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Chapter Thirty-Two

The next day I saw Brok in the hallway. He looked at me without saying a word and left. Krimla had told me that he was going to attend to some of his political businesses as usual and that he wouldn't be back until dark. She told me that I could go wherever I pleased as long as it was in the castle and that I would be called upon for lunch and dinner. She said that if I needed anything at all to let her know and that she would assist me in any way. Then she disappeared telling me that she had to keep the house clean and that she didn't have the time to really be with me. I nodded and explored the castle on my own. I wondered if this castle ever had an ending. It seemed like the more I explored it, the more I found and the more I tried to reach out, I just could not. I decided to see some of the rooms. One of the rooms was filled with thousands of objects. Objects that I couldn't identify, but they all had different shapes and sizes. They seemed useless to me, but I wondered if the objects were from other worlds and what were their purposes.

At night, Brok came in to the dining room, but we spoke little and this soon became a custom of every day. Every day he would leave to do whatever it was that he was doing and I would have to stay here and wander off to different places in the castle, yet I could never actually go out of the castle and explore. It wasn't all boring though. As I went out into the gardens I would discover a new creature every day. Insects that were huge and of different colors, plants that were foreign to me and from time to time I would caress some of the boons. They finally accepted me after weeks of visual contact. I would sit nearby and look at them and they at me. Every time I tried to extend my hand to them, they would vanish immediately believing that I was some sort of strange new predator. But over time and after they noticed that I was gentle, one of the boons chose to give me a chance. His little fluffy body hoped over to me. I didn't dare to move. I just sat there frozen, waiting for the brown little fluffy cute thing to come to me.

First the boon would approach me, but when I tried to reach for it, it hoped away, so I devised another strategy. I decided to just sit there and pretend to ignore the little fellow. He twitched his little mustache. I so wanted to grab it and just pet it and give it some friendly love, but I maintained my strategy. Every day the boon would come just a little bit closer to me. Every time he looked at me though I pretended that I was either looking at the sky or caressing the grass. I was anxious to have him in my hands, but I knew that if I tried to force him, he would simply skip off somewhere, climb a tree and never approach me again and so I waited patiently for an entire month until one day the boon had finally hoped into my lap. I grabbed it and petted it. His heartbeat was very fast. I didn't want to give it a heart attack so I didn't over pet him. Little by little, the other boons followed and soon I was able to caress a bunch of boons.

I would lie down in the ground with them and start rolling my body until I was tired. I laughed under the purple sky and the boons hoped next to me. Some even made the cutest sounds ever until I finally just lay still under the yellow grass. I observed the planet with the rings on the sky and I laughed out loud. The boons rushed on top of me and petted me with their lips.

"Ha, ha, ha, that tickles," I laughed. They were so cute.

"Oh, so you want to tickle me, huh? Get over here," I played and I would tickle them on their throats and on top of their sides of their buttocks. I realized they were ticklish there.

"Amazing," I heard Brok say. I sat upright in a flash as the boons hoped away and headed deeper into the gardens. The rays of the sun shone across Brok's dark, blue skin and his eyes were so bright that they were mesmerizing below the pale, purple sky. I could barely take my eyes off them. Brok blocked the sun from his eyes placing his hand on his forehead.

"I'm glad to see that you are having fun in my absence. I see that you have acquired some new friends," Brok said to me as he approached. He extended his hand to me. I grasped it and got up from the ground.