The beast run through the grove, going through clear areas to avoid bushes that could slow it down. I was silence, just surfing through the bloomy forest that seem so strange looking due to the colors, my curiosity started to submerge from my depressing mood.

As the beast slow down, I ask, “Why is the forestry losing its green colors?”.

The blue Yink baffled out, “What!? It never lost its green color. You should be more concern with the critters running away, acting frighten and unnatural noises emitting from the sky.”.

A pack of three orange Siktar come hovering from the right of the beast, and like all the others, they were silent. As we pass through them, I put out, “Like how the wisps are not humming?”.

The blue Yink asks, “What do you mean stop humming?”.

I answer, “Like, they all don’t make the deep noise when they float around.”.

The blue Yink said, “What would…”.

I signed, then said, “What would what? You think I’m really insane? You don’t know…”.

The blue Yink spout, “Shut it!”.

The blue Yink took a large breath, then ask, “Okay. I shouldn’t be asking this but… what is your deal? Why do you think you are some person part of the Onen conclave?”.

I spout, “It’s the golden kingdom!”.

The blue Yink said, “Fine, just… tell me.”.

I sign again, I didn’t want to tell secrets to sub-one, but then again, maybe… I don’t know, I’m just doing whatever. I say, “Yesterday, I just graduated from school, then I had dinner with the king, then this thief stole something valuable from us, I chased them and end up in this strange underground facility, then I remember losing air and great pain was all over my beautiful body. Then I woke up like this in this crude jungle.”.

The blue Yink ponder, “Hmm?”.

Then they ask, “What was the valuable object?”.

I bark, “We are not going to tell you!”.

The blue Yink spoke, “Okay, okay. Geez. So, you are saying you were an Onen yesterday or basically, your whole life, then you just wake up like this today.”

I spout, “Yes!”.

The blue Yink ponder again, “Hmm.”.

It then said, “Well, I’m still not convinced but you do have some potent clues. Like your accent, that fact you claim that the wisps should be making a deep noise, and you seem to have some knowledge of Onen culture.”.

I ask, “What does the wisps not making their humming have to do with anything?”.

The blue Yink said, “Well, as what we know, Onens have a different hearing frequency than us, Yinks.”.

I insert, “Us!?”.

The blue Yink signed, then said, “Look, just listen. Onens can’t hear higher frequencies then a Yink, but in recent observations, we saw them reacting to these arcane bells for their lab work, like it some sort of signal, but they were silent. So, it might be that the wisps were never silent to begin with but that you are no longer able to hear them anymore, because the Onen might be able to hear lower frequency.”.

I look down to the ground and mutter quietly, “Why didn’t I thought of that?”.

Then looking at the blue Yink, I ask, “So your telling me that I’m just sense the world differently?”.

The blue Yink said, “Well, assuming that you were actually a Onen then yes, you would be because Onens have different eyes, noise, ears and everything else then Yinks and the rest of the bioscape, didn’t they teach you this?”.

Looking down again, I answer, “Yeah, it’s just… I thought of my old vision as… I don’t know. I thought of Onen sense as the complete senses and the others as partial.”.

The blue Yink asks, “What do you mean?”.

I answer, “Well, I have been hearing these high pitch noises I’ve never heard before and my smell, the odors are so potent and well detailed, and I can like… zoom at locations with my ears.”.

The blue Yink mock, “Do you enjoy it?”.

That embarrassed me, I bark, “Shut up. At least I didn’t have such a disgustedly large butt.”.

The blue Yink said, “What? That’s a good thing for sitting and wrist control.”.

I spout, “Whatever, there better be clothes there.”.

The blue Yink said, “Oh shut it. There is no need for clothes.”.

After a few seconds of silence, the blue Yink ask, “So what is your name?”.

I mutter, “Rit.”.

The blue Yink signed, then said, “Fine, Rit. I am Alta. I’ve just sighted the huts. We are going to give you a physical because who knows what you have.”.

I got really nervous, not knowing what they will be doing to me. I actually try to get out off these restrains, but they are very tight, like tiny ropes but had a cobweb texture.

Surrounding me was now an opening, down hilly part of the forest with small flowers in the grassy landscape, with wooden structures surrounding the large trees. Windows lit with a saturated yellow glow. There are large orbs of unsaturated green blue interior, covered by dark, root curving lines hovering the large wooden plants.

A couple of Yinks, naked, all cool colors of a shade of blues and purples, of different ages, ran around, spoke to each other, creating weird technology on little tables. Some of them had, animals around them but they seem to… be friend them.

Alta stop the beast, then got off the left side. A fale teal Yink with blue eyes that was a little short came up to us.

They ask Alta, “Alta, why do you have a Yinky all tied up like this? What did they do?”.

I was too nervous to speak, I am so alienated by this place, and yet, they see me as one of them.

Alta came up to the teal Yink and answer, “Oh teenage one, Dob, this one thinks they may have been an Onen.”.

Dob said, “Oh, I see, that’s not creepy. Where are you taking them?”.

Alta answers, “To bio checker Vinis, they will give them an examination.”.

Dob said, “Okay.”.

Dob came up to me and greeted, “And what is your name?”.

I mutter, “Rit.”.

Dob said, “Rit? Huh, nice to meet you.”.

I mutter, “Yeah, sure.”.

Dob said, “Oh stop blushing. What part of the grove are you from?”.

I yell, “I’m from the golden kingdom!”.

Every Yink was looking at me, Alta came up to me and whisper in my right ear, “Maybe you shouldn’t get attention, some aren’t as nice as me.”.

I kept quiet. Alta press something behind me and the threads released back to what was behind me. I drop to the ground and Alta got from my back a wooden olivoid object and hang it in its belt.

Alta point at the building ahead of the beast and said, “There, that is where we are going. Just behave.”.

I growl. Alta gave a dirty look.

Dob whisper while stepping back, “I’ll go now.”.

Then they run away.

Alta stood behind me and said, “Don’t try to run away, please?”.

I mutter, “Okay, but…”.

Alta said, “And don’t say anything stupid. Just me, I am trying to help you. Just… be reasonable.”.

I teared up, I didn’t like this creature telling me to do, but I am also so lonely, it was the only one I had a conservation with today.

I utter, “Okay-y-y-y.”.

Alta walk me up to the ramp to the wooden building. Inside, there was all but wooden home furniture, all with a curving aesthetics, they had an artistic intend that surprise me. There was little stone work, and the wood had a shine to them that I don’t see back at home.

At a room is a cotton bed with strange chemistry equipment and stones with circles and numbers carved in them.

A light purple, fale Yink, came up with a white belt and greeted, “Hello, Alta. Who’s with you? I’ve never seen that face before in these groves.”.

I kept silent, I didn’t know what to say.

Alta spoke, “Hey Vinis. This is… Rit. They are… new here. With that, think they need a physical.”.

Vinis said, “I see, but I need their consent in order to do so.”.

I ask quietly, “What is this physical?”.

Vinis said with a small pitch of surprise, “Whoa, that’s an accent. You sound like those rock dwellers, the Onen.”.

I yell out as I stomp my left foot, “There fine bricks!”.

Vinis back away, blurting, “Whoa.”.

Alta spoke, “Rit, please.”.

I sign, then ask, “Is this necessary?”.

Vinis said, “Well, if you want to be healthy. Look, I will scan your body with my Bionite stones, take a blood test and feel your body just to see if you are working all okay.”.

I ramble, “If it just makes Alta… fine, I’ll do it. I was going to…”.

Alta’s stare stops my speech, then said calmly, “I’ll do it.”.

Vinis said, “Okay, good. Just sit on the mattress and we will begin.”.

Alta said, “I’ll be close.”.

Vinis said, “Okay.”

I went to the bed and sit. Never in my life have I’ve been so uncomfortable. My pride was all but lost. All I have done was barking while smelling the forestry’s vegetations and crude animals, all this while I am naked, with my behind all revealed in the light.

As Vinis prepare itself, I request, “Just don’t touch my shame spot.”.

Vinis said, “Shame spot?”.

I mutter, “The butt.”.

Vinis said, “The butt? That is the best part. He he.”.

I wanted to yell at them for there disgusting point, but… I just didn’t want any more conflict and just get this over with.

Vinis said, “Okay, just lay down.”.

I lay down, still didn’t like doing things in the request of a foul creature, even if it’s for my benefit.

Vinis pressures my muscles, checking them to see if they are fine. At my stomach, they said, “Breath in.”.

I did that, then they say, “Breath out.”.

I did it as so.

Vinis said, “Don’t be so nervous. Everything is going to be okay. You seem pretty clean. Did you just take a bath?”.

I said, “No.”.

Vinis said, “Okay.”

They go to their table and grab a rock. They double table a carving and it glows orange. They come up and said, “Place your right arm on me.”.

I gave them my right arm, they put the stone on my wrist and there was a little vibration, it went on for a few seconds, then they remove the stone away and go to the table.