Atlas of Worlds (Pt. 1)

"hmm..Well I guess what you're saying is a buffet?" "So I'm staying where she's staying?"

"I think Never been to a 'buffet' before."

"Correct. Follow me and don't try anything stupid."

"well Kia has been to several buffets. It's basically a place where you pay once and you can eat all the food. There are different kinds of food there" "same to you" Liela followed.

"so, you might find something you really, really like."

Judging by how there twenty soldiers in full equipment and their own protective, magical barriers between the two cells, someone was really, really afraid of Liela.

Katherina was just sitting in a corner, the wound she sustained on her hip and arm concealed by just tape.

"Maybe. There is only one way to find out" liela looked at the soldiers. "Hmm.. am I really that much of a threat?" She then looked at Kat
She went next to her. "Hey hey Kat I'm here! Are you okay?! Did they hurt you?"

The other part of town was not as friendly as the others. People gave both of them odd looks.

"I'm scared, Liela." When she looked at Liela, one of her eyes was cracked.

"don't mind the looks. We were in the idiot section of the city" as soon as Liela saw what had happened she turned to the other soldiers pissed. The two flames appeared above her head. "WHAT IS THIS?!??"

"So it was less acceptance and more people simply not caring," Maggie grumbled. "I honestly don't know why I expected something else."

The soldier aimed their weapons at her, motioned her to back off and into the cell.

"no please I assure you most of the other sections are accepting. It's just this one has a lot of..shady things happening. Liela glared. "You don't scare me. You know what's going to be scary? What's going to happen to your insides if I see kat hurt more!"

"Shady thing?"

The soldiers didn't move a muscle.

"you shouldn't worry about it too much. Though Kia would always get a case from here often. Liela smiled. "I wonder how much brainwashing you sent through. Heh...just like in the movies ha!" Liela flicked the weapon to the soldier and sat next to kat

A person in thick clothes approached them on the street and took out a knife. "Fork over the cash, snakeface. No funny business, crystalhead."

"They've refused to give me a mirror. How bad does it look?"

Prima smiled. " Okay" prima handed him one dollar bill. "That should be more money then you'll ever get in your life so why don't you just go buy a ramen noodle and be on your way" she said walking away. "It's not like your face is gone because it's still as good as ever..it shuts one of your eyes looks like a cracked mirror."

"Wanna play smartass, huh?" The guy took out a gun. "Now, Im gonna repeat myself so that you can understand. Take the money outta you wallet and hand it to me, all of it." He aimed it at Prima, then at Maggie, than at Prima again.

"They sent one of the tech guys to check up on me in the morning," she mustered a smile. "He had no idea I was an android until he looked me in the eye and peeled off some of the tape."

Prima turned back smiling. "You really want to rot in prison don't you? Shot me I dare you to...or maybe look at my friend in her eyes. " "You're still a master piece. You're more then just a machine to me."

The thief looked into Maggie's eyes and when their stares met, he was turned to stone. Maggie then raised her tail, intending to smash him into pieces.

"I overheard some of them talking at how they want to... open me up, see how I work."

"no. Don't kill. Leave him there" "If they do something like that I will not hesitate to go full devion on them"

She lowers her tail. "He'll be fine in a fine hours."

"You going all out like this isn't you, Liela."

"yes. Let's get on our way" "it's not?"

No more mugging atempt before them and the buffet. It looks a bit dated on the outside.

"Yeah. I was told of what you did and I refused to believe it was you. But now that you're here, admitting it..."

"don't let it's outside appearance fool you...this place has the best of all average foods according to kia." "Look...I'm not...who you think I am..."

Maggie steps in, making sure her tail squeezes in before she does. "h-hello?"

A waitress immediately greeted her. "Welcome! Please, let me show you to the tables."

Kat's eyes turned a cold, sky blue. She knew how to perfectly mimic the movement of the eyes to signify disappointment. "I know. Now, you're just someone I used to know."

"that would be good" "no you don't understand..." Liela started to change again. The blue horns coming out. " I'm not Liela..."

The buffet is strangely empty; only two other tables have people behind them.

The waitress hands them the menu. "I'll come back in a sec."

The android stared, but its eyes continued to speak of disappointment.

"okay" "The person you are referring to is not in this dimension anymore...she is trapped in mine.."