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Chapter 354
🕑 Added 2022-12-03 08:50:50 +0000 UTCThe girls were still chatting together in Anna's room, and Steph, to the surprise of none, was splendidly getting along with everyone. She had already become a part of the group. Ari had a bit of a problem with her, though. On a personal level, she liked the little sister a lot already, but she now had the confirmation that she was just as bad as Sophia when it came to the common sense question. One might even say that Steph's the worst of the bunch. Because of that, the jaguar finally decided to give up on being the voice of reason for good. Luckily, Maya managed to talk her into helping out when they needed a reprimanding in public, at least.
The group continued to chat about turning a jungle into a magical wonderland in the future for a while. Still, it was eventually turning late, and the sisters were getting tired after having run around so much the entire day. Or, that was Sophia’s excuse, at least. In reality, she really wanted to try out all the things she and Maya had bought in the other world. She still needed to come up with an explanation about all that for Anna and Ari, so she went with the tired excuse for the time being.
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“Oh, it’s been a while!” After the girls, without Anna and Ari, had returned home and entered the living room, Maya spotted the wolves relaxing on the sheepskin rug there and greeted them.
“Well, it’s not like all of you had much free time lately.” Fen looked at her. “Be it taking in a runaway princess or casually going to a different world without prior notice.”
"A-Ahaha...” The cat-girl had little to say here. “Things were a little weird lately...”
“That’s putting it lightly.” Aura also faced her.
“Stop looking at me, you two! I take next to no blame for those hectic days!” She raised her voice while gesturing at Sophia next to her.
“It certainly hasn’t gotten boring with me lately~.”
“No kidding! That’s way too much of an understatement!” Everyone glared at her.
“Hehe~.”
“By the way,” Chloe, sitting next to Steph, with a suspiciously minimal amount of distance, as it already became customs, looked at Sophia and Maya. "You mentioned something about having bought many things from the other world, right?"
“Right!” The cat-girl raised her voice. “The vibrating fun!”
“...” The fox paused for a moment, stole a slight glance at the dog next to her, and then focused on Maya again. "That, uhh... wasn’t exactly what I was asking about.” Even while saying that, she still looked mighty curious, though.
“Boring!”
“What is this about?” Aura seemed a little confused.
“You don’t want to know.” Sophia simply shook her head in return. She was fairly sure that it wouldn't be much of interest to the wolf. “Other than that, Maya and I bought all sorts of inventions the humans in our old world made to make everyday life less boring and more entertaining.”
“So we are talking the vibraty things, after all!"
“Go and take a cold shower!”
“No!” Maya shook her head. “Unless you can use them while taking a shower!”
“You actually can.” Steph, knowing what she was talking about, answered her. "They're much more fun during a bath, though. Easier and more relaxing, too.”
“Let’s go!” Liking the sound of that, she grabbed Sophia’s hand and stood up from the sofa the two were on.
“Sit down and shut up, idiot!” The tiger just sighed while rolling her eyes. “The cold shower was meant for you to calm down!”
"Boo!" Her smile changed into a big pout, and the cat-girl returned to the sofa again.
“Haa…”
“Hehe~.” The dog-girl’s expression changed into a gentle smile while watching the couple.
"Their bickering is great, isn't it?" Chloe had the same look as she glanced at Steph next to her.
“Very!”
“Then do some bickering on your own!” It wasn’t overly intense, but Sophia still glared at the rather cuddly-looking duo on the sofa opposite of her. She also wanted to make a comment about how her sister was more and more using Chloe’s tail as a pillow and how the fox-girl seemed to be leaning into it, as well, while ever so slightly wrapping the tip of her tail around the dog. She and Maya still had somewhat of a non-intervention pact on that topic, so she managed to hold back.
“Soo… about the stuff you got from that world…” Fen wanted to get back to the topic. He was also more interested in that, rather than the romance flair lingering in the room.
"Thank you!" Sophia was happy that at least one serious individual was left beside her. “We got some cameras, tablets, TVs, an obscene number of movies and series, and even a game console with some games! Together with some accessories and equipment to run everything.”
“Yeah, I don’t understand a single word you just said…” The male wolf lightly shook his head a few times.
“Ahhh…”
“Wait, you actually got a TV and all that…?” Chloe tilted her head while listening to the tiger.
“Yup!” She gave her a thumbs up. "No, we can have the cuddly time while watching cheap reality TV, just like you wanted the other day!”
“You were the one with the reality TV stuff!” The fox-girl got loud. “I don’t really like that! In the first place, I prefer movies over series 80% of the time!”
"Series have much more entertainment value, though!" Sophia disagreed with her.
“Not this again…” Her little sister suddenly let out a sigh. “Thank you for being on my side with that, Chloe… I had to go through discussion almost every evening with her because I also like movies better…”
“Yay~.”
"Not so fast, my dear fox!" The blonde wasn't done yet. "Hasn't it been like 20 years since your last movie? Who knows, maybe you like series now better, too!”
“Fair, I guess…? Have movies changed a lot since then, though?”
"A lot, a lot!” Steph nodded a few times. “They got worse with each passing year!”
“Ehh…?”
“They look a lot better than in the past, though.” Sophia added her own bit. "The plot is bad or nonexistent most of the time, but they're still quite entertaining, and the visuals are amazing! The same is pretty much true for series, too, though…”
“Ehhh…? Chloe got even more confused. “I mean, cheap movies are pretty fun every now and then, but…. Shouldn’t a good plot be more important than how a movie looks?”
"…" The sisters had nothing to reply to here.
“Wait!” The fox-girl got louder. “How are we going to run a TV? From time to time, it does feel like raw magic is kinda similar to electricity, but there’s no actual one in this world!”
“Was solar power already popular for home use 20 years ago?” Sophia looked at her little sister with a questioning expression.
“How am I supposed to know? I was only just born back then…”
"Fair… Well, I know that photovoltaic stuff is much older, so it probably has been?”
“Oh, the stuff that uses the sunlight to generate power?” Chloe looked back at the tiger. “I remember my father really being into green energy, and he plastered our entire roof with those big blue panel tile thingies… I never really understood, but I do recall how proud my father was about being as good as independent from the electric guys. At least during the day and when the sun was out… He always mumbled that part. So, yeah, they already were popular when I lived in the old world.”
“Great! That makes explaining a lot easier!”
“Does it…?” Fen didn’t sound convinced. “If anything, I’m more confused than ever before…”
"Don't worry. We'll get to that later. For now, I want to explain it to Chloe first because she’s from the same place, so there’s a higher chance for her to understand.”
“Wait, so you got some of those solar panels for the roof here…?” The fox-girl stared at the tiger again. “Don’t you need like a company to install those things…? It looked pretty complicated from what I can remember…”
"While I was shopping with Maya, we discovered that there are also somewhat portable variants for caravanning and stuff. It comes with several large but foldable solar panels you connect to some huge rechargeable batteries. In those, you can plug anything electric as it has regular AC outlets and stuff. From what the clerk told me, even with the fewer sunlight hours during winter, all the stuff I got is way more than enough to easily power a regular household and then some! At least unless you don't want too much at once."
“Ohh!”
“Where did you get the money for that…?” Steph tilted her head while looking at her city. “I had looked into that stuff not too long ago myself, and it was insanely expensive!”
“Ahh… Fun fact, the currency in this world includes gold coins… You know, made from actual gold. I have a literal ton of gold coins. I mean literal. I exchanged some of those coins for cash in our world. Afterward, Maya and I went shopping~.”
"That sounds incredibly sketch and outright illegal for some reason…"
“I thought so, too!” The blonde nodded a few times. “Then, I decided not to think too deeply about it. It’s not hurting anybody, after all.”
“Wait, if you have that much gold, couldn’t we just buy a house or some other place in the old world, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, to hide your portal thingy in? If you own it, there’s basically no chance for someone to find out about it. At least, after making sure about it with magic in one way or another.”
“Hmm…” Sophia tilted her head while thinking about her little sister’s idea. “I’d definitely have the money for it if I get that amount of gold exchanged somewhere, but that alone would probably already be a problem. Not to mention buying a house with cash… or adding that much money to a bank account would probably trigger all sorts of money-laundering-related alarms… Not to mention property taxes and all that fun stuff where the government would get suspicious."
“Those are some valid points… Too bad. I thought it would solve the issues of being readily available to go back and forth.”
“I don't plan to go back often, anyway… Maybe some shopping every now and then to get some inspiration or technical books and the like, but I guess it's best to keep the apartment for a while? Once we get a hold of mom and explain what is going on, we maybe could relocate the portal to there. We could pay her for it, too.”
“I guess that’s the best course of action, yeah.” Steph had to agree with her.
Afterward, once the talk was done, they were finally about to start the unboxing of their shopping. Unfortunately, as Maya hadn't understood a whole lot of their exchange, she wasn't able to comment on Sophia's unusually high levels of common sense she had shown just now.
Comments
Aster Vulpes
Heh, a friend of mine is and author, and mod in multiple trans discord communities, and has been for about 6(?) Years or so? She was all ways like "call me what ever, I don't care" so I pretty much told her that since she has strong "girl next door vibes" I'm gonna stick with she/her. Now, fast forward 6-7 months and as a way of teasing her I started calling her cute (to be fair she is an adorable person so there is that) she always got flustered, then a few other people got in on it too, this later for a month? When she suddenly announced that she hatched. And everyone was in shock, because everyone thought that he hatched years ago, I mean she is one of the most girly girls I've ever met xd. (also I apparently needed to have it spelled out in a similar fashion to you too with a line of "we are transgender" for my titanium shell to finally crack)
Mistress Araenidae
@Aster, you think YOU'RE dense. It took Elliot Page's character, Victor, explaining himself to his sister in the latest season of Umbrella Academy for me to come to the same conclusion you did.
Aster Vulpes
Amazing, that's what :3 but yeah, they are called "Kitsune", a fox who lived a long life and earned their tails (at a rate of about 1/100 years) they, well.. All foxes if you ask the Japanese, can shapeshift, into a human and humanoid form, they are known to be tricksters, lovers, wifes and messengers of gods. If you ask the Koreans how ever they will tell you that the Kumiho are evil demons, they are known to seduce and lure young man into forests to kill them to eat their liver and heart (of the two kitsune are more like the fry than anything else, but not like the fey at all at the same time it's really confusing, but make sure you dont confuse the Kumiho for the Kitsune, it's concidered reeeeeealy rude)
Teanam
Wouldn't that be something?
Aster Vulpes
Ooh, especially is they have let's say, 9 tails :3
Teanam
<< Doesn't really matter, but to make things less awkward on your end I will keep referring to you with Gender neutral pronouns and or by name That works. I usually default to they/them on the internet unless specified, as well. I usually read right past that stuff, anyway. Without your follow-up, I probably would've forgotten about it already. Same with when someone uses he when addressing me in comments. -- White fox, huh? You might be a fan of someone showing up soon-ish~
Aster Vulpes
Yeah, that's valid. Also I have first hand knowledge of just how confusing gender can be >.> I mean I binge read stories about lesbians and trans girls (mostly lesbian trans girls) for about 5 months before I realised that I was one too (god I was soo dense) and on top of all that realising that my ideal self is pretty much Chloe just with reasonable size boobs and white hair and fur >.> so yeah, gender be confusing, but yeah as long as you are happy and feeling comfortable with your self, girl, boy, something in between or none of the above? Doesn't really matter, but to make things less awkward on your end I will keep referring to you with Gender neutral pronouns and or by name :)
Teanam
Fair, I guess xD I was more thinking about the lines of accurate/detailed usage "instructions" and the different feels/effects each type of toy gives. The "regular" vibraty stuff is but an entry to that world, after all. -- << Omm, sry about the "girl" part if it's inaccurate I don't plan to disclose as what I identify as, but I'm pretty chill about that. (Aside from the part where one half won't believe me anyway, and the other half gives 0 shit about it.) On the internet, I'm whatever you imagine/want me to be. (Not sure if that's rude in some way in itself, but that's just how I feel about it when it comes to the internet.)
Aster Vulpes
Omm, sry about the "girl" part if it's inaccurate but that's the kind of vibe you have... With writing a story about a bunch of lesbians and all >.>
Aster Vulpes
Girl, that was almost the perfect sales pitch and not "low detail" stuff xd
Teanam
Ehh...? I'm even keeping it superficial/low detail, though...?
Aster Vulpes
Okay Taenam, I wanted to comment on this for a while now, but you either 1) have a lot of experience using "the vibraty stuff" b) worked in a sex shop, or Γ) did an ungodly amount of "research" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Aster Vulpes
Yap
Ultrabenosaurus
Poor Sophia. The one time she's being reasonable, the people most vocal about her lack of common sense couldn't understand her. If Maya *did* understand, though, would she be creeped out or find it hot? Like "gap moe" or something.
Deltanz
Can't wait to see how Maya and Sophia handle the Chloe/Steph situation.
