Foundations

Luimei had seen some extravagent gardens before, and some were many times as large. None of them even came close to the magnificance in front of him. He felt drugged, there was no possible way so many herbs could be grown and managed. Then, one of the Treants started to rearrange some seedlings and he gasped. "So this is your secret?" He walked up and plucked some tubers from the soil, it was perfect.

"Everything here is ripe?" Luimei looked around in confusion. Pocket dimensions were nothing special, though the more energy they absorbed, the wider and more versitile they could become. He had never seen a pocket dimension that worked like this one. 'Well, at least now I know what he meant.'

"Espergliffe?" The Chief saw a vine, it had small peppers on it, they were bold colors like a rainbow. "These things are fantastic, how did you manage to grow it so big?" The suspicious nature of the Chief was vanishing and Errit could see it.

Kink took off the mask.

"My name is Errit. Welcome to my home. I'll explain everything inside, come, follow me." He explained everything, even Lisetya to the Chief. The bloodoath contract would prevent him from disclosing the information under penalty of death. Errit removed the spacial rings from his pocket and then emptied their contents.

There were hundreds of books, documents from the previous decades, leading all the way back to the start of the City. Copies of the Writs, auctions and more, Luimei had brought it all away. "What do you plan on doing with these?"

"I'm going to audit them and use it as evidence, if necessary, I will take down the Kingdom." Errit didn't let a single thing slide. "If its one thing I know, its that wars are started over matters of discrimination. withholding my items, regardless of what they were, is a matter of controlling development. I won't watch as things like 'rights' are swept aside, and I won't have my business monopolized by others."

The fury over his death, at first it was the Emperor, then at Zao Ho, Ho turned out to be an honorable child his thoughts of revenge were fizzled, snubbed out without a course. Errit had accepted his place in the world, another average fighter. He could in theory live a great a luxurious life, but what is luxury if you're taxed without representation.

Whether it was auction or just stealing from his pocket, those who took from his goals or domination would be dealt with. "Those who've wrong me, they'll regret it. Now that you've become a part of it, you're also someone I will defend. You did right be me, So now. I do right by you." Errit brought a few things out from storage and spread them out on the floor of the ship.

"These are my plans, or at least, they were my plans for domination and eventually taking the kingdom away from those in power. I'll never be a slave and anything that looks like slavery, usually is. Now that I have authority, at least, in theory, I should be able to collect data and adjust dishonorable acts that I run across. I know how conflicts of interest work, I'll do my best to avoid them.. but lets face it. I'm doing this because of my own interests, If I didn't have any interest in it.. I'd be just as useless as that bitch you brought earlier." Errit passed a book over, it was an inventory log.

Luimei looked it over and started yelling. "And these figures are real? You expect to be double in size in the next three months? Exactly where to you plan to build your next facility?"

Errit smiled. "Kink Company won't be building any more visible buildings, the next building I create will be in this pocket dimension, That way there is only one way in and one way out."

Luimei laughed. "That's not how pocket dimensions work. You have a Key, but that doesn't mean other's cant enter it. The Key was made, right? They could just make an exact duplicate key. The Key brought you to the space, not the other way around. If you want a private dimension, you'll have to set up wards and formations to keep people out, like locks." he grinned. "You'll have to accept the fact that some day, someone might find their way in here. the Company would do better to build outside, but, then you're in the open. So I suppose your idea has merit, but you'll have to hire live-in guards, residents and fighters. This place won't be so 'private' after that."

Lisetya shimmered and fluttered around, she grabbed some paper and started to write. {"Private is preferred, give me books on formations, I will work on security in passing."}

Errit grabbed the paper and read it. "Are you sure? I don't want to give you extra work."

She grabbed another sheet. {"Lisetya, Home. Lisetya likes Private. Quiet. Build formation, get formation books."} The word get was in ultra big characters.

Luimei laughed at Errit, Lisetya jumped up and down and kept writing. {"Hungry. New buildings? Make plans."} He picked it up and pointed at Errit, laughing uncontrollably.

"Very funny, She's an excellent friend." He pulled out a liter of Essence and passed it over, Lisetya didn't stand on ceremony and devoured the entire thing. When she was done, she spat out the bottle and shimmered again.

She bubbled.

When the bubble burst, there were two of them.

"holy shit, you realize what this means?" Errit grabbed the second, new ink demon and spun in a circle.

The New Ink Demon squirmed a bit. It wasn't acting like Lisetya. "Lisetya? So when you split, does it give your offshoot a copy of your intelligence? or what?"

Grabbing a sheet of paper, she started putting down ink. The process was fast, in a moment, a small paragraph appeared.

{"The Short answer is No. It gains intelligence when they aren't so hungry but don't over feed him, he'll make graffiti. I got smarter because of age, I am several hundred years old, not sure exactly. I only became self-aware about 40 years ago, that glow, I did not resist it."} Lisetya was hopping up and down, there was another sheet.

{"Master, get another dimensional key and toss them inside. Let them be free and I will serve until you change your mind."} Lisetya flopped to what looked like prostration.

'Geez, so dramatic.' "Lisetya, can you evolve? I mean, can you take a humanoid form or whatever?" Errit asked with question marks.

Lisetya spun around tried to fill out a body like Choan's. She was missing parts, she looked like a black water elemental, when she moved her lips, noise didn't come out. She grabbed a piece of paper.

{"Its not the same and this form takes concentration"} was written. Lisetya swirled again and regained her black octopus-like body.

"Luimei, lets go shopping tomorrow." Errit grinned, tossed the mask back on and led the way outside. He wanted to gather some of his crop overgrowth and move it into Kinky Tower.

"Shopping?" Luimei heard the word and didn't understand.

Choan also heard it and ran up, "Can I come? .. PLEA-E-EASE" She pouted like a child until she got her way, neither Luimei or Errit had the heart to tell her that she'd have to spend her own money if she wanted something.

They agreed and spent a few hours napping in the Ship, the attempt on Luimei's life made his eagerness to return home non-existent. He was concerned with maintaining order and justice in the Kingdom. Laying down, he kept thinking it over, 'Kink's ideas were a bit harsh to hear but he wasn't wrong. Lets see what he has planned for tomorrow.'