"Well, you heard the Creature."
"So you came to put us in shape?"
"I'll...….clean up the body for you. Move please."
"Not exactly. No point in changing when I am too busy cleaning. Then, there would be no one left to experience."
"Ruby."
"Wooo, wooo, woo. Wait, Ariel. We're talking here.
So if Elders don't demand respect, then who does? Are you going to fight everyone for it?"
"I would rather not."
"Pizza."
*Accchouummmm…..mmmmm…mmmm….mmmmm.
This is actually really good. What's in it?"
"It's..."
"Wait. Don't tell me.
If you tell me, then I will start comparing you to what I know, and the best way to make friends is to go in with a clean slate.
Everyone has them; not only Lolli."
"Okay.
*Errrwwiiaaaaaannk*
Say we go in with this clean slate of yours? What can you offer us that we don't already have?"
"I can change your appearance to one of beauty."
"Watch what you say."
"Not that you're ugly, because you're not. You're just..."
"We like our peace and quiet, and don't want any tourists."
"What's the point of changing if no one is around to see it?"
"Do you want...…people around to see it?"
"Well, of course we do. It's not good for people to die alone, even if their death spans way longer."
"Then what do you need me to do, to help you see that?"
"Uhhhhhhhhh."
"Did I not speak up clearly enough?"
"It's just...…."
"No ones had the heart to tell us what we are doing is wrong, and wanting to help change it.
Most…..I mean....all....don't see the reward. All they see is that within one hundred years, their ideas will fail; and we'll stil be here reverting back to what we know."
"But we don't want an analytical thinker. We want a Practical thinker. People always forget a face.....gosh...…I'd be surprised if you remembered us and not in nightmares."
"But they never forget a memory that makes them happy."
"So you want to be happy? Now we're getting somewhere. I can work with that.
When's the last time you had someone visit....besides a Dragon?"
"Ruby, I told you. Our air pressure won't allow that."
"Everything was once pure, Ariel."
"Uhhhh...I'd say...….ummmmmm...….."
"THREE HUNDRED SIXY FOUR YEARS AGO.
I should know. It was my birthday."
"Okay. Okay. You still celebrate birthdays and are not in the least bit mad that a birthday makes you one year closer to death."
"Please don't say it like that."
"And now we're talking; teaching me how I should properly respect you. Is that so hard?"
"Well.....actually, yes."
"I just wish there was someway we could properly show you off and show just how much you have changed in people's eyes; but sadly there's no way."
"We can....No."
"What?"
"Ruby, you're on a Planet; not a providence. It will take you forever to change every single layout. There is no President here. No Queen. No King. No laws. No decrees. No proper way we HAVE to do something. There is just nothing. So, how are you going to turn our lives around in less than three months?"
"As you said, Mr. Nose; you want practical; not analytical; so I will refrain from looking at the big picture; counting down the clock; and memoring the solution; because everyone has their own Concentrate."
"And what's ours?"
"Can I answer that question in the morning? I don't think the Pizza is settling well with me."
"Of course. Of course.
Forgot your Mortals have weak immune systems."
"We do no…."
"Ruby, I will take you home.
We have lots to think about, and a big day ahead of us."