"Betty, can you... improve that, uh... bird?" You point at the bird in your Servants hair, and you feel the many eyes of the creature shift their gaze to you... or well, at least half of the eyes do, the actual make-up of the creatures face prevents it from staring at you with more than half for... obvious reasons.

Betty tilts her head for you to go on as you begin to explain just what exactly you want her to do with her as yet unnamed bird minion. "Could you... make it more difficult to detect... and give it the ability to see through illusions?"

"I... think so?" Betty doesn't sound so certain as to whether or not she'll be able to fulfill the request, but if you want to actually uncover the limits of her abilities, you'll need to push her like this. Dark shadowy energy begins to gather towards the bird-like being and you can see the body of the beast altering before your very eyes, it becomes far more streamlined than it was before, oddly... geometric, in some places. You also notice a relatively large dip in your energy reserves. Not enough to be truly problematic, but it seems that improving a lifeform she's already created has an even greater cost than outright creating something in the first place!

Part 13