[Kliss Eliza Cessna]

Strange though it was, Dante’s gift of a Phylactery book filled with esoteric Earth knowledge of radiation… made me feel warm inside. Not simply warm, as in appreciating a gift from a friend, but warm on a physical level. The longer I held onto the magic book, the more it felt like it was something that I craved.

I refused to let go of the book, even as Delta pushed me into the shower. The artefact felt like a little warm kitten in my hands, a spark around which my life-current flowed, encircling it like a river.

I felt that I was somehow warming from within due to the book in my hands, as if it was an ever-burning ember. It was the strangest sensation ever, one that I didn’t previously possess as a human.

My ruby claws dug into the Phylactery on their own accord as I closed my eyes, experiencing a strange flood of positive, if somewhat alien emotions. Was I falling in love… with a book?

“Ey! Are you licking the book?” Delta asked, interrupting my thought skyship.

“No… pffrrth…” I blushed furiously as I noticed that I was gnawing on the edge of the book. “Fine. I am. I think that I need to though? Sorry, I can’t seem to stop. It feels… right.”

“Carry on then,” she commented. “Be glad that Slava made that book waterproof.”

As I proceeded to nibble on the book, I felt greater and greater connection to it… until I bit its corner with my sharp chompers. With a twang-like snap of invisible something my mana suddenly rushed into the artefact and out of it through my mouth.

It felt sublime, like an entirely new flavour that wasn’t sweet or sour.

[+1 Hoard Item: Phylactery book of a transient Virologist.]