Our Eyes See All

Issyko shook her head, blushing again and trying to fix her hair. Her one eye lingered on his cat ears before darting back to his eyes at his offer. "Y-you don't need to do that..! Take me out to dinner, I mean....and, I-I already know where my dorm is, but I forgot where the building is. Everything's so big and confusing that I got lost again..."

She slowly followed after him when he motioned for her. Glancing around, she clutched the paper a little tighter before looking down. "I...I broke some stuff," she whispered, wilting a little with a sad frown. "I didn't mean to--it was an accident..! But, nn.."


Issyko took a peek at her papers before hiding them again real quick with her chest, not wanting to see all those numbers glaring up at her. She felt bad for whoever else must've got in trouble like this, which was apparently almost everyone. "I h-have to go meet someone tomorrow.."

Issyko couldn't stop the second whine that escaped her when he asked about her papers. After several moments of glancing down at them and wincing, she slowly handed the papers over to the catboy, though she didn't expect him to be able to do anything about her situation. "H-here..."

Looking over the papers, Vorian would find out that Issyko had indeed broken a couple of expensive heirlooms and now owed the owner(s) of these objects a moderately large sum of money, listed at the bottom half of the first page. The second and third pages contained a short transcript of Issyko informing them that she didn't have the money and couldn't get it any time soon; as a result, the owners decided to put her to work to pay the debt back, to which she agreed.


The cyclops girl fidgeted where she stood, fiddling with the hem of her sweater and staring at the ground. She sniffed loudly, big ol' tears on the verge of spilling out of her violet eye. With shaky hands, she accepted the soda but didn't open it just yet. "Th-thank you," she said quietly in return for the soft drink.

"I-I'm going to have to go searching for another job s-so I can pay them back faster...I feel so bad for hurting their things..! I didn't mean to!" She blubbered, the tears spilling from the corners of her eye and running down her beet red face. Her free hand gripped onto her sleeve to wipe at her tears as she cried in front of a stranger.

Issyko didn't notice him taking down any of the information, her eyes all filled with tears and her hands in her face trying to dry her cheeks. She took back the paper with a loud sniffle and was hopeless, convinced that she was all on her own for this. "I-I'll just, I'll just....I hope there are good jobs here..."

She looked up at him when he wiped away her tears and found herself captivated by the wiggling ears and cat-like grin on his face. Her sobbing quieted down to little squeaky sniffles and hiccups as she tried to memorize the dorm building's location again. "Th-thank you," she whispered, clutching the unopened soda and her papers close to her chest.


Issyko looked back up to him with her big glassy eye and felt reassured just looking at him, and she nodded with a soft smile. "O-okay..! That sounds really nice." Her heart felt a little lighter, the worries of the money she owed feeling just a little less important in the face of some ice-cream with a cute, kind kitty. "You're really nice too.."

Issyko blushed and reached to cover her face, whining softly; "I-I'm not that cute..!" After a moment she peeked at him through her fingers, his ears catching her eyes again, and she felt the sudden urge to pet him in his kitty form again. She let her hands lower a little, still blushing. He was way cuter than she was, she thought--but he was a boy and a cat.

She had to walk quickly to keep up with him, her little legs just not covering as much distance as his. "All over the world..? Wow...I wonder what different kinds there are," she murmured, looking thoughtful. "I once had a um...Spaghetti ice cream? In Germany, there's an ice cream that they make look like noodles with 'sauce'.." She entered the ice cream parlor and gasped softly, looking around with a wide eye. "I-it's bigger on the inside..!"


Issyko glanced back at him when he told her to pick whatever she wanted, and however much she wanted. She tilted her head a little and waited to see if he was sure, then slowly turned back and looked over all the options on display. She nibbled on her lip, humming a little in thought as she flitted this way and that, trying to decide.

When she was finished, Issyko had bought so much ice cream that the server just decided to give her a tub to fill with all the scoops of various ice cream flavors. She picked out a spoon and returned to Vorian, looking up at him with a small grin and a twinkling eye. "A-all done..!" she said, cradling her big tub filled to the brim in her arms.

Issyko blushed again from his compliment, following him to a table so she could start eating her ice cream. She sat across from him, glancing up whenever he spoke. "Thank you f-for bringing me, and buying me things.." she said softly.

She nodded a little and offered him a bite of one of her ice cream scoops, straight from her spoon. "I-I think so too--lots of food tastes better when...you share it with someone nice." She ducked her head down a little, her chin bumping the edge of her giant tub when she realized he'd called her a friend. "W-w-we're friends..? I..."


Issyko blushed again and hid her face behind her ice cream tub, tilting it a little so she could see what she was scooping. "Th-th-th-thank you..!" she squeaked, peeking around the side of her tub to gaze at the cat-boy across from her. "Y-your smile is really nice too...It's, um," She ducked her head back behind her ice cream, "It's g-good-looking.."

"Friends.." she whispered, smiling softly behind her spoon.