"Cuckoo in the Nest" by DeeTwenty
Posted: Wed May 06, 2020 4:44 am

"Struggle all you like, i made sure those ropes where extra tight to keep you out of my hair. screaming wont help either, that gag should keep you nice and quiet for the time being."
"Mrrrm!"
"Got to say your fashion sense is really nice though, i think i'll enjoy pretending to be you, Ta Ta for now miss Skylark!"
Harriett Cuckoo, shut the door on Kite, cutting off a muffled yell of indignation. It had been sheer luck to find out that Zephyrpolis's rival sky city, The Principality of Cyclonia, had an agent staying in the same town she was, let alone taking over a antique bookstore for her own purposes.
The Two Sky cities, in ages past had clashed on occasion over ideals, resources and other such petty concerns but now, in an age when sky cities had mostly become myths and legends and where the great libaries and craftsmen of both no longer contained the knowledge on how to build new aero-engines to keep either afloat, a new conflict over "spare parts" had arisin.
Both cities maintained a scout and diplomatic corps, informants and spies sent to the world below to scrounge ruins of fallen skycities, Buy or steal parts from caves, museums and merchants that would help maintain their homelands flight. but the market shrunk every year and war would have been costly. instead both sides secretly dispatched agents to disrupt each others and luckily for harriet, Kite Skylark had been quite a physical match for herself. aiming to disrupt the flow of trade back to the principality, all it took was to ambush her at home when she least expected it, stealing her clothes and identity for the time being. perhaps at a future point she'd find a use for her prisoner, but right now, she had a life to assume.