NOVEL NEXT Loop 257 - Sleek, Scrump & Harold
When Harold opened his a few minutes earlier, a cat different from the one in the last loop was standing there to greet him. He wondered just how many talking cats they had access to, but he supposed once magic was in play, the everyday conceptions of reality shifted. He had shushed her and ushered her down to a secure room deep below the house before allowing any further talking.
“Okay, we should be safe now. Not that I disagree with sending someone as incognito as a cat to find me again this loop, but what’s the plan for making contact from here?” Harold asked.
A small figure appeared standing on Mother Scrump’s back. “Hi, I’m Sleek, one of Cal’s mana spirits, and the plan is pretty simple now. Cal caused a giant distraction while Mother Scrump and I went to find you. So that was part one, part two was getting inside your house, and now we are on part three. That’s the final part!” Sleek said all of this with the enthusiasm of a child who had done something they considered amazing
“And what is part three exactly?” Harold asked.
“It’s time to put a gateway to the void house down here,” Sleek answered, soaring across the roam as she did so. “I think this corner would be the perfect place. What do you think?”
“Sure, it’s as good as any, assuming you can make contact through the shielding down here,” Harold answered.
“If I were a human, I probably wouldn’t be able too, but luckily I’m not!” Going along with her point, Harold watched as a cracked formed near where she was standing, slowly expanding into a large vortex, into what he guessed was the gateway. Scrump and Sleek ran through it the moment it stopped growing. Harold already knew what his decision would be once contact had been established and followed after them.