{"sf1_id":565765,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Skyfall Chapter 11","author":"Abyssa","words":4772,"posted_at":"2013-07-20T22:25:00.000Z","tags":["Alien","Anthro","Canine","Human","Hybrid","Laboratory","Magic","Male","Phoenix","Werewolf","Wolf","space"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/565765-skyfall-chapter-11","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/565765","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=565765\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"             The\nearly hours of the morning approached. The sky was lighting up with that deep-blue\nglow that haunted the landscape before sunrise. I needed to meet Kato with my\nsupplies for Eldon in about an hour. I rubbed my sore eyes and slid off the\nbranch. I had no idea what supplies I would even be bringing to Eldon. \n  I walked back towards the\nlab in a daze, completely exhausted. Once I reached the courtyard, I hesitated.\nI was too tired to stay standing up straight, and I swayed a bit. A few guards\nexiting the building glanced at me, probably assuming I was drunk or drugged. \n  Eventually I stumbled\nthrough the doors of the lab and saw Kato sitting in one of the lounge chairs\nstudying a clipboard. He glanced up from his work when I approached him.\n  \"Decipher,\" He said,\nsetting the clipboard on the table in front of him, \"you look terrible.\"\n  \"I get that a lot.\" I\nsighed, sinking into the chair across from him. \n  \"I'm sorry, Decipher.\" He\nsaid, staring into my eyes. I closed my eyes to avoid his probing stare. I\ndidn't have the energy to hide how I felt. \"What did you see?\" Kato asked.\n  \"I saw enough.\" I said, my\nvoice rough. \"Everyone seems to know this about Misha. Why didn't anyone try\nand warn me?\"\n  \"So I take it you found out\nhis big 'secret', then?\" Kato leaned forward and rubbed his head, \"It's hard to\nsay. Most of us thought you would be better off figuring it out on your own. I\ntried to warn you, but Misha promised me he was going to tell you the truth.\"\n  \"I'm sure he would have,\nonce I pressed the issue so much that he wouldn't be able to hide it.\" I spat,\nmy eyes glaring past Kato. I glanced into his eyes, \"Do you think he actually\ncares about me?\"\n  \"Absolutely,\" Kato said,\n\"but that doesn't mean you can trust him...Although, I guess it depends on how\nmuch you care about that part.\" \n  \"You mean the fact that he\nfucks all the experiments he works with?\" I snapped.\n  \"So you do care.\" Kato observed.\n  \"I don't know if I care,\nhonestly, Kato...\" I sighed with a low growl, \"I'm just...afraid.\"\n  \"You don't care about what\nhe does?\" Kato asked, leaning forward, \"What are you afraid of?\"\n   I had to think for a moment. I\nwasn't sure exactly what I was afraid of. \"I guess I am afraid he doesn't\nreally care.\" I admitted. \"I've put aside the fact that I've been lied to,\nmanipulated, everything...but, if he doesn't really care, I'll have invested so\nmuch of my time and feelings into him for nothing.\"  The thought felt so juvenile once I expressed\nit out loud.\n  \"So you don't care that\nhe's been cheating on you?\" Kato asked, seeming skeptical.\n  \"I'm not even sure I can\ncall it that. We never established that we were in a closed relationship.\"\n  \"Did he tell you he loved\nyou?\" \n  \"Yeah.\" \n  \"Then you shouldn't have to\nestablish it as a closed relationship.\" Kato let out a heavy sigh, \"Misha\nis...not a good person. You need to be careful of him.\"\n  \"What do you mean by that?\nWhat do you think he will do to me?\" I demanded. I needed to know what he\nmeant. I was afraid and Kato was the only one I felt could give me answers at\nthis point. \"Kato, I have no idea what I'm doing.\" I admitted.\n  \"I assume you saw one of\nhis ravaged experiments in the basement, right?\" Kato asked, \"Strapped down and\ndrugged?\" \n  \"Yeah...a werewolf. He had\nMisha's scent all over him, and then complained about how Misha had lied to him\nabout his feelings.\" I swallowed hard as I attempted to ignore the visual of\nthe struggling werewolf.\n  \"Misha takes what he wants\nwith very little consideration of how the other person will feel.\" Kato said. I\ncould tell he was tiptoeing around the subject, but my mind was too weak to\nmake him be specific. I knew what he meant; I just didn't want to believe it. \n  \"On occasion, Misha lies\nand uses manipulative techniques to make the other person go along with it, but\nhe also isn't afraid to just take what he wants by force.\" Kato said, his\ngolden, fiery eyes piercing into mine. \"You understand?\" \n  I nodded and looked towards\nthe sky outside. The sun was beginning to rise.\n  \"It's almost time for the\nfinal approval. I have some clothing for you, were you planning on packing\nanything else for Eldon?\" Kato asked, following my gaze out the window.\n  \"Just my dagger blade.\" I\nsaid. \n   \"Then you probably don't need to be here. Meet\nme after lunch and I'll give you your gear and explain it all.\" Kato said,\nstanding up and collecting his clipboard and papers.\n  \"Kato.\" I said, standing\nwith him, \"One more question.\"\n   Kato kept his eyes on his board, \"What is\nit?\" He asked.\n  \"Did Misha hurt you?\" I\nasked. \n  Surprised, Kato looked up\nat me. \"No. He never harmed me. We broke up because it turned out I wasn't his\ntype. After about two years, Misha realized he was into animals instead of\nhumans.\" Kato paused and rubbed his wrist. When he rubbed his wrist, I could\nhave sworn I saw a black marking appear for a brief moment, but then it was\ngone as soon as I had seen it. \"Being a human, his attraction for me naturally\nfaded, and then I found out what he'd been doing behind my back.\" \n  \"I wasn't happy about it,\nbut we remained on good enough terms. I forgave him a long time ago for what he\ndid to me.\" Kato finished, turning his back and walking away.\n  \"Wait, Kato!\" I said,\nwalking next to him, \"Misha told me that we couldn't be together because I\nwasn't human...isn't that some sort of taboo?\" \n  \"Confront Misha on the\nmatter.\" Kato said with a wave of his hand, \"It might have been in the past,\nbut everyone here knows about Misha, anyways. We all expected him to fall for\nyou. It sounds like it was just a bullshit excuse to get you to lay low while\nhe tested you out. Now go sleep.\"\n  I stopped and watched Kato\nwalk away. \"Thanks, Kato.\" I mumbled. He waved in response. I began to feel\nguilty for involving Kato; I could tell it was stressful for him.\n \nI stirred in my bed as I became aware of a faint tapping at my door. My\neyes slowly opened to the blinding sunlight that was shining into my room.\nListening to the tapping, I remained still. I felt sick, sure that it was Misha\nat the door.\n  \"Decipher!\" His voice\ncalled in. \"Are you in there?\" \n  My stomach tightened and I\nfelt the urge to vomit. I rolled out of bed and approached the door. Slowly, I\nopened the barrier between us.\n  His smiling face on the\nother side filled me with confusion. He sauntered into the room as soon as I\nopened the door. He was wearing different clothing. It seemed very familiar. I\nassumed that this was the type of clothing that was worn in Eldon. \n  He wore a tight, tan shirt\nmade of a thick fabric and had a leather cord laced up the front, and brown\npants that looked like they were made from some sort of animal hide. \n  \"Decipher! Good to see\nyou.\" He said, stroking my arm as he moved past me. I held back a snarl. \"You\nseem upset. Are you okay?\" \n  I closed my eyes. I\ncouldn't distract myself with his new outfit anymore. \n  \"You said you were done\nlying.\" was all I could think to say.\n  \"Yeah.\" Misha said\ncarefully with a puzzled expression. \"But it'll take time to confess\neverything...I thought we talked about this.\"\n   \"I met one of your experiments.\" I spat,\nstaring past him and out the window. \n  Misha remained silent, as\nif he were waiting for me to rant. His silence was infuriating, and my muscles\nbegan to shake with anticipation. \n  I decided to give him what\nhe was waiting for. My head jerked towards him, \"The other day when I said no.\"\nI growled as I gazed into his worried, dark eyes, \"You had to find someone else\nto take advantage of because you couldn't keep it in your pants, right?\" \n   Misha had no response. He opened\nhis mouth anyway, as if hoping some words would come out and save him from the\nmess he'd gotten himself into. \"I just...\" \n  I stepped closer to him,\ncausing him to cower. \"Did you think I wouldn't find out? Did you think that\nthis would just be okay when I DID find out?\"\n  \"No! Listen!\" Misha\npleaded, stumbled backwards. \n  \"What about all of your\nexperiments that you manipulate into loving you? Are you sure that wasn't what\nyou were doing to me?\"\n  Misha shook his head, \"I\nswear...I swear I never wanted to get involved with you!\" He said. \n  I growled, tempted to\nsnatch him by the throat. \"Never wanted to get involved with me? So you don't\nlove me!\"  \n  \"Decipher, I do love you! I\ntried to escape you, but you kept approaching me. You kept trying so I thought\nmaybe it could work!\" He cried as he backed himself into the wall, \"I never\nwanted to involve you in my life. I knew I would bring you nothing but\ntrouble...but I stopped resisting when you kept reaching for me.\"\n  My ears flattened and I\nstopped approaching him. I considered his words...it was true. He had ignored me. He had tried to escape\nme. The events flashed clearly though my mind. \n  \"You seem stressed. Can I help\nsomehow?\"\n  \"I have to go.\"  I began to shake even\nharder as I realized I was the one who had done this.\n  \"What's so wrong about caring for someone?\" \n  \"Do you know what I mean\nwhen I say I care about you?\"\n  I began to feel panicked. I\nsank down onto my bed. My breath was heavy and I felt faint. He had tried to\nwarn me, but I was too foolish to listen. \n  Misha slowly approached me,\n\"I do love you.\" He whispered. \"I know. I wasn't completely honest in the\nbeginning, and it's true...I've manipulated others into loving me...but I was just\nlonely. I needed someone. But I would never do that to you.\" \n  I squeezed my eyes shut, fighting\nthe feeling of panic. \"If you had me, would it not be enough?\" I said through\ngrit teeth. \"You had me...Just because I can't handle your physical demands all\nthe time doesn't mean that I'm not there, and it certainly doesn't mean you can\ntake advantage of others for your own selfish desires.\" \n  Misha sat down next to me on\nthe bed. \"I'm so sorry, Decipher.\" He said softly, \"I want you more than\nanything...but I have issues. I'm terrible, you're right. I don't deserve you,\nbut I want to try and be better!\" \n  My heart was racing, and I\nfelt like it was going to leap out of my throat. I swallowed hard and tried to\ncalm my shaking body. \n  \"You shouldn't come with us\nto Eldon.\" I said with a shaky voice. \n  \"I have to.\" Misha replied,\navoiding my eyes, \"Doctor Hale gave me an official assignment.\"\n  I didn't understand what\nexactly that meant, but I knew that if Hale had commanded it, it had to happen.\nI sighed and took a few deep breaths. \n  \"If you travel with Sheila\nshe will kill you.\" I said, staring out the window.\n  \"I know. I'm fairly certain\nthat Hale wants me to go so that this issue will be resolved.\" \n  \"You mean he wants you\ndead?\" I asked, surprised.\n   \"No. I think he wants one of us dead. I'm\nnot sure if he has a preference.\"\n  I couldn't comprehend that\nstatement. The fact that I was still completely ignorant to what was going on\nin this place dawned on me. Staring out at the sky, I imagined life back at\nhome... As horrible as it was, I began to wish I had never left. I rubbed the\ndeep scar on my arm absent-mindedly. There would be no returning. These\nthoughts were pointless. I needed to focus on the issues at hand. \n  \"Decipher?\" Misha asked,\nplacing his delicate hand over mine. I cringed.\n  \"I will link with you,\nMisha.\" I said as I stood and moved away from him. \"But you need to back off\nfor now. We will see what happens when we return from Eldon, assuming Sheila\ndoesn't kill either of us.\" \n  Misha nodded and remained\nsilent. I glanced up towards the clock and saw that it was lunch time. I headed\ntowards the door. \n  \"In the meantime, I expect\ncomplete honesty from you.\" I said, sending a glare in his direction. \"I need\nto meet with Kato.\" \n  I\nmade my way through the crowd of people at lunch, not bothering to get food. I\nfound Kato at a table with Caliber. They were both dressed in village clothing.\nTheir clothing looked very primitive when compared to my stark-white shirt and black,\nsilky shorts.\n  \"You okay, Decipher?\"\nCaliber asked, his voice full of genuine concern. \"I heard about what\nhappened.\"\n  I nodded. \"I'll be fine.\"\n  \"Good.\" Kato said, tossing\nme my own village outfit. \"You should put these clothes on. We leave a few\nhours before sunrise. Caliber and Sheila are leaving for Skyfall in a few\nhours, and we will meet them at the pass before tomorrow's dawn.\" \n  I held up the shirt and\nexamined it. It was tan with a deep crimson design sewn into the front around\nthe neck and down the center. The design reminded me of Doctor Hale's uniform,\nthe one I had seen when I first met him.\n  \"What do they mean?\" I asked\nas I traced my fingers along the swirling designs.\n  \"Many things.\" Kato said.\n  \"I always just assumed it\nwas a nice design.\" Caliber said, glancing down to his own shirt, which had an\nemerald pattern sewn across the bottom.\n  \"Very helpful.\" I said with\nmock disapproval.  \n  \"So, Decipher...\" Caliber\nbegan cautiously, \"Will Misha be travelling with Sheila and I?\"\n  \"No.\" I replied with a sigh,\n\"I will link with him.\"\n  \"Have you two come to that\ndrastic of a resolution?\" Kato asked while Caliber let out a sigh of relief. \n  \"It's hard to explain, but\nwe are okay for now.\" I said, holding up the clothes, \"I suppose I'll go slip\nthese on.\"\n  \"Decipher, are you sure?\"\nKato said, \"Linking with someone is extremely difficult as it is. You might\nhurt yourself if you cannot successfully link with Misha.\"\n  \"I'll figure it out.\" \n  Kato nodded, \"As long as\nyou'll be alright. After you've changed I'll give you your supply bag.\"\n  I walked into the gym\ndressing room and slipped off my clothing. I pulled the shirt over my head. The\nfabric was thick and seemed durable. I stepped into the black pants next. \n  The pants were firm and\ndense, and had some strange scales sewn around the waist. The scales were\ngolden and stiff, but flexed with the way my body moved and tightened when I\nstood up straight. They seemed to mimic the elastic effect that my other\nclothing had. I wondered what kind of beast these scales belonged to. Some type\nof rare dragon, my downloaded information told me, but that was all I could\ngather from my exhausted mind. \n  When I stepped outside of\nthe dressing room, Kato was leaning against the wall with a satchel. \n  \"Here's your bag. It has\nsome food, a water pouch, and an energy crystal.\" He said, pulling out a jagged\nblue stone that pulsed with energy. The feeling was strong. I could sense the\npowerful energy from where I stood several feet away. \"These are hard to come\nby. Be careful with it.\"\n  I reached my hand out to\ntouch it. I felt energized just being around it. I was afraid that if I took it\nfrom him, the energy would seep into me. \n  \"How do I use it?\" I asked.\n  \"Focus on the energy and it\nwill enter you.\" Kato said, \"Just like when you're trying to light a fire and\nyou draw energy in. The crystal's only really for emergency use, though.\"  He dropped the crystal back into the satchel\nand handed me the bag.\n  \"Because of the...recent\nstress that Misha has caused you, you'll probably need some of that energy to\nrecover after teleporting.\" Kato said with a sigh, \"Walking through Skyfall\nPass requires your full strength; it is a dangerous place.\"\n  I nodded and slipped the\nstrap on the bag over my shoulder. \"I'll be fine.\" I said. I wasn't really\ntalking to Kato, I mostly said it to convince myself.\n  My head jerked upwards at\nthe sight of Misha, who casually walked down the hallway towards us. Kato and I\nremained silent as he cautiously walked around us.  \n  \"Doctor Hale has another\nassignment for you to pick up before we leave for Eldon, Kato.\" Misha said, \"He\nsent it up to the information desk. I think there's something for you, too,\nDecipher.\"\n  Kato sighed, \"Alright.\" He\nsaid flatly, \"Come on, Decipher.\"  \n  Grateful to have an excuse\nto leave, I quickly followed Kato up to the information desk. \n  \"You've never had an\nofficial assignment before.\" Kato sighed, \"Of course Hale chooses your first\nvisit into town to test you out.\"\n  I wasn't sure how to\nrespond, so I remained silent. It seemed that Kato was talking to himself,\nanyway. We walked in silence to the information desk.\n  A woman behind the desk\nslid two envelopes out towards us, \"Hello Kato,\" She said with a smile before\nturning to me, \"and...Two-fifty-seven? You're Decipher, right?\"\n  I nodded and took the\nenvelope with my number stamped across the front. Kato's envelope was marked\nsomehow, too, but he quickly slid his hand over the mark and snatched the\nenvelope before I could get a good look.\n  Kato peered inside at the\ncontents of the envelope and cursed under his breath. \"I have to run down to\nthe medical wing.\" Kato said, quickly descending the staircase. \"Go read your\nassignment. If you have any questions, I'll be in the lounge after I'm done.\" \n  \"Alright.\" I said. I\ntrailed behind Kato and stopped in the lounge. I took a moment to reflect on\nthe conversation I had with Kato hours earlier. I could hardly believe so\nlittle time had passed. I felt like an eternity had passed since that\nconversation.\n  With a sigh, I opened my envelope.\nFocus. I reminded myself. Focus on the issues at hand.\n  The top of the paper had my\nnumber on it, as well as some symbols I did not understand.  I scanned the rest of the paper, my nerves\nbuilding with every line I read. \nAssignment:\n \nProtect Misha Aras\nDescription:\n\n  Class 5 Assassin of T.R.I.L., Sheila Duran,\nis unable to put aside personal matters. We are convinced that she will attack\ngeneticist Misha Aras during her trip to Eldon Village. M. Aras is a vital part\nof our team. Your job will be to ensure he survives, as well as take care of S.\nDuran. Duran has become disposable; she does not need to return.\n \nNotes: \n  It would be unwise to attempt a sneak-attack\non Duran. It is recommended you wait until she is blind with rage. She has\nalways had trouble controlling her emotions. Use this to your advantage. She is\nstronger and smarter than you. \n   I read through the description over and over\nagain. I couldn't believe what I was reading. This is how they deal with\nproblem employees? My eyes wandered to the bottom of the page, where Doctor\nHale had scribbled his signature. \n  Someone sat next to me\nsuddenly. I jerked away and shoved the paper back inside the envelope. I sighed\nwith relief when I saw it was Kato. \n  \"Hey.\" He said drowsily.\n  \"Are you alright?\" I asked\nhim, attempting to ignore my own shaking body.\n  \"Yeah.\" He groaned while\nrubbing his arm, \"I just had some shitty injections. Drugs are stupid. I hate\nthem.\"\n  I nodded, pretending to\nunderstand what he meant. He seemed a bit out of it. \n  \"What's your assignment?\" Kato\nasked, leaning back in the lounge chair.\n  \"Protect Misha.\" I said,\nwondering if I should go into detail. \n  Kato laughed, but it wasn't\na regular laugh. He giggled and fell forward. I caught him before he hit his\nface on the table.\n  \"What the hell, Kato!\" I\nsaid, shaking him. \"Are you okay?\"\n  His face became serious for\na brief moment before he burst into another fit of laughter. I shoved the\nenvelope into my satchel and hoisted Kato up. \"Come on.\" I said as I lifted him\nover my shoulder, \"Let's go ask a doctor.\" \n  I carried him towards the\nmedical wing. I heard someone else laughing behind me. Her laugh sent a shiver\nthrough my body. I turned to see Sheila's intense, green eyes staring at me. \n  \"What's wrong with Kato?\"\nShe laughed, winking at me, \"Is he drunk?\" \n  I narrowed my eyes. I don't\nknow what she could have done, but I still blamed her.\n  \"Well, I have to get\ngoing.\" She said, still flashing her wicked grin, \"See you two at Skyfall Pass,\nif Kato can make it that far.\"\n  Kato was still giggling\nlike a madman. I growled and continued towards the medical wing. If Sheila had\ndone something, at least he didn't seem to be hurt...just useless.\n  \"Hey Decipher!\" Kato said\nin between laughing as I rushed into the medical wing. \"Sheila says she's going\nto kill you before she's done. I said that's not very nice but oooh well!\"\n  I sat Kato down on a table\nin one of the patient rooms, \"Shut up and stay here.\" I growled, looking around\nfor a doctor.\n  Misha was flipping through\nsome papers at the end of the hall. I searched around for anyone else, but it seemed\nhe was my only option. I gave up and approached him.\n  \"Misha, I need your help.\" I said,\npointing towards the room that contained Kato, \"I think Sheila gave Kato some\nkind of drug. He's acting like a lunatic.\" \n  Misha raised an eyebrow,\n\"Acting like a lunatic? The nurse just gave him a few injections to boost his\nenergy levels.\" \n  He followed me into the\nroom, where Kato was laying on his back and staring up at the ceiling with a\ngrin.\n  \"He won't stop laughing. Is\nthat a normal side effect?\" \n  Misha leaned over Kato and\nshined a light into his eyes. \"Kato?  Can\nyou hear me?\" \n  Kato squirmed and nearly\nfell off the table. \"Too bright...\" He mumbled.\n  \"No. I wouldn't say this is\nnormal.\" Misha said, tossing his light and examining some puffy, red marks on\nKato's arm. \"Damn it.\" \n  \"Is he going to be okay?\" \n  \"Yeah, he'll be fine...\"\nMisha sighed, stepping outside to speak with the nurse.\n  \"I gave him the premade\ninjection that you left me.\" I heard her voice say. \n\"Here's the note that you left with it.\"\n  I glanced out to see Misha\nsnatch the note, \"Don't ever trust notes!\" He yelled, crushing the paper, \"If\nit doesn't have a keycard on it, don't trust it.\" \n  \"I'm sorry!\" She cried,\n\"You were right next door. I didn't think to question it...\" \n  Misha shoved past her,\n\"Decipher, I'll be back. Watch Kato.\"\n  Kato was stirring on the\ntable. I glanced at his wrist; the black pattern was there again. It looked\nlike a swirling flame, and when Kato struggled, the flame seemed to ignite. I\nheld onto his wrist, it was burning hot. \n  I looked around, the nurse\nhad gone and no one was around. Kato struggled against my grip and opened his\neyes. They looked like they were on fire, and I sat frozen as I stared into\nthem. \n  \"Kato?\" I asked quietly.\n  He grinned and held up his\narm. I was terrified. \"I miss this.\" He laughed again. Suddenly his entire arm\nburst into flames. Without thinking, I snatched his arm and focused on putting\nout the flames.\n  \"Kato stop!\" I begged,\n\"Calm down!\" \n  Kato's entire body began to\nglow with a brilliant yellow aura.  An\nintense wave of heat exploded from his figure and knocked me backwards. He sat\nup for a moment, and then laughed and fell to the ground. I tried to catch him,\nbut his skin burned me. I jumped backwards as he crashed into the ground. \n  Misha ran back into the\nroom, \"Dammit. Did he ignite?\" He asked, jabbing a needle into Kato's arm.\n  \"I have no idea!\" I\nshouted, shaking off my burnt hand. \"What does that even mean?\"\n  \"He was drugged with a\ntoxin that is meant for capturing phoenixes.\" Misha said, carefully sliding a needle\ninto the vein on the inside of his arm, \"Typically the drug gives the phoenix a\neuphoric feeling before it renders them unconscious, but it affects Kato\ndifferently because of the drugs he has received as part of training here. In\nthis case, it awakened his phoenix powers, while making him euphoric.\"\n  \"Phoenix? Kato is a\nphoenix?\" I grabbed the side of my head. Phoenixes\nrarely take human form, and would never choose to live as one. My\ndownloaded information chimed in my head. \"Drugs? What did you do to him?\"\n  \"Hale captured him many\nyears ago.\" Misha sighed, sitting Kato upright, \"Kato would transform into his\nhuman form so that we could communicate with him, but soon he became depressed\nand unresponsive. He stopped eating and became very ill, so Doctor Hale worked\nout a deal with him. If he stayed a human and enrolled in training, he would be\nallowed out of his cage.\"\n  \"That deal sounds\nfamiliar.\" I growled. I couldn't believe Kato had been an experiment, and that\nhe, too was a prisoner. A vision of Kato as a beautiful, flaming bird, locked\naway inside a dark cage crawled into my mind.\n  \"Being a human, his attraction for me naturally faded, and then I found\nout what he'd been doing behind my back.\" Kato had said just this morning.\nI pitied the poor man; he had been forced to be a human, a form he probably\nhated...I couldn't imagine having wings stripped away from me. Would he and Misha\nhave made it if he were allowed to have his true form? \n   \"You might have to link with both of us\ntonight. I don't think Kato will be able to transport.\" Misha said, jarring me\nback into reality. \"Help me lift him up and we'll place him in the bed next\ndoor.\" \n  I glared at Misha and\nshoved him aside, lifting Kato up gently. If Caliber and Sheila hadn't just\nleft, I would have suggested Misha travel with them instead.\n  Carefully, I placed Kato on\nthe bed next door. I pulled the sheet over him and watched his black, swirling\nflame disappear. \n  \"Take it out on Hale,\nDecipher.\" Misha said from the doorway, folding his arms. \"It wasn't me who did\nthis. I wasn't even the one to work with him back in those days.\"\n  I sat down next to Kato's\nbedside. I had nothing else to do. \"I'll watch him.\" I said.\n  \"We'll let him rest until\nwe leave.\" Misha said before he left. \"Sorry, Decipher.\" \n  \"I suppose it's not your\nfault.\" I said, closing my eyes. \"See you later, Misha.\" ","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/565493-skyfall-chapter-10.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/565836-skyfall-chapter-12.json"}