| “Oh my god, just say it already.” Catherine huffs annoyed, Claire has been quiet but her energy is very obvious. | |
| Claire smiles, “How is it?” | |
| “It’s good, happy?” Catherine, rolls her eyes. | |
| “Very, so that didn’t take you too long?” | |
| “Thankfully the socket was easy to adjust, and we had already custom ordered the new leg for Mademoiselle Catherine, afterwards it was simple to adjust it to suit her.” Lene informs Claire. | |
| “Excellent.” | |
| “It was custom order?” Catherine gawks. | |
| “Of course, Mademoiselle Francoius would have little else. She was waiting a while for when you would be ready. It should be very reliable and it has a silicon finish to make it hard to distinguish from a normal leg.” | |
| “Really?” Claire practically has stars in her eyes. | |
| “She didn’t need to go that far.” Catherine just looks very uncomfortable, I sympathize. Hopefully Claire has some restraint with our shopping trip later. | |
| “Nonsense.” Lene-sama just looks professional during the whole affair. | |
| “Ahh, would it be too much to ask to see it…” God Claire is so cute when she is trying to restrain herself. | |
| Catherine groans, “Fine but in the car, I just want to get home already.” | |
| It doesn’t take much more after that, Catherine practically shoves us into the back seat, but she isn’t using the cane anymore and she is moving… well pretty normal. I can’t tell anymore. Once the limo is moving Claire is beaming at Catherine. | |
| She doesn’t say much but I can see Catherine is under full assault from Claire’s smile, and she eventually groans again. She reaches to the bottom of her left pant leg and pulls it up to the thigh. And Lene-sama was right, it looks like skin, the tone even matches her skin. | |
| Claire looks overwhelmed as she scans it up and down, and Catherine finally smirks. She pulls the shoe and sock and reveals a foot with toes. It seems to have some bend to it, it allows some articulation but I can see it’s not moving completely like a real foot is. But I guess I would only notice that because I know. | |
| Claire hesitantly touches the thigh and sees that it has some give. | |
| “You… you don’t feel that right? It's not a real leg right?” | |
| Catherine laughs, “Nope, yah it does look convincing but we aren’t regrowing legs yet if that what you are thinking” | |
| “Oh… I see, sorry if that was stupid question. The capabilities of this world always surprise me.” | |
| “Nah, it wasn’t stupid. Here.” Catherine pulls the pant leg higher and I can see the seam above her knee, she fiddles with it a bit and then the leg detaches… oh wow. She passes that to a surprised Claire. | |
| Claire holds the leg carefully but just looks stunned, doing very little but blinking. | |
| “Umm, so you can walk comfortably?” I ask to try to break the silence. | |
| “Yah, I can even run on it, Hell I might start jogging… that old one hadn’t been good to do that in a while. Here let me have that back.” She takes the leg back and reattaches it and quickly pulls the pant leg back down. | |
| When she comes back up after putting her sock and shoe back on Claire surprises her with a hug, there are tears in her eyes. “Catherine, it’s so wonderful!” | |
| “Oh, umm.” | |
| “It’s so much better than I thought it would be, you can walk!” | |
| Catherine doesn’t say much but she can’t really hide her smile either. She just hugs her back. | |
| I feel like I am intruding. | |
| Eventually Claire pulls back, a slight sniffle, “Sorry, I just… it really is amazing.” | |
| “Thanks, I don’t know if I deserve it but thanks.” | |
| Yah… same Catherine… | |