The Demon Sword: Sorataki

Chapter 16: The phantom rocket

Sophie resting her chin in her palms just continued to observe Natalie facile features. A growing interest in what was floating around in her head increased steadily with every moment.

"Interesting," she finally said with a sigh. 

Natalie paints a baffled expression to her reply. 

"What is?" she said.  

"You don't outright miss trust me even after what I told you?"

"I don't know, should I?"

"You should."

"Maybe I have already."

Sophie for a moment paused once again, her eyes scanned Natalie's deeply before grinning contently.

"Very interesting." She mumbled almost to herself.

This made Natalie's eyes narrow into slits.

"What now?" she carefully said.

"It only took that little tiff for you to forget your original question." She said with an amused grin.

Natalie's eyes widen in the realisation that she been sidetracked by her strange change of pace. She was right; she fell for her little game hook line and sinker. On top of which she knew when it slipped her mind.

"I didn't forget!" Natalie shouted defensively.

"You're a bad liar," Sophie said in amusement.

Natalie hearing this withdrew her front she was putting up. This not being the first time she's been called out for her poor bluffing skills she quickly understood that continuing to do so will likely only further embarrass herself.

Sophie seeing that she may have taken the teasing far enough leant back on the chair to take a sip of her canned drink. Having given her thinking space Natalie took a gentle sigh to recollect herself. Seeing no point in beating around the bush she decided to tackle the subject head on.

"What are you doing here? And what do you want with us?" Natalie finally said.

Seeing her being up front Sophie placed her can down carefully before a serious aura radiated off her blue eyes.

"Have you heard about -the phantom rocket-?" she said.

"You mean the apparent second rocket launch done by the golden dragons?"

"The satellite they sent was to help spread radio wave communication's to further reaches of their fast growing territory. Lesser known is that they are what their new battle tech use to navigate the world. There has been nothing of its kind for seven hundred years."

"So where do I come into this?"

"Though they forewarned every one of the rockets launches their location remained top secret. Save for the few lucky people who witnessed the liftoff there was little to no evidence of it ever happening. These eyes witnesses posted the claim to others and thus a location was pinpointed. However, this trend accrued in more than one place.

Apparent sightings and locations began to spot themselves all over the world. Most others just wanted to get into the fad that was the 'naming a likely launch location' or some such drivel and so all other told of locals from that point on was flagged as a chinses whispers or uncreditable Intel. But only two places held any real weight.

The first two pinpointed locations to have been spread through word of mouth. One here between Cobblestone and Zannidue. And the second in none other than-"