touchnovel Chapter 1723 Save Me From These Crazy Children!
Chapter 1723 Save Me From These Crazy Children!
--- Kat ---
Kat had no idea how it had happened. They’d barely been walking for ten minutes but Penny was not happy... and for good reasons if she was being honest. "How do people find such places enjoyable?" hissed Penny the angriest both Kat and Sylvie had seen the girl... ever.
Penny had somehow managed to collect every stray scrap of debris in the forest. She’d slipped in the mud and now had her pants completely covered in the stuff. A bunch of small twigs had gotten caught in the poor girl’s hair. That wasn’t even getting into the fact that she’d somehow picked up a spider that was just sitting on her cheek for some reason. That hadn’t been there last time Kat had looked... but the spiderweb around her face and neck probably answered that question. At least she didn’t have any cuts or bruises.
"How?!" asked Kat before she could think better of it. It was a good question though. Kat herself didn’t have anything attached to her, and neither did Sylvie or Alice who were all walking in front of Penny.
"I do not know, I simply followed along as I was meant to and yet I seem to be the only one with things on me..." answered Penny with a frown.
"Um... well I can hear a stream a little bit ahead and we can clean off a lot of stuff there... do you want me to remove the spider now?" asked Kat.
"Hmm... no I think I like him. He seems to be rather calm and hasn’t attacked me yet so I’ll keep him for now," stated Penny.
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Kat frowned at the statement and glanced back through her mind to try and find the spider in question in case it was too dangerous to leave on a small child. Well, perhaps not that small but certainly much more fragile then Kat herself. Then she realised she could just ask Lily. [I think it’s a huntsman?]
Is that going to be a problem?
[Um... I certainly wouldn’t want one on MY FACE but as long as it isn’t a brown recluse she should be fine... and if it was likely to bite her it would’ve done so when it ended up on her face.]
How am I meant to know if it’s a brown recluse or not?
Penny nodded a long... and this didn’t seem to bother the spider at all. "While it may be nice to have one to keep at home I am quite certain my... family would disagree and perhaps somewhat... violently so towards the spider in question considering how they’ve reacted to other spiders around the house.
"Hmm... I wonder if I could convince Vivian to keep it for you..." hummed Sylvie.
Kat didn’t know what questions she wanted to ask first but luckily they were at the small river. It wasn’t much water, barely knee deep for the girls, and less then that for Kat herself, but it was relatively fast flowing and Kat knew she could get a lot of the mud off Penny. "So, do you want to leave the spider on while I try to clean you? Or perhaps let someone else hold it for a bit?"
Penny considered it for a moment before turning to Sylvie who shrugged and reached out a hand. The spider, to Kat’s surprise seemed to tank the invitation well and moved over to Sylvie’s hand without issue and just... continued to hang out there.
Kat... was pretty sure something weird was going on here. *Perhaps my calming aura is helping even if I’m not actively using it? Or perhaps Sylvie is just that cute.* "Alright let’s get you cleaned up a bit," said Kat as she gestured for Penny to come over.
Kat stood in the river herself, bent down and quickly used the water to wipe away the mud, even making sure to scrub a bit for the particularly tough patches. Once that was done Kat waited until the girl’s were all look away and quickly flash froze the water on Penny’s legs and brushed it all off. Penny glanced down the instant Kat was done and looked at her legs oddly but Kat didn’t let any reaction show.
Instead she just started to pick all the twigs off of Penny as well as the spider web. That didn’t take too long and soon the younger girl was pretty clean. She still had wet shoes on account of standing in the river when Kat froze off a lot of the extra water but that was fine and helped distract from what Kat had done. "Come on, off we go," said Kat as she gently led Penny out of the water.
Sylvie, upon seeing this moved the spider up to Penny’s shoulder and it calmly walked back over. Kat was certain weird things were going on now... but very unsure on how to... well do anything about it or if she even should. Then again... what did she know about spiders? "Alright, off we go!" As soon as they were moving again, Sylvie asked. "So Kat how do you think we can convince Vivian to let us keep a spider?"
Kat sighed quietly, not really sure if she wanted to answer that question. "Well, I’m not sure that spider you have there would like being inside all that much... but if you just mean a spider in general? If you can convince Callisto it’s a good idea and you both team up on her I’m quite sure she’ll agree even if she doesn’t like spiders... which... I don’t think it’s ever come up?"
Sylvie nodded, "I don’t think it has. Callisto keeps everything too clean to really attract bugs but I have seen her carry a spider outside... once. Not sure if she was just doing that because she knew I was around though, or if she does that to every spider she sees,"
"Well it sounds like you’re already part of the way there," said Kat while trying to inject a bunch of cheer she didn’t feel into the statement. She wasn’t afraid of spiders, never really had been. The orphanage picked up quite a few over time and it was almost always Kat’s job to move them away from scared kids. So she just got used to it.
Which of course was part of the problem. She associated spiders with scared kids so keeping one as a pet had never even crossed her mind. Hopefully they wouldn’t be keeping this one... especially without knowing how safe it was.