Chapter 1: Night Falls on the Piggish Lord

Story by Espera on SoFurry

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#1 of Shadina's AO Video Game Adventure


Shadina's AO Video Game Adventure

Chapter 1: Night Falls on the Piggish Lord

In a fairly generic fantasy world who's name you'd never remember, but sounds reasonably mystical and exotic, things were going fine for a really long time, but then some great evil had to rise up and start making life miserable for people, getting dangerously destructive and anti-social in the process. Naturally, the task of balancing out this evil and restoring the world to a state of boring tranquility rests in the unsuspecting hands of a busty, athletic panthress with a little bit of talent, and a lot of time on her hands.

Here she is in her glory, asleep in the bedroom of her soon-to-be-customizable house, wearing only a pair of panties. Her features are quite feline and her body is covered from ears to paws in velvety black fur. You'd guess that if she were standing on those lusciously-padded, broad digitigrade paws, that the top of her hairless head would reach about six-foot-four. Were her piercing, intelligent eyes open, you'd notice they were a bright green, the color of bright sunlight reflecting off a jungle leaf.

However, you're not looking at these things. Instead, your focus is almost certainly on her chest, where the pair of heavy D-cup breasts rises and falls with her every breath. You might vaguely care about her athletic figure, her womanly hips, her pert, firm rear, and the tail that extends three feet from just above it, but mostly you're looking at those bare, heaving milkbags. You notice her fit, toned tummy, only in so much as they offset those luscious funbags, but not really otherwise. Her womanhood would likely have drawn your attention, but the naughty kitty has seen fit to wear an obscuring pair of deep purple panties to keep at least one secret from prying eyes. Ah, she awakens, blissfully unaware of the adventure that lay before her.

***

Shadina sat up, suddenly a bit paranoid. She could have sworn someone was watching her, but soon she dismissed it. Getting out of bed, she stretched luxuriously, arching her bare chest out, content that with her reflective windows and secure bedroom, that no one could see the teasing activity. Having worked out the kinks, she opened the drawer to her dresser and pulled out her outfit: a black sports bra and tight cotton shorts. Slipping these on over her panties, she grimaced as in the back of her mind, she could swear she could hear a chorus of disappointed groans.

She took a moment to look around her amazingly Spartan room. It had a lot of space for how little it had in furniture. Her bed was little better than a cot, and the only other piece of furniture was her tiny dresser next to her bed. She shook her head. Why didn't she get more furniture, or a better bed? Checking her wallet, which fit conveniently in the pocket of her shorts, she sighed, noticing that she only has 200 Gucus to her name. That, and she vaguely recalled that no one in her laughably small town could make furniture any better than what she had. Content with her inspection, she headed through her similarly bare house to the front door to see what's going on in her tiny, insignificant corner of the world.

Stepping out into the bright morning sun, Shadina looked upon her hometown with familiar, adoring contentment. Feelings of love and motherly protection flowed through her every time she saw a sexy vixen shopkeeper or studly equine laborer. She stopped by to speak with the sexy vixen running the Sex Toy shop. She looked a bit generic for an anthropormorphic vixen, but she definitely had some nice curves, and the corset she wore showed off her cleavage nicely.

"So, what's up?" Shadina asked the nameless vixen in a friendly manner. The vixen sighs in dramatic exasperation.

"That piggish Hogereign... Not only is he demanding unbelievable taxes and free goods, but he gropes me every time he comes by. He even threatened to carry me off to his pleasure dungeon," she complained. Shadina blinked in surprise.

"Well, that definitely sucks. Who is this Hogereign guy?

"That piggish Hogereign... Not only is he demanding unbelievable taxes and free goods, but he gropes me every time he comes by. He even threatened to carry me off to his pleasure dungeon," she complained again.

"You just said that... So, what's going on here?"

"That piggish Hogereign... Not only is he demanding unbelievable taxes and free goods, but he gropes me every time he comes by. He even threatened to carry me off to his pleasure dungeon," she complained once more, in the same tone, every gesture and syllable the same. Shadina sighed.

"It's so hard to have conversations around here," she muttered to herself. To her relief, this did not provoke a response from her beloved shopkeeper. She stepped out of this shop and headed past the Item shop to get to the Inn. Inside were a fair number of idling townsfolk. Behind the bar stood a very matronly, heavy-chested equine woman, but that wasn't what Shadina was looking for. Her eyes locked on a petite, athletic raven woman with a small-chested, sleek figure sitting alone at a table. The busty panthress moved over, and with a bit of a chest-wobble, swung into the seat opposite her.

"So what do you know about this Hogereign business?" the curious kitty asked. The raven woman would grin, if her beak allowed it. Hints of it still seemed to appear.

"Ah, you've been busy training, so you haven't noticed. Recently, a rich lord has moved in. He demolished the old Shadow Temple and built his manor atop it, and now treats our little town like he owns it. He's a fat, disgusting pig, and he uses his minotaur thugs to bully the townsfolk and carry off girls to his pleasure dungeon. He's made life around here a bit of a nightmare. I'd watch out for him if I were you. They say he's got a taste for feisty, busty girls." the raven said.

"Well damn," Shadina grumbled "It seems I'll be putting those martial arts lessons to use after all. I can't let some pig walk all over my town and rape all my girlfriends." The raven nodded sagely, and to Shadina's delight, didn't repeat her previous statement.

"You just be careful," she said. "Those minotaur thugs don't look particularly bright, but they're huge, and not just in the cock department. They'll hurt you pretty bad if you give them the chance," she warned. The busty kitty nodded, causing a bit of gratuitous jiggling.

"I understand, thanks for the advice," With that, she stood and headed out the door. Hardly had she set foot in the street than the world seemed to stand still. Inthe back of her mind, Shadina could hear a theme song playing that was both comical and somewhat ominous. Sure enough, stepping through the gates of town, hardly twenty feet from her, came two huge, towering minotaurs packed with slabs of muscle wearing only loincloths overstretched with their massive male endowments.

Between and behind these two hulking paragons of masculinity came the epitome of fat, greasy, disgusting excess and self-indulgence. His beady eyes peeked out between rolls of fat. His cheeks bloated out enormously, and he had at least three chins. His pink skin rolled with the sweat from the exersion of walking at a snail's pace. His body, covered mercifully in concealing red robes, bulged in every direction, blatantly advertising his morbid obesity. Still, he glittered and gleamed with more than just sweat. A gold medallion on a thick gold chain hung around his neck, and gold rings adorned every finger. He even had a piercing in his left piggy ear with a gem-encrusted gold hoop running through it. Hardly had he stepped foot in town when his eyes locked on the tall, chesty, athletic figure of Shadina.

"Oh how delightful! I thought I was going to have to settle for one of those scrawny vixens. But no, here is a real woman. How could I have missed such a tasty morsel as this? Guards. Take her and put her into my pleasure dungeon, and get her into that gold bikini I got from my desert-dwelling friend," he said, mostly to himself, it seemed. Shadina bared her vicious-looking fangs.

"Now wait just a minute..." But before she could finish, minotaur hands lifted her from the ground and began to carry her off out of town, to the horror of the townsfolk, who knew, in their hearts, that she was their last hope.

***

Shadina came to her senses in a dimly lit, padded room. Despite the rumors that other had been kidnapped as well, she seemed to be the only one here. The Pleasure Dungeon was an odd place, with shackles dangling from the walls, softly padded, carpeted floors, racks of torture devices and the softest looking bed one could ever see. She also couldn't help but notice that some time betwen when she was taken from the town, and that moment, her clothing had been replaced by a scandalous gold bikini, not unlike that worn by a certain space princess in some other story. The panthress rolled her eyes in exasperation. She hated the get-up, but her old clothes were nowhere to be found, and it was ever-so-slightly better than going naked.

The entrapped panthress also couldn't help but notice that she wasn't tied down. Standing, she began to explore her environment. Walking over to the various torture impliments, she saught to arm herself, but discovered to her dismay that though some of them looked like they'd make decent makeshift weapons, she couldn't grasp any of them. She went up the few steps on one side of the room to the door and tried the handle but it was locked from the outside. Finally, she went over to the bed and flopped down into it to lay there.

She wasn't laying there fore long, though, before she heard an odd noise very faintly, like blowing air. Sitting up, she moved around the room to localize it. It was coming from the bed.... or under the bed. Putting her superior feline strength to use, she found that she could push the bed aside, and thus revealed a loose grate covering a shaft in the floor. Figuring anything was better than staying here and having to entertain a fat, piggish greaseball, she pulled the grate off and slipped down into an amazingly dry, eerie stone tunnel.

Investigation quickly revealed that one direction was extremely short, only a foot or two beyond her current position, so she made her way down the other direction. A dim purplish light indicated a room up ahead, but reaching it was apparently not that simple. Moments before she'd enter the door, reality rippled, and she was in a pocket-dimension generally resembling the tunnel, though a bit broader and not nearly as long, but now she was no longer alone. Two large, fangy bats hovered in the air ten feet before her, glaring at her viciously.

Not about to let them have their way with her, she lunged for the first one. Her sharp claws raked the little bat, leaving glowing white lines in the air briefly. Shadina could have swore she saw the number '6' hover in the air over the bad before it burst in a bluish explosion. The second bat took it's revenge, flying over to where she stood and driving its fangs into her titflesh. There was no blood, but it hurt like hell for a few moments before the bat pulled back.

"Oowww, ya little bastard!" She slashed at this bat, with the same results. With both bats now popped, she felt a tiny, inexplicable rush of energy, then returned to the normal tunnel and made it into the dimly-lit room at the end.

The interior of the room was fairly small, centered around a pedastal with the purple light glowing down onto it. Laying on the pedastal was a black sports bra, not unlike her own, but this one had purple highlights to it and just felt more magical than her mundane top. She smiled in delight, she struggled out of the gold bikini, once again hearing that chorus of disappointed voices, and slipped on the new sports bra. It was snug, supportive, an felt very good. Suddenly, Shadina realized that she wasn't the only person in the room. Standing there with her was an odd, shadowy reptilian creature with long, flowing tentacles coming out of her back. Her body was sleek, yet muscular, with phenomenally sculpted legs and a long, sinuous tongue that she let slip from her long, tapered snout now and then.

"So, you have finally come, the Hero that will save our world. The fact that my artifact fits you perfectly is proof enough that you are the one." The shadowy reptile said. Shadina blinked in surprise.

"Who the... what... " She couldn't ask all the qustions in her mind at once.

"I am Night, the Elemental of Shadow and Darkness. I was the guardian of these lands for a long time, but no one has weilded my power in generations. Now you are the one chosen to meld with me and free my protected lands from evil," the creature told her.

"Um... just because I fit into your magic sports bra?" she asked.

"Yes, now, you will need my help if you are to escape from here. My artifact has already increased your abilities, but you will need the gifts only I can give you in order to fully make it out of Hogereign's mansion," Night told her.

"Increased my abilities? You mean wearing this makes me a better fighter?" Shadina asked. Night shook her head.

"Not really. My artifact gives you the 'Flash' ability. You can open it up to reveal what's hidden inside, the sight of which may stun certain enemies in battle," she informed the surprised panthress.

"Okay... kinky... but what's all this about melding, and things only you can give me?" the black cat asked. Night moves closer to her with a seductive grin.

"I think it would be better for me to show you, rather than tell you." She moves around behind the kitty quickly, and before Shadina can protest, began to press her phantasmal body into that of the panthress.

A moan was torn from the big cat's body as cool, soothing energy began to pour through her, and yet, her body began to change. She grew several inches taller, making her nearly seven feet tall. Her legs thickened with new powerful muscle and her tail thickened at the base and lengthened a foot. Most notably, though, a pair of long, shadowy tentacles grew from he rshoulders, hovering in the air behind her.

Shadina blinked and looked herself over, surprised and not a small bit aroused by the changes. She flexed, felt her legs and wiggled her tentacles, finding them long and stretchy. She also noted that she didn't sense any real changes in her mind or personality, not that she was certain she'd notice such things anyway.

"No, I did not alter your mind," Night's voice manifested in her thoughts. "But with me melded with you like this, your abilities have greatly increased. You are much more evasive, you can attack with your tentacles in battle for various effects, and your kicks have grown stronger. Out of battle, you can grab objects with your tentacles, you can jump higher and swing, using your tentacles. Also, we can now meld with shadows in order to hide."

"Mmmm... this is so hot... What all can my tentacles do in battle?" Shadina asked out loud, talking to thin air at this point. Night chuckled in her mind.

"Experiment and find out. The guards should be coming soon to check on you. Test out your new powers on them." Night advised. Shadina quietly found herself wondering how Night knew so much. She made her way back down the tunnel, as it was the only exit, and lept through the hole in the cieling back into the pleasure dungeon, amazed at how easy the ten-foot jump really was.

Hardly had she collected herself and straightened up to her new, statuesque height then the sound jingling keys could be heard, and the door was unlocked. A hulking minotaur proceeded inside with a lustful leer on his face and a frightening tent in his loincloth. He blinked in surprise, seeing Shadina-Night standing nearly as tall as him and very confident.

"Now's your chance! Get him!" Night said in Shadina's mind. She lunged forward, and reality rippled. Appearing now, facing each other across a short gap in a generic version of the pleasure dungeon, Shadina and the minotaur prepared for battle. "Use the Flash ability," Night suggested. "Minotaurs are very weak to it," Shadina shrugged and brought her hands up to her new magic sports bra, and with the ease of a loose vest, she pulled the fromt away from her tits, freeing them for the minotaur to see. His eyes bulged, his cock ripped out from his loincloth, dripping with pre and throbbing visibly in the air, and he panted for breath, unable to even think of attacking. Shadina closed her sports bra again, but what had been seen could not be un-seen.

"Good, now attack with your tentacle." Night advised. Obediently, Shadina mentally urged her tight tentacle forward. It launched itself at the Minotaur and enveloped his protruding, throbbing cock in its long, shadowy length. Both Shadina and the minotaur groaned deeply as the magical tentacle began to feed, pulsing around the cock like a hot wet pussy eager to milk the mammoth member dry. It only took a few moments before the hulking man-beast cried out in ultimate ecstasy and collapsed, flaccid and spent, to the floor. Shadina felt a sensual rush of energy as the tentacle absorbed a couple pints of minotaur spooge. They returned to normal reality with the minotaur laying on the floor much as he had been at the end of the battle. Laying on the floor next to him was a key ring that seemed to glow in Shadina's vision.

"That's an important item. Aquire it," Night told her. Shadina nodded in response and scooped up the key ring. She then proceded out the open door into a hallway that looked like it belonged in an opulent mansion, mostly because it was in an opulent mansion. "It may be wise not to advertise all of your new power too quickly, and some innocent people may be freaked by your altered appearance, so it may be wise of us to unmeld for the time being. You can still use your flash ability and we can merge at a moment's notice in battle." Night told her. Mentally, Shadina agreed, and felt a disappointing drain of strength and size as Night pulled out of her, leaving her a 6'4" busty panthress with no tentacles once more.

Making her way down the hall, Shadina noticed several more locked doors. One by one, she opened them to find the other kidnapped girls. Many of them gave her a peck on the cheek as they scampered out to make their escape. The last one was a cougaress, just as tall as Shadina, and even a bit bustier. When the door was opened, the cougaress sauntered over to Shadina and pulled her into a deep, mouthing, tit-squishing kiss.

"I'm Sierra, and I'm veerry grateful. I've only just recently arrived in town and set up a new furniture shop. If you need anything... and I mean aaannything... for your home... you come and see me," she said, hot and breathily. One of her strong hands gripped Shadina's rear. Shadina grinned broadly at these attentions, rather admiring the cougaress

"Oh I will. My bedroom feels so empty. I'd love for you to help me fill it." she purred back. Sierra brushed closely beside her as she slipped out. As she sauntered down the hall to make a sexy escape, she turned back for just a moment.

"Be sure to bring plenty of Gucus. A kitty doesn't survive on milk alone," she winks and heads out. Shadina shivered in arousal, dripping in the gold bikini bottom.

"Oh, I'm so going to bang her..." she mumbled to herself.

"Keep a grip. We still have to beat down Captain Buzzkill. We can screw her later," Night's voice was still manifesting in Shadina's mind. The kitty noticed she couldn't see the phantasmal reptile-girl anywhere, despite not being melded with her. "You can ask me to come out whenever you'd like to see me, but while I'm not melded with you, I reside in my artifact," she answered the unspoken question. Shadina smirked.

"Kinky... so what's it like cradling my tits?" she asked. Night sighed.

"Keep focused. Besides, I'm not really the breast type. I'd rather be your shorts. You've got some fine legs," Night told her. This only caused more questions in the panther's mind, but she set them aside to continue on her mission. She had gotten to the door at the end of the hall when she heard a scream from the other side. Opening the door quickly, she saw that the other minotaur thug had caught one of the escapee vixens, who must have been dawdling during her escape. He was dragging her back towards the door when he caught sight of Shadina.

" 'nuther one," He grumbled in a deep base voice. "Get back in yer cage like a good little girl, or Daddy's gonna spank," he threatened. His mammoth sheath bulged threateningly, promising punishment no matter what.

"I don't think so," Shadina growled and lunged for the minotaur, throwing them into the battle dimension, minus his vixen captive. She invoked the power of Night immediately and felt the rush again. The minotaur watched in amazement as she grew again and her tentacles reappeared. He collected himself and pounded over to her and pounded her with a heavy-handed slap that made her reel a bit.

"Ouch, we're not high enough level to take that kinda punishment for long. Maybe next time Flash first, Merge second," Night advised.

"Gee, thanks." Shadina grumbled. She pulled Flash again, letting her big, lovely tits jiggle and wobble for the minotaur. Like the other, he curled over as his monster cock burst from it's confinement. Shadina growled. "I almost don't feel like sucking him off, though. He doesn't deserve it, the stinky bastard."

"It'd be better if you did. Not only will the spooge help heal you, but you get more EXP if you finish him off that way," Night told her.

"I'm not totally sure I know what you're talking about, but if it will make my head stop ringing, then fine," She launched out her tentacle and enveloped the bullcock with it. This minotaur seemed to hold out just a little bit longer as the black serpentine tendril sought to sensually rob him of his man-milk, but after several more moments of heavy groaning and throbbing, pulsing and milking, he cried out his lust and his massive bullballs emptied into Shadina's voracious tentacle.

Shadina felt her body recover from the slap of the minotaur as she absorbed the spooge, but the rush she felt has his body slumped weakly to the floor was too much. She gripped her own crotch, kept from her precious cunt by that loathsome gold bikini bottom and cried out as her big body spasmed in an orgasm of it's own. She made a damp, sticky mess of her bikini bottom with her orgasmic oils and shivered, but slowly she recovered, unlike the minotaur, who was happily asleep.

"Congradulations, you're now Level 2," Night told her.

"Um... yeah..." Shadina replied in her mind. She unmerged with Night, and watched as Reality came back. The previously captive vixen waved her thanks and bolted off back to the town. Laying next to this minotaur was another glowing key.

"That's the Treasure Room key. No doubt much of the ill-aquired wealth of the town is there, and maybe some extra for us," Night said. Shadina nodded to herself. She looked around this room, which looked like a central hall. One door looked to be the exit, a pair of double doors looked to lead to another big hall, and a small door opposite the one she entered led somewhere else. Her keen instincts told her to take that door, and she slipped into another hallway.

At the end of this hallway, she found a locked door. Using the Treasure Room Key, she opened it, and found several treasure chests inside. She grinned and began unlatching them. In the first, she found her old shorts and panties. Sighing in relief, she removed the gold bikini bottom and put on her own clothing. She couldn't help but notice her Wallet seemed fatter, now containing 312 Gucus. She shrugged it off and opened the next chest. It contained the Townspeople's Money. She set that aside.

She opened the next chest and found 2,000 Gucus in it. Her eyes lit up, and she put these into her wallet. Now she could afford to buy some furniture from Sierra. Finally, she opened the fourth and final chest, revealing the Shadow Memo. She read it suspeciously.

"That backwater province is yours for the taking, pig, to rule as you see fit, but you had best destroy the Shadow Temple, and don't permit anyone to find it's altar. Fail in this, and I will have the biggest pork barbeque ever. Signed: The Overlord,"

"What the hell? Who is this Overlord guy that he feels that he can just give our town away to some fat, greasy pig?" Shadina grumbled to herself, and possibly to Night.

"I cannot say for certain, but it seems the destruction of my Temple was his doing, and he was intent upon keeping you and I apart. I'd say he is most certainly our enemy," Night said.

"That seems pretty obvious. Well... time to take out the pig," She said, putting the Memo away and making her way back towards the main hall. Arriving there, she went to the double doors and took hold of their handles. Boldly, she threw them open to reveal a huge dining room. The long table that dominated the huge room was covered from end to end with platters of food, despite the fact that only one person, Hogereign, was eating at it. His eyes drifted over to her, one hand in the midst of stuffing food into his fat mouth. To Shadina's horror, she realized that despite the fact that he was the only one eating, he was not alone. Two more Minotaurs stood to either side of his seat, and they were both females with huge, heavy, pendulous tits and nearly as much muscle as their male counterparts. They stared daggers at Shadina. She suddenly realized who in their species had all the brains.

"Ah, wonderful!" Hogereign said around a mouthful of food. "You came to join me. Take a seat in my lap, pumpkin, I want some milk to wash this down." He grinned in stupid arrogance. One of his bodyguards leaned down and whispered into his ear and he blinked. "What?! But how? Oh those stupid buffoons! How did she get the better of them?! Grab her and put her back into her cell! And get that bikini back on her. She looks like a proper sex slave in it," The minotauress nodded and she and her companion descended upon Shadina.

"This is going to suck," Shadina thought to Night as they were pulled into the Battle demension. "How do I fight them? Will Flash even work on them?"

"Not likely," Night replied. "We'll have to merge immediately and count on our boosted Evasion to keep them off us. Our tentacles should still be quite effective, though."

"Take your turn already," one of the minotauresses growled.

"Fine," Shadina growled back, annoyed at their impatience. "Shadow Merge!" She transformed again, once again becoming Shadina-Night, to the surprise of her opponents.

"Time for the beatdown," the Minotaur woman on Shadina's right said. She launched herself at the betentacled panthress and swung a hard jab for her stomach, but Shadina drifted out of the way, leaving the minotauress swinging for nothing but air, her huge milk-laden tits wobbling pendulously.

"Oh come on. I'll show you how it's done," Her companion said. She launched herself at the black kitty as her companion retreated, aiming a hook for Shadina's jaw, but the kitty sneakily ducked under it, aborting the cow-girl's assault. Her companion grunted in dirision.

"Now's our chance, pick one and rip loose with our tentacles." Night said. Shadina decided to go for the one on the left. She felt an odd rush as more tentacles oozed and sprang from her back, and a mass of them flew across the empty space to her victim. One invaded her cunt, another her tailhole and a third her muzzle. Two more latched into her nipples as two more held her arms apart. The minotauress looked wide-eyed in terror. Shadina grinned in delight.

The tentacles went to work, pumping and fucking the minotauress in her holes, and sucking hard at her nipples, drawing in her milk. The pleasure for both females was intense, as Shadina could feel the tentacles like they were sensitive sex-organs. Shadina started getting wet again as her tentacles raped the minotauress, who, after several long moments of overstimulation curled up and hit a mind-numbing orgasm that depleted even her legendary feminine endurance. Soaking in her milk and feminine cum, Shadina purred, letting her victim go to slump to the floor.

The other minotauress looked at this in utter shock, her bovine muzzle hanging open. Finaly, she collected herself as it became her turn. She rushed at Shadina once again, and this time landed a massive backhand that slammed the tenta-kitty back into the wall. She turned to her spot, panting.

"Ooowww...." Shadina groaned.

"Thank goodness we'd gained a level... we probably couldn't have handled that as we were before. Now get her. We need her fluids to heal that damage, and ending this fight would be wise, too," Night said. Shadina did not hesitate. Her forest of tentacles snared the other minotaur, who tried to resist, but soon, she was getting fucked and sucked just as much as her fallen friend. As the big bovine woman submitted to the pleasure, Shadina visibly recovered, and finally she suffered the same fate as her friend, unleashing a mindblowing orgasm for the enchanted panthress, completely replenishing her and collapsing to the ground.

A powerfl wave of energy crashed into Shadina, and she cried out in her own orgasm, this time making a mess of her panties and shorts as once again, she gained another level.

"Oooo nice, we're level 3 now. We're stronger and more durable yet. That's very nice," Night said. The battle reality faded and Shadina stood up back in the real dining room. Hogereign blinked in disbelief at his fallen bodyguards and with unbelievable speed, he lept from his seat and ran to the far wall.

"Yeah..." Shadina panted. "You'd better run," she growled. Hogereign grabbed a lamp and tugged it, opening up a secret passage, and bolted through it. The door closed before Shadina could follow.

"He's going off to whine to his master..." Shadina grumbled.

"Very astute. You're pretty smart," Night complimented.

"Thanks. Let's get back home. I've got some furniture to buy,"