Dear Diary,

So yeah, yesterday, after fighting all night long, with the Deities of Boltophsberg keeping the City safe from kaiju bombardment and the side effects of my fight with Thing One and Thing Two, Sister showed up with the Kraken god and saved everybody's ass.

Okay, that might not be quite fair or true, but it sure as fuck felt like it. The City wasn't completely trashed or anything, but they had a bunch of repairs to do. A few big hunks of rock had hit the City before my arrival, and a few more weren't quite shattered before they fell. Even the ones that got smashed to bits still hit the ground as fucked up silicate hail, and oddly enough Boltophsberg had more wood and glass in its construction than any of the southern Cities. Like, not a lot of glass, and most of it was the fucked up bubbly shit that the oldest parts of the Academy still had, but still more than Phileo. Then again, most of the glass in Phileo was either pretty clear, far more decorative, or both. The City Hall dome was a good example, I think Clear enough I could see Billy Penn's jock strap. Okay, it might be a breechclout. My understanding of underwear pretty much begins at bras that offer support and ends at fancy pretty sexy stuff.

Funny that I never really wore any of that fancy packaging back in the day. I mean, I still don't, not on the regular, but I appreciate it a lot more openly now. Probably even funnier that here and now I'd probably drooled over Saffron in boy mode with all of Glowing Midnight's lingerie on at least as much as I had over factory setting Saffron in the same outfit. By volume, anyhow, although that's not really entirely a fair comparison, as my mouth is rarely involved nearly as much in the ongoing activity when she's doing her boy mode thing. Which, now that I think about it, is making me feel some kind of way. Maybe I'll insist on some time to practice Siobhan's signature finishing move when we've got all this kaiju bullshit dealt with.

At any rate, after thanking Sister for her timely intervention and letting the Boltophsberg Deities know that the lobster god and his attendants were not in fact enemies, but a friendly force, I took my leave and headed back to stand watch atop the West Tower and the Black Dragon's mast. I did wait for that big dome to drop, because something told me that's what had blocked my first incoming Translocation, and I was too fuckin' tired to be diplomatic if it blocked me getting back home.

I think they might have been wanting to talk to me or something, but after like twelve straight hours of wrestling with those two, I lacked the ability to can.

Kitten?

Yes, love? How did things go in Boltophsberg?

Rough. Two of the kaiju knew how to Heal. At least each other. Turned into an Endurance match.

She chuckled, and the sound melted some part of me that had stiffened up overnight. Well. More the fool them, trying that against you.

Yeah, but normally it's me tanking the hits until they slip up and I can stab them. Or even let somebody else stab them.

Oh? Do tell?

Yeah, I held two of them still and stabbed them a lot while the third threw rocks at Boltophsberg. More or less a stalemate until Sister showed up with the Kraken's build-a-god.

I got the impression that she went silent and still in the real world, and worried for a second I'd fucked up until she thought, Bedroom for a moment, please?

I Co-Located one of me there. Definitely needed a little break, the Bed looked so good. But I absolutely did not have the time just then. After maybe a minute, she was there, arms going around me, holding me, as my arms wrapped around her. Then she chuckled. "You reek. Not as bad as after Olga's brother. But still."

"Thanks for holding me anyway."

"Oh, it's mostly you anyhow. Maybe a little blood spatter, but no, ah, colonic odor. You could use a shower though, I think."

I nodded, then shook my head. "Yeah, a shower and a soak and a thousand years of sleep, but right now if I do either of the first two, sleep is gonna hit me like a truck, so I'm gonna be stinky for a bit."

She snorted. "You'll take one tonight before dinner."

"How am I gonna eat dinner if I'm asleep?"

"You let me worry about that. Now, tell me about this new Sister?"

I snickered, snorted, then for some inexplicable reason felt just a little shy. "Yeah, uh..."

"Just Happened?"

"She's a Kraken!"

Saffron just smirked at me. "My question stands."

"No! I mean, not like I have a problem with Great Kraken. You make a really hot one."

"I'm aware. I'm also aware that you still get urges to pick me up, run off to the ocean, and have your wicked way with you as one of them and me like this." I would have been worried, but as usual she sounded more amused than annoyed.

I also hadn't quite realized how true it was until she said it. Unfortunately, my brain had disconnected my filters. "But you just smell so good like that. I wanna rub you all up in my mantle until I can't smell anything else."

She just stared at me, amused, while my face heated. Eventually she reached up and ran cool fingers down my cheek. "When this is all done. But for now, Sister?"

"Oh. Yeah, I think I might have created a Title? She didn't have a name, so I gave her one, but I don't think they do names, so it's a Title. Like Keeper."

Saffron nodded along. "Fair. So will she be joining us?"

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"Huh?"

"Your ever growing legion of adoring intimate Worshippers?"

Yeah, brain mouth filter totally broken. "I mean, she's kinda got that nubile - wait, no, stop that!"

"Never, not until or unless you tell me you are full and desire none other."

I shrugged. "I like you best."

She nodded like I'd said something wise. "I like chocolate best, but there are also other sweets, not to mention all the other marvelous creations made by you and Marie."

I snorted. "Nah. Mostly Marie." She stared at me until I shook my head and said, "oh, yeah, they have a lobster."

The non-sequitur seemed to amuse her until she made the connection. "Is that what you meant by 'build a god'?" I nodded. "How old is it?"

"No fuckin' clue. It's as big as one of this round of kaiju though." I thought a second. "Okay, maybe bigger. Hard to say. Big enough it beat two of the kaiju one vee one, in rapid sequence. I think it surprised them though, they were kinda focused on me and Boltophsberg."

"Well. That is impressive." She stood on tiptoes to kiss me, then inhaled deeply. "Well then. Back to your vigil, and I will see you in the shower at sunset."

So I went back to overwatch until dinner. At which point I collapsed straight back to the shower to find Saffron waiting for me. As she scrubbed me down, I asked, "what about dinner?"

"Are you really hungry?"

I thought about it while she worked her way from my feet up to my hair, then back down. By the time she finished, I'd forgotten the question, and followed her to the Bath without resisting. I know I didn't fall asleep there, because I remembered when she rolled me into the Bed.

"Wet sheets." I grumbled.

"So I'll wear this in the morning." Fuckin' Conrad, custom crafting Holy Garb to make my brain shut down at inconvenient times. Or convenient ones. She rolled me over and went to work, kneading my shoulders.

"Whu bout you?"

"I have been sleeping through the night most nights, and not taking on three kaiju at a time. Now, I would arrange for more direct Worship, but I think you need the rest more today."

Yeah, my brain fritzed at that point. "Wanna Siobhan."

She snorted. "I'm certain she'd be willing, although I'm not sure she's capable at the moment."

"Nu..." I tugged, and suddenly Siobhan lay there. "Finisher."

"Pardon, Goddess?" She sounded confused, and more than my filters had fritzed. So I just picked her up and lay her down on the bed, her head dangling off the end. She looked a little green, but banished her own clothes and gamely said, "well. If you'd like, but I'm not sure how long I can keep this up."

"Nuh. Me." I tried to roll over. Saffron made an effort to keep me face down, but she'd moved down to work on my butt, so her leverage wasn't up to stopping me. Totally up to fucking up my attempt, and I wound up face down in her tits. Which made no damn sense. I pushed myself upright and realized that a baby bump lurked beneath those breasts. I turned my head to see Siobhan smiling down at me. "Boobs."

Both of them snickered, so I pulled Siobhan up onto the bed, pillowed my head on her new padding, and used a tentacle to plonk Saffron down on top of me. "Is this what you want, love?"

"Mmph."

She gently shifted us around until I lay on my side, arms around Siobhan, Saffron holding me from behind. "Will this do?"

"Mmph."

She shifted, and we lay in the bedroom. Not long after the kids arrived; by her purr I realized Hailee had claimed the spot atop me, one hand draped over Siobhan.

I couldn't sleep. Not quite. "Wtch?"

Saffron chuckled, her breath warm against the top of my head. Best part about our huge bed was being able to put my head chest height on both of them with none of us dangling anything over the edge. "Marie, Tallulah, Karen, and Madeline, love."

"K. I..." Drifted off before I could finish the thought.

Ladies cycling through the Maw got annoyed at the big screen showing Saffron mauling my back in her white Holy Garb. I made it up to them with vigorous dunking.

Woke up sandwiched between Siobhan and, by the fuzziness, Marie. I've mentioned it before, but what looks like nice sized breasts on a seven foot woman are pretty fuckin' big. Before I woke anybody else up, I thought to her, I gotta get you pregnant again.

Yes. Then, after a pause like she realized that I might have some reason other than that being her natural and appropriate state, she thought, why?

Boobs. Kinda wanna see you with lactating boobs.

I swear, I felt her eyeroll with my whole fuckin' body. She rolled the two of us to the Bedroom, rolling me over to face her in the process. Then she snickered as warm watery sweetness filled my mouth.

I pulled back, swallowed, and said, "that is either super mega kinky or maybe weirdly wholesome, and I can't tell which."

"Both."

Then the clue hit. "You're always lactating?"

She shrugged. "I Can."

"Don't they hurt like that?"

She snorted, then smiled. "No Problem."

I nodded. "Good. Good. Um, I kinda want to explore this. No. Well, okay, but mostly I want some private time with my favorite feline, but I think I need to get back to work."

She made a face. "Miss You."

I sighed and put my arms around her. "Soon as I can, Mittens."

We lay there like that for a bit anyhow before heading out to our posts. A little bit into the day, Marie pinged me. Need you.

I leapt to her, but instead of another kaiju, I found Ilmatar standing on the deck of the Worshipping, looking a little put out about having to crane her neck to look Marie in the eye. "Hey, Illy. 'Sup?"

"Vyenemoinen and his court would like to thank you for your defense of our City."

I shrugged. "Hey, we're friends. Friends help friends out, right?"

She worked her mouth a bit, then shook her head like an Etch-A-Sketch. "No, I meant we'd like to host a celebration in your honor."

I took a moment so she knew I wasn't just blowing her off, then shook my head. "I'm flattered, really, but right now we've got..." I did some mental math, then decided to spell it out. "Poseidon sent twenty-five kaiju our way in two waves. So far we've killed eight, which means there are another seventeen on the way, and we've got no idea when or where they'll hit."

She pouted, and proved that she definitely had the debutante 'two brain cells fighting for third place' thing going on when she said, "but we want to honor you."

I took a deep breath and smiled. "Yeah, and I appreciate that, but I'm gonna have to take a rain check." She looked confused until I said, "I'd love to come celebrate with you, but only after all the kaiju are dealt with."

"Don't you mean dead?"

I shrugged, shook my head. "If I can take Poseidon out of the picture, I might be able to subdue the rest. But not with him still lurking. Can you let Lemmy and Vy know that there are more kaiju on the way?"

She pouted, but nodded. "I shall."

As she lifted off, heading north, I called out, "thanks, Illy!"

After that I went back to watching. Really worried that somehow some of the kaiju have snuck past our cordon. Or, really, not so much 'snuck past' as 'gone north or south of us'. Which, to be fair, I'm pretty sure four of this wave hit points north of the Alliance proper. I'm also worried about whether or not the remaining dozen and a half are gonna hit tomorrow or next week. Because Saffron's right, if we all try to say on watch from now until the last one trickles in, we're all gonna wind up too strung out to fight them the way we need to, and somebody's gonna get hurt.

Okay, people have already gotten hurt. Which does not leave me copacetic.

Took a bit to go talk to Loki and Angrboda's snaky son. Who is, just like I'd read about back in the day, lying wrapped around the base of the world Tree, although he's not so much 'gnawing' as 'stone'. Not sure if he heard me or not, but I took the time to tell him about how I'm his adopted sister, and how his dad is doing better, what we think happened to his mom, and how I'm working to get them all free.

Took a little time talking to Saffron aboard the Seeking.

Basically just hopped around doing a bunch of stuff today. Because even if I've grown and changed as a person over the past couple years, one thing remains true.

I still agree with Inigo Montoya. I hate waiting.

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