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Who's Mia? What are their circumstances? It's ...complicated. -.-'\n\nWords of warning can be found by looking at the keywords, but I remind that this is a work of fiction. >^.^<\n\nCover illustration to be added later.\n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/1567358]->Second Chapter[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/1551486]->First Chapter[/url]","description_bbcode_parsed":"Who are the kits? Who's Mia? What are their circumstances? It's ...complicated. -.-'
Words of warning can be found by looking at the keywords, but I remind that this is a work of fiction. >^.^<
Cover illustration to be added later.
->Second Chapter
->First Chapter","writing":"III - Bunny Bind\n\nby \n\nFumbling Foxpaws\n\nFor over two millennia in China, there have been stories told about the [i]húlijing[/i].* Folklore attributes them as servants of the divinities, some of which were eventually capable of reaching godhood themselves. The most famous type of these spirits is the nine-tailed fox. It was believed that with each hundred years of life the fox lived, he'd gain an additional tail. After having lived to the respectable age of 1000 years, the fox would ascend to the heavens and into godhood. As far as ethical alignments go, there were good and evil húlijing alike. \n\nThe Chinese also have knowledge of the [i]yèchā[/i],** or [i]yaksha[/i], a type of devil originating from the Indian subcontinent. Some see the yèchā as spirits, others believe them to be more like the forces of nature. They were mischievous and often very sexual. Like with the húlijing there were harmless, even beneficial ones, but their evil counterparts were especially nasty; the man-eating kind.\n\nThe nature is rarely all black and white, especially when matters of morality are concerned; in nature there are none. But there are certain perks to being a fox. An innate ability for shape shifting is certainly a prime example of such perks. It's a secret in plain sight; it is a known fact but so preposterous that it's passed as a myth. \n\nThe old legends don't quite entirely hold water for the most part about all the abilities of the húlijing, but to be able to take on a human form, to stand and act on two legs is certainly something of an improvement to standing exclusively on four legs, Chi thought, although it meant temporarily sacrificing the speed and agility he was used to. However, there were more drawbacks that came with the ability. \n\nIt's only an illusion albeit a convincing one, to the degree that it could as well be the truth - the line in between is almost nonexistent. You could manipulate things with your illusionary hands, for example, but still it would be only an illusion. \n\nAlthough, if you're able to manipulate something and achieve a desired result, isn't that the same as doing the real thing, Chi had asked himself, and was none the wiser. He could see the difference, but couldn't put it into words if he had to explain it to somebody else. It was like that with an increasing amount of things now. It wasn't that the line between illusion and reality was disappearing, but rather that the reality itself was turning out to be an elaborate illusion the more you were concentrating on looking through and past it. \n\nAlso, you couldn't just change into anything you wanted. The most what the majority of the húlijing have been known to be able to turn into, is a bipedal form resembling a person. It's either that or your usual quadrupedal fox form. There's nothing else in between, such as turning into a frog for the princesses to kiss or anything like that, no matter how fun that would be.\n\nThe biggest drawback was that you always had something to hide. However, when the legends have even a little bit of truth to them, that's when things can start getting complicated, and it's not even the gist of it all yet. But as far as mere camouflaging purposes go, the stuff from legends was more than peachy.\n\n[center]-[/center]\n\nIt was morning. Waking up was as troublesome as always. The sound of the alarm clock was enough to shatter her eardrums, so Ai turned it off by dropping it off the night table. The alarm stopped and time passed. Chi entered the doorway with a toothbrush in his mouth.\n\n\"Are you going to wake up Acchan? I ate breakfast already. If you're not going to hurry, you're going to be late.\" \n\nAi rolled in her sleep and dropped out of her bed. \"Owww...\"\n\nWhile Ai was running around the house in her pajamas, searching for misplaced schoolbooks, lost pens, her favorite panties and the like, Chi had already eaten, showered, dressed and was ready to leave for school. He'd usually stay outside the front door, looking at the scenery of trees and fields in front of him. He'd wait until the last minute and then hold open the door for Ai, who would come running, and lock the door after her. Today was no exception. Hiding in plain sight meant literally hiding in plain sight, so they went to school where kids of their age were expected to be during the daytime. Furthermore, Chi liked learning things. A school was an appropriate place to go to in the mornings.\n\nThe bus ride to school was uneventful. The bus wasn't a school bus, but a regular bus with mostly commuting people riding it, apart from some elderly and a few school kids like the two little kits. Chi liked to spend the trip staring his cell phone like many boys of his age, while Ai would rather watch the scenery through the window, although it had been the same and mostly unchanged for over five years. For this reason, Ai usually got to sit at the window seat, while Chi sat on the aisle seat. \n\nThe bus passed through fields, patches of forests, fields surrounded by forests, and past some small houses as their trip took them from the countryside towards the town.\n\nWhen it finally came to a halt at a bus stop by the school yard the kids exited the bus. Chi was dilly-dallying through the yard as usual, but Ai grabbed his paw and pulled him to her pace and they entered the school together.\n\nThe school was a small town school. There were others within the town, but this was theirs, a three storey building at the outskirts. The kits found their classroom along the hallway adorned by cloth hangers that were bolted into the hallway walls. They took off their jackets and hung them on the hangers before entering the classroom from the hustle in the hallways.\n\nIn the classroom, two desks were always grouped together with aisles between them. The seating order was usually made in a way that one boy and one girl were seated in such a group. Generally for kids their age, the seating was only recently starting to feel acceptable. Kids few years younger would've regarded seating with the opposite sex as a punishment, and it was indeed used to calm down the class environment.\n\nThe seating hadn't worked with Chi and Ai in the way it was meant to, but they hadn't said anything about it to anybody. Since they were usually quite calm together the teachers didn't have any reason to have them separated either. The seating arrangement was in fact an exciting and a positive thing for them, although it meant that they needed to stay sharp all the time. But at least they had each other, they thought at the time. They didn't have to be alone even if their most guarded secret was discovered and they would be bullied about it.\n\nAi had also some perks thanks to the seating. Chi was scrupulous with his homework, so help was always near as Ai was really careless with hers. Sometimes it bugged Chi to have to be her lifeline when the teacher was asking questions she didn't know the answer to. But of course, it worked the other way around too. Math wasn't Chi's forte, but to his luck it was about the only one that Ai had, apart from PE. She was good with numbers, and that helped Chi through many a desperate evening with his math homework.\n\n[center]-[/center]\n\nChi had PE in the afternoon, a subject he didn't much care about. Today it was supposed to be a volleyball game held at the school gym. Chi didn't like the place. It was old, partially built underground and in his nose it reeked of sweat. The entrance to the gym was next door to the main building, where most of the classes were held. Once you entered through the front doors, you had to turn left and descend a long sloping ramp, at the end of which the boys' locker room entrance was located.\n\nThe ramp ran next to a wall, but on the other side of it was a handrail on the street level in order to protect people from falling into the ramp. Its support beams were a good distance apart so that you could stick things in between them although for safety reasons you weren't supposed to.\n\nChi was walking down the ramp towards the locker room, his head already below the street level, when something unexpected happened. Somebody had taken off their socks and shoes and stuck their legs in between the beams and was flailing them lazily in the air over the ramp, probably while laying on their back on the floor of the street level.\n\nChi couldn't help but notice the two graceful legs suddenly landing in front of him from above. The girls' class had ended and apparently the owner of the legs was relaxing after her performance in a questionable manner. A strange place for relaxing, no doubt, although there was a heatwave going on and the gym building was air conditioned. Somebody wanted to give her feet an air bath. He heard a long sigh from above him.\n\nHe was light on his feet, so he thought it possible the girl hadn't heard or otherwise noticed him. It wouldn't come as a surprise to him, because girls rarely noticed him, or that's what he thought anyway. The gym class had already started and he was late. The owner of the legs wasn't expecting anybody walking here now. Chi stopped in his tracks.\n\nThe legs were thin, covered with silky smooth white fur and the feet were small and graceful. The girl had cute, pink pawpads. In her left ankle the girl was wearing a simple silver ankle chain with a little silver heart hanging from it. Some of her nails were colored with a colorful nail polish, in a very girly way. Only glitter was missing. The feet were slowly swaying in front of him, like reed in a light summer breeze.\n\nChi didn't expect anything reminding him of summer in this place, but he sniffed the air around him carefully anyway. The girl had been exercising and he could smell it. She was probably on her way to shower and had momentarily laid herself down under a ceiling fan. Chi sniffed again, trying to stay quiet. And again, moving his nose closer. The excitement of the situation made him lick his lips lightly.\n\nBy a cruel act of fate, the girl swayed her legs a little too much; she was apparently about to stand up and leave, but ended up touching Chi's lips and his cold nose. The owner of the legs yelped and cursed, while Chi got a light, but scared kick in the face. The girl couldn't get up fast enough to catch escaping Chi, who dashed towards the boys' dressing room in fear of getting caught and called a pervert. Although he had a sore nose, the girl's taste lingered on his lips.\n\nChi managed to escape to the locker room in time, albeit flustered and out of breath, mostly due to his nerves than from the physical strain of his dash. He found that the locker room was empty; he was really late. Behind the doors leading to the gym hall he could hear shouts and other general noises that only a group of boys could make when put together. Hastily he changed into his exercising outfit and rushed through the doors hoping that he wouldn't raise too much attention. He knew what to expect; the coach didn't like tardiness.\n\nThe class went on as could be expected. He had to listen to a brief sermon by the coach; a bulky and grumpy bear in his fifties. The boys were usually in good terms with him as long as they did as they were told and didn't raise too loud a ruckus. The coach was respected even, but if you got on his bad side you'd get to know the courts of Hell. After the sermon there were push-ups to follow for Chi, after which he was allowed to join the game with the others. \n\nAs usual, Chi didn't exactly shine in the game, but he didn't do too badly either. He got to make a few passes of the ball and score twice by hitting the ball to the opposing team's court. After the game, when everybody else was sent to the showers and consequently home, Chi got to make ten honorary laps running around the gym hall before he was excused to the showers himself.\n\n[center]-[/center]\n\nBy the time he got back from the showers to the locker room, everybody else had already left for home. He wasn't in a hurry so he took his time, got dressed, packed his things and left. He had turned the lights off and went out of the door, when he heard a girl's voice speak next to him:\n\n\"Nice going, pervert. At least you aren't all bad. The show was ok seen from the stand, but you could've made an effort, you know?\"\n\nChi turned fire engine red. Next to the doorway Mia was standing with one leg, leaning against the wall with her other leg bent against it. She was one of the more athletic pupils in Chi's neighboring class, a bunny girl with white fur and short teeth. She was known for her attitude and tendency to speak her mind. She was dressed for going home, wearing red shorts, a simple green t-shirt and holding her backpack on her shoulder.\n\n\"Wha...\" Chi started.\n\n\"Don't start with me. I know it was you. Although the metal panels on the wall don't reflect an image, they do reflect colors and you're the only person wearing that kind of colorful Hawaiian shirt around here.\" Mia stated, pointing the decorative metal panels above the ramp with an extended finger. \"And you've turned as red as a beet which is a dead giveaway.\"\n\nChi couldn't bring himself to say anything to deny what had happened. He bowed his head down and said \"I'm sorry. I was walking down the ramp when you threw your legs at my face. It was too sudden.\"\n\nMia stared at Chi quietly for a moment, her mouth turned into a mask of irritation. After a moment she seemed to calm down. \"Very well, apology accepted. I like upright guys. So, are you ready?\" Mia asked with a twinkle in her eye and a wry smile on her lips, after having thought about something for a second.\n\n\"Ready for what?\" Chi asked, still embarrassed and now confused as well.\n\n\"Your punishment, of course.\"\n\n\"But I apologized already.\"\n\n\"That's not good. Not nearly good enough. Get back inside.\"\n\n\"But...\"\n\n\"If you don't, I tell everybody in the school about this tomorrow. Everybody will know you for the pervert that you are. Do you think your sis would be happy to learn that her brother is a perv? Could you show your face in the school ever again?\"\n\nChi's jaw literally dropped and he couldn't shake the shivers the threat made him feel. Reluctantly, he turned back to the locker room, cold sweat starting to form on his forehead. Mia followed him, turned the lights back on and closed the door behind her. She looked around her, tossed her backpack aside by the door and took a seat on one of the benches that lined the walls. She looked at Chi, gesturing him to come closer.\n\n\"Come on, I don't bite.\" she said and pointed a spot on the floor in front of her. \"Sit.\"\n\n\"Can't I sit on the bench? Why does it have to be on the floor?\" Chi asked, slowly starting to expect she'd want to kick him again and laugh at him.\n\n\"Nope - won't do.\" Mia said, taking off one of her shoes and starting to remove her sock too. \"Remember, if you don't do as I say, I'll tell everybody. So move it.\"\n\nStill reluctant Chi sat cross-legged in front of Mia, who pushed her foot in Chi's lap. The colorful toenails confirmed the fact that it had indeed been Mia whose feet had been Chi's downfall.\n\n\"Here, touch me. And if you tickle me, I swear I'll kill you.\" Mia said with a stern look in her eyes, although her voice was faltering. Was she having second thoughts?\n\nChi was encouraged a little by the change in her voice. Not much, he was just about to tremble himself still, but only a little. He had thought of Mia as somewhat an obnoxious brat, and given what she was making him do by threatening him, she was one. But maybe he could redeem the situation by being gentle. That was just about all he knew, to behave gently, after all. So he'd be fine, if he'd just be himself, and what will come will come, he thought.\n\nChi looked at the foot with the painted toenails in his lap. He took it into both paws, and raised it closer to his face to examine it. It was a lucky rabbit's foot with a silvery ankle chain. Chi held it by the ankle and stroked it lightly with his free paw. Mia had showered, but she had had her PE lesson at the track, so her feet were already beginning to catch the smell from her shoes in the summer heat. Mia wiggled her toes.\n\n\"Well?\"\n\n\"Well what?\" Chi asked.\n\n\"How do you like them now that you can take a closer look without hurrying and having to worry about being seen?\"\n\n\"I think your foot is pretty. Do you always color your toenails like this?\"\n\n\"It was just an experiment.\" Mia said turning her head away. \"I tried a new brand and color and tried it on where it wouldn't show.\"\n\n\"But I'm seeing them right now.\" Chi said massaging the foot gently.\n\n\"Want me to kick you? I am wearing my other shoe still, you know?\" Mia said, more in a surprised rather than in an angry manner. Like a kid who's been caught with his hand in a cookie jar.\n\n\"No, no... please don't do that.\" Chi looked at Mia from under his brows and flashed an uncertain smile. He was starting to imagine that the ice could be broken. For a moment he thought he was seeing a cute side of Mia that he didn't even know had ever existed. Chi's thoughts were a big, messy jumble. His stomach was in a knot from being surprised by Mia waiting for him, and he felt the knot tighten even more. Chi leaned forward and brushed his lips against Mia's big toe.\n\nMia pulled her foot instinctively away. \"What do you think you're doing, perv?\" she said, although she wasn?t showing any sign of being offended.\n\n\"Was it something unexpected from a perv you exposed your foot to?\" Chi asked and paused, half joking, half scared that he had crossed some invisible line. Not at all certain why he had kissed her toe in the first place.\n\n\"No... I guess you're right. I should have expected that coming from you now that I know how you are.\" Mia shifted her leg so that she could present her foot back to Chi. \n\nChi kissed the ball of her foot while Mia was watching him. He worked his lips against her fur and her pawpads, avoiding exhalation at the same time as not to tickle her with his breathing. He continued kissing her toes, even taking one of them into his mouth.\n\n\"Mmm...\" Mia whined softly at this another unexpected act, apparently fighting the reflex to pull her foot away once more. Her toes wiggled again and Mia shifted in her seat. Chi let go of the toe only to surround it with his lips more firmly this time and to suck it gently. The movement of something red caught Chi's attention and he found himself looking up the leg of Mia's shorts. \n\n\"Asshole!\" Mia whispered when she noticed where Chi was looking at.\n\n\"Sorry!\" Chi squeezed his eyes shut and turned his face quickly away.\n\n\"Did I say you can't look? I didn't tell you to stop either.\"\n\nChi opened his eyes slowly and looked carefully at Mia. She had a tint of red on her face and she was smiling a little. It wasn't anyhow a mean or a mischievous smile. It felt warm and kind. She took his paws in hers and placed them on her waist. Then she took support from the bench with her hands and pushed herself off of it, landing astride in Chi's lap as he cushioned her fall by holding her.\n\n\"Boo.\" she said quietly, her face only inches away from his.\n\n\"Hi there,\" Chi responded in equally low voice, looking Mia in the eyes and feeling his nervousness fading away. He wasn't even thinking about being confused any longer now that he had a lapful of warm bunny girl on top of him. \n\nChi took his paws off from Mia's waist, encircled her very naturally with his arms and started to stroke the fur of her head while making a clumsy attempt at a hug. Mia leaned forward, embraced him and rested her head against his shoulder without saying anything.\n\nChi felt his heart pounding. Not counting that one sound that reverberated in his ears, they sat together for awhile in still silence. Chi was enjoying her scent, her soft furry arms surrounding and squeezing him lightly. Her warmth in his lap made him feel comfortable and as if everything was as it should be. When after a while none of his caresses were met with objections he got encouraged enough to make a little further exploring. \n\nFrom stroking the fur of Mia's head with his paw he moved on to stroking her neck and back with his fingers. He let the paw caressing her back wander lower onto her thigh and feel the slippery material of her shorts. He was starting to feel hot, and apparently so was Mia. She raised her face to the level of Chi's and pressed her lips against his.\n\nChi felt as if a proverbial jolt of electricity had struck him. Mia's lips were soft and hot. Her weight in his lap made the experience all the more exciting, as if his youthful lust alone wasn't filling him with excitement enough. He proceeded to do what he had wanted to but was too shy; to feel her bunny bobtail in his paw. He reached out for it and stroked it lovingly. It felt like he was holding a ball of cotton. It twitched by his touch a little and Mia started kissing his neck instead.\n\nBut when he thought he wanted to take a chance and risk everything - when he moved his paw away from her tail back onto her waist and on top of the waistband of her shorts - when he was planning to slide his fingers inside, she took his paw gently into hers and whispered into his ear:\n\n\"No. That's the line I won't allow you to cross.\"\n\nDisappointed and embarrassed, Chi moved his paw away from Mia's waist, stroked her back for a moment and then pushed himself farther from her, awkward thoughts running through his mind. Mia hadn't let go of his paw, though.\n\n\"I'm sorry. You're nice and,\" Mia said gathering herself and finishing her say in a one long sigh. \"I knew you wouldn't take it further than I wanted.\" She kissed Chi one last time while squeezing his paw before she stood up, dressed her sock and shoe and walked to the door.\n\n\"So it was all just a game and nothing more?\" Chi asked, although he thought he knew how it was.\n\n\"That's the reason I could do this. Don't worry, I won't speak about any of this to anybody if you don't.\" Mia picked up her backpack and smiled shyly. \"Consider yourself absolved, loverboy.\" And then she left, leaving Chi sitting on the floor, looking at the doorway with a mixed feeling of happiness and irrevocable loss.\n\n[center]-[/center]\n\nChi had come home feeling blue. Ai was already home and in the living room playing a console game. He thought she wasn't seeing or hearing anything. Chi had left his backpack by the front door, and went straight to his room upstairs. He had gone to bed and took a nap, even though he wasn't feeling that tired. When he awoke, it was already late evening. He returned downstairs without speaking a word with Ai. He had an evening snack, showered, and returned to his room.\n\nThe afternoon had been hot but so was the night. Chi had opened his bedroom window hoping for respite but it wasn't coming. He had been looking out of the window for a while before finally lying down on his bed again. The full moon shone into his room, casting long shadows around the furniture and in the corners. Grasshoppers were making sound outside, no wind was blowing in; it was unbearably hot. Chi couldn't sleep. He turned on his side facing the wall that he hoped would emanate coolness, but it didn't. He didn't even think of pulling the covers over him.\n\nHe heard the door open, Ai taking a few quick paces across the floor, then something flumping on the edge of his bed. Of course it was Ai. It wasn't unusual for her to come into Chi's room late at night when she couldn't sleep. Often they would whisper and giggle together until sleep came, or if the other was dead tired they would just lie close to each other sharing the bed. At times, they would do other things too, but that was one of their most carefully guarded secrets. As foxes they already had a few, come to think of it. And as far as siblings go they shared a very unusual bond. He had known that for quite a while now and worried what might happen if it ever got out in the open.\n\n\"Hey hey brother moon. Make room, it's too hot. I can't sleep.'' Ai spoke in a tired voice.\n\n\"You know it'll only get hotter in here with two people?''\n\n\"Mmmmph!'' Ai grumped and laid herself down next to Chi anyway who, already accustomed to it happening, made room for her. A moment passed in silence. Then Ai spoke again. \"Hey, give sis a hug, will you?''\n\nChi's mood was slumping so he'd rather have stayed quiet. Ai's arms reached around him from behind him and held him close, the short sleeves of her pajama top carrying the smell of fruity detergent mixed with her own scent to his nostrils. Ai nuzzled her face against Chi's neck.\n\n\"You're down in the gutter again. I thought... I did sense something out of place. Whose scent was on your clothes today?'' Ai said as her attention was taken astray. \"You can tell me. There's nobody here besides us monsters.'' she continued, brushing her brother's chest lightly with her paw. It was too hot to even fan the air with their tails, so they just laid there, together in the moonlight. \n\nHow was it that her sense of smell was that keen? He must have smelled awful himself, Chi thought. \"I don't get people. I think I was toyed with again,'' Chi said, turning his head to face Ai.\n\n\"Mmm-hmm, you're such a great toy. I'm lucky to have you. Others would keep you for themselves as well, it seems. Would you let go of me, if you had somebody else take my place?'' Ai continued to brush her muzzle in Chi's neck fur. Chi placed his paws on hers and kept quiet. Ai could see the tears starting to swell in his eyes and he turned his face away again to hide them.\n\n\"Sorry.'' she mumbled. \n\nChi turned back, reached his arms around Ai and buried his face against her tiny chest. \n\n\"As far as siblings go, we're a little messed up experiment, aren't we?'' Ai said brushing the fur of his head lightly. \"You know, I'm the one to blame for this, so maybe I can't avoid taking the fall. I assume this has got something to do with Mia. She's a friend of mine from the PE class. I thought I'd ask her to cheer you up a little, not drag your mind into a gutter.''\n\nChi pulled his face from Ai's chest and looked at her incredulous. \"No, it's not like that.'' His ears drooped and he turned his face away from her. \"If it was you who made us meet, I'm glad you did. Thank you.''\n\n\"That bad, huh?'' Ai ruffled the fur of his head gently and buried her face in it. \"It wasn't my intention to hurt you nor did I do it out of spite. I thought you two might have been, well if not a match exactly, at least compatible in some ways.''\n\n\"Maybe we are. Maybe it's just me. As usual, I should just forget and carry on. The thing is, I'm getting tired.'' The curtains fluttered as a breeze hit them. Ai's snuggling made him feel even lonelier.\n\n\"You let go of things really easily, but you're not entirely content with your role as an eyewitness to your life either. You're a convoluted one, but then again, so is everyone else.'' Ai hugged him tighter. \"We're young, we feel stronger. We're lost and finding our way once again.'' she said, letting go of him as holding him started to feel too hot for her. \"Surely the weather isn't helping the quest.'' she chuckled. \"I wish it would cool down soon.''\n\n\"I wish I didn't have to lose the important parts of my memory each time. I could avoid situations like this with the memory of events leading to, and having experienced these feelings before. If I remembered how they can hurt-''\n\n\"-there wouldn't be any point in coming back. Or rather, we would be bored to death when we eventually do come back. I kind of like it how I am now. I get to stay with you and it feels fresh time and time again.''\n\n\"With my personality I only get hurt time and time again.''\n\n\"It's a learning experience like any other, I think. You'll adapt, won't you?\"\n\n\"But the weight accumulates, does it?''\n\n\"I don't know. I don't feel much different. Maybe you're different because you looked directly into the well. How long did you say that you had?''\n\n\"Maybe twenty, or less.''\n\n\"Twenty years, that's a long time. But we'll be together. I'm likely to outlive you again. It's because of this body, it's I who ends up alone in the long run,'' Ai smiled as she made the pun. \"You get to become wise, rest, and wait for me.'' Ai kissed Chi's cheek and turned on her back, holding him by the paw.\n\n\"Nine, nine, brother look alive. You have the strength, you'll survive.'' Ai said, pointing at the ceiling with her finger as if to point out something unseen far away.\n\n\"Six, six, sister don't add more to the mix. Your victory is secure as it is.'' Chi continued the little poetry game of their - his - devising. \n\nWhen the siblings had learned their thinking was so much alike, that they could occasionally fill in the other's sentences, Chi had started to sometimes formulate his thoughts in poetic form just to annoy his sister, but was annoyed instead when he noticed she caught up with him quickly.\n\n\"Nine, nine, my yang you need a sign. A sign that happiness can be found within a lifetime.''\n\n\"Six, six, my yin your words transfix. There's more to it than the pleasure of a sweet kiss.''\n\n\"Nine, nine, oh brother of mine. Cruelty does not suit me, it's a characteristic of thine.''\n\n\"Six, six, oh sister of tricks. Your success is indisputable, my heart's bleeding on a crucifix.''\n\n\"Nine, nine, understand beloved that love is sublime. It's always out there waiting, love's loss is no soul's nighttime.''\n\n\"Six, six, beloved I understand why you did this. Love is your science, you say it's no abyss.''\n\nAi became quiet for a second. \"So... yeah. Hey, you know I can help. Um, I distract you, you distract me, and then we both can sleep. Please?'' Ai looked at Chi with the sisterly look that said 'if you're dumb, I'll cry.' As to drive the appearance of innocence further, she traced his name*** with her finger on the fur of his chest with gentle, petting strokes.\n\n\"I told you that you weren't to blame.'' Chi said and put his arm around her, pulling her into an embrace. Ai took support with her arm and moved her legs closer to him, raising her knee a little and pushing it between his legs so that their thighs were now embracing too. Chi felt the smoothness of the fabric of Ai's shorts between his legs, reminding him of his encounter with Mia again. The heat between their bodies was now felt in full, but this time it was different. \n\nAi felt Chi's thigh between her legs and closed her eyes, enjoying the wholesome hug despite the heat, as she reached her arms around him. Big, hot, comforting. It was hot enough even without the shorts, but by wearing them she'd have an excuse, at least for a short while. Her heart was thumping so hard she could hear it clearly. Yes, this was what she wanted. She had played her cards right after all. The anticipation was exciting.\n\nIt wasn't his first time kissing Ai, but the moment felt unusually fragile. Chi reached his face towards Ai's lips and kissed them softly as if he was afraid of breaking her. He could taste Ai's strawberry flavored toothpaste in his mouth. Ai responded to the kiss, alleviating his nervousness. She nibbled his lips with hers, her lips feeling to him as slippery as her silken summer pajama. Chi's paw had started caressing her back without too much of a thought, feeling her pajama top. The two exchanged kisses without a hurry; little puppy love kisses first and deep lovers' kisses with clever attacks by their little tongues later, as their bravery and need for each other built up slowly but surely.\n\nChi's paw found its way under Ai's top, and they paused their kissing while he explored her back at first and finally her flat, tiny chest. The feel of exposed fur instead of clothing was something else. The two kits lied side by side, holding each other, stroking the other's fur, caressing, exploring, feeling the skin underneath, letting the peak of the excitement settle a little.\n\n\"It's hot.'' Chi said.\n\n\"Uh-huh.'' Ai turned on her back, took her top off and turned back to Chi. \"It's better now,'' she said with an uncertain smile on her lips. \"Much cooler and more comfortable.''\n\nChi responded by offering his arm for her as a pillow and embracing her with both of his arms. He kissed her with more certainty now. She stroked his back, let her paw wander along his sides, his little bum and along the fur of his tail.\n\n\"I guess the time for talking about this has passed?'' Chi said to Ai with uncertainty starting to creep into his voice again, but with a trace of smile on his lips.\n\n\"Later.'' Ai responded and continued with a slow barrage of kisses, driving her point.\n\nChi retreated from her affectionate advancement and pressed his forehead against Ai's chest out of embarrassment. He moved his caressing paw hesitantly from Ai's back to her buttocks. Ai remained silent and only hugged him a little tighter as if to tell him to go on.\n\nHe felt the silk that was covering Ai's figures, tracing them up and down with his paw, from the small of her back to her thighs, from the base of her tail and between her legs up to his own thigh, across the distance in between and turning back again. He was starting to get convinced that not all of the dampness he felt on his paw from a certain place was simply perspiration. \n\nAi held his head against her chest, slowly stroking the fur of his head with her paw and scratching gently the base of his ears. Both were silent, it felt as if time had stopped. The moon shone through the open window, illuminating the room better now than it had earlier, meaning that some time had passed since Ai had come to Chi's room. The grasshoppers seemed to have quieted down entirely. The curtains weren't fluttering an inch. It was still as hot as it was before.\n\nChi reached carefully under the waistband of Ai's shorts, fumbling with his fingers for an opening between the waistband and Ai's fur, and slid his paw inside. Feeling and caressing his way over her bare buttocks he advanced his fingers in between her legs. He didn't have to search to feel her excitement on his paw, but still the situation made him feel a little guilty. He lifted his head from her chest and kissed her. \n\nAi's lips were hot and slippery against his, like they were melting. The touch of their lips conveyed a trembling from her to him. Ai prodded his teeth shyly with the tip of her tongue and wrestled hard against his tongue when she found it. Chi tightened his hold of her with his pillow arm while he caressed her wet lower lips and she sucked his tongue and tugged his briefs.\n\n\"Those need to go.'' Ai whispered when their lips finally parted.\n\n\"Mm-hmm? And what about these?'' Chi took his paw out from Ai's shorts and tugged them too to make a point, and although he still felt ashamed, he proceeded to lick his fingers clean while making sure Ai would see him do so. She didn't seem embarrassed at all.\n\n\"They too.''\n\n\"But they prevent accidents. Like flooding and such.'' Chi said burying his face against Ai's chest again.\n\n\"To think that some people would complain about having a wet dog in their bed...'' she chuckled.\n\n\"But it's my bed.''\n\n\"You can sleep in mine tonight if you want to.''\n\n\"...nah.'' he said after a pause he made to feign that he was thinking about it. Ai hugged him, now burying her face in the fur of his neck. Chi slid his paw under the waistband of Ai's pajama shorts again, and took them off with her assistance. She tugged his briefs again as if to remind him. Chi supported himself on his elbow for a second in order to lift his hips from the bed and Ai took advantage of the moment, pulling Chi's briefs down.\n\n\"Mine.'' she said quietly as she pulled them all the way down and tossed them on the floor where her shorts had landed a moment ago in conclusion to a similar chain of events. Both little kits were lying next to each other without a thread of clothing covering their bodies. Ai stroked her paw along Chi's thigh all the way to his sheath.\n\n\"I know my dog's wet, but I don't complain. It's my dog, after all.''\n\nChi shut his eyes tight. Ai teased him, she licked her finger and traced it along the entrance of his sheath where something was starting to peek out.\n\n\"I don't complain at all.'' Ai said and kissed Chi while massaging him and luring the contents of his sheath out with her moistened finger. Ai lifted her leg over his flank, guided the tip of his member to her lower lips and placed her paw on his bum, stroking it while they kissed.\n\nChi rocked his hips slowly and gently, rubbing his sheath against Ai's flushed lips. He could feel her warm slipperiness fondling the tip of his manhood, making it grow out from its shelter. As it grew, it parted her lips open while his sheath was constantly brushing them. \n\nAi sighed quietly between the kisses but kept caressing Chi's buttocks and the base of his tail. Her kisses were hotter, her lips were silky smooth from her saliva and her need could be felt building up. Chi responded her by kissing her hungrily while his member grew to its full boy's length and glided softly from its sheath inside Ai, making her shiver from the pleasure.\n\n\"Mmmmh.''\n\nFor a moment the two just lied side by side, entwined together, exchanging kisses and panting while their hearts were pounding audibly. Chi took support from his arm and lifted himself between Ai's legs from her side without breaking their connection. Ai turned on her back and wrapped her legs around him, her arms around his neck and squeezed him with her legs. Chi rocked himself against her, leaning on his arms and thrusting with his hips, straightening his back with each thrust. Ai closed her eyes and stretched her neck far back. It was as if Chi could lift her from the bed and into the air each time he pushed inside her. His thrusts were deep but slow. Ai felt like a hooked worm, unable to do anything but hang from him and squirm in pleasure while she was slowly being impaled time and time again. With that thought and her brother/lover in her mind, she came.\n\nAi's face grimaced briefly, but it hadn't actually felt that bad at all, she realized. Chi had pushed a little too deep this time and Ai had unintentionally taken his knot. She quickly pressed herself harder against his sheath so that she wouldn't hurt herself. By doing so, his knot would be far enough inside her and away from her entrance the contracting muscles of which would clamp them together, when his thrusts suddenly stopped. Ai could feel herself squeezing him tight during the brief pause after the thrusts had stopped. \n\nShe was so filled and squeezing him so tight, that she was afraid that it could have actually hurt no matter what she did. Ai exhaled, hang onto her brother and kissed him while Chi started trembling in her arms and she felt the familiar throbbing sensation and him ejaculating inside her. \n\nThe little kit's elbows gave in and he fell halfway on top of Ai's chest, squeezing her tightly. Ai held her arms around him until his trembling and throbbing had stopped and he was able to kiss her again.\n\n\"Looks like we'll be like this for a while,'' Chi said later while lying on top of Ai, when the afterglow had settled in and their connection was still undone.\n\n\"Do you feel like sleeping now,'' Ai asked and brushed the fur of his head with her paw, her other arm around him.\n\nThey watched the dancing shadows on the walls, still tied together. There was a small breeze blowing outside now, swaying the tree branches outside and fluttering the curtains. There was moonlight in the room, but it would soon be gone. The heatwave was over and autumn was fast approaching.\n\n\"Like this?'' Chi asked. \"I think I'm more awake now than I was before.''\n\n\"Wanna go at it again, then?'' Ai asked him, holding a giggle while showing Chi her tongue.\n\nChi caught Ai's tongue between his lips, kissed her and stroked her cheek. They made love again and when they were finally finished, both satisfied and resting side by side talking, Chi raised his paw towards the ceiling in the darkness of the room.\n\n[center]-[/center]\n\n\"What do you see?'' Ai asked.\n\n\"Blackness,'' Chi said, trying to make out the outlines of his outstretched paw. \"If I reach far enough - abstractions. Ideas, relations that form, break down and are born again into something incomprehensible the further I concentrate looking at. I look at my paw, but instead I can see its atoms, electrons, every tiny particles that make it, up to the infinity and beyond. The same is with the roof, the atmosphere the Oort Cloud, everything. [i]Ad infinitum[/i].'' He paused. \n\n\"It's probably enough to make you insane if you concentrate on looking at it for too long. At the far end, if it could be even called an end, it all seems to fall down on itself. The creation - or rather - all the creations. All of them.'' Chi waved his paw slowly about in the air.\n\n\"However, it's the truth. It's the last theorem, just that it isn't a theorem at all. It's covered with a veil of sorts, but it's still partly transparent. The sight cannot be described. It's hard to look at, but it's curious. It's like an instruction manual of everything there ever was and every possibility that could ever be, just waiting for an engineer to browse it. Whatever it is that's behind the veil, it can be used, manipulated like it uses us, but the veil needs to be parted and with enough effort I can make it. I can push it aside for a moment.\"\n\n\"There's no time, no nothing behind it. Everything collapses into itself creating a curious kind of emptiness that isn't empty. And this everything around us it tells me, it's a manifestation of that emptiness. It isn't really here. It's meaningless. It's an illusion. Like with a flash of lightning it was made clear to me at the bottom of the well. I wish I didn't have to see it. It caught me. Now I'm trapped and you too are with me.'' Chi closed his eyes and waved his paw like he was dismissing something and continued.\n\n\"But the most curious thing is, that who would have thought an emptiness like that to have a personality of sorts. The memory of it is just about all that carries back from what was before, and nothing more, save for arbitrary memory fragments that aren't of any use by themselves. Even the memory of it can be lost sometimes. I remember that now, but I've never been able to fill in the blanks between the fragments.''\n\n\"Santiago,'' Ai said with a quiet voice.\n\n\"There's an order of kinds even to chaos. So I could just do this - it's only a mnemonic really- I leaf the pages, connect some strands, sever others, look through the schematic that everything's accounted for,\" Chi said gesturing a pattern in the air with his fingers \"-and then I could create a bouquet of roses for you.'' Chi said and pretended to pull a bouquet of roses out of thin air and handing it over to Ai.\n\n\"I can't see much, but they smell like the real deal,'' Ai played along and sniffed the imaginary bouquet. \"Is it magic?''\n\n\"It would be an illusion. It's not anything like how the húlijing do it, but since everything around us, including abstractions, is an illusion in a sense, seeing the underlying truth - like reading the instruction manual of an elaborate machine - enables you to manipulate that illusion. To work the machine. Magic is the all too convenient an explanation you make up for yourself when you don't know or understand how something works. I [i]see[/i] how things work. Then I [i]will[/i] them to work in one of the ways I saw they [i]could[/i] work. It's not magic, even if I created and showed you an entire world only your eyes could see.''\n\n\"And you subject yourself to looking behind this veil at that underlying pattern to manipulate it? To make me see you pull illusionary roses out of nothingness? And that's what's consuming you? Looking in the manual on how to do it?''\n\n\"Looking, or rather reading, is tiring but mostly it's Santiago's doing. He's the one that drains the life out of me and you. We're only the medium and the fuel for him to work with. Even when I'm only leafing through the brochure and not buying anything, there's a charge. I guess that the law of energy conservation is a more fundamental truth than anybody could have ever expected. Even Santiago needs fuel to function. It kind of makes sense, if you think about it. Limitless power leads to limitless corruption. Without restraints we'd be gods. It's also kind of annoying. For everything that's out there to be found, you can only look and not touch. But you must pay from looking alone and touching would be too expensive for you to afford. We're far from gods.''\n\n\"And that leads to us. But why us, over and over again? Why not somebody else? And why can't I do all those things?''\n\n\"Your guess is as good as mine.'' Chi said and continued.\n\n\"The universe tends to seek the most energy efficient solution in keeping things like matter together. Maybe we are it. A kerosene for the most sublime of things, the Thanatos**** made behind the illusion of existence itself, I think.''\n\n\"If we exist, maybe there are more like us and we're not alone.''\n\n\"Oh trust me, we're alone. If there were others, I would have seen them already.''\n\n\"So, if it's true and we're alone... what does it want to use us for? I can't see things like you can, yet it works through me also. Shouldn't we just call it somehow and ask what it wants?''\n\n\"Who knows. Does it even need a reason? It's beyond comprehension. Maybe even it just wants to know more about itself? Besides, I don't think calling him by our own accord would be such a great idea. I don't know what could happen. It's definitely not anything we can control. We could die right away or I could commit your pattern into memory, camouflage it into something illusionary in this world among all the other illusions in order to store it, and die while I'm recalling that pattern as it burns me out. If I somehow manage to survive and you do not, that is.''\n\n\"Should I record your pattern and save it without being able to recall you back, I could lose the storage vessel and you'd be trapped within. I'm blind to my own creations, I couldn't find it again with the usual means. I don't want to lose you again but I don't want us to start again from the beginning by committing a double suicide either.''\n\n\"Uhh... looks like we won't find out anything tonight either,'' Ai said and shook her head. \"I'm hungry,'' she growled, got up from the bed and picked up her pajamas from the floor.\n\n\"We could order take out?'' Chi suggested.\n\n\"Two kids ordering take out in the middle of the night with no parents or babysitter around? No, I'm not thinking about ordering take out.''\n\n\"Oh...''\n\n\"Right. Don't wait for me.''\n\nChi closed his eyes and laid still for a long time. The hunger she had was of very specific kind that could be averted to a degree, but their brother wasn't always so kind as to stay away unless called. Carrying him around was taxing and the hunger it made you feel was like any other. To get rid of it, it needed to be sated or you went about hungry. \n\nIn the world there are connoisseurs that have developed tastes that aren't based on any actual need. They've become habits and there's a saying that old habits die the hardest. Despite knowing this, some might feel that those habits need to be satisfied, even if they're recognized as merely habits. Especially if the habits carry back from many a lifetime ago. Chi listened to Ai taking a shower, then leaving out the front door and into the night.\n\n[center]-[/center]\n\n*狐狸精, `fox-spirits'\n\n**夜叉, `night-crossers'\n\n***The character 魑 is pronounced [chi], meaning `mountain spirit'.\n\n**** Greek personification of death.\n","writing_bbcode_parsed":"III - Bunny Bind
by
Fumbling Foxpaws
For over two millennia in China, there have been stories told about the húlijing.* Folklore attributes them as servants of the divinities, some of which were eventually capable of reaching godhood themselves. The most famous type of these spirits is the nine-tailed fox. It was believed that with each hundred years of life the fox lived, he'd gain an additional tail. After having lived to the respectable age of 1000 years, the fox would ascend to the heavens and into godhood. As far as ethical alignments go, there were good and evil húlijing alike.
The Chinese also have knowledge of the yèchā,** or yaksha, a type of devil originating from the Indian subcontinent. Some see the yèchā as spirits, others believe them to be more like the forces of nature. They were mischievous and often very sexual. Like with the húlijing there were harmless, even beneficial ones, but their evil counterparts were especially nasty; the man-eating kind.
The nature is rarely all black and white, especially when matters of morality are concerned; in nature there are none. But there are certain perks to being a fox. An innate ability for shape shifting is certainly a prime example of such perks. It's a secret in plain sight; it is a known fact but so preposterous that it's passed as a myth.
The old legends don't quite entirely hold water for the most part about all the abilities of the húlijing, but to be able to take on a human form, to stand and act on two legs is certainly something of an improvement to standing exclusively on four legs, Chi thought, although it meant temporarily sacrificing the speed and agility he was used to. However, there were more drawbacks that came with the ability.
It's only an illusion albeit a convincing one, to the degree that it could as well be the truth - the line in between is almost nonexistent. You could manipulate things with your illusionary hands, for example, but still it would be only an illusion.
Although, if you're able to manipulate something and achieve a desired result, isn't that the same as doing the real thing, Chi had asked himself, and was none the wiser. He could see the difference, but couldn't put it into words if he had to explain it to somebody else. It was like that with an increasing amount of things now. It wasn't that the line between illusion and reality was disappearing, but rather that the reality itself was turning out to be an elaborate illusion the more you were concentrating on looking through and past it.
Also, you couldn't just change into anything you wanted. The most what the majority of the húlijing have been known to be able to turn into, is a bipedal form resembling a person. It's either that or your usual quadrupedal fox form. There's nothing else in between, such as turning into a frog for the princesses to kiss or anything like that, no matter how fun that would be.
The biggest drawback was that you always had something to hide. However, when the legends have even a little bit of truth to them, that's when things can start getting complicated, and it's not even the gist of it all yet. But as far as mere camouflaging purposes go, the stuff from legends was more than peachy.
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It was morning. Waking up was as troublesome as always. The sound of the alarm clock was enough to shatter her eardrums, so Ai turned it off by dropping it off the night table. The alarm stopped and time passed. Chi entered the doorway with a toothbrush in his mouth.
"Are you going to wake up Acchan? I ate breakfast already. If you're not going to hurry, you're going to be late."
Ai rolled in her sleep and dropped out of her bed. "Owww..."
While Ai was running around the house in her pajamas, searching for misplaced schoolbooks, lost pens, her favorite panties and the like, Chi had already eaten, showered, dressed and was ready to leave for school. He'd usually stay outside the front door, looking at the scenery of trees and fields in front of him. He'd wait until the last minute and then hold open the door for Ai, who would come running, and lock the door after her. Today was no exception. Hiding in plain sight meant literally hiding in plain sight, so they went to school where kids of their age were expected to be during the daytime. Furthermore, Chi liked learning things. A school was an appropriate place to go to in the mornings.
The bus ride to school was uneventful. The bus wasn't a school bus, but a regular bus with mostly commuting people riding it, apart from some elderly and a few school kids like the two little kits. Chi liked to spend the trip staring his cell phone like many boys of his age, while Ai would rather watch the scenery through the window, although it had been the same and mostly unchanged for over five years. For this reason, Ai usually got to sit at the window seat, while Chi sat on the aisle seat.
The bus passed through fields, patches of forests, fields surrounded by forests, and past some small houses as their trip took them from the countryside towards the town.
When it finally came to a halt at a bus stop by the school yard the kids exited the bus. Chi was dilly-dallying through the yard as usual, but Ai grabbed his paw and pulled him to her pace and they entered the school together.
The school was a small town school. There were others within the town, but this was theirs, a three storey building at the outskirts. The kits found their classroom along the hallway adorned by cloth hangers that were bolted into the hallway walls. They took off their jackets and hung them on the hangers before entering the classroom from the hustle in the hallways.
In the classroom, two desks were always grouped together with aisles between them. The seating order was usually made in a way that one boy and one girl were seated in such a group. Generally for kids their age, the seating was only recently starting to feel acceptable. Kids few years younger would've regarded seating with the opposite sex as a punishment, and it was indeed used to calm down the class environment.
The seating hadn't worked with Chi and Ai in the way it was meant to, but they hadn't said anything about it to anybody. Since they were usually quite calm together the teachers didn't have any reason to have them separated either. The seating arrangement was in fact an exciting and a positive thing for them, although it meant that they needed to stay sharp all the time. But at least they had each other, they thought at the time. They didn't have to be alone even if their most guarded secret was discovered and they would be bullied about it.
Ai had also some perks thanks to the seating. Chi was scrupulous with his homework, so help was always near as Ai was really careless with hers. Sometimes it bugged Chi to have to be her lifeline when the teacher was asking questions she didn't know the answer to. But of course, it worked the other way around too. Math wasn't Chi's forte, but to his luck it was about the only one that Ai had, apart from PE. She was good with numbers, and that helped Chi through many a desperate evening with his math homework.
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Chi had PE in the afternoon, a subject he didn't much care about. Today it was supposed to be a volleyball game held at the school gym. Chi didn't like the place. It was old, partially built underground and in his nose it reeked of sweat. The entrance to the gym was next door to the main building, where most of the classes were held. Once you entered through the front doors, you had to turn left and descend a long sloping ramp, at the end of which the boys' locker room entrance was located.
The ramp ran next to a wall, but on the other side of it was a handrail on the street level in order to protect people from falling into the ramp. Its support beams were a good distance apart so that you could stick things in between them although for safety reasons you weren't supposed to.
Chi was walking down the ramp towards the locker room, his head already below the street level, when something unexpected happened. Somebody had taken off their socks and shoes and stuck their legs in between the beams and was flailing them lazily in the air over the ramp, probably while laying on their back on the floor of the street level.
Chi couldn't help but notice the two graceful legs suddenly landing in front of him from above. The girls' class had ended and apparently the owner of the legs was relaxing after her performance in a questionable manner. A strange place for relaxing, no doubt, although there was a heatwave going on and the gym building was air conditioned. Somebody wanted to give her feet an air bath. He heard a long sigh from above him.
He was light on his feet, so he thought it possible the girl hadn't heard or otherwise noticed him. It wouldn't come as a surprise to him, because girls rarely noticed him, or that's what he thought anyway. The gym class had already started and he was late. The owner of the legs wasn't expecting anybody walking here now. Chi stopped in his tracks.
The legs were thin, covered with silky smooth white fur and the feet were small and graceful. The girl had cute, pink pawpads. In her left ankle the girl was wearing a simple silver ankle chain with a little silver heart hanging from it. Some of her nails were colored with a colorful nail polish, in a very girly way. Only glitter was missing. The feet were slowly swaying in front of him, like reed in a light summer breeze.
Chi didn't expect anything reminding him of summer in this place, but he sniffed the air around him carefully anyway. The girl had been exercising and he could smell it. She was probably on her way to shower and had momentarily laid herself down under a ceiling fan. Chi sniffed again, trying to stay quiet. And again, moving his nose closer. The excitement of the situation made him lick his lips lightly.
By a cruel act of fate, the girl swayed her legs a little too much; she was apparently about to stand up and leave, but ended up touching Chi's lips and his cold nose. The owner of the legs yelped and cursed, while Chi got a light, but scared kick in the face. The girl couldn't get up fast enough to catch escaping Chi, who dashed towards the boys' dressing room in fear of getting caught and called a pervert. Although he had a sore nose, the girl's taste lingered on his lips.
Chi managed to escape to the locker room in time, albeit flustered and out of breath, mostly due to his nerves than from the physical strain of his dash. He found that the locker room was empty; he was really late. Behind the doors leading to the gym hall he could hear shouts and other general noises that only a group of boys could make when put together. Hastily he changed into his exercising outfit and rushed through the doors hoping that he wouldn't raise too much attention. He knew what to expect; the coach didn't like tardiness.
The class went on as could be expected. He had to listen to a brief sermon by the coach; a bulky and grumpy bear in his fifties. The boys were usually in good terms with him as long as they did as they were told and didn't raise too loud a ruckus. The coach was respected even, but if you got on his bad side you'd get to know the courts of Hell. After the sermon there were push-ups to follow for Chi, after which he was allowed to join the game with the others.
As usual, Chi didn't exactly shine in the game, but he didn't do too badly either. He got to make a few passes of the ball and score twice by hitting the ball to the opposing team's court. After the game, when everybody else was sent to the showers and consequently home, Chi got to make ten honorary laps running around the gym hall before he was excused to the showers himself.
-
By the time he got back from the showers to the locker room, everybody else had already left for home. He wasn't in a hurry so he took his time, got dressed, packed his things and left. He had turned the lights off and went out of the door, when he heard a girl's voice speak next to him:
"Nice going, pervert. At least you aren't all bad. The show was ok seen from the stand, but you could've made an effort, you know?"
Chi turned fire engine red. Next to the doorway Mia was standing with one leg, leaning against the wall with her other leg bent against it. She was one of the more athletic pupils in Chi's neighboring class, a bunny girl with white fur and short teeth. She was known for her attitude and tendency to speak her mind. She was dressed for going home, wearing red shorts, a simple green t-shirt and holding her backpack on her shoulder.
"Wha..." Chi started.
"Don't start with me. I know it was you. Although the metal panels on the wall don't reflect an image, they do reflect colors and you're the only person wearing that kind of colorful Hawaiian shirt around here." Mia stated, pointing the decorative metal panels above the ramp with an extended finger. "And you've turned as red as a beet which is a dead giveaway."
Chi couldn't bring himself to say anything to deny what had happened. He bowed his head down and said "I'm sorry. I was walking down the ramp when you threw your legs at my face. It was too sudden."
Mia stared at Chi quietly for a moment, her mouth turned into a mask of irritation. After a moment she seemed to calm down. "Very well, apology accepted. I like upright guys. So, are you ready?" Mia asked with a twinkle in her eye and a wry smile on her lips, after having thought about something for a second.
"Ready for what?" Chi asked, still embarrassed and now confused as well.
"Your punishment, of course."
"But I apologized already."
"That's not good. Not nearly good enough. Get back inside."
"But..."
"If you don't, I tell everybody in the school about this tomorrow. Everybody will know you for the pervert that you are. Do you think your sis would be happy to learn that her brother is a perv? Could you show your face in the school ever again?"
Chi's jaw literally dropped and he couldn't shake the shivers the threat made him feel. Reluctantly, he turned back to the locker room, cold sweat starting to form on his forehead. Mia followed him, turned the lights back on and closed the door behind her. She looked around her, tossed her backpack aside by the door and took a seat on one of the benches that lined the walls. She looked at Chi, gesturing him to come closer.
"Come on, I don't bite." she said and pointed a spot on the floor in front of her. "Sit."
"Can't I sit on the bench? Why does it have to be on the floor?" Chi asked, slowly starting to expect she'd want to kick him again and laugh at him.
"Nope - won't do." Mia said, taking off one of her shoes and starting to remove her sock too. "Remember, if you don't do as I say, I'll tell everybody. So move it."
Still reluctant Chi sat cross-legged in front of Mia, who pushed her foot in Chi's lap. The colorful toenails confirmed the fact that it had indeed been Mia whose feet had been Chi's downfall.
"Here, touch me. And if you tickle me, I swear I'll kill you." Mia said with a stern look in her eyes, although her voice was faltering. Was she having second thoughts?
Chi was encouraged a little by the change in her voice. Not much, he was just about to tremble himself still, but only a little. He had thought of Mia as somewhat an obnoxious brat, and given what she was making him do by threatening him, she was one. But maybe he could redeem the situation by being gentle. That was just about all he knew, to behave gently, after all. So he'd be fine, if he'd just be himself, and what will come will come, he thought.
Chi looked at the foot with the painted toenails in his lap. He took it into both paws, and raised it closer to his face to examine it. It was a lucky rabbit's foot with a silvery ankle chain. Chi held it by the ankle and stroked it lightly with his free paw. Mia had showered, but she had had her PE lesson at the track, so her feet were already beginning to catch the smell from her shoes in the summer heat. Mia wiggled her toes.
"Well?"
"Well what?" Chi asked.
"How do you like them now that you can take a closer look without hurrying and having to worry about being seen?"
"I think your foot is pretty. Do you always color your toenails like this?"
"It was just an experiment." Mia said turning her head away. "I tried a new brand and color and tried it on where it wouldn't show."
"But I'm seeing them right now." Chi said massaging the foot gently.
"Want me to kick you? I am wearing my other shoe still, you know?" Mia said, more in a surprised rather than in an angry manner. Like a kid who's been caught with his hand in a cookie jar.
"No, no... please don't do that." Chi looked at Mia from under his brows and flashed an uncertain smile. He was starting to imagine that the ice could be broken. For a moment he thought he was seeing a cute side of Mia that he didn't even know had ever existed. Chi's thoughts were a big, messy jumble. His stomach was in a knot from being surprised by Mia waiting for him, and he felt the knot tighten even more. Chi leaned forward and brushed his lips against Mia's big toe.
Mia pulled her foot instinctively away. "What do you think you're doing, perv?" she said, although she wasn?t showing any sign of being offended.
"Was it something unexpected from a perv you exposed your foot to?" Chi asked and paused, half joking, half scared that he had crossed some invisible line. Not at all certain why he had kissed her toe in the first place.
"No... I guess you're right. I should have expected that coming from you now that I know how you are." Mia shifted her leg so that she could present her foot back to Chi.
Chi kissed the ball of her foot while Mia was watching him. He worked his lips against her fur and her pawpads, avoiding exhalation at the same time as not to tickle her with his breathing. He continued kissing her toes, even taking one of them into his mouth.
"Mmm..." Mia whined softly at this another unexpected act, apparently fighting the reflex to pull her foot away once more. Her toes wiggled again and Mia shifted in her seat. Chi let go of the toe only to surround it with his lips more firmly this time and to suck it gently. The movement of something red caught Chi's attention and he found himself looking up the leg of Mia's shorts.
"Asshole!" Mia whispered when she noticed where Chi was looking at.
"Sorry!" Chi squeezed his eyes shut and turned his face quickly away.
"Did I say you can't look? I didn't tell you to stop either."
Chi opened his eyes slowly and looked carefully at Mia. She had a tint of red on her face and she was smiling a little. It wasn't anyhow a mean or a mischievous smile. It felt warm and kind. She took his paws in hers and placed them on her waist. Then she took support from the bench with her hands and pushed herself off of it, landing astride in Chi's lap as he cushioned her fall by holding her.
"Boo." she said quietly, her face only inches away from his.
"Hi there," Chi responded in equally low voice, looking Mia in the eyes and feeling his nervousness fading away. He wasn't even thinking about being confused any longer now that he had a lapful of warm bunny girl on top of him.
Chi took his paws off from Mia's waist, encircled her very naturally with his arms and started to stroke the fur of her head while making a clumsy attempt at a hug. Mia leaned forward, embraced him and rested her head against his shoulder without saying anything.
Chi felt his heart pounding. Not counting that one sound that reverberated in his ears, they sat together for awhile in still silence. Chi was enjoying her scent, her soft furry arms surrounding and squeezing him lightly. Her warmth in his lap made him feel comfortable and as if everything was as it should be. When after a while none of his caresses were met with objections he got encouraged enough to make a little further exploring.
From stroking the fur of Mia's head with his paw he moved on to stroking her neck and back with his fingers. He let the paw caressing her back wander lower onto her thigh and feel the slippery material of her shorts. He was starting to feel hot, and apparently so was Mia. She raised her face to the level of Chi's and pressed her lips against his.
Chi felt as if a proverbial jolt of electricity had struck him. Mia's lips were soft and hot. Her weight in his lap made the experience all the more exciting, as if his youthful lust alone wasn't filling him with excitement enough. He proceeded to do what he had wanted to but was too shy; to feel her bunny bobtail in his paw. He reached out for it and stroked it lovingly. It felt like he was holding a ball of cotton. It twitched by his touch a little and Mia started kissing his neck instead.
But when he thought he wanted to take a chance and risk everything - when he moved his paw away from her tail back onto her waist and on top of the waistband of her shorts - when he was planning to slide his fingers inside, she took his paw gently into hers and whispered into his ear:
"No. That's the line I won't allow you to cross."
Disappointed and embarrassed, Chi moved his paw away from Mia's waist, stroked her back for a moment and then pushed himself farther from her, awkward thoughts running through his mind. Mia hadn't let go of his paw, though.
"I'm sorry. You're nice and," Mia said gathering herself and finishing her say in a one long sigh. "I knew you wouldn't take it further than I wanted." She kissed Chi one last time while squeezing his paw before she stood up, dressed her sock and shoe and walked to the door.
"So it was all just a game and nothing more?" Chi asked, although he thought he knew how it was.
"That's the reason I could do this. Don't worry, I won't speak about any of this to anybody if you don't." Mia picked up her backpack and smiled shyly. "Consider yourself absolved, loverboy." And then she left, leaving Chi sitting on the floor, looking at the doorway with a mixed feeling of happiness and irrevocable loss.
-
Chi had come home feeling blue. Ai was already home and in the living room playing a console game. He thought she wasn't seeing or hearing anything. Chi had left his backpack by the front door, and went straight to his room upstairs. He had gone to bed and took a nap, even though he wasn't feeling that tired. When he awoke, it was already late evening. He returned downstairs without speaking a word with Ai. He had an evening snack, showered, and returned to his room.
The afternoon had been hot but so was the night. Chi had opened his bedroom window hoping for respite but it wasn't coming. He had been looking out of the window for a while before finally lying down on his bed again. The full moon shone into his room, casting long shadows around the furniture and in the corners. Grasshoppers were making sound outside, no wind was blowing in; it was unbearably hot. Chi couldn't sleep. He turned on his side facing the wall that he hoped would emanate coolness, but it didn't. He didn't even think of pulling the covers over him.
He heard the door open, Ai taking a few quick paces across the floor, then something flumping on the edge of his bed. Of course it was Ai. It wasn't unusual for her to come into Chi's room late at night when she couldn't sleep. Often they would whisper and giggle together until sleep came, or if the other was dead tired they would just lie close to each other sharing the bed. At times, they would do other things too, but that was one of their most carefully guarded secrets. As foxes they already had a few, come to think of it. And as far as siblings go they shared a very unusual bond. He had known that for quite a while now and worried what might happen if it ever got out in the open.
"Hey hey brother moon. Make room, it's too hot. I can't sleep.'' Ai spoke in a tired voice.
"You know it'll only get hotter in here with two people?''
"Mmmmph!'' Ai grumped and laid herself down next to Chi anyway who, already accustomed to it happening, made room for her. A moment passed in silence. Then Ai spoke again. "Hey, give sis a hug, will you?''
Chi's mood was slumping so he'd rather have stayed quiet. Ai's arms reached around him from behind him and held him close, the short sleeves of her pajama top carrying the smell of fruity detergent mixed with her own scent to his nostrils. Ai nuzzled her face against Chi's neck.
"You're down in the gutter again. I thought... I did sense something out of place. Whose scent was on your clothes today?'' Ai said as her attention was taken astray. "You can tell me. There's nobody here besides us monsters.'' she continued, brushing her brother's chest lightly with her paw. It was too hot to even fan the air with their tails, so they just laid there, together in the moonlight.
How was it that her sense of smell was that keen? He must have smelled awful himself, Chi thought. "I don't get people. I think I was toyed with again,'' Chi said, turning his head to face Ai.
"Mmm-hmm, you're such a great toy. I'm lucky to have you. Others would keep you for themselves as well, it seems. Would you let go of me, if you had somebody else take my place?'' Ai continued to brush her muzzle in Chi's neck fur. Chi placed his paws on hers and kept quiet. Ai could see the tears starting to swell in his eyes and he turned his face away again to hide them.
"Sorry.'' she mumbled.
Chi turned back, reached his arms around Ai and buried his face against her tiny chest.
"As far as siblings go, we're a little messed up experiment, aren't we?'' Ai said brushing the fur of his head lightly. "You know, I'm the one to blame for this, so maybe I can't avoid taking the fall. I assume this has got something to do with Mia. She's a friend of mine from the PE class. I thought I'd ask her to cheer you up a little, not drag your mind into a gutter.''
Chi pulled his face from Ai's chest and looked at her incredulous. "No, it's not like that.'' His ears drooped and he turned his face away from her. "If it was you who made us meet, I'm glad you did. Thank you.''
"That bad, huh?'' Ai ruffled the fur of his head gently and buried her face in it. "It wasn't my intention to hurt you nor did I do it out of spite. I thought you two might have been, well if not a match exactly, at least compatible in some ways.''
"Maybe we are. Maybe it's just me. As usual, I should just forget and carry on. The thing is, I'm getting tired.'' The curtains fluttered as a breeze hit them. Ai's snuggling made him feel even lonelier.
"You let go of things really easily, but you're not entirely content with your role as an eyewitness to your life either. You're a convoluted one, but then again, so is everyone else.'' Ai hugged him tighter. "We're young, we feel stronger. We're lost and finding our way once again.'' she said, letting go of him as holding him started to feel too hot for her. "Surely the weather isn't helping the quest.'' she chuckled. "I wish it would cool down soon.''
"I wish I didn't have to lose the important parts of my memory each time. I could avoid situations like this with the memory of events leading to, and having experienced these feelings before. If I remembered how they can hurt-''
"-there wouldn't be any point in coming back. Or rather, we would be bored to death when we eventually do come back. I kind of like it how I am now. I get to stay with you and it feels fresh time and time again.''
"With my personality I only get hurt time and time again.''
"It's a learning experience like any other, I think. You'll adapt, won't you?"
"But the weight accumulates, does it?''
"I don't know. I don't feel much different. Maybe you're different because you looked directly into the well. How long did you say that you had?''
"Maybe twenty, or less.''
"Twenty years, that's a long time. But we'll be together. I'm likely to outlive you again. It's because of this body, it's I who ends up alone in the long run,'' Ai smiled as she made the pun. "You get to become wise, rest, and wait for me.'' Ai kissed Chi's cheek and turned on her back, holding him by the paw.
"Nine, nine, brother look alive. You have the strength, you'll survive.'' Ai said, pointing at the ceiling with her finger as if to point out something unseen far away.
"Six, six, sister don't add more to the mix. Your victory is secure as it is.'' Chi continued the little poetry game of their - his - devising.
When the siblings had learned their thinking was so much alike, that they could occasionally fill in the other's sentences, Chi had started to sometimes formulate his thoughts in poetic form just to annoy his sister, but was annoyed instead when he noticed she caught up with him quickly.
"Nine, nine, my yang you need a sign. A sign that happiness can be found within a lifetime.''
"Six, six, my yin your words transfix. There's more to it than the pleasure of a sweet kiss.''
"Nine, nine, oh brother of mine. Cruelty does not suit me, it's a characteristic of thine.''
"Six, six, oh sister of tricks. Your success is indisputable, my heart's bleeding on a crucifix.''
"Nine, nine, understand beloved that love is sublime. It's always out there waiting, love's loss is no soul's nighttime.''
"Six, six, beloved I understand why you did this. Love is your science, you say it's no abyss.''
Ai became quiet for a second. "So... yeah. Hey, you know I can help. Um, I distract you, you distract me, and then we both can sleep. Please?'' Ai looked at Chi with the sisterly look that said 'if you're dumb, I'll cry.' As to drive the appearance of innocence further, she traced his name*** with her finger on the fur of his chest with gentle, petting strokes.
"I told you that you weren't to blame.'' Chi said and put his arm around her, pulling her into an embrace. Ai took support with her arm and moved her legs closer to him, raising her knee a little and pushing it between his legs so that their thighs were now embracing too. Chi felt the smoothness of the fabric of Ai's shorts between his legs, reminding him of his encounter with Mia again. The heat between their bodies was now felt in full, but this time it was different.
Ai felt Chi's thigh between her legs and closed her eyes, enjoying the wholesome hug despite the heat, as she reached her arms around him. Big, hot, comforting. It was hot enough even without the shorts, but by wearing them she'd have an excuse, at least for a short while. Her heart was thumping so hard she could hear it clearly. Yes, this was what she wanted. She had played her cards right after all. The anticipation was exciting.
It wasn't his first time kissing Ai, but the moment felt unusually fragile. Chi reached his face towards Ai's lips and kissed them softly as if he was afraid of breaking her. He could taste Ai's strawberry flavored toothpaste in his mouth. Ai responded to the kiss, alleviating his nervousness. She nibbled his lips with hers, her lips feeling to him as slippery as her silken summer pajama. Chi's paw had started caressing her back without too much of a thought, feeling her pajama top. The two exchanged kisses without a hurry; little puppy love kisses first and deep lovers' kisses with clever attacks by their little tongues later, as their bravery and need for each other built up slowly but surely.
Chi's paw found its way under Ai's top, and they paused their kissing while he explored her back at first and finally her flat, tiny chest. The feel of exposed fur instead of clothing was something else. The two kits lied side by side, holding each other, stroking the other's fur, caressing, exploring, feeling the skin underneath, letting the peak of the excitement settle a little.
"It's hot.'' Chi said.
"Uh-huh.'' Ai turned on her back, took her top off and turned back to Chi. "It's better now,'' she said with an uncertain smile on her lips. "Much cooler and more comfortable.''
Chi responded by offering his arm for her as a pillow and embracing her with both of his arms. He kissed her with more certainty now. She stroked his back, let her paw wander along his sides, his little bum and along the fur of his tail.
"I guess the time for talking about this has passed?'' Chi said to Ai with uncertainty starting to creep into his voice again, but with a trace of smile on his lips.
"Later.'' Ai responded and continued with a slow barrage of kisses, driving her point.
Chi retreated from her affectionate advancement and pressed his forehead against Ai's chest out of embarrassment. He moved his caressing paw hesitantly from Ai's back to her buttocks. Ai remained silent and only hugged him a little tighter as if to tell him to go on.
He felt the silk that was covering Ai's figures, tracing them up and down with his paw, from the small of her back to her thighs, from the base of her tail and between her legs up to his own thigh, across the distance in between and turning back again. He was starting to get convinced that not all of the dampness he felt on his paw from a certain place was simply perspiration.
Ai held his head against her chest, slowly stroking the fur of his head with her paw and scratching gently the base of his ears. Both were silent, it felt as if time had stopped. The moon shone through the open window, illuminating the room better now than it had earlier, meaning that some time had passed since Ai had come to Chi's room. The grasshoppers seemed to have quieted down entirely. The curtains weren't fluttering an inch. It was still as hot as it was before.
Chi reached carefully under the waistband of Ai's shorts, fumbling with his fingers for an opening between the waistband and Ai's fur, and slid his paw inside. Feeling and caressing his way over her bare buttocks he advanced his fingers in between her legs. He didn't have to search to feel her excitement on his paw, but still the situation made him feel a little guilty. He lifted his head from her chest and kissed her.
Ai's lips were hot and slippery against his, like they were melting. The touch of their lips conveyed a trembling from her to him. Ai prodded his teeth shyly with the tip of her tongue and wrestled hard against his tongue when she found it. Chi tightened his hold of her with his pillow arm while he caressed her wet lower lips and she sucked his tongue and tugged his briefs.
"Those need to go.'' Ai whispered when their lips finally parted.
"Mm-hmm? And what about these?'' Chi took his paw out from Ai's shorts and tugged them too to make a point, and although he still felt ashamed, he proceeded to lick his fingers clean while making sure Ai would see him do so. She didn't seem embarrassed at all.
"They too.''
"But they prevent accidents. Like flooding and such.'' Chi said burying his face against Ai's chest again.
"To think that some people would complain about having a wet dog in their bed...'' she chuckled.
"But it's my bed.''
"You can sleep in mine tonight if you want to.''
"...nah.'' he said after a pause he made to feign that he was thinking about it. Ai hugged him, now burying her face in the fur of his neck. Chi slid his paw under the waistband of Ai's pajama shorts again, and took them off with her assistance. She tugged his briefs again as if to remind him. Chi supported himself on his elbow for a second in order to lift his hips from the bed and Ai took advantage of the moment, pulling Chi's briefs down.
"Mine.'' she said quietly as she pulled them all the way down and tossed them on the floor where her shorts had landed a moment ago in conclusion to a similar chain of events. Both little kits were lying next to each other without a thread of clothing covering their bodies. Ai stroked her paw along Chi's thigh all the way to his sheath.
"I know my dog's wet, but I don't complain. It's my dog, after all.''
Chi shut his eyes tight. Ai teased him, she licked her finger and traced it along the entrance of his sheath where something was starting to peek out.
"I don't complain at all.'' Ai said and kissed Chi while massaging him and luring the contents of his sheath out with her moistened finger. Ai lifted her leg over his flank, guided the tip of his member to her lower lips and placed her paw on his bum, stroking it while they kissed.
Chi rocked his hips slowly and gently, rubbing his sheath against Ai's flushed lips. He could feel her warm slipperiness fondling the tip of his manhood, making it grow out from its shelter. As it grew, it parted her lips open while his sheath was constantly brushing them.
Ai sighed quietly between the kisses but kept caressing Chi's buttocks and the base of his tail. Her kisses were hotter, her lips were silky smooth from her saliva and her need could be felt building up. Chi responded her by kissing her hungrily while his member grew to its full boy's length and glided softly from its sheath inside Ai, making her shiver from the pleasure.
"Mmmmh.''
For a moment the two just lied side by side, entwined together, exchanging kisses and panting while their hearts were pounding audibly. Chi took support from his arm and lifted himself between Ai's legs from her side without breaking their connection. Ai turned on her back and wrapped her legs around him, her arms around his neck and squeezed him with her legs. Chi rocked himself against her, leaning on his arms and thrusting with his hips, straightening his back with each thrust. Ai closed her eyes and stretched her neck far back. It was as if Chi could lift her from the bed and into the air each time he pushed inside her. His thrusts were deep but slow. Ai felt like a hooked worm, unable to do anything but hang from him and squirm in pleasure while she was slowly being impaled time and time again. With that thought and her brother/lover in her mind, she came.
Ai's face grimaced briefly, but it hadn't actually felt that bad at all, she realized. Chi had pushed a little too deep this time and Ai had unintentionally taken his knot. She quickly pressed herself harder against his sheath so that she wouldn't hurt herself. By doing so, his knot would be far enough inside her and away from her entrance the contracting muscles of which would clamp them together, when his thrusts suddenly stopped. Ai could feel herself squeezing him tight during the brief pause after the thrusts had stopped.
She was so filled and squeezing him so tight, that she was afraid that it could have actually hurt no matter what she did. Ai exhaled, hang onto her brother and kissed him while Chi started trembling in her arms and she felt the familiar throbbing sensation and him ejaculating inside her.
The little kit's elbows gave in and he fell halfway on top of Ai's chest, squeezing her tightly. Ai held her arms around him until his trembling and throbbing had stopped and he was able to kiss her again.
"Looks like we'll be like this for a while,'' Chi said later while lying on top of Ai, when the afterglow had settled in and their connection was still undone.
"Do you feel like sleeping now,'' Ai asked and brushed the fur of his head with her paw, her other arm around him.
They watched the dancing shadows on the walls, still tied together. There was a small breeze blowing outside now, swaying the tree branches outside and fluttering the curtains. There was moonlight in the room, but it would soon be gone. The heatwave was over and autumn was fast approaching.
"Like this?'' Chi asked. "I think I'm more awake now than I was before.''
"Wanna go at it again, then?'' Ai asked him, holding a giggle while showing Chi her tongue.
Chi caught Ai's tongue between his lips, kissed her and stroked her cheek. They made love again and when they were finally finished, both satisfied and resting side by side talking, Chi raised his paw towards the ceiling in the darkness of the room.
-
"What do you see?'' Ai asked.
"Blackness,'' Chi said, trying to make out the outlines of his outstretched paw. "If I reach far enough - abstractions. Ideas, relations that form, break down and are born again into something incomprehensible the further I concentrate looking at. I look at my paw, but instead I can see its atoms, electrons, every tiny particles that make it, up to the infinity and beyond. The same is with the roof, the atmosphere the Oort Cloud, everything. Ad infinitum.'' He paused.
"It's probably enough to make you insane if you concentrate on looking at it for too long. At the far end, if it could be even called an end, it all seems to fall down on itself. The creation - or rather - all the creations. All of them.'' Chi waved his paw slowly about in the air.
"However, it's the truth. It's the last theorem, just that it isn't a theorem at all. It's covered with a veil of sorts, but it's still partly transparent. The sight cannot be described. It's hard to look at, but it's curious. It's like an instruction manual of everything there ever was and every possibility that could ever be, just waiting for an engineer to browse it. Whatever it is that's behind the veil, it can be used, manipulated like it uses us, but the veil needs to be parted and with enough effort I can make it. I can push it aside for a moment."
"There's no time, no nothing behind it. Everything collapses into itself creating a curious kind of emptiness that isn't empty. And this everything around us it tells me, it's a manifestation of that emptiness. It isn't really here. It's meaningless. It's an illusion. Like with a flash of lightning it was made clear to me at the bottom of the well. I wish I didn't have to see it. It caught me. Now I'm trapped and you too are with me.'' Chi closed his eyes and waved his paw like he was dismissing something and continued.
"But the most curious thing is, that who would have thought an emptiness like that to have a personality of sorts. The memory of it is just about all that carries back from what was before, and nothing more, save for arbitrary memory fragments that aren't of any use by themselves. Even the memory of it can be lost sometimes. I remember that now, but I've never been able to fill in the blanks between the fragments.''
"Santiago,'' Ai said with a quiet voice.
"There's an order of kinds even to chaos. So I could just do this - it's only a mnemonic really- I leaf the pages, connect some strands, sever others, look through the schematic that everything's accounted for," Chi said gesturing a pattern in the air with his fingers "-and then I could create a bouquet of roses for you.'' Chi said and pretended to pull a bouquet of roses out of thin air and handing it over to Ai.
"I can't see much, but they smell like the real deal,'' Ai played along and sniffed the imaginary bouquet. "Is it magic?''
"It would be an illusion. It's not anything like how the húlijing do it, but since everything around us, including abstractions, is an illusion in a sense, seeing the underlying truth - like reading the instruction manual of an elaborate machine - enables you to manipulate that illusion. To work the machine. Magic is the all too convenient an explanation you make up for yourself when you don't know or understand how something works. I see how things work. Then I will them to work in one of the ways I saw they could work. It's not magic, even if I created and showed you an entire world only your eyes could see.''
"And you subject yourself to looking behind this veil at that underlying pattern to manipulate it? To make me see you pull illusionary roses out of nothingness? And that's what's consuming you? Looking in the manual on how to do it?''
"Looking, or rather reading, is tiring but mostly it's Santiago's doing. He's the one that drains the life out of me and you. We're only the medium and the fuel for him to work with. Even when I'm only leafing through the brochure and not buying anything, there's a charge. I guess that the law of energy conservation is a more fundamental truth than anybody could have ever expected. Even Santiago needs fuel to function. It kind of makes sense, if you think about it. Limitless power leads to limitless corruption. Without restraints we'd be gods. It's also kind of annoying. For everything that's out there to be found, you can only look and not touch. But you must pay from looking alone and touching would be too expensive for you to afford. We're far from gods.''
"And that leads to us. But why us, over and over again? Why not somebody else? And why can't I do all those things?''
"Your guess is as good as mine.'' Chi said and continued.
"The universe tends to seek the most energy efficient solution in keeping things like matter together. Maybe we are it. A kerosene for the most sublime of things, the Thanatos**** made behind the illusion of existence itself, I think.''
"If we exist, maybe there are more like us and we're not alone.''
"Oh trust me, we're alone. If there were others, I would have seen them already.''
"So, if it's true and we're alone... what does it want to use us for? I can't see things like you can, yet it works through me also. Shouldn't we just call it somehow and ask what it wants?''
"Who knows. Does it even need a reason? It's beyond comprehension. Maybe even it just wants to know more about itself? Besides, I don't think calling him by our own accord would be such a great idea. I don't know what could happen. It's definitely not anything we can control. We could die right away or I could commit your pattern into memory, camouflage it into something illusionary in this world among all the other illusions in order to store it, and die while I'm recalling that pattern as it burns me out. If I somehow manage to survive and you do not, that is.''
"Should I record your pattern and save it without being able to recall you back, I could lose the storage vessel and you'd be trapped within. I'm blind to my own creations, I couldn't find it again with the usual means. I don't want to lose you again but I don't want us to start again from the beginning by committing a double suicide either.''
"Uhh... looks like we won't find out anything tonight either,'' Ai said and shook her head. "I'm hungry,'' she growled, got up from the bed and picked up her pajamas from the floor.
"We could order take out?'' Chi suggested.
"Two kids ordering take out in the middle of the night with no parents or babysitter around? No, I'm not thinking about ordering take out.''
"Oh...''
"Right. Don't wait for me.''
Chi closed his eyes and laid still for a long time. The hunger she had was of very specific kind that could be averted to a degree, but their brother wasn't always so kind as to stay away unless called. Carrying him around was taxing and the hunger it made you feel was like any other. To get rid of it, it needed to be sated or you went about hungry.
In the world there are connoisseurs that have developed tastes that aren't based on any actual need. They've become habits and there's a saying that old habits die the hardest. Despite knowing this, some might feel that those habits need to be satisfied, even if they're recognized as merely habits. Especially if the habits carry back from many a lifetime ago. Chi listened to Ai taking a shower, then leaving out the front door and into the night.
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*狐狸精, `fox-spirits'
**夜叉, `night-crossers'
***The character 魑 is pronounced [chi], meaning `mountain spirit'.
**** Greek personification of death.
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