Chapter 270: Jongleur
"Have we met?"
"You know her, Professor?" Kordia said pointedly, reminding Kir he was in disguise.
"We~ have not met! But I remember seeing you perform," Kir lied quickly. "Professor Nasumi, at your service."
"I think I would have remembered a strapping wolfkin like you," Morn winked. "You’re a big boy, aren’t you?"
"Professor, we don’t have time for this," Bailey asserted, clearly eager to get the search started.
"Hold your tits, boy, I just wanted to ask if we could combine our efforts. Circus lost a couple of performers a few days ago. Normally we’d just assume they were having fun and got lost, or they ran off, but we’re wintering here, and I have no idea how this thing works." She wiggled her branch with the blue lamp.
"She’s trying to summon Ghostheart," one of the kids cried out.
"Something like that. Been walking around for an hour, since the Ringmaster figures they might have got grabbed by slavers. Of course, some locals fed him the line about a ’friendly demon who rescues slaves.’" She sighed. "It would be nice if the demon actually showed up before I freeze my tits off. I’ve never met a demon before."
"You’re supposed to do it at night," Kordia said.
"Evening counts, right? I was about to head back, but then I heard you lot arguing and just had to watch the drama."
Kir shrugged. "I see no reason why we can’t join forces."