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Chapter 23: Cooling off
“Are you ok in there?” The voice called from outside the door in between soft knocking, “I put your
clothes in the hamper, I uh, I would take them down to laundry, but someone might see.”
Atasi ignored those voice and the knocking for now, she just wasn’t in the mood at present. Somewhere
between landing back on her building’s fire escape and her current position, sitting in her dormitory’s
showers and staring at the wall while the water washed over her, the full reality of everything that was
happening finally caught up with her.
She wanted to get her grimy, dusty, and in some places bloody, clothes off of herself as fast as she
could, and with each article she had discarded on the way to the bathroom she felt herself racing faster
and faster towards some sort of breakdown. Luckily for her the breakdown hadn’t kinked in in full until
the door was closed, and she was in the shower, so at least, while she was sitting naked on the floor and
sobbing, she at least had some privacy to cry it out while the dirt slowly rinsed out of her fur.
“I could order food, or something, if its ok to use your card, I mean” The voice outside tried again, “What
do you like?”
Atasi almost found the idea perplexing. Getting take out? it was such a normal thing to do, and in a way
that was why it perplexed her. The world had gone so insane today that it almost felt like something
normal just shouldn’t happen anymore. As if the weirdness had pushed it all aside. Logically that didn’t
make sense. Most of the world was still intact, save the one building… and all her coworkers.
Atasi tried not to think about how many must have died due to those… things… and how their very
technology had been used against them in such a horrifying way. If she thought about it too much more
she’d start crying again and she kind of didn’t want to breakdown even more either. After all it was over
right? The sin scar / hell gate / whatever you call it, was closed, so no more could come through. Surely
it must be over. That meant she could get back to her normal life. The police would sort the rubble out,
she was out a co-op, but was still in school, she had a normal life to get back to.
“Atasi?”
And she had an angel outside the bathroom door.
“I’m fine” She called back, doing her best to keep her voice from quivering, “Uh, well I’ll BE fine anyway.
You can… order some Chinese if you want.”
“Ok, I’ll be back over when it arrives, let me know if you need anything”
“Sure” Atasi managed and listened to the footsteps fade away. Glancing under the bottom of the door
of the communal shower stall she was currently in she saw nothing same the occasional reaction to
water droplets on the damp floor been stepped on by the, the nameless being that called itself a
‘watcher’. Atasi had hoped that the woman would somehow stay visible, at least to her, but apparently
that wasn’t a thing. As soon as they had gotten far enough away from the hell gate the watcher had
simply faded back to being totally invisible.
“How the hell am I supposed to explain this?” She groaned to herself while listening for the watcher’s
foot falls to leave the showers. “I freaking FLEW away! I’m not invisible, so all the cops saw, and… “
Shaking herself out of that thought she stumbled to her feet in the shower. She grabbed the shampoo
and did her best to lather herself up, and get the rest of the dirt off. It was always a bit hard, especially
where her back and upper tail were concerned. When she was a kid she would often shower with her
sister so they could get each other’s backs, though that might be a little weird for two college sister’s to
do. Still she found herself missing it. Missing when things were simple. Missing her sister too. Perhaps
she should invite Alethea over, not just for the shower thing, but to have someone who wasn’t there to
talk to about what happened. That said, Alethea might think she had gone insane, unless she could
show off the watcher herself.
“I need to come up with a name for her” Atasi made a mental note, alongside the others, to come up
with something to call the invisible angel woman other than her title.
After finishing her shower she wrapped herself in her towel and also plodded off across the hall to her
room. Inside she sighed and took a deep breath. At least her dorm was still the same old, or mostly
same old. The indent in her futon couch was a could indicator of where the watcher was located.
“uh. Hi” Atasi said, addressing the empty space.
“Hi” it replied, “Feeling better”
“I… I guess, ‘better’, good may still be a ways off.”
“That makes sense.” The space said, “You want to talk about it?”
Atasi shook her head, “Maybe later. For now... I should probably get dressed before the food arrives.”
“Ya makes sense. I suppose I can’t really answer the door.”
Atasi plodded over to her dresser and pulled out some clothes, “This is weird…”
“Oh?”
“Getting changed with you in here” Atasi said, “It’s a little weird”
“I promise not to look”
“I can’t even see you to be sure of that!” Atasi was fighting down a blush now.
“You have those goggles right?”
Atasi nodded and retrieved them from her bag and put them on. Once they activated the watcher
appeared to her again. The rangefinder’s in the goggled painting her image onto the world where she
was standing. It couldn’t do color, but it was still a pretty detailed image, of an almost impossibly
beautiful angelic woman who was functionally totally naked and not at all embarrassed by that fact.
“Ok good, uh. so turn around and I’ll get dressed” Atasi said, now thoroughly failing to restrain her
blush. Once the watcher was turned, she dropped the towel and went about pulling her clothing on.
The whole time she was dressing she found her eyes tracing back to the watcher’s rear end. The woman
was certainly curvy, but not in a heavy set way. Her hips were firm and muscular. Atasi could even see
some of the muscles flex through her fur, fur that thanks to the unnatural illumination form before,
Atasi now knew was a beautiful sapphire blue. Her legs and rear looked like they belonged to a sprinter,
and her midsection, narrower than her hips and chest, but no less muscular, looked like it came from a
gymnast.
For a long moment, before getting a hold of herself, she just wanted to reach out and wrap her arms
around that body. To forget dressing and just press to her. Atasi wasn’t gay. Or.. didn’t used to be gay,
but she couldn’t come up with any other description of what she was feeling. The watcher was hot, and
Atasi was hot for the watcher.
Fighting down the urge, she finished dressing herself, “Ok done”
The watcher turned back around, exposed breasts on full display, and despite herself Atasi looked, only
eliciting a smile form the watcher, “You like what you see?”
Atasi was suddenly red as a cherry. “I. Uhh…”
“No need to panic” The watcher said smiling again, “I’ve read about mortal sexuality, along with all the
other thing’s I’ve studied over the years, and I’m aware that I appear as a appealing female by most
sensibilities”
“You’ve read?” Atasi said trying not to melt into an embarrassment puddy from how she was staring,
how she was still staring, “That’s all?”
“Well you. Lots of books on everything in the library, and I don’t normally talk to mortals. You
remember I had a hard time talking at all before.” The watcher explained, “You, and that other security
guard are about the only mortals I’ve talked to directly, in… well in ever.”
“Wow. and you’re like.. thousands of years old and you’re still a vir…” That thought was cut short by the
doorbell for the Chinese food. Atasi sat herself down and split the meals. The watcher had evidently
ordered several special combo platters and third surely have leftovers. “This is a lot of food”
“Is it?” the watcher looked apologetic, “I wasn’t sure so I ordered several things”
“Its fine. and tasty” Atasi said between bites, “Next thing on the to-do list though.”
“Oh there’s a list?”
“Ya there’s a list, and its about you” Atasi pointed her fork at the invisible woman with had a noodle out
of her mouth. Atasi was glad that the food couldn’t be seen once inside the watcher’s mouth. “WE
need to get you a name.