Chuckling, Lambertia corrected her, “The drinking chcolate, from the flask earlier. Not the other ones. C’mon, you’re brighter than tha, firecracker. Sides, you gave me my own choc gifts”

So, wherever this Hen-tai was, wasn’t really on earth but bit was full of lewd creatures with tendrils that didn’t have mouths and did the lewd things to you.

The galaxy was a way weirder place that Lambertia had ever imagined. She’d seen and handled plants and vegetables that had funny shapes, sat around campfires telling dumb teenage stories about escapades. But the idea of a planet or place full of plants like Niffotara that were lewd instead of, sadistically murderous did a fuddy thing to her stomach as her brain tried to figure out what that would be like.
Perhaps everyone did have their limits. Even if she was kind of curious.

She held her hand gently over Tominas mouth the mouth she said darkest secrets, placing a single finger on her lips shaking her tustled up head of hair “Don’t say ti like, that, Don’t say Darkest secrets. Just, just don’t do it.”

She made a face when Tomina again said ‘dark stuff’.
“Like that, don’t use Dark like that. Its So…. oh oh right.” She removed her finger and laid back onto the sofas arm sighing heavily, “Sorry firecracker. It’s a tribes thing.” She hadn’t explained all of the tribes yet and she had intended to avoid their views of each other. To let Tomina see the better bits about Hegemon. Then at least somewhere, in ideal, there would be a Hegemon that she had thought her world was. Could be.

“So, there are seven. Fire, Earth, Water, Ice, Wind, Dark and Light. They all live seperatly, Hegemons kinda bigger than earth. Allot. So apart is very apart.” She felt like she was fumbling over this now, “I don’t like people using words like ‘dark’ badly or for, talking about bad things.”

“My, best friend is a Dark Elfan. I left Hegemon, look him awy form Hegemom.” She had never talked about this and she could tell that it really showed, her thoughts weren’t in any kind of order at all. “People don’t even know the Dark tribe. They’re the youngest tribe, formed after the war and nobody trusts them. Scared of them even.”

“Waht vanta? Yea Hes the reliable one hehehe, he’l bee ok.” He really was, got a job first, found out tha bills were a thing, truly the reliable one. She was the legendary floosy light. And of course, that was supposedly his fault too. “He’ll probably just get a decent nights sleep at our we place in North city.” She reached for the little pile of her gloves, pulling her phone out of it and sending a quick message to Vanta telling him that she’d be back tomorrow and had a place to stay. Maybe on earth he could be ok without her. People didn’t judge him on site for what he was, blame him for anything she did. Judge him for being her friend.

“It was, my people. My pack. I dodn’t even realise till he said he knows I want vanta to be, one of the good ones and…” She trailed off suddenly and shook here head, she didn’t want to be talking about this. About what she now thought of her own tribe, how she’d all but stolen a ship to get away from Hegemon and how she’d gotten rid of it.

“Oh no, I’d be waaay more drunk if he was here.” It was very most definitely true. “He the one who carried me back form that spicy dish I said. And hes the one who brought me food that time after I couldn’t walk in Zeal with Harel.” To this day that was one of her escapades that she wasn’t sure if Vanta had quite figured out. She was ok with this honestly as despite her open attitude, she could be embarrassed in certain ways. “Def, way more drunk. At least as drunk as you. I am defiintially the bad influence”


“I’m the bad influence FircaSkfffppft” She blew and splutters as Tomias steathcign arms reached her face and bumped into them, wup till that Tomina laying down had been rather comfortable, “ARgpfftt” She reached down and tickled the fire elfan just under the arms in retaliation, “hahah Revenge is mine!”

“What, no! He’d just do anything for me cuse when we met I helped him out of a desert. He, really over values it.” Lambertia roleled onto her side to look down at Tomina lying on the floor. Considerign that she was a fire elfin, perhaps hot was a good word for it. The room did feel colder with her down there rather than up here…

“I just don’t feel, jusdged by him. I can arrive back at the mid of the next ay, still drunk or missing something and he doesn’t think nless of me. Oh he things ive been stupid and irresponsible but he doesn’t, judge me for it. Or anyone else. Like, its my fault that I’m staying here tonight. It wa My choice, so he won’t blame you but enough of that, I just realised that I don’t know what you doo here… huh?” Tomina was mostly right, she hadn’t had any guard up. So it was down. Pinned down she grinned through clenched teth and started chuckellung uncontroleably as Tomina returnd the favour of a little humor.

“Heheahaha, Cmo, hEHHEaa… C’mon firecracker, that the best you can do” It didn’t sound tough at all, that would have been impossible. Lambertia was just trying to egg her onward.

The squirming and grinning through the giddy sensation ceased with Tominas sudden boredom, “Aw, what?” She frowned up at the fire elfan explaining that it was too easy, “We’ll firecracker maybe I didn’t feel all that need to resist, I was plenty comfy with that!”

“Well there ar none of them here And even if ther were, why bother with tehm. This place is nice Firecraker. Its awesome that you managed to put to gether for it.” As she was speeking Lambertia sighed and reached out to grab the frond of Tominas top and pull her back down on top of her, curling her other arm around Tominas midriff and tickling her son the side facing away from the sofa so she would squirm ion towards it.

“Being ignored! My one weakness! How did you know!” Laughing like the villains in the brightly coloured programs she’s seen on the television once a week she kept up the tickling, snaking her other hand around to Tominas back to hold her steady so she couldn’t just roll off.
After a wee bit though she would stop and lay her head back against the headrest with a contemplative look.
“Say Tomina. I havppy to be here but tell me this, you just met me, know barely anything about me and you’ve got me here, happily inebriated along with yourself.” She slid the hand on Tominas back up to the sid of her head, brushing a few stray hairs out of the way, “I’m happy to just bee here now, an tomoorw. If you want. It’s ok to feel sad an lonely and want company. If that’s what you wna. That’s ok too.” With the other arm she gave Tomian a light squeeze.