Tali walks us around everywhere. There is crowds of people in every corner of the square.
The music is loud and it's amazing.
We stop at a stall, that sells many small wooden weapons, the boys flock to it, even some little girls go there as well wanting in on the craze for weapons, even through their gender and age.
Talk looks at me for a second as I look over there.
"Want one?"
I shake my head, both with certainty and embarrassment that she caught me starring.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm okay, thank you."
I've never even been caught in between the action of violence before, or have I been a person that would like to be hurt.
'Yet, I was fully prepared to learn to fight for Marcilene. When I need to fight, will I have to use a sword?'
Marcilene grabs my arm and brings me to another stall that has many different candies.
From the sugary lookalike of cotton candy to the hardness of a caramel apple.
Marcilene looks at all of them and smiles.
"I've never tried one of these before, let's get one!"
She then looks up at Tali:
"Can we? Let's get one Tali!"
She walks closer to us and smiles at the man behind the table that is providing all of them.
"Can I get two of the sugar balls."
She reaches into the collar of her dress to pull something out, but when she stop halfway to grabbing something she retracts her hand and pulls out nothing.
She looks down to us with a sullen look on her face.
"I'm sorry guys, I forgot my coin back at the house."
A man from behind her walks up and scares her.
"BOO!"
Tali jumps up and punches him.
The guy reels back in pain as he turns and looks down, some blood splattered down from his face, is spills to the ground.
"Flock! I'm so sorry!"
Flock, he's a brown skinned, black haired man, that wearing a brown suit that compliments his skin tone, with a tie, the inside shirt a white t-shirt, with pants that matched my pants.
"No, that's my fault I know you have an on sight punch if you get scared."
He reaches into his suit pocket on his chest.
Pulling out a handkerchief and wiping his nose.
"Ah, you punch like a horse."
He wipes the blood, the streak from one end of the handkerchief to the other end, he folds it and wipes his nose once more to see if he's still bleeding then he puts it into his pants pocket.
Tali then runs beside him and grabs his arm.
Flock is about the same height as Tali.
"Guys this is Flock, I've told you guys about him before, but I don't think you've ever seen him."
She grips his arm with such strength and love that it shows her love.
He smiles when he sees us looking at him.
"Anyway, no more about me, I see that you need some coin?"
Tali looks at him and nods her head.
"I wanted to treat my poor old siblings with some candies but we don't have the coin, if only there was a way to convince you to get them some…?"
She made some puppy eyes to him and he opens up the inside of his suit to pull out a small bag, he rattled a bit.
"I have the coin here, don't think I won't hold you to this."
She smiles and Marcilene looks at him with joy in her eyes.
"Thank you Flock!"
She yelled out for him to hear over the music.
He waves it off and walks closer toward the stall.
"Two candy balls."
He puts two silver coins and one silver coin.
'Guess that's the currency here?'
The man behind the stall reaches out his hand and gives Flock the candy apple lookalikes, then Flock turns and leans down to give both Marcilene and I the Sugar balls.
Marcilene opens her mouth to bite into the Sugar ball and with a loud: Crunch.
She takes a huge bite, showing the inside of the sugar, to not be a caramel apple type of candy, because it has chocolate spilling out of it, slowly, like it's half melted and half hard.
In turn I bite mine as well and taste the immense sweetness of the sugar ball.
"This is so good!"
Marcilene yells out loud while I continue to eat it like I've been starving.
Tali and Flock, both now hand in hand, Tali wrapping herself around Flock.
She smiles at us.
"I know, we have a lot back at Virvanum. It's amazing!"
She does a gesture with her hand, that practically says:
"It wipes the floor with other candies."
Marcilene grabs my hand and runs off in another direction, as she guides me to a place, her hajib holding her hair and her ears in the perfect cover.
"Lets go look at other things."
A take another bite and soon finish my sugar ball, while we window shop.
We look at each stall with amazement and awe, I didn't think we see things this amazing.
A giant Lizard, not like a bearded dragon or a big lizard. An actual giant lizard.
About the size of both Marcilene and I if we were to link on one another and walk on our hands and knees.
"Come see a Soul Lizard! One of the great creatures imbued with Soul Energy, from the Soul Tree!"
The man advertising yells out into the street to attract people for his stall.
Marcilene, looks at me in awe, the same for me, we stand there wide mouthed till we decide to run to another stall.
She grabs me and we both run through a crowd to find a stall that has eye patches, but not only eye patches but many different clothes as well.
The sun drops low and the moon grows higher, making the streets end up being lit by moonlight, streetlights and lanterns by the vendors.
People all laugh as we get there and there is people waiting to try on the clothes, many people behind the stall giving people the chance to try on clothes, while also selling them.
"Lazi, look there's eye patches here for you!"
I nod my head.
"Yeah, let's go get them!"
I turn back and see both Flock and Tali still behind us, smiling at us as if we're their kids.
"Can we go over there Tali!"
I ask genuinely enthusiastic about the whole place.
'This… this is fun!'
"No need to wait in the line."
I turn back and see that the line is long and people are still standing there, waiting for it to shrink.
Flock waves his hand, for both Marcilene and I to follow him and without waiting for me to take a step she follows him still with an insane grip on my hand.
"Come on Lazi!"
Flock guides us around toward the back of the stall, Tali and him both laughing about something as we get around the corner.
Passing some people along the way to get there, Flock and us get to the back of the stall and he grabs one of the eye patches from the stall.
He hands it to me.
"Is this one good for you?"
I look at him dumbfounded, and scared.
"You can't do that! It's stealing!"
Marcilene nods agreeing with my words.
Flock and Tali look at each other, then they laugh. They laugh so hard that they end up crying tears of joy.
Me and Marcilene look at each other confused.
Both Tali and Flock unlink just to laugh even harder.
As they laugh they catch the attention of one of the people helping the vendor.
She a young girl about fifteen years old with a uniform, that is matching that of a maids. The only difference is that the white patch in the middle has a an insignia of a needle and yarn. The exact same as the one in our clothes.
The young girl has black eyes, a headband that is like a maids headband and her short hair, dyed black from the looks of her roots being white haired.
"Boss, I though you said you'd be with your girlfriend for the night?! We told you we go this!"
One of the people that are helping the customers turn around and they end up being a beast man, a tiger beast woman, as she turns I see whiskers and a full patterned face down till the uniform blocks herself.
Her fur fits nicely into the maid outfit with what looks like little problems at all.
The other is a human, that is black haired, black eyed, white skinned. With a smile that radiates: 'Come buy from us!'
"Yeah!"
They both say before they head back to dealing with the lines of people.
I look around to find who their boss is.
"No, this is my brother-in-law and he wants to get an eye patch."
I turn my head in the direction of the voice and see that their boss is… Flock?
He smiles as his laughter dies out.
Flock moves closer to me and Marcilene, while pulsing Tali closer to himself.
"This is both of my in-laws, as well as my girlfriend."
He holds Tali even tighter.
"This is Marcilene…"
He puts his hand on her head.
"…This is..?"
He looks over to Tali:
"He's Lazuli."
Tali has to finish his sentence for him.
"Lazuli…"
Flock repeats.
"And my lovely girlfriend…"
He kisses her cheek.
"Tali."
He releases us, goes around and spreads his arms wide.
"Everyone this is my shop."
He points to the younger looking girl.
"This is Gia. The tiger is Tig. The other one up front is India. And lastly…"
He looks around.
"Where's Tran? They're supposed to be helping with the fitting rooms?"
I look around for the person but instead find what seems to be an orb on the ground.
A tad bit away from the stall.
"They went into a chase because someone thought they could just rob us."
"Oh… so we're they?"
"Should be coming soon."
As they continue their conversation.
I walk over to try and grab the orb off the ground.
As I get closer it looks like the space in front of me is warped.
I lean down and my hand touches the orb, a small flicker in front of me flashes what look like many people all wearing different things, that have been advertised at the stall. I raise my hand a bit more, before I can fully pick it up.
Someone grabs my hand and squeezes it to make me drop it.
"Don't touch that little one."
A man? woman? is it even a person?
An extremely buff person stands in front of me grabbing my wrist in their tight grip as I pull away from the orb. Their voice is deep and their hair is long enough to reach down to their shoulders, bangs flared out to the sides.
Their face looks extremely manly. With the same uniform as all the other employees of Flocks stall.
"Hey drop his hand now!"
Tali walks up to me and practically yells for the person to let go of me.
They let go and stand up, towering over Tali, but she stands defiantly at the taller one.
"Tran! That's my girlfriend, treat her with respect!"
Tran looks over toward the stall and sees Flock.
"Flock!!!"
Their voice rises and it now sounds high pitched as hell and as if they just saw their favorite celebrity they scream, Flocks name.
Blitzing past all of us to get to Flock they grab him into a tight grip and hug tightly.
"Okay… Tran…"
His voice strained for the strength of Tran.
"Time to let… me go.."
With one more good squeeze the hulking person drops Flock.
I walk closer to Tali, tugging at her dress.
She leans down to me.
"Is that even a girl…?"
"I don't know, don't ask, even though I didnt look like it, I was ready to run to Flock."
She chuckles, so do I, then we began into a laugh, Marcilene looked at us.
"What? What happened..?"
She then grabbed me by my collar and shook me, with desperate need to be in on the joke.
"I wanna know…!"
"No, it's nothing."
"If it's nothing you should just tell me!"
Me and her go back and forth before, Tran and Flock stand before us.
"I'm sorry little one. I didn't mean to scare you, but you were about to touch a space distorter."
I tilt my head.
"You were going to do what now Lazuli?!"
I couldn't tilt my head anymore.
"What's a space distorter?"
Talk looks around, confused.
"Did dad not tell you what it is?"
Both me and Marcilene shake our heads.
"Not even you Marci?"
She shakes her head again.
"Well a space distorter changes the way something can be looked at."
She guides both of us with her finger to point to an empty area as we turn.
"And that's the space distorter?"
I ask, seeing nothing.
"No, that is."
She lowers her finger to the orb on the ground.
"We don't touch that or else, people will get mad at us… okay?"
'Why is she talking to us like that?'
Both me and Marcilene nod.
"Okay, let's get back to Flock and friends now."
We nod and head closer to Flock as we were closer to the orb.
A person appeared out of where we were just at, seemingly from no where.
"WOW!"
I say and Tali nods.
"I know."
Flock still holds an eye patch in his hand.
"So is this nice, or do you want another one?"
He holds it out for me to grab.
I grab the patch and look it up and down, flipping it to see that it's just a regular black eye patch. With a small insignia on the inside of the patch.
"It's just a plain eye patch?"
Flock nods:
"Yeah, we don't have many people that want to hide their eyes, sorry Lazuli."
I look back down to it, and smile, not wanting to hurt his feelings.
"It's okay, it's still pretty cool!"
Flock looks down at me and sees my smile, he smiles back.
"We're going to make a better one for you okay? Just give us some time."
I nod.
"Thank you Flock."
Marcilene grabs my hand and runs off once more.
She runs off forcing me to follow right beside her, as I try and hold myself up to not fall down.
"Slow down Marcilene."
My eye follows around her, as we continue down, we run off and end up in an alley, we take a left, right, left.
I turn back and can't see Flock, nor can I see Tali.
She takes many more turns, without giving me a chance to speak.
"Marci! We're leaving Tali and Flock behind."
I turn back and see that Marci isn't listening, so in a last ditch effort I stomp my feet into the ground and pull Marcilene back, forcing her into a fall.
She looks up at me from her fallen position. She looks like I've just slapped her in the face, but I don't care.
I'm scared.
"Marcilene. We're lost…"