"So, and when we thought we had her finished, she gets back up and so gracefully dances us all to our doom!" Clarman tells my friends with upbeat laughter filling the small shop we found. It was something called a Pubman's Singing Bar. Dirris, the drummer, was even singing along with the regulars of this place. Which, is because he was one of them!
If I wasn't so worried about other things, I might've been able to enjoy it. Maybe even dance to it with all the energy in the world... Just to let everyone know how excited I was to be here. How much I loved being with my friends...
Yet, I found myself embarrassed as I couldn't help but look at Nin when I was thinking about that. He stuttered and struggled, but he meant every bit of it... He loved me... Not as Clarman did, as she and her band loved my dancing and how well I could do it.
Nin just loved me... Me... He loved me... Of all the people in the world...
Thankfully, he could not see my blush as he was too busy staring his beak up at a projector. Some kind of sport was playing on it and I assume he was enjoying it. But, he also might've just been trying to ignore our unfortunate stalkers... It was hard work getting Nin into the city...
The school begrudgingly accepted him for their own gain, somewhat. But, the city did not share that sentiment. He was just, a thing to them. But that wasn't true at all...
He was Nin, the scared young man I found in a basement one night... A broken knife in his hand before I took him to bed... Even before I got to know him, just hearing Vadei's distraught words filled me with a certain desire. I wanted to see him enjoy life again in spite of all he faced.
Yet, I did that too well and now he saw me as that reason... Not that there was anything explicitly wrong with that... When I was done with school, we could go to my home... No one cared for Osibindah creatures there!
They'd be fascinated by him! Inspired and eager to learn! Being the people with a world-spanning empire did that... They learned not to judge the world for its differences because that made the job harder.
As cruel as it might've been. And, admittedly... I didn't agree with any of it... But, that stuff didn't matter right now.
"Right, Larishazza?" my sister then said out of nowhere.
"Eh? Oh, yes." I answered with confusion before I dismissed it out of hand as I also did not care. I was so close to figuring it all out, but, I needed time...
"You even paying attention?" she then asked.
"No, I, got to pee." I blurted out before I quickly got up and disappeared upstairs.