Behind the window, a striking vista of the cursed city sprawled far below. The morning sun washed the ruins in a pale light, making them look menacingly mysterious.
Nephis smiled.
"Besides… what can compete with this killer view?"
As though answering her words, a ghastly wail resounded from somewhere far away, echoing in the wind like a dying scream. Sunny trembled.
'I guess she meant it literally.'
With a sigh, he put Changing Star's strange choice of habitat at the back of his mind and approached the pile of meat.
"Let's eat first."
The three of them sat on the stone floor and ate monster meat, passing around Cassie's beautiful glass bottle between each other. It was just like the good old times, provided that those times were not actually that old, and there had certainly not been anything good about them.
Almost.
