I groaned, eyes cracking open to see Chubby's furry paw mid-air, ready for another hit. His whiskers were twitching in full judgment mode. "You are spreading it so loud! Icepeople were panicking!"
Before I could even process that, another slap landed from the left.
Then—lick. Warm, slobbery, enthusiastic lick. I blinked up. Two heads hovered over me—Raya 1 and Raya 2—both tails wagging, both faces drenched with concern-slash-chaos.
Raya 1: "We thought you die!!"
Raya 2: "Or explode! Or explode THEN die!!"
I wiped my cheek with a groan. "I was fighting a giant nose! Why the hell did you wake me up?! I was about to stab that thing in its—"
SLAP.
Chubby again. This time both paws. "Because," he said slowly, as if explaining basic math to a toddler, "you were about to release enough Qi to kill an entire village of Icepeople."
"Okay but the nose—"
"NOSE LATER. MASS DESTRUCTION NOW."
