[Dodo nest]
It's already been two days since the dodos brought the kid to the nest, but he was still unconscious.
The artificial dodo was looking at him like always, after all, with her status as artificial intelligence, she has more than enough processors to manage the entire city and talking with thousands of dodos at the same time, let alone add just looking over an unconscious kid, she could do it for hundreds of thousands of people without any problem.
However, compared with other days, today was different, he was still within a tank with a special liquid to enchant his regeneration and help him heal faster, he was slightly moving his arms and there was a painful expression on his face.
The artificial dodo assumed with her hologram the image of a woman, so that when he saw her, he wouldn't be scared to death, after all, after losing his parents and being almost killed, seeing a giant chicken as the first thing when you wake up would be a little too much.
Well, that was what she thought until the moment he opened his eyes.
They were without any emotion, e was simply looking around himself without any reaction.
'oh… He must be thinking to be in a dream or in something like that' She tough while looking seeing that his expression wasn't changing at all.
After another minute without any reaction, if not looking around, she felt quite worried.
[Hi, how do you feel?]
After the kid looked at her for some seconds he answered
He answered with a cold voice.
"I feel like every single part of my body is being burned, and healed, just to be burned again, and again, and again"
'What the hell is wrong with him?! I can't understand… He should be a human kid, right? Why isn't he showing any emotion, besides, if it hurt that much, how can he stay put like this?'
The artificial dodo felt like crying, this was the first time that she talk with a human, but he is so strange, and she couldn't understand what went wrong, she clearly remembers how the human usually behaves on the surface, besides there wasn't any problem with his brain, nor with his body, she actually checked his condition every ten minutes, and everything was like any other normal human at that age.
She tried to calm herself down a little before trying again.
[Hm... What is your name?]
"I don't know"
She froze for a moment, she has already checked his memory, and she could even watch the whole life of this kid, how come that now he doesn't remember?
'I think that only the Matriarch can help me…'
"What is your name?"
'Sure enough, he asked the only embarrassing question that he could do…' she tough
[My name should be Sugar, but I hate it, so please, choose any other name that you like]
She said while feeling that this was the most awkward conversation she ever assisted during her countless years passed monitoring the planet.
[I will introduce you to someone who can help you, do you want to exit the tank right?]
However, she found another surprise
"No, it's fine, as long as I heal staying there it isn't a problem"
[Didn't you just said that it felt like burning?]
"Yes, but since in the end, I will feel better, it's convenient for me to stay here even if that means that I will suffer"
Now the artificial dodo was terrified by whatever was in front of her,
'It's definitely better if I ask the Matriarch for help, this guy has some problems! '
*****. *****
In the monitoring room, the Matriarch was studying the humans and this new world.
[Matriarch, the kid have some problem]
"The true problem is when he has no problem after the mess that happened two days ago"
[indeed, that is why I am here, he has no problem under with his brain, but he is completely emotionless, and don't remember anything, I have already checked his memories in his brain, and they are all there!]
"Keep calm, at least wait for him to return to the peak with his physical, after that, we will see if he is improved a little ok?"
[Understood]
She answered with a cold voice to show her disappointment in the method of the Matriarch.
After the hologram left, the Matriarch mumbled
" as if we haven't already enough problems… "
*****. *****
She left the kid alone, talking with him only to make sure that he was fine, it was simply too awkward to stay silent all day simply staring at each other without saying nothing, so she waited for some improvement in his situation.
three days later, the situation was the same if not for the fact that he is now completely physically recovered.
And finally, the Matriarch decided to take a look at him and try to understand what is wrong with him.
When she two meters tall black dodo with purple eyes entered the room, the kid looked at her without any reaction.
'This is worse than I thought, he really doesn't have any emotions… Let's take a look at his soul, just to be sure that everything is normal over there' the Matriarch activated the Celestial energy hidden within herself and used it to enchant her eyes so that she could see the soul of a creature weaker than her.
What she found was unbelievable… The soul that should have been a flame burning within the heart was extremely small compared to any other soul that she ever sews, and around it, there was a ball of chains that blocked the soul, outside the ball of chains there was a water-like liquid that tried to reach the flame but was blocked by the chains… she looked at him with full focus on his soul for a minute before stopping to explain what did she found.
"Well… The good news is that the Annoying dodo was right and she didn't waste my time, the bad news is that this soul is a complete mess, while the worst news is that I can't touch nothing there, a little mistake would end up with your soul completely destroyed "
She said the last sentence looking at the kid in front of her, she felt pity for him, after all, what will wait for him in the future could be even worse than death, so she decided to give him a wing so that maybe the future for him will be a little better.
"Hey kid, if you stay with us maybe we will be able to find a solution, or at least give it a try, after all, we are the only mystical race on the Earth… For now.
Besides, if we fail to help you then no one will be able to"
The kid tough a bit about it, after all, it isn't like he have any other place to go, so he accepted their help.
"thank you for everything you are willing to do for me, I will make sure to compensate you in the future" He answered with his usual cold tone.
'What the hell is this? Is he really just five years old?' the Matriarch tough after hearing him.
[Haha! Don't worry, we'll find a solution... Somehow… I hope…]
"Very well, my child, we should start by giving you a new name, let's see…unfortunately, we dodos don't use simple names, we use titles, for example, when you change your job, usually you change your name too, unfortunately, you are a human, so we can't do it with you too, however, since you will be one of us, your surname must be Dodo, after all, every dodo already uses this surname, as for the name… "
"Icefire" Unexpectedly she was interrupted by the kid.
But the more surprised of everyone in the room was actually the kid, he just felt a pull and his body spoked on his own.
"If that is what you wish, then, so be it"
The Matriarch didn't expect this outcome but at the same time it isn't like she would have found a better name, after all, she is a dodo too.
'This is strange… I feel like I' ve already heard of this name before, but I can't remember were... '
["Welcome to the dodo family, Icefire Dodo! "]
Both the Matriarch and the hologram spoke at the same time.