“This all seems a bit overboard, don’t you think?”


    
David eyed the large cauldron before them, which was beginning to simmer, with apprehension. In the middle of the forest, without his clothes on, the lithe Archer was starting to shiver.


    
“Sorry David, but we all drew s

    
It was nice to take a break from the usual stuff, now and then. Running around on missions, trying to avoid getting dragged into other Servants’ weird shenanigans. Robin was all for shenanigans, but he prefered them to be on his own terms. Saving humanity was important and all, but it was still nice to have downtime in between the singularities. It wasn’t a full out vacation, but being able to kick back and enjoy some greasy food for lunch was

    
“David, could you do me a favor?” Ritsuka asked. She held a large box in her arms, and David could hear the contents shuffling.



    
“Of course, Master! What is it?” He smiled, though he already knew what she wanted.



    
“I need to meet Mash down

    
“Blehg… This is getting nowhere.” Robin sighed, flopping back onto David’s bed. Beside him, David fidgeted with his mechanical pencil. It was one of those cutesy ones with a cartoonish little eraser that was too cute to ever use, pretty much defeating the purpose of even having an eraser. He had a lot of stuff like that in his room: cutesy junk that he rarely actually brought to school, but had more for the sake of having and admi

    
The sun was low in the sky, clouds darkening to a lovely shade of purple as the horizon began to tint orange and pink. Sunset. The end of the day for most humans, but for the creatures of the forest that surrounded the human settlement, it was only the start of their morning routines. David stretched himself out, mottled green wings fluttering as he rose from his nest. It was a bit early in the evening for a moth to be getting up, but he hadn’t had