Kai: This shit's for the birds

 Kai and Kareena entered the new room and then he had to almost tackle his friend to keep her from trying to back out.

"Nope!  We dealt with this shit before, we'll fuckin' do it again!" said Kai as he almost had to pick her up.  

"I DON'T WANNA BE AT THE BIRD BITCH'S CASTLE, THOUGH!" whined Kareena loudly.

"I'll buy you booze after this shit's over, okay?!  DON'T KICK ME!"

"You OWE me, you fucker!" snapped Kareena when she realized the door out was already shut.  

"Well, it it makes you feel better, at least we don't have to deal with any weird forest shit or that weird, shitty rat-fear thing," grumbled the teen as he looked around.  "Okay, you know Bird Bitch better than me.  What's her deal?"

"Well, she's really into manipulating people with guilt, the greater the guilt, the more tasty, I think.  She's also currently trying to completely assimilate the Convocation and the Archangel, too.  Hmm..."

"Why guilt?" he asked as he looked around the room.  The room itself looked like it was apart of a large castle-like structure, with vines and tree branches growing through parts of it.  "I would have thought she'd be more into the 'I can make your physical pain go away'."

"Eh, I remember Cliff saying that emotional trauma like Survivor's Guilt and regret over a past mistake makes people more likely to jump at the chance to get away from the responsibility of their actions.  Why else do people drink when they got a bad past?"

"That is completely fair," replied Kai before he found what looked to be a weird looking key.  It was a bone key in the form of a feather, yet had grooves in it to be used for a locking mechanism.  "Okay, found a bone-feather key.  Think it unlocks the weird door over there?"

"Has to.  Why else would it be a key?" asked Kareena before she sniffed the air.  "...smells weird.  Like...like...why does that smell familiar?"

Kai sniffs the air himself, though he doesn't smell anything.  "I can't smell shit."

"If you have covid, I'm gonna murder you."

"And a resounding fuck you to you, too!" said Kai with a smile.  "Now come on.  If you smell something weird, that means there's probably a weird gas in here.  Let's hurry."

Both attempted to use the feather key, but it seemed the door needed something else before the lock would actually work.

"Are you fucking shitting me?!" demanded Kai.  "It's the key!  The key fits!  Why is it not turning?!"

Kareena was thinking a moment before she shrugged.  "Maybe we need to find an analogy for therapy?"

"If Valravn is a therapist, she's the shittiest one I ever heard of.  I would not recommend Tyler to visit her, and that fucker tried to kill me."

"I can't say I met him...huh, this is a weird knife," said Kar as she picked it up.  Looking over, Kai couldn't help but think that thing was familiar.  

"...I think I killed someone with that."

"Well, it's a knife.  It's kinda what you do with them," said Kar as she handed it over.

"No...No, I did kill someone with that knife.  In an elevator at a car park.  After the fucker got me in the shoulder."

"Are you okay?" asked Kareena as she put her hand on his forehead.

"...Well, when the bitch said she liked guilt..."

"Were...were you in a tournament before?"

"I think so," said Kai before he went to the door again.  "Let's see what the knife can do for us?"  Plunging the knife into the middle of the door, and then inserting the key into the lock, the door finally opened.

"Let's get the fuck out of here."

And the two left.