[Item: "Happy" Honey Shadow] [Quality: A] [Item description: An organism scientifically known as "Happy Honey Shadow." It possesses some capacity for thought, and may prefer to be called Little Brown.] [Usage: Carrying it slowly restores Mental Value and provides some resistance to special negative statuses. You can also ask it to carry out simple commands, if it is willing.]
This was the first self-aware item Li Xian had obtained. Once taken out of his inventory, Little Brown sprang lively from his palm and began roaming around the room.
Li Xian remembered that when he first met the little translucent creature, it had inspected the room just like this. Perhaps that was how it adjusted to a new environment.
Little Brown completed its "inspection" quickly, but paused ever so slightly as it approached Ji Xie. After circling his feet, it returned to Li Xian.
It seemed a little reluctant to return to the item inventory, but eventually climbed obediently into Li Xian's palm and was put away.
Li Xian yawned, turned, and sat down on the bed. A single bed was a little cramped for two grown men, so he debated whether to visit the furniture store and replace it with a double...
While he pondered this, Ji Xie sat down beside him and, with practiced ease, drew Li Xian down onto the bed with him.
Their bodies pressed tightly together. Then a click sounded nearby, and the room immediately went dark.
Li Xian shifted, found a comfortable position in Ji Xie's arms, and closed his eyes. His earlier idea of replacing the bed with a double dwindled to a single thought:
Maybe later.
Over the next few days, the Player Center remained steeped in the uneasy atmosphere of an approaching storm.
Everyone sensed that something unusual was about