2.17 The Dust Mote

Reggie and Perenna meet up at Monte Vista's sad excuse for a bowling alley. She tries to launch into small talk, but he all too soon asks again about those places she spoke of, where supernaturals coexist without killing each other.

Perenna frowns. "Okay." This is much harder to talk about than she thought it would be. For the longest time, all she's wanted was someone she could be honest with. "I grew up in a place called Firelight. Magic wards, powered by dozens of mages, kept our town safe and hidden and completely off the grid. But my parents were, how do I put this?"

She smiles fakely as her ball-throw knocks down every pin in one go. "They broke one of the more important laws, and got us thrown out. They didn't have the decency to leave me behind in Firelight."

Reggie wonders if Perenna's werewolf form has a tail.

 Oh. Feeling guilty about looking at another woman's behind, are we?

"I was young," Perenna continues. "I didn't dare question how my parents lived, how they acted towards humans. They hurt people wherever they went, and that made us a target. It didn't take long for supernatural control to find us."

"We were living in Twinbook. One day this little purple light flew in the window. I thought it was some kind of bug. So I ran after it. Then suddenly, it was a man."

"A man with gold skin and purple wings. He stared at me, with this bemused look on his face. Reflecting back on it now, I think me being there maybe startled him."

"Not so much that he didn't attack my parents on sight."

"They were dead in seconds. I tried to tell myself he'd made them fall asleep..."

"But then the grim reaper showed up to take them away."

"The winged creature told me my parents had been causing too much trouble."

"He asked me if I was going to cause trouble."

"I said 'no'."

He told me he believed me.

"Then he turned right back into a glowy dust mote and floated out the window. I had no idea how to get back home.... so now human civilization is my home. And it's all right... um, it's so-so. I remember Firelight's pizza was bad, so that's one thing places like Monte Vista have over it. Great pizza."

"My brother and sister also met a fairy," Reggie says, after pondering the coincidence with a healthy amount of suspicion. She could know everything already; she could be trying to manipulate him.

"Yeah?" She looks at him, expecting him to open up a little. She's been doing all the talking.

But all he says is: "Yeah."







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Etc.: Gold? He's closer to, like, a lemon color. But it's your story and I'll let you lie if you want to Perenna.

Perenna is an altered clone of one of Melissa's sims. The clone I used for her father is less altered.

Regulations would have had yellow fairy bring Perenna back to his superiors for intense re-education, but Larkspur doesn't like knowing children go through exactly what he and his own daughter went through, so he spites the system whenever he gets the chance. 

Larkspur (and Foxglove) first appeared in Archers Again.
 
 Here, have a picture of Izalee's slumber party with Rain to cheer up:

 She's carving a kitty-face on the pumpkin.