~~** Interlude | Vera **~~
I have a new name now. A human name like my older sister. Husband gave me it, and it sounds pretty.
It's Vera.
I know my sister has a human name too. He calls her Prima. She was the first goblin to get a name from Husband.
When I woke up the morning after being given big seed, Husband and Prima were both pressing their bodies against me and it felt warm and nice. Maybe too warm and nice, because I had to piss.
I tried shaking Husband awake only because I don't like being called stupid and told to hurry up do what she says all the time by Prima. It's… not easy for me to talk like it is for the other goblins. That's why a lot of them call me stupid. I don't think I'm stupid, even if it's hard for me to do a lot of things that should come easy to a goblin. I have a lot of thoughts in my head, but when I try to speak them out loud, sometimes only a single word will come out and it makes other goblins get mad at me. And even though my sister spanks and hits me sometimes, she's also the only one who takes care of me.
At least, until now.
"Husband."
I shook him again, causing him to finally open his eyes.
"Vera?" He called me by my new name. It sounded so nice. I love it already! But then anything would sound better than being called stupid-one. All my life I've been called stupid-one.
"Piss."
"Need piss? Want me go with you to shit-pit?"
I nodded.
"Okay, Husband also want piss, but not see very well in dark, so need help me get there, okay? Can hold hand while walk?"
Husband doesn't treat me like I'm stupid. He got into an argument with my sister about me being stupid and he told her I wasn't, that I might just need to learn things a different way from other goblins. He got up from the bed and put on his strange loincloth and had me hold onto his hand so I could help him walk through the cave to the shit-pit. Husband explained to me that he can't see without there being light, so I was being a big help to him by making sure he didn't run into a wall or trip on his way there.
I feel strange. I can't remember the last time someone needed something from me. The other goblins don't even trade with me most of the time. I just spent my time in my old cave-hole or sat outside by the fire pit and watched the other goblins come and go and do stuff. Except every five suns, when my sister would take me hunting with her. I didn't do anything but watch for anything moving that could ambush us, like bears or Black-claws.
Husband's seed-stick is strange. He pees from the same hole that gave me and my sister big seed. I wonder how he does it? Is his piss also big seed or can he just decide which one comes out whenever he wants? He's a human so I don't know what is different between our kind.
After we both went piss, Husband asked to stop in the room next to it so he could speak with Ugly Scar. She just had a strong one and Husband walked in on them playing the game of hand-catch called strike.
I know how to play strike. But I'm not very good at it. It's a game where you take turns trying to put your hands over your partner's. My sister used to play it with me, but quit when I never once was able to win against her.
Husband also gave Ugly Scar and her strong one human names. Ugly Scar is Berry, her strong one is Diana Artemis. This cave-hole had another cave-hole in it, and it looked almost the same as the one Husband made for me in his cave-hole. But my cave-hole is now part of the same one where he is, not here near the shit-pit, so my cave-hole is the best one!
Husband told Berry my new name and she offered both Husband and I some sweet red berries to eat. She had a clay bowl and let me take a whole handful! Husband likes to hug. He hugged Berry and he hugged his strong one, telling her she was pretty and smart and was going to be a great hunter! Diana tried to bite his finger, because she wanted to mark Husband as her thing. I also want to do that.
Husband didn't stay in Berry's cave hole for long, since Berry was getting ready to go hunting with Diana. We went back to our cave-hole and there were many other goblins there who had come to visit.
Stone-seeker, Runt, and Mushroom-picker were all there together with my sister. When Husband got back into the room, he took his special loincloth off and put it on a rag near the high bed he made with stone-magic that we slept on together last night.
"Had take piss." he told them, and then sat down at the table, letting go of my hand. I sat right next to him where I belonged. No other goblin lived with Husband, which clearly means he wants to keep me as close as possible forever.
"Everyone, this Vera. She stay with Husband in cave-hole from now. Make Vera room over there, so have separate place stay and not make problem. Husband ask all goblins not call Vera by goblin name."
"Husband gave St-...Vera big seed?" Runt asked Husband.
"Yeah. She uh…"
Husband didn't say any more words about it. Everyone was already eating, and even though I had eaten all the sweet red berries I took from Berry on the way back to the cave-hole, I could eat more.