"Y'know, sneaking away could help me abi..-" she began, but, however, was suddenly cut off by a seducing aroma from deeper in the area.
"She opened the door and head down the smallest amount of stairs. She finally figured it out now: She was in a late 16th century cottage.
It was when she reached he base floor of the place that she saw her savior. He had long blonde hair. He was wearing a slightly worn out shirt with brown leather shin-high boots over lightly worn cotton pants.
"Oh, you're awake, are you?" he said, turning slightly, revealing a scar on the left side of his face, and placed two plated at each end of a table.
"Ye,..yeah." she hesitantly responded.
"Why don't you have a seat?" he said.
She quietly complied and sat down at the table. As she ate, she began to notice that eggs seem to taste better in the 16th century than in the 21st century.
"Well, it really seems Cervantes did quite the number on you." he said. Aeris only responded with a simple 'Mm.' in agreement.
"Anyway, my name is Siegfried..." he began, taking up the finished plates.
"...and you're welcome to stay here for as long as you like." he said.
'Siegfried..!? He's..' Aeris thoughts ran.
"So, ...." she began.
"You're Siegfried? Siegfried...Schtauffen..?" she asked.
"Nnh?" he said, turning around after placing the plates on a counter.
"You...know me? Or are you...a friend of my father?"
"S-..sort of. Nothing of you're father, though." she responded calmly but surely.
"That would seem so." he said.
"'s your wound there handling itself nicely?" Siegfried asked.
"Uhhmn, ..."she hesitated, looking abit at her left ankle.
"Yes, that one." Siegfried intervened.
"...., Yeah, I would suppose." she unsurely answered him.
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"So, anyway, ..what exactly, are you?" he asked, referring to Aeris' current appearance.
"Hnn?"
"You, you're wearing clothes I've never seen before. I've also never seen a metal band in people hair too often now. But, even though you seem to have the ears and tail that of a cat, as well as the facial structure of one as well, you seem very much human, at that." Siegfried analyzed.
"Yeah." she said back, in a depressed tone.
"I'm not sure what to tell you, but...." she began.
"?"
"But, what I can say is, I'm not exactly FROM this world." she said.
Siegfried grew silent.
"Even we I come from. People like me who are catlike, like me, are rather rare there, as well." she said, as Siegfried came over to the table and picked up one of the glasses.
"But, even so, being like a cat can have it's advantageous traits." she slowly admitted.
Just then, Siegfried dropped the glass....
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