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hahahah! Awesome that you said that, cause I was thinking if Ehud is good with her green skin and isn’t put off by her bugs, Ku might just ask him to marry her. lol. joking only slightly there.

hahaha! I laughed so hard at Ehud’s reactions! I really like him!

Abirami

Ku’s hand clung to my arm with stars in her eyes. If I didn’t know better, I’d think someone else had body-snatched her. What had gotten into her?

“What’s a troll?” she asked the boy.

I was wondering that too, but fairy princess; that I understood.

I smiled at Ku and nudged her with my elbow. She stomped on my foot. The boy was blushing, and I couldn’t help but live it up. Finally, a chance to give Ku’s self-confidence a boost. Finally someone who wasn’t in any way put off by her being an aelacrin. Perhaps this castle wasn’t all that bad, meeting people from who knows where.

Though, I wondered how this boy would react to Ku’s bugs. His voice was already high-pitched… would it go even higher? I raised an eyebrow, wondering if a guy could sound like a girl if his voice went high enough.

The boy addressed me. “Were you teleported from a beach, or is there a pool somewhere?” His arms swayed in, just slightly, as he leaned forward. He reminded me of my adopted little brother, Setti. Young, innocent, and always on the verge of bouncing off the walls with exuberance.

“Not really a pool, no,” I told him. “I had to leave my garb in the other room after transforming during that emergency.”

The boy tilted his head to the side. His mind, no doubt, whirling around a million miles a second. He opened his mouth, but the words didn’t come out.

Smiling, I offered my hand. “I’m Abirami el Hanniumm, an aygiff. And this is my sister, Ku’Aya, an aelacrin.”

All of a sudden, the words flowed from him like a river. “Good to meet you! I’m Ehud, a human? What’s an aygiff? What did you mean transform? Can you transform into different things? How can this be your sister when she has green skin and you don’t? Hi, Ku’Aya.” His cheeks went rosy again. “What’s an aelacrin? Are there people with other colored skin from where you come from? Like blue skin, or purple skin? Where do you come from? I-”

He clamped a hand over his mouth and took a step back. He opened a space in his fingers long enough to say, “Sorry,” before clamping them shut again over his mouth.

I laughed again, inwardly wishing Setti were here. He would’ve gotten along so well with this boy. Though, Ehud probably would have done a flip in excitement seeing Setti’s wings.

I took a step forward and patted Ehud on the head, like I always did with Setti. I didn’t even realize I was doing it until after I had done it.

Oops. Hope he doesn’t mind.

Stepping back, I tried to rectify it by answering some of his questions. “It seems this… castle… brings people from not just many lands, but many different worlds together. For instance, my world is called Kaphar. I’ve heard some others are from a place called earth?”

“Woah!” Ehud’s eyes bugged out, stepping closer. “You’re not from earth? You mean you’re aliens? Did you have a space ship? Can I see it?”

Ku and I exchanged glances. “What’s a space ship?”

“Oh.” His shoulders slumped as he shifted his gaze toward the ground. “Nevermind.”

Wondering how anyone could pilot a ship in anything outside of a body of water, or if earth had water that somehow floated out in space, I hesitantly moved on. “An aygiff is a race that has the ability to transform into select animals. Aelacrins can control insects.”

Ehud’s mouth dropped open. “You… can… transform into animals?! That is sooo cool! Can I see? What can you do? Can you change into a bird?”

I nodded.

“A dog?”

“Hmm, a wolf.”

Ehud clapped his hands together. “Fish?”

“Yes.”

“Um, an elephant?”

I chuckled. “Yes.”

“What about a skunk?”

“Even a skunk.”

Ehud’s nose wrinkled. “Eww.” Then laughed. “What about a cat?”

“Eh, not really. My dad could change into a jaguar and a cheetah, but I’ve not learned any cats just yet.”

“Oh, so there’s rules to it?”

“Kinda.”

Ehud turned to Ku. “And you, you can control insects? How does that work? Is it only certain types of insects?”

Ku smiled, but she gripped my arm as if she was squeezing oranges. “No, I can talk to any insect I want. And I don’t control them.” She pushed against me. “They’re my friends.”

“Insects don’t live very long on earth. Do you have a lot of funerals. Oh, sorry. That wasn’t very sensitive of me, was it.” He clamped his mouth shut again.

“Actually, I do,” Ku said. “No one’s ever asked me that before.” She let go of my hand and stepped closer to Ehud. “You’re right, they don’t live long, but that’s something I love about them. I can make friends with one, and then I get to see their children’s children for generations on, and be friends with all of them. It’s like living a full life, over and over again.”

I’d never heard Ku speak about her bugs like that. Sadly, that was probably my fault for never having thought to ask.

Ehud nervously put his hands down, as if hesitant to say anything more. “Doesn’t it make you sad?”

Ku shook her head. “Death is a natural part of life. Just something you have to accept.”

Ehud’s eyes shifted back and forth along the ground. The topic seemed to be an awkward one for him.

“What’s your favorite insect?” he asked, a clear and purposeful change in subject.

Ku’s face brightened up as she reached back and released the hair that hung from the back of her mohawk. Opening her hand, she revealed her bawl – a large, roly-poly like insect that she used to hold her hair in a braid.

Ku introduced Shaear, her bawl, and the two continued to talk as I slipped away and walked over to the girl Ehud had previously been walking with.

“Excuse me,” I said with a slight bow, two fingers to my chest. “I apologize, but I couldn’t help but overhear a little bit ago, you two were talking about dancing?”

The two exchanged glances.

“Forgive me,” I offered my hand. “My name is Abirami.”

The one who had been walking with Ehud shot her hand out. “Ophelia.”

The other was more hesitant. “Jade.”

“Um, this might sound strange, but I have a bit of a huge favor to ask? My sister, Ku, her birthday is coming up soon, and-” I looked up at the ceiling and around the room. “-it’s hard to tell the passage of time in here, and I really don’t want to miss it.”

Jade crossed her arms.

“Um, could I ask you to put on a dance for her? She’s never seen anyone dance before. Well, at least not a professional or anything.”

Ophelia looked over at Jade nervously, while Jade leaned back and eyes me suspiciously.

I waved my hands in front of me foolishly, not sure what to do with them. “It’s not really her birthday, but she was abandoned as a baby and grew up on the streets, so we really don’t know what her birthday is. So we’ve been celebrating the day that she was adopted into our family ever since she came to us. You don’t have to do anything special or anything. She hates it when we make a big deal out of it.” I was rambling. Time to shut-up.

The tension in Ophelia’s muscles melted, and the two exchanged glances again.

“What do you think?” whispered Ophelia.

Jade addressed me. “We’ll do it on one condition.”

I twiddled my thumbs nervously. “What condition?”

Jade grinned. “We’ll dance, but only if you participate.”

“You want me to dance?” I asked.

“Really?” Ophelia asked as well.

“Hey, you’re the one asking us for a favor,” Jade said to me. “It’s only fair that you take part in it yourself. Besides-” Jade said, smiling at Ophelia. “he looks like someone who could handle a lift.”

“Um, thank you!” I bowed, two fingers to my chest as a took a step back, then another. “Let me go get my garb, then we can start whenever you wish.”

Turning, I ran toward the door to the room where I had left my robe, my head spinning. Me, dance? Just what had I gotten myself into?!

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this should be interesting…. hehehe. =)

Hopefully everything is in character, please change anything that isn’t (it still feels strange using other peoples characters in my posts…. fun, but strange-feeling…)

Lol, and if Ehud really isn’t put off by insects, Ku literally just found her first bestie [outside of her strange adopted family]! (yay!) this should be fun =)