(Valkyrie Cain and Dexter Vex love story)The Descendants

Alice's Realisation

"I'm serious! I spent the whole night with giant earphones, bug spray in one hand and a large boot in the other with the light on in case the moth came into my room when I was asleep! I fell asleep eventually and woke up with a snapped pair of headphones. The sacrifices we make for our ears." Alice sighed wistfully and she and Ellion laughed with each other for the twentieth time in the last five minutes.

"May your headphones rest in pieces. All of that trouble for one moth." Ellion chuckled, he found Alice's company quite enjoyable and her stories were hilarious and interesting. She looked straight at him narrowing her eyes and raising her eyebrows in a mock-serious face.

"Oh, moths are no joke! They are creepy, hairy insects that are completely underestimated. I hear that the government has begun to crossbreed them with other insects, like spiders and beetles. I predict soon, they'll breed them with innocent puppies and they will multiply like gremlins to conquer the world as we know it." She whispered, glancing to the side and pretending to check that the dead moths weren't transforming into mutations.

Ellion laughed, she liked his laugh. It made her feel happy that she could make someone like him laugh. He was so out of her league. She was the nerdy girl at school and he was the jock who was so much cooler because he was nice and funny and smart and had a secret job as a superhero. And yet here she was, playing barbie like he was Ken.

"Yeah, I don't think a cross bread between a moth and a dog is even possible. But I totally get what you mean about creepy, big, hairy creatures being underestimated. I mean, my uncle, for instance..." Ellion began his story and already Alice was laughing. A part of him swelled to impress her. "When I first met my uncle it was at a summer family barbeque and I was about six years old. I saw a huge, hairy bear in the pool, and I ran inside to Tanith and told her all about it. Everyone really underestimated this big bear, even though I knew it was going to kill the party."

"So I'm guessing this uncle saved the day, got rid of the bear and showed that even fat hairy old men can be helpful?" Alice nodded, predicting what had happened.

"Oh, no. Not at all. It wasn't actually a bear in the pool, it was my uncle. It was an easy mistake to make, he hadn't cut his fingernails in a few years and so they perfectly resembled the yellow claws of a bear. No, he got out of the pool and his swimming trunks fell down. Everyone who saw died that day. No one thought he could have been that dangerous." Ellion finished his story and Alice was gasping in laughter.

"I hate it when that happens; uncles having the indecency to impersonate bears is a travesty." She shook her head but then stopped and her eyes grew wide. "Oh no! I forgot Accalia locked in the shed at home!"