Oathbound

Morning of the second day

“Wait here and watch the horses, Saito Miko. You needn’t concern yourself with debate among the Holy Grail War’s Masters.” Diomedes said in a reassuring tone as he laid his hand on the girl’s shoulder, stopping her from stepping from the large balcony where he’d parked his chariot into the indoor-section of the building where Rusalka had invited a new Servant and her Master. Earlier that morning, Diomedes had taken Miko with him in his chariot to search the city, where she used her Mystic Eyes in conjunction with his Presence Detection to track down and request an alliance with the Servant, a small blonde girl who Rusalka addressed as Kuro no Berserker when she greeted her. Miko had learned that Diomedes could only use his detection skill to find certain types of Servants, so her ability was instrumental in getting the general location of the Servants who weren’t registered by his skill. Afterward, his talking owl would stealthily close in to verify if the Servant she was sensing was in fact the one they were looking for, and luckily for them they found the Servant of interest on their first try this time.

“Thank you, Diomedes-san.” The girl replied as she walked back toward the horses that drew the Achaen warrior’s chariot. Every second Miko didn’t have to spend in the presence of the Dead Apostle or her wights was a second where her unease regarding her predicament could abate. She’d also developed a fondness for the horses, as their auras gave a similar comforting sensation to that of Diomedes. She couldn’t deny that once she got over the initial shock of being flown through the city’s airspace in a chariot pulled by the mystical beasts, it was a memory that she looked back on happily. Recalling how she felt being held firmly at the hero’s side until she was ready to steady herself in the chariot, she really wished she could do something about Diomedes being Rusalka’s partner. If it was just her and that hero, they could… well, she would be embarrassed to share what she was fantasizing about.

The girl spent the next few minutes in relative peace, but it was eventually interrupted by a blood-curdling scream from the room where everyone else was having their meeting. Instinctively running behind the horses to conceal herself, Miko considered fleeing, but remembered that unless Rusalka was somehow killed the vampire could simply track down her scent. And she was pretty sure based on the pitch of the scream that it wasn’t made by Rusalka, and there was no further commotion in the room to indicate a fight between the Servants had broken out. What could have happened? Miko definitely wasn’t going to go inside to investigate. Having had a few moments to assess the situation, she could tell that Rusalka and her wights were all alive and well from the malevolent presences she could still faintly detect in the building no differently from before.

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Fate City Akeldama 8