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Eh?Ere thought.
He was quite certain Divina hadn’t actually given birth to that…thing. Which was the size of a pony by most standards.
Or perhaps she had “special” powers.
He didn’t really know her, after all. He didn’t know why she was the guest of honor on this adventure. Surely, she had something to recommend her besides making males melt like ice-cream wherever she went.
“—and he needs to be with me at all times. Since Papa Jade requires me to go on this quest with my new friends Ere and Sorin, I couldn’t very well leave Chewie at home.”
Aww, she thought they were friends!
Ere just barely caught himself from simpering with pleasure at the casual remark. He felt like the zit-faced, nerdy bookworm who got lucky enough to have the hot, popular new girl sit by him in class. The one with extra short skirts and double-D pomelos.
Not that Ere had ever attended human schools as a teenager. But that was how he felt.
She rounded her eyes and made them shimmer with unshed tears.
Neat trick, that.
Ere was relatively certain he could do it too if he tried, but he wasabsolutelycertain he wouldn’t garner the same effect—
Which was all the males in the great hall of the Celestial Palace practically liquifying into adoring puddles where they stood.
Including him.
And the canine.
Huh.
Maybe Divina possessed mightier powers than the gravity-defying boobs.
“He’d cry every day and night for me,” she explained further.
“Remember when I first rescued him? He cried all night long when I didn’t let him sleep with me. Everyone in the Celestial realm heard his poor broken heart. You don’t want that again, do you, Fufu?”
The old man’s mustache twitched with unease, and his eyes filled with panic.
Ere could well imagine the poor man’s eardrums reverberating in memory of some annoying, endless doggie whine.
He looked over at Chewie.
The fluffball with ridiculous multi-colored bows looked back.
Yup. Baby Chewie must have been an unabashedly noisy whiner.
“Indeed not,” Shifu grunted.
“Just so,” Divina quickly agreed. “That’s why Chewie has to come with me.”
The faithful emissary of the Jade Emperor pinched the bridge of his nose and turned away from her, addressing Ere and Sorin, while Cloud waited outside the Palace.
Apparently, only those personally invited by the Jade Emperor could enter. And besides, Cloud no longer possessed his Celestialchimu. The JE was already bending his own rules by allowing Cloud to come to the Celestial realm at all.
Ere was glad for it. He could use a familiar friendly face in this vast, unknowable place. It filled him with both wonder and awe. The sort of awe that accelerated his heart rate, making it difficult to breathe sometimes.
Leaving him with an odd sense of foreboding.
Sorin shifted closer without physically moving, sensing Ere’s unease. It was as if he extended the heat of his personal aura to wrap around Ere in a warm, comforting cocoon.
