"You know that word, 'please', Shōryū? Maybe I should teach it to you sometime." Enki rolled his eyes and then jumped down from the table. Giving a considering look to how Shōryū was sitting up against the wall, Enki smirked.

"But for the moment, unless you want to be pretty like one of the women you like to lose money on, move. Or I give you two tails." Or loops, even, as Enki suddenly came to think of Shoshun, one of the immortals who'd cared for him at Mt. Houzan.