All throughout the two shamans' happy reunion, Bastet's lashes had been slowly fanning her eyes back to their usual ennui, but a sudden glint of interest had unfurled in them as the warrior spirit showed herself. A smile curled at her jaw with the waves of white flame she saw tumbling down the woman's hair. She'd chuckled as they spoke, and glanced up to meet her gaze with respectful pleasance.
"It's quite a shame!" she'd said, in complete honesty, to the spirit's comment on Ryoshi not wanting her to be seen. Roka, she thought, looked quite noble, as well as —she concluded— remarkably beautiful.
"I can only imagine what he's been telling you about us..." she continued. "Our Ryoshi here does not like me much, which given my character I can very well foresee. But as for Arisu well ah..." She cast off the end of the sentence with a lift of the lip and a curve of the eyes. "Surely you must know."
The girl's ears turned pink and she glowered down at her cat. "Hush you!" she muttered seriously, to which the spirit offered a smirk.
Huffing shortly, Arisu turned back to her friend and pressed a raindrop that came spilling from her hairline with her thumb. "Well," she said slowly, eyes swinging to brushing the ground, "I'm glad to hear Celeste's okay..." Her gaze lost itself for a second, knitting her bushy brow. "I can't imagine how important that river is to her." She was starting to feel her sleeves become heavy. "I'd love to see her again too: soon, And Kohaku too, maybe even Komo..." In the distance, thunder tumbled onto the metal city. The rain sparked orange as it hit the scope of the streetlights. "And we can train together: like you said: identifying illusions!" Her face twisted into a lightly joking stance. "See, just then you weren't moving or talking back then, and while I've got Bastet on smell and aura... for a few seconds there you fit the requirements for me to go right ahead and gut ya!" Her claws were still fitted to her hands, brushing against the inside of her jacket.
She glanced around at the gleaming park around them. Sliding her mind over the metal linings of the park fences. Another raindrop dived off her nose. "Wait, I know there's a bench somewhere here with a roof... We're soaked to the bone already but hey, at least we'll dry off."
((I have to stop writing so late at night))