"I... " i started as I broeke the kiss and stepped a single step away from her.
Her heart beating faster than normal it sounded like a hurried drumroll into my ears.
Her weak heart.
'Shay, can you prepare a room for Tiyane at your hospital?' I asked shay as I started scanning Tiyane from head to toe in a single second.
'I'm off world remember?'
'She's okay. Don't worry about it. I'm pretty sure it's how anyone responds to a kiss.' My sister's voice crawled into my head as i momentarily saw found myself sweating and holding a staff the only way Avalendra did. Hwr body spread apart in a pose that left her exposed from barious angles i knew where traps.
In front of her Shay was sweating bullets too and bruised black and blue.
'Ava.'
'I'm hurt. You always use a mindblnk with...' I shook my head and broke the link before she could invade my head once more. Like in the past and made me see things i didnt want to see.
Luckily a mind link when with people in various planes and biomes were time ran different like in interstellar, a mind link was fast almost close to light.
She still had her eyes closed. But her cheeks were turning a rosy red and from the heat waves i saw radiating from her cheeks, she was blushing and probably looked even more beautiful.
She opened her eyes slowly and she breathed out.
I froze for a second as i felt a punch more painful than the hit i was dealt by that monster in 2012. Her eyes.
They... they... the pupils were didfferent.
The colour of her eyes were purple. An eye colour i felt familiar with yet i never saw before. She turned her eyes aside and in that split second, the colour went down the colour wheel like a rainbow before reverting to her brown beautiful eyes.
I blinked a couple of times to make sure i wasn't dreaming but they remained brown.
"Say you're sorry for kissing me and i will kill you." She mumbled from the side with the same ferocity I loved to hate.
"No, i wont. Why would i?" I bit my tongue and looked aside.
I was just about to say that.
"Good, wait..." she looked at the far end of the room where the Pleiades star system was, with its information chart. Under the chart, Shay's photo were there along with everything the guardians records had about ge star system.
"Who is that? And why does she look familiar?"
"That's Shay. How she looks like without any alteration, or filter."
"Doctor shay?"
"Yeah."
"Is that what she looks like in real?" She asked.
"Real is a bit of a word i cant describe but that is how she loo ks like in every guardians eyes. Humans see what they want to see so most people can walk next to an alien without noticing.
"Do you look like that too?"
"No." I shook my head. "I am human, remember? This is how i was born as twenty years ago but not how i see myself or how i really looked like beforw i was reborn."
"Ok." She agreed as she steeled her heart. "Let me see your original face." She said pinning her beautiful eyes on me. I shifted my eyes off her eyes and slowly down her face to her nose and eyes.
Though it felt like i was looking at hundred different people, i liked her kind smile.
Not her words.
"I don't have an original face."
"I mean the one before this one. You know what i mean."
I sighed and tensed, feeling both anger, pain, loneliness and deep sadness overwhelm me. The emotions I've felt since Kiara's death.
They resonated within me and i started burning up inside as i grew small scales shortly before my skin darkened by a single shade.
The scales vanished as my scalped started throbbing. Like my hair was being pulled back.
She stepped back as i finally saw her face.
Kind, beautiful and a bit pained not scared. The things i couldn't hear from her voice for a second were bared in front of me. Her brown eyes shined with tears. Her kind smile was there radient but it was only there with no authenticity.
"You look ugly. Not as bad as my fiancee but bearable. So I'll reconsider seeing you one more time."
Kiara's voice crawled into my head replacing her face.
"You are ugly. Very very ugly! But you are my ugly and I don't want you to be someone elses!" Another voice crawled into my head. Whoever spoke it was crying. Her tears hurt me almost as bad as the judge who drove a sword through my chest a couple of thousand times.
"You are not that ugly." She touched my cheek with the softness I've only felt when i was in my mother's arms two decades ago. "I'm sorry. I called you ugly a lot."
"What?"
She vanished in front of me and I saw passing by someone who looked a lot like me in the past and I looked away. The other 'me' didn't even look at me but slowly turned to look at the bright full moon.
His eyes veiled with so much sadness i
I almost cried for him. After crossing the bridge, I stopped and turned back.
He sighed and looked at the river. Then, my feet had a new brain of their own. They simply turned and ran to his broad back and hugged him form behind.
Before i could know what i was doing, i pounced on him and held him tight.
"Gotcha!"
I said as he tensed and almost lit ablaze in white flames. But all it took for me to put the fire off was pressing on him and exhaling.
A lump formed at the back of my throat as I recognized everything.
This... this... this is what happenend after i hid the ship and walked into the city while following Kiara.
But i didn't see her go past me. I only saw her when she hugged me and said those words.
"Are you gonna cry again?" She mocked me as she stepped back from me but wiped my tears off. A reminiscence of our first meet.
"No, I..."
I felt the sanctity of my island being violated in the only way i knew one person to be able to. A pain in the ass of a person. Or rather, a pain in the ass of a dick.
But the energy that assaulted my island and made its security spells malfunction was by all means not his alone. There were two more people with him. Both the people I gave access to things me.
I gritted my teeth and stood in front of Tiyane, in case she didnt like the intrusion.
A single breath put aside all of my emotional chaos and questions aside.
"Hey Jay!" Lyska opened the door with a sword on his neck as he walked into the room. "Your friends are here."
"See? I told you we are ruining his moment." Pk followed him with a sword on his neck too. Both their hands were raised in surrender and their faces beat black and blue.
"What moment?" Pk asked. "Cant you see his face, it's still as plank as a paper. we are not ruining anything."
"He is a dragonborn, you asshole." As Lyska cursed, i didn't know if i should just remind them all about language or just cry. or beat them all up. Or even shut him up. "Cold intellect runs more than his emotional spectrum that isn't as long as his dick is. or as extensive as ours."
"I think he is growing mad."
"Don't think so. Tiyane is here so he won't fdsre fight."
I sighed as this scene that seemed way too familliar to be nostalgic.
Behind them David walked in with his eyes lit blue and carrying enough firepower to put any amory to shame.
"Tiyane, you know my brother Lyska. He's PK, he is supposed to be a king but he is way more unrully than any monkey in the zoo. And David Kruger. He changes his name every two three years so don't bother remembering it. David, I thought you'd call, not come in here carrying weapons."
"Where is she?" The dark swan asked as his eyes moved to Tiyane.
I stood in front of her as I shouted, "HEY! Laurent! Is Jasmine with you?"
"No, Jade called her back." Laurent shouted back from Acadia next door. He was as usual resting in the middle of a hall with pups jumping all over his white fenrir wolf form.
"Ok. Jade..."
"She went back to Earth." Freya didn't even bother to let me ask the question.
Thoth... !"
"She is at the farm." Thoth spoke from next door too.
"Ok. She is on the room. Left three doors down."
David dropped his sword and almost marched out the door before i stopped him. "Aint you forgetting something?"