Snippet, [Title To Be Determined].

Adversaries!

I’m growing worried that Camio thinks it can continue to keep using us like this, Cascadia Springsong (Chief Speaker of Friends of the Earth Made Clean) thought sourly to herself. I don’t have that many people willing to throw their lives away on command; and the ones I do have all have more important things to do, like die for me. But tell that to a demon.

That had been a fun conversation, earlier. Camio generally manifested as a small songbird of one kind or another, and liked to unobtrusively sneak in while you weren’t looking. It was alarming… but not as much as the way the bird would eventually catch on fire and implode. Although that at least usually indicated that the conversation was over. Before today’s implosion, Camio had insisted that Springsong send someone to test the defenses of the PECZ yet again; and this time it couldn’t be bought off with a suitable offering.

Sometimes Camio was like that, but it used to be only sometimes. But has it really been getting worse, lately? Maybe. The trouble was that Camio worked well with FEMC. The things it wanted (or said it wanted) were largely the things she wanted, too, which had to be taken into consideration.

4 thoughts on “02/06/21 Snippet, [Title To Be Determined].”

  1. This is turning into one of those stories where I am not sure I like the “heroes”, but I am sure I despise and hate the villains.

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