Chapter 68
Shopping with Lelou should be an Olympic event, I’m absolutely exhausted. We’ve been at it all day, only stopping for coffee and snacks, but I’ve finally wrangled everyone to my suite so I can grab my bags to head out on vacation after the official Travel Gate ceremony.
I’ve got far more than I could possibly need, even Hui’Jin was convinced to pick up some swimwear, new shoes and a single outfit of black yoga pants and a long cream colored sweater with an open upper back that let her wings free. She was dead set against all the children’s clothing that makes up 90 percent of options in her size.
Maybe Petros can show her how to be a kid? Who am I kidding, I was training all day to be a pack warrior at her age.
Lelou insists on picking my outfit and doing my hair for the broadcast, something about not scaring the children, but her style is always immaculate, so I’m not about to turn down the help.
She’s got my hair in an intricate up do I wasn’t aware hair could even achieve. I suspect she secretly used magic to get it to do this. There’s even little black pearls woven into it.
"Last up is getting you into your dress and fitting your new jewelry" she announces, chasing the girls out of the room. "Hurry up now or we’ll be late"
We made the stage just in time for Karl’s speech to start, followed by what amounts to an infomercial by Narishma. It’s all quite formal, like we’re a proper city council.
I’m up last, a quick reassurance and off through the portal I go for the cameras. I adjust the black knit shawl Lelou paired with the black and silver gown she chose. This dress is thin and it’s making me paranoid that my nipples will show their new adornments through it.
Sure, nobody would suspect they’re actually storage rings, and they’re technically hidden, but she definitely didn’t think of my modesty when she picked this outfit. It’s cut very low in the front, almost to my belly button, its back is all lace and it’s slit up the side almost to my hip. Red Carpet fashionable, but too risqué for my usual tastes.