Fairtime

"My life was never normal. My mom sent me here, to Fairtime when I was nine from a realm next to ours, so I could learn about my fire." I tell him, looking at the ground, waiting for his reaction.

" Was it Earth? You've been to earth?" he asks, some wonder in his normally cold voice.

"Ya, I grew up there" I smile, my chest filling with pride as I look up at him. His blue eyes find mine and he gives me his crooked smile, that lighting up his perfect face.

"Do you miss it?" he asks, sudden sadness and anger behind his eyes. He knows what being separated from family is like.

"Every day" I reply, as I think of my moms beautiful face, my sisters and my stepdad, who I barely know and who don't know me. " Ya, more than you can know."

" What would you do to go back and be safe? Would you kill?" he asks no judgement in his eyes but I lean away. He would do it. To go back to his family he would do it.

"Anything." I reply finally, looking in his eyes. " I would do anything." I repeat, staring at him.

He smiles and nods sadly as if I passed his test. "Good, then I think I can help" He says as he gets up heading back into the house as if we never spoke.