["You're finally awake, I missssssed you. Do you humansssss ussssually ssssssleep for an entire day like thissssss?"] Raibh beamed, in my bed.
"Can you usually tell I'm awake without me even opening my eyes like this?" I countered, finally opening my eyes, feeling surprisingly better than I did before, then I did in ages actually.
["Yessssssss,"] they nodded.
"Did I really sleep a whole day?" I sat down, and when I took my surroundings in, I realized I wasn't in the pink bedroom anymore, but in a peridot green one. "What the…?" And I'm also in a normal bed now, not a hospital bed anymore, a huge bed at that, "Jesus, it definitely fits five Dai-Jin in here, which is a lot," given the size of that men.
["Issssss Dai-Jin the pretty human with sssssskin drawingsssss that knowsssssss how to sssssssspeak Bulgarian?"] They asked.
I couldn't help gasping, "Even you think he's pretty?" Raibh gave me an agreeing nod. "Yes, that's him Dai-Jin Moon Nishimura. Ahjussi. Moon Seok-jin," I felt my face hot, "ugh. Who moved me from the pink room, Raibh?"
["Dai-Jin carried you in his armsssss from that room to thisssss one. A blue haired female who lookssssssss sssssslightly like you helped taking your family'ssssss assssshessss. Then a group of male humanssss helped Dai-Jin and your uncle to move your belongingsssssss here. There wasssss blonde, a orange-haired, a black, and a tanned male, plusssssss the male who lookssssss like you, and Dai-Jin."]
"The girl who looks a bit like me is Ari, my younger twin sister, and the boy who looks like me is my older brother, Silas, though I call him Four, because Silas' our father's name. I think the tan-skinned boy must have been Diego. I don't know about the black, the blonde, and the redhead though. Though I have a feeling the redhead, with orange hair, must be the one I read about, Adèle's cousin. Adèle is the girl with orange hair you saw back then, one of the ones who screamed," inhaling deeply, I felt a scent of a mix of sandalwood, strawberry, blackberry, jasmine, vanilla, and amber.
As I turned to the right to leave my bed, I found a pair of Jimmy Choo fluffy forest green slippers, and there was an emerald green silk robe laying over the black velvet couch at the right side of the bed, near the dark wood side-table, which had a peridot green vase on it with a bouquet of my favorite type of roses, the black ones with a blood red core.
"Seems like ahjussi was spilling the tea about me," I scoffed and walked to the bathroom. "This bitch is so big, I could live in it. A family of 3 could live in here. Tsk, I'll never understand rich people."
["But aren't you a rich human?"] Raibh followed me.
"Rich? No. I'm not rich, I'm a billionaire," I winked, closing the door of the huge bathroom behind them, then I began to take off the hoodie and the sweatpants I'm still dressed in. "I mean, a billionaire if we don't count my bank account in Bitcoins, but still. And I'm not complaining, I like riches, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't understand rich people. I could easily live with ⅒ of the money I have."
Putting my clothes in the laundry fancy light green basket, I washed my teeth with the… you guessed it, the emerald green crystalline toothbrush with the black charcoal toothpaste with a slight mint flavor, then I did my first round of skincare for the first time in five months, using the load of products I didn't bring with me but that someone got it, and all that I usually used, which was effective.
Did ahjussi tell them I was an influencer? They would definitely be able to guess all the products I use for my face, skin, and hair if they took a look in the videos I posted both on YouTube, TikTok, and in my Instagram highlights. But I posted waaaaayyyyy more than just that.
God, there are videos of me dancing… and photos in bikini.
"Ugh," I growled, washing my face. "They'll see me with Kit, and will pity my ass again, and I do not want to be pitied," I clenched my jaw, sitting on the toilet for my biological necessities. "Breathe, Mischief, just, breathe," I told myself. "You can do this, you can do this, you can do this."
["You can do thissssss. You can do thissssss,"] Raibh cheered.
This time, when a giggle escaped my throat, I didn't feel guilty, nor sick with myself. "You're adorable, Raibh, has anyone ever told you that?"
They shook their tail like an excited dog, ["No, isssss it good?"]
I nodded, done with the toilet and walking into the walk-in-shower, realizing someone really did look into my YouTube channel, the only place I talked about the hair products I use, most of them Brazilian coffee-based and perfect for wavy hairs like mine. "It's a word of endearment, it means you're cute, what you said warmed my heart and made me want to hug you, to pet you," I adjusted the water to the coldest possible, the best.
["I like it,"] cute. ["I wouldn't mind being pet and getting a hug."] They said, curled up in front the floor-to-ceiling mirror near the door.
"Raibh, you know I am going to go after whoever caused the train accident, right?" I asked, untangling my hair with the emerald green with cute edges in gold hairbrush, so I can wash it.
["We all know that, Misssssssy. We'll be with you until the end!"]
I swallowed, eyes closed as the central shower head above me rains water over me, there's more than ten shower heads in this bathroom made of black marble, emerald, and gold. How did they even do all this in a day while I was blacked out? Or did they start before I woke up? Even then, it would have been extremely fast.
"Who exactly is we?" I asked after some time thinking.
["You are a bridge for all the racessssss you are bonded to. Thanksssss to ussssss being connected to you, we can usssssse thissss bond to talk between oursssssssselvessss. That'sssssss how we have been taking care of you in sssssssshifts. You're important to usssss."] They explained, ["Usssss sssssnakessss, the ravensssssss, the ratsssss, the black catssssss, and the dobermanssssss."]
"Did you understand what Lok said yesterday?"
["It wassssss not yesssssterday, Misssssy. It wassssss the day before. Yesssssterday was October sssssssixteenth, it'sssss October ssssssseventeenth today. I told you, you ssssssslept, a full day."] Ah… ["But yessssssss, I underssssssstood what the raven ssssssaid. All the languagesssssss you humanssssss sssssspeak with one another, are only a barrier between humanssssss, and our connection with them. We can ssssssspeak with each other. We jusssssst choosssssse not to! "]
"Why?" I put the hairbrush aside and grabbed the shampoo bottle.
["To sssssspeak with another being, isssssss it acknowledge their exissssssstence, and our racesssssssss relationssssssshipssssss are bassssssssed on power hierarchy. Sssssssome racessssss are very prideful, Misssssssy. Sssssssuch asssssss mine and the ravenssssss. We would never be in contact with each other if it wassssssn't for you."]
Well, that's… something, "How old are you, Raibh?"
["I'm one year and nine monthsssssss old,"] they're a baby.
"What are you considered to be in your kind?"
["I'm conssssssssidered to be a child,"] no wonder they're so cute.
I chuckled softly, "Oh my God. Do you have family?"
["They were haunted down by humansssssss."]
"Ugh, I hate humans. I'm sorry about that. What're their names?"
["Lathurna Ill'Anndrai and Fhitheachain Ghniomhaid,"] poor child, they're just a baby, they must miss them a lot.
"I'll remember their names," I promised. "But I have a question," I began, eyes closed as I massaged my scalp, spreading the shampoo deep into my roots. "I intend on killing the people involved with the accident, Raibh, are you okay with me murdering them?"
["Misssssssy, we would kill for you. Of coursssssse, we are!"]
"You would kill for me?" I gasped. "If I asked you, would you kill a human for me? Even if I had no reason for it?"
["Of coursssssse I would, and sssssso would the otherssss. You are the only human I don't hate, Misssssssy. I adore you. Both my kind, the ratssssss, and the ravenssssss don't like humansssss. For ssssssome fateful reassssssson, you're the exception, and we'll all do anything in our power to be with you, to help you, to have your back, to keep you alive and sssssssafe from othersssss and from yoursssssself."]
"Hm… that's reassuring," I moaned, still massaging my hair.
["We'll alsssssssso do our besssssst to keep any human you love ssssssssafe. Sssssssay the name and they will have our protection. Asssssss much asssss the onesssss you hate will feel the tassssssste of our wrath. We'll keep protecting you from anyone who might be a threat to you and warn you beforehand, asssssss we are able to feel humanssss intentionsssssss."]
"Damn, that's cool," I beamed but instantly cough the shampoo that entered my mouth. "Ugh, disgusting," I whined and began to wash my hair, then to pass the other products in the queue of my hair routine.
After more than seven minutes, they spoke again. ["Do you feel sssssssomething romantic for Dai-Jin, Misssssssy?"]
Well, that was very effective… In making me choke on the shower water again, that's it. "What?" I pretty much yelled.