Chapter 48: Cannian Knight
The next few days went faster than Tulland expected. Sun Giants were faster, but absolute pushovers in terms of tanking compared to their brothers. Only the Water Giants who rose out of the sea were any harder to kill, and that only because they were hard to plan for. But soon enough, Tulland was capped on every single type of them, and a few hours away from his garden being as much of a power-plant as he could expect it to be in a reasonable amount of time.
“You look morose.” Necia was rubbing her feet next to the fire. It was a habit of hers, something she did every night to take the sting out of a day’s worth of armored-shoe-wearing. She had, Tulland felt, nice feet. He wasn’t an expert, but it was hard to imagine anyone having feet he liked more. “Real sad.”
“Well, yeah. This is the last night before you go face the big bad knight, right?” Tulland asked.
“That’s what The Infinite says. I’ll be thrown in there if I don’t go voluntarily,” Necia said.
“That’s why I’m sad. All this has been very nice. It’s the best farm I’ll ever be able to grow. It’s the strongest I’ve ever been. It’s the most time I’ve ever spent with someone like you.”
“Aww.”
“Aww indeed, but it’s ending tomorrow. I can hardly enjoy all this stuff I made.”
Necia raised her eyebrows.
“Really? Because that’s a lot of cool stuff.”