Chapter 102: Having a kid meant they will scream and cry when you go out to play
*chirp!*
Jade looked at me with teary eyes, looking as if I had betrayed its fragile little heart.
"I’m sorry, but you know I can’t take you yet, right?" I caressed its pretty head, but it only got the little bird chirping harder.
I had asked Natha again, about taking Jade over. It was impossible before since I would have gone for days, but what if it was just a few hours?
"You can’t," the Lord decreed. "It’s not a matter of lacking elemental mana, but that we’re going through a portal."
Natha explained then, that since the portal was inherently a bunch of complicated spells meshed into one, it would affect negatively on Jade’s little body. Before the little bird entered the juvenile state, its inside was still in the state of an unstabilized clump of mana. Taking Jade through a clump of interweaving spells would result in both systems getting overdrive.
So, to prevent both the portal and Jade from...malfunctioning, we couldn’t bring Jade over.
And the little bird was wailing. It wasn’t only because I left again after only a few days, but because this time, Zia would come with us too. So the child felt totally betrayed now, and had refused to look at the succubus since lunch when they found out.
"It’s just a few hours," I tried to soothe the bird again, "I promised I’ll be back before bedtime, and you can sleep with me tonight, okay?"
*chirp?*
"Huh?"