Chapter 267: Not So Good
"Got everything?" Enide asked. She half-sat on his dresser, her hair pulled back in a bun, and a gun leaning next to her. She looked every bit a vision of beauty, and he wished he didn’t have to get ready at all. If only they could spend all day here together.
Erec sighed and rifled through his duffel bag. There wasn’t much to bring. His axe was with his Armor; both were in the lab. VAL had been performing a tune-up of the Q.A.P. and servos. He’d gotten the physical things, like whatever clothes he’d packed, but that wasn’t the concern.
"I do. Worried about the people behind, though," he admitted to her.
She pushed herself up from the dresser and flowed over to him. She took one of his hands and stared into his eyes. “You did everything you could, hero. We both know you did.”
"We’ll have to hope Lionel and VAL pull through," he said, shoving the duffel on his shoulder and pushing some scrap away from his path with his foot. Since Enide started staying with him, his room had curiously collected more and more random junk.
“ It’ll be fine. C’mon lets go.” Enide went over to the door and shoved it open, hovering there.
Erec sighed and went over to his desk, scribbling out a quick note for his steward not to have his room cleaned. Enide would lose her mind if she came back and all her carefully collected junk was missing. Small details like that—the dozens of things popping into his head even now… With his whole cavern being rebuilt, leaving now as the lord over all of it felt wrong, especially since he wanted nothing more than to rush out the door and get started.
Those were the things he was worried about. Several more notes to make.
“Come on, hero. You’re taking too long.”