"I fully expect you to make the most of her, the next few months," she says, a bit mock serious.

"Oh, I will."

Smile.

"Good luck, and have fun."

"Same to you. May your enemies tremble at your coming."

She grins at Occlus again. "If there's nothing else, I probably should go find my girlfriend... And avoid keeping our ride back too long."

She waves a hand dismissively. "Off you go."

She laughs and turns into a tiger, bounding off to hunt down Luc'.

Not very challenging, since Luc' isn't exactly hiding.

Girlfriend! She lopes up, headbutting Luc's hip.

"Our alts have informed me I'm taking a three month vacation," she says, cheerfully.

"Oh really? That was nice of them."

Nuzzle. "Gives me lots of time to treat my best girl the way she deserves."

"And what way is that?"

"Hmmm... Lots of snuggles... Plenty of kisses... Some nice dates to exotic locales... Perhaps a few extravagant gifts, mixed in there..."

"Mm, I like the sound of that."

She turns into a human, so she can wrap her arm around Luc's waist and kiss her. "Gonna spoil you rotten."

"I can't wait."

Then it sounds like their next order of business is finding Elieyha and Naruto and starting their vacation...

Fun.

It will be.

Meanwhile, Occlus requisitions quarters. It seems they'll be here a while.

Things aren't too hectic, at least, even with their overhauls - Wyld's been recruiting good people, who're apparently used to a leader who frequently wanders off into the woods. Several of her lieutenants have been with her for years; they're more hesitant around Occlus than Ani.

She's used to working around that sort of thing; she can use intermediaries if that's more effective.

That seems to be the case, at least at first while people are adjusting to the new situation.

As long as it works.

Are there any fronts open now?

Some minor ones, mostly related to the city they took relatively recently - they're in a brief consolidation phase overall, right now, and some people were really unhappy about that particular conquest and are objecting, making for some on and off hot fronts.

There's also one critically nearby castle they weren't able to take prior to the city, which they're actively besieging. They haven't taken it because the castle's lord established a kill zone around it, and no animal larger than a small insect (currently smaller than Wyld can transform) is getting in or out alive, and sieges are otherwise stupidly drawn out affairs with their technology. They're currently just starving the inhabitants out, and have dug in enough the inhabitants can't really trivially sally out to harass them. The lord seems to have the help of a minor spirit with the kill zone, but is mostly relying on conventional weaponry.

"Do you feel like taking some exercise?" she asks Ani.