95 Chapter 95 Cute Bunny Girl (2/2)
”Master Joseph…are you singing?”
”Uh, yes, if you heard that. I was mostly humming the tune though.”
”That was a rather…odd song.”
”Ah, yes, well, the original probably sounded much better, but I like the changes I made.”
”Why did you feel the need to change it?”
”Well, for one, I don't like kittens. I was scratched by one as a child and the cut got infected and hurt for days. Somehow, I've just never gotten along with kittens. Puppies don't bite me, but they still run away. And two, you twitch your nose very well. It's adorable. So, if I'm going to think happy thoughts, getting to goof off with you on the way to save the world, was one of my happiest times.”
”Even though we were desperately trying not to freeze to death, and had to face an ancient incarnation of a dark G.o.d?”
”Yeah, weird isn't it? Amazing how much better, even horrible stuff is, when you do it with your best friend.”
He gave her a big grin before he went back to paperwork. Stella muttered something that he couldn't quite catch, even with his hearing.
”If you want, I can hum something different, but I'm trying to stay on happy tunes instead of rock or something harder. I'm using it to keep my mood up going through these reports.”
”Are the reports that disturbing?”
”No, not directly. I'm not sure we will be able to stay here the full 5 years with the way things are going though.”
”Why not?”
”Well, for one, the war broke out, but the problem on the contract is solved. We probably need to go, and either move our people to the central kingdom, or pull our people from the central kingdom. We are tax free here, but the hara.s.sment from the n.o.bles is bothersome and costing time and money. The problem is on hold for now because most of dad's other towns have already moved up and the last couple are on the way. The central kingdom might try and conscript from dad's slaves though, if things get worse for them. So, deciding which kingdom to really base out of during the war is going to be up to dad obviously, but it's still a concern, so I am gathering as much information as possible in order for dad to make a better decision.”
”And this has to do with your singing lately?”
”Well, I'm obviously not a very good song writer if you didn't like what you heard just then,” he laughed. ”I'm trying to keep an upbeat tune that doesn't involve love songs, break up songs, or songs just about s.e.x. That actually narrows the list quite a bit.
”I wonder if the previous me's taste in music was horrible, or if that was all that was available at the time. One life was stuck with patriotic songs to his country for two decades because of the war, so since I don't really care for his country, those are wasted too. Songs about the open road don't make much sense here. The religious songs seem kind of odd, because in my previous lives, I was never very religious, and in this life, I was blessed by the G.o.d of magic and don't know any songs for him.
”I know a number of instrumentals as well, but that doesn't help a lot in singing. I'm really hoping sound or illusion is in the runes I picked up in the north that I haven't deciphered yet.
”Oh, and even if dad settles here, until the war is over, there is a decent chance you and I will need to make our way to the Elven lands. META is the rune that controls magic itself, including curses. The system says the only copy still left outside, possibly ruins in the wasteland, is in the royal Elven library. It may be required to heal the wasteland and the world tree. I'm not sure how many people we will be able to take crossing three country borders, but obviously the smaller the group the better and it may end up being just the two of us again.”
”Does that mean we get to play more tag?” she asked with a twinkle in her eye and a twitch of her nose.
”Totally!”
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