Eyes simply smiled through the 'interrogation'. "I already like you better than the ones my ward rescued the Useless from, so I'll answer all I can—though, Sweet Lady, please turn off the perfume? Your natural scent is more than enough to charm someone." He paused. "And you're welcome, Perfumed Lady." He smiled at her, warm and sincere, before he returned his attention to Rammos and nodded, ready to speak.
"I am the Gift. I was given to the Useless on his birth, and we were slowly united until the day his eyes were replaced with mine, so he could see the Moon. However, our joining could not be completed, because we were stolen from the altar by some well-intentioned mortal who didn't realize that the suffering had a very important point—ensuring that I liked the Useless enough not to kill him."
He lifted a hand and ran it through Twiggy's hair, only to pause as he noticed how dirty it was. He brushed some debris gently from it with a frown of concentration before he sighed and returned to his answers.
"Anyway, I lead the Useless to where he can be Useful. Our journey here was one such event, and honestly, everything went according to plan. He's here to protect the Power. Specifically, to keep him from fighting the Perfumed Lady. Both of them have better things to do than get themselves hurt."
He paused thoughtfully. "Actually, The Useless could have handled it without my coming out, thinking back. I think this worried him." He opened his jacket to reveal not only nudity beneath, but skin covered entirely in dark violet tattoos, with one lone scar on the left side of his chest, just between the lines. "Do you have something that could get rid of the scar? The Guide will be very distraught if The Useless returns home scarred."
Absently, he plucked at a small string of power that extended away from the world, and it snapped.
"Tell me, what is the name of this stone?" He plucked a stone from a pocket and held it up for the two to see—jade, carved into a cube, with raised dots on each side, numbered one to six.
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Kanna noticed first, and the search for Twiggy began in earnest in the stone halls of HQ. She and others followed his scent, and found the trail end at a solid wall. The distraught woman approached Jade.
Within minutes, Rare arrived in the tiny woman's office. "Lady Jade?"
"Hunter Kanna tells me that Hunter Twiggy is missing again." Red eyes turned to look at Kanna as the cow-Hunter hung her head. Jade turned her attention to Rare. "Hunter Rare, please—"
Jade cut off as she felt thoughts of her name, luck, and dice ripple quietly through the multiverse. Right as expected. She sighed. "Please, go fetch him. His location is partly clouded, so please hurry. I worry about Unifiers."
Rare blinked, then nodded. "Of course, Lady Jade." She smiled, then walked to Kanna and wrapped her arms around her. "Don't worry, Twiggy is fine, I'm sure."
The other woman nodded, and then Rare looked toward Jade, who rattled off a series of coordinates. Rare repeated them silently to herself as she parted from Kanna, then gave a brief bow of her head each to Kanna and Jade. "I'm going to get a few supplies before I go."
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Rare jogged through HQ to gather foodstuffs to shove into her pockets, and a couple bottles from a shelf in a bar with a shouted promise of "I'll pay when I get back! Remind me!"
With that, she exited the bar and pulled a length of looped yarn attached to a carabiner from one of her many pockets, unhooked it, and used the beaded tail to input those memorized coordinates. With a flick of her wrist, the wound yarn unwound into a loop, and then pressed itself to the wall.
Before she stepped through, she pulled her phone from a pocket and sent a quick text.
To: Brock
[no subject]
I am heading out to fetch Twiggy. I expect to be home for dinner. Wear something blue?
She smiled at the text, then hit send. Once it went through, she stepped through the portal.
One finger re-entered HQ through the ring, and she hooked it on the yarn, then pulled it through after her as the portal collapsed.
On the other side, she wound the yarn, folding it into several smaller loops before she hooked it into the carabiner and pocketed it. Now, she just had to find Twiggy...