TW: mentions of cutting, blood.
It's cold, and the walking seems endless for Kai. Is the town really nearby? It feels like forever. Then the tips of roofs appear behind the trees, houses. Kai has never seen buildings like this, but he realizes he has arrived. And with his final strength he makes a few footsteps forward just to fall down. Kai has fainted. He's just laying in the cold snow, almost outside the forest.
Few hours pass and Kai awakens to two individuals examining him.
''He's awake!'' one of them whispers to the other.
Kai jumps up quickly and begins breathing heavily. In front of him stand two people. The one on the left being a woman, short blond hair with a middle part, some of her hair covers her face. Generally no outstanding features on her, but she's just as pale as Kai. Her eyes are sea blue.
The second individual, on the right, is a man. ''Horned demon'' Kai guesses. His skin a bit darker than Kai's and the woman's. The man has purple hair, and a strand of his covers his face - it goes between his eyes and along the nose. The ''horned demon'' has two big blue horns. The man's eyes are in a bright sun yellow tone.
''Are you okay?'' the man asks, looking at Kai with interest.
''I need help'' Kai quickly replies.
''Help? Did something happen, and why were you just sleeping in the snow?'' the woman jumps into the interrogation.
''My people, my tribe, they're all gone. I escaped, I was told to come here and seek help-'' Kai begins ranting and retelling the events of today's morning.
''Hey, hey! Calm down. Speak slower'' the man interrupts Kai.
''How can I calm down? My entire family is dead!'' Kai begins getting angrier, and more desperate for help.
''Maybe let's get introduced first?'' the woman proposes an idea.
''I'm Onora, and the dude with the horns is Lael'' Onora smiles as she introduces herself and her friend.
''My name is Kai'' Kai replies.
''How can we help you?'' Onora asks.
''Uhh...well my entire tribe is already gone. I need to get to safety, I need to find out who did this.'' Kai began panicking again. His entire body shaking once again. He went through a traumatic expierience, what would you expect? Maybe Kai's in denial, or he thinks this somehow can be undone. But it can't be undone, nor is it a lie. It's all very real.
''How can you trust him? He's probably lying.'' Lael doesn't seem to trust Kai at all, and neither is he hurried to rescue him.
''What are you on about?'' Onora begins yelling, and points at Kai.
''He's shaking, look at him. Whatever happened must be true. And who the fuck would lie about any of this?'' Onora yelled at Lael, and grabbed Kai by his arm.
''Let's go, I live nearby here''.
Lael sighs and follows Onora, as he usually can't argue with her at all.
Onora and Lael are college friends, they met 2 years ago, and ever since they've been best friends. Lael is 21 and Onora is 22. Both got into a good college quite fast, their families are rich.
Indeed Onora lives nearby, just a 5 minute walk from wherever they were at earlier. Everyone walks into the living room.
''Okay, Kai, I'm gonna bring you some warm tea. Just sit here and feel comfortable'' Onora points Kai to the sofa.
Onora then walks into the kitchen and Lael follows.
''And how exactly do you plan helping him?'' Lael whispers to Onora.
''I will figure it out, don't worry'' Onora says as she's looking through cabinets for some tea and sugar.
''Don't worry? I know you're usually so laid-back about everything but, Onora, we have this person in the living room, who says he's entire tribe has been murdered. How the hell do we figure that out?'' Lael stops Onora from searching the entire kitchen just to get her attention to the issue at hand.
''I said I'll figure it out'' Onora looks at Lael in such a dreadful way that he realizes she shouldn't be bugged about it anymore.
Kai left alone in the living room, still shakes in terror. He feels cold, and his eyes lose focus. Kai doesn't even notice Onora entering the room. She hands him the cup of tea and the warmth of it calms Kai down just a tiny bit, but enough for him to regain his focus.
Now seated, Kai sitting on the sofa and Onora on the chair that's right in front of him. Lael stands next to the small coffee table that's between the sofa and the chair.
''Are you ready to talk?'' Lael asks in a pushy, aggressive tone.
''Hey be more empathetic, he's still shaken by whatever has happened'' Onora responded, and the remark to be more empathetic was enough to make Lael be more friendly.
It takes a while but Kai finally calms down a bit, he puts down the cup on the coffee table.
''So what are you?'' Onora notices the change in Kai's expression and takes it as advantage to begin the interrogation.
''What?'' Kai doesn't get the question.
''Like, I'm a witch and Lael's a incubus. What species are you? It's the norm here to ask that'' Onora explains and looks at Kai with curious eyes.
''Uh, I'm a human'' still confused Kai answers.
Onora's and Lael's eyes meet in confusion.
''Humans have been extinct for centuries. You can't be human'' Lael finally speaks up again.
Confusion covers the room, Kai sighs and gets ready for the big explanation.
''Well of course we would be deemed as extinct. We hide from other species.''
''Why do you hide?'' Lael asks.
''Because our blood contains healing abilities, we used to donate blood but other species demanded more and would take so much blood that it kills a human.'' Kai continues.
Before the others could even begin asking again, Kai glances into the kitchen, notices a knife and goes there to get it. He comes back with his wrist cut a bit, but blood flows out. It's a normal red blood, with streaks of bright blue.
''I'm human, my blood is special. Does this prove it?'' Kai proudly looks at Onora and Lael.
Lael quickly runs after bandages and gives them to Kai, and he puts them around the cut wrist.
''Okay, yeah we believe you'' Lael said as he panted.
The confusion in the room slowly faded away, it felt a bit frendlier as they all began trusting each other even by just a tiny bit.
''So what do we do? Do we get the police?'' Lael turns to Onora.
''Police? Pffft. Someone's gonna be looking for Kai, nobody will believe us and the police don't do anything useful around here'' She giggled and explained.
''Okay so what do we do then?'' Lael continues asking.
''I don't know but I think we should keep Kai safe for now. He can live with me for some time. I have an extra room.''
They stopped the conversation and headed to look for more ''normal'' clothes for Kai. Onora ended up giving him her over sized hoodies and pants that she doesn't use anymore. Kai still confused as this whole new world that has opened to him, he follows Onora and Lael around the apartment as they explain things that would seem the most normal to them.
''Heh, it all looks familiar but weird'' Kai explains how he views all the strange items and furniture.
''You will get used to it. We are your friends now, and if you need anything just ask.'' Onora smiles.
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