Chapter 89
"Misha," said Melody in a quiet voice, leaning towards me a little. "I thought you can’t speak Chinese."
I stared at her, then realised that me talking to Amethyst must look really weird with us both speaking different languages. "Oh, uh..."
"Do you have a tail?" asked Coral, her eyes fixed on something on the ground.
I leaned over and saw that my tail, which I had been keeping tucked in a loop around my waist had gotten free and was now twitching back and forth like a cat’s tail in plain view. "Uhh..."
And that was when a phone rang.
I quickly got to my feet and stumbled over to the wall and the phone charging from it. I’d put the phone on a little stool I’d found under the kitchen sink so the poor thing didn’t have to sit in the dust all day.
But it turned out, I’d underestimated it’s charging capabilities, or perhaps the cable and adaptor I’d bought were just that good.
"Hello?" I said after putting the machine to my ear. As expected, the number had come up as some string of numbers I didn’t recognise so I was half expecting to have to tell a telemarketer that I wasn’t interested in whatever they were selling, but I was wrong.
"Misha? Hello, this is Xu Yidi and-"
"I’m here too," I heard Zhan say in the background.
"And Zhan’s here too."
"Oh, hello," I managed to reply.