"What's wrong?"
The concerned question came from overhead, but Silly Cat only grew more irritated. It felt as though those two shameless lovebirds had teamed up to pick on her!
She dodged Annan's hand and jumped onto the deck. "Where did you learn to keep putting your hands on me?"
"Well, you did turn into a cat." Annan turned around. "Want to change back to your real form?"
"You think I'd fall for that? Give it up, Sorcerer. I'm not like Lolth, so smitten with you she's forgotten who she is!"
Lolth didn't shock her this time. Apparently, she didn't mind being left out.
"S-smitten with me?"
Annan looked surprised, then bashful.
Finding his reaction amusing, Silly Cat pressed on. "Oh, yes. You've appeared in her hazy dreams more than once... Ah!"
She roared inwardly, Why can you let me say it one moment and stop me the next?
"Stupid cat, you're one of the Gods, not an Evil God from the Abyss." Even Spider Queen Lolth had trouble keeping up with Cat and Midnight Maiden's antics.
Put her beside a Flame Demon, and the Flame Demon would be the sensible one.
I'm trying to bring you two closer!
No need.
Fine. You said it.
Annan asked expectantly, "A-and what else?"
"I don't know. She doesn't tell me everything."
"Oh."
"Where was I? The several Lolths, right..."
Silly Cat continued.
Because Little Spider had arrived last, her share of the power carried the most curses. The first Lolth to arrive had injected curses into the other four Spider Eggs; the second had cursed the other three; the third, the other two; and the fourth, the final egg...
In other words, Lolth had taken the full load of curses and weakening.
Whenever Silly Cat remembered Lolth's sour face during those first