Remove the Curtains

Child's View

"Yup! You can probably tell which one." She hopped up on the bed making her body bounce a little. "Well used to be my room anyway."

"Where's the other human?" Alena abruptly said out loud, not even processing what was coming from her mouth. Rachel gave her a complete dumbfounded look of did you just blurt that out? " Sorry. If I may ask anyway. There was another in the picture.. If you don't mind me asking" she asked as she continued to ponder the reason of the other child's absence, yet striving to not offend her in any way.

" Oh, Tom?" Rachel asked in curiosity changing her mood abruptly. "What? Does Dollian not tell you anything?" She laughed.

" Not exactly, then again I have been trying to the best of my ability to avoid him as much as possible..." she admitted.

"Oh well, I don't mind. It's honestly not even that interesting. Tom is only 9 years old. The Dollian said it was best to not bring Tom here till he's older. When Dollian does see Tom, it's in the human city...Honestly, he doesn't even want me here because he said it was too dangerous."Rachel looked down at the floor completely disappointed either at herself for blurting our so much or at the situation but completely recovered without a second thought, jumping off the bed to begin walking around the room.

" Oh...how did you meet him ?" She questioned " Dollian.. Not Tom"

She laughed a little. " I kind of figured...well let me think." She paced back and forth a bit. " It's been so long honestly...oh! We were lost in the Fay community. Left behind by our mom because she..." she started to get a bit upset but set it aside. " Dollian found us offered a place to stay the night since at the time Tom was five. We just kinda never left until two years ago...we only left because he found someone to care for us."

She was quite astonished, to say the least, that the Fay; the same one that looted the café, could be genuine...especially around children. Maybe he wasn't all too unpleasant... No! She refused to change her impression of the Fay over one good deed... Not after how he treated her to be reasonable. She never really considered herself a prejudice figure but in this situation she'd couldn't argue with her feelings.

" Are you doing ok though?" she bluntly asked while walking over to a desk starting to search for something in a drawer.

" Not entirely... Not so far anyway. I feel trapped" she confessed. "I don't know how I'm planning on coping with this new environment. But I can't leave, so whether I like it or not. I have no choice" she informed her. If she had to be truthful, she couldn't decide what was worse, working a full shift with Darrell agitating her or being here.

"It may help or not, but when I first got here I was the same... I had a younger brother to protect, and I was only 8... Then he wouldn't let us go outside. I really didn't understand why at first, it sucked because there were nights when he left all night to the next day... Size didn't help either."

" How did you cope with it all? How did you get used to all this ?" She implored. She needed to know this, whatever the child's methods where they could come in handy for her.

Rachel found what she wanted and sat on the ground with crossed legs. She started to play with a ball in her hand. She was tossing it up in the air and catching it. " Honestly...you just get used to it. Sounds like I'm hyping him up, but he's not that bad...he just doesn't think things through very much like a child himself that needs to be yelled at. Try it. He won't do anything."She laughed. The child then tossed the ball in the air and caught it, immediately tossing it over to Alena. " When we were scared, he would be human to help us get used to everything."

Alena caught the ball in her grasp. "So what you're implying is I gain his respect by arguing?" she inquired.

"No, I'm saying stop acting like a child and hiding. Speak your mind. Be yourself. He will respect you more if do instead of whining like a child." she held her hand out to catch the ball for when Alena threw it.

Alena wanted to argue back but then it struck her, this small child had a greater knowledge of this situation than her... "Alright" she replied. She threw the ball back to Rachel. She rose up from the bed she had been sitting on, flashing a smile to her as a sign of appreciation "thank you, Rachel" she strolled out of the miniature bedroom, heading towards the kitchen to locate Dollian.

" Ummm ok." She was a bit confused and ran after Alena.

Her eyes landed on Dollian, but then again he wasn't exactly hard to miss. She wasn't quite sure on how to phrase what she was going to say, so she just went with the best statement that she could come up with "I'm sorry" she spoke loudly for him catch what she was saying " I misunderstood your preferences towards children. Seeing as I'm not exactly fond of you I mistook you for an even bigger dick than you are," she with confidence. She crossed her arms, peering up at him. " Your friend here," she gestured towards Rachel " cleared things up for me" her peering quickly turned to glaring, " but just for the fact you are nice to her is not gonna make me change my views towards you. Got it ?" she said sternly. " Now if you'd excuse me, I'm gonna get some rest. I'm tired as hell and it's been a long day" she sauntered over to the walls, disappearing from sight.

" Ummmm." he was beyond confused. All he was doing was watching TV in the living room when she stormed in with all these statements. He had no idea what just happened.

The child rolled her eyes walking over to Dollian. " Will you help me? Pay attention, please."Dollian reaches down and picked her up, placing her on his chair. " Basically, she said sorry. We talked, and she doesn't think you're a dick anymore."

" Watch it!" The giant scolded her like a parent does when their child says a curse word. Rachel just rolled her eyes, completely ignoring his remark for the time.

" She also basically said to be nicer, or she won't respect you...what have you been doing!"

" Nothing!"

" Then she ended her conversation by basically saying she was going to bed."

" Wait... Where at?"

" I don't know." She shrugged her shoulders. She then curled up on the armchair like a cat. " What are you doing?" he poked the child getting no response. He attempted again but still no response, so he sighed and left her alone.

Hidden within the hole, the human just slumped against the wall attempting to drift off to sleep. It wasn't exactly the most comfortable place to sleep, but she had slept in worse... Much worse. She shuddered at the memories of her grim past then shut her eyes clearing her mind that was crammed up with questions and thoughts as she lay down, slightly curling up and falling to sleep.

Dollian didn't want to disturb Rachel, so he ended up falling asleep in the chair.