May is a biracial black girl with slightly light brown skin, brown eyes, and reddish hair in a twist out. May's father Losh is the equivalent of Mestizo in the center of the earth, has blue eyes, and short dark brown wavy hair. Yash is black, is slightly taller than Losh but thinner, he has dark violet eyes, and his hair is done in short box twists. May and her fathers go to investigate the source of the horrifying screeching sound.
Losh is the first to climb up the ladder like stairs to the outside door. He sees the creatures causing the disturbance and yells "get back!"
Next to go outside is Yash, and as he exits the house in front of May she hears him yell "Ow! No! Stay away!"
May continues up the ladder, seemingly unafraid of whatever is happening to her fathers. She sticks her head outside and a small therapod dinosaur covered in cornflower blue feathers roars in her face. The Xraimyaig people know these creatures as Kyeengtloxh, but when their fossils will be found on the surface world in 1903, they will be known as ornitholestes.
May looks at the pack of ornitholestes that are seemingly attacking her and her fathers and simply says "Calm down, we're going to feed you right now."
May then looks at Yash and says "Why did you scream dad?"
"Mauvelous Cheeks keeps swatting at me with the claws on his hands." Answered Yash, as he looks at a juvenile Ornitholestes with a mauvelous colored feather on each cheek.
Losh goes back into the house and comes out with a bag full of food for the ornitholestes, which he pours into a trough for them.
"They're not finding enough prey on our property during the dry season." Says May. "They're just going to keep waking us up early for months now."
Losh groans and says "I was so upset about getting woken up like this, I was too grumpy to even give your dad a good morning kiss."
Yash walks up to Losh and gently kisses him on the lips. Yash sighs and says "Is that better now babe?"
Losh smiles and says "Maybe one more." Yash and Losh kiss again.
May screams as Mauvelous Cheeks scratches at her legs "Mauvelous Cheeks definitely has to be the one we eat next.”
Yash looks at May and says "Does this make you want to think more about where you want to go to college now?"
May responds by saying "There aren't really any colleges in the area that I'm interested in, and I'm just going to run the farm one day anyway, we have it really good here."
May’s friend Vny (short for Nooipvnydlee) climbs over the stone wall onto May’s farm and calls out "Hey May! What's up?!" Vny is Afro-Asian with dark skin, dark green eyes, and has his hair done in medium length box braids tied up in a ponytail.
Mauvelous Cheeks goes to investigate Vny so Vny shoos him away. He looks at May and her fathers and says "You really should consider naming him something other than 'Marvelous Cheeks'."
Losh corrects Vny by saying "His name is Mauvelous Cheeks because of the mauvelous colored feathers on each of his cheeks."
"You're a Kyeengtloxh farmer too", May says "You know that they have a variety of different colors for the feathers on their cheeks."
"But I'm not a Kyeengtloxh farmer by nature." Vny replies "Yelthtmonooip people are supposed to be nomads in the highlands, hunting wothnleps wherever they migrate while braving everything else that hunts them, and just being really badass. My family's lands became too dangerous with the risk of the Zloitgiuur being all too easily able to catch us and trade us to the Mroolozwanph Empire."
Losh seems sullen after hearing about the misfortune of Vny and his people.
Vny looks at Losh and says "Hey, Losh, Yash, I know that you both used to be Wluwoi Knights, but I know your sole purpose wasn't always oppressing the Yelthtmonooip within the Xraimyaig Empire. And there are others who also aren't bad, May's birth parents used to be Wluwoi Knights too."
"I think that being Wluwoi Knights made my parents way too overconfident, otherwise they wouldn't have gone after that vlepdkloini that had become a man-eater, even if they wanted to protect me, they should have stayed alive to do that, we could have just holed up in the farm house, that's why they're built underground."
"Your parents weren't dumb May" Yash assures his daughter "they had to take things into their own hands because the Wluwoi knights in this area tended to just let things happen to people after Lord Xent started helping out Yelthtmonooip refugees."
Losh adds "it's also because the current head of the Wluwoi Knights is such a piece of work that your parents left that environment, they wanted you to have a happy life May."
May turns to her fathers and says "If you're so worried about me not being able to be happy here, and it's so easy for ex Wluwoi Knights to find good opportunities why didn’t we go somewhere else years ago?"
Losh replies "We always thought you wanted to grow up where you had lived with your parents, but it will be hard for you to find a nice guy here, we know you don't want to be alone."
"I know, I'm sorry, I'm just not sure what I want to do."
Vny adds to the conversation by saying "You know, it's actually kind of sweet how Lord Xent has been trying to find me a match ever since I came out as gay, but there's been no luck. I might just try to go back to Yelthtmonooipland now that I'm old enough to fend for myself, and find a queer Yelthtmonooip man, our men are so hot."
Everyone lightens up at Vny’s attempt to get them to laugh.
"So, anyway, Princess Yothiblircs is coming to the province so her fourth body double can be chosen, is everyone looking forward to the celebration?" May asks.
Vny answers "I think Princess Yothiblircs is really great, it's cool to have a trans-fem princess, and she would be the ideal heir to the throne and help fix everything, but the emperor would never see it that way and appoint her as his successor, so I can't just go and celebrate a system that mistreats my people, sorry to let you down May."
"Oh, don't worry Vny, I'll be alright." May answers, feeling embarrassed.
Then a girl with fair skin, long brown hair and violet eyes climbs over the wall. May runs up to the girl and says "Hey Xnewtyan, what's going on?"
"I just saw the royal Cuovquaihn pass by Lord Xent's property. May, are you ready for us to present ourselves as potential body doubles for the princess, since we have to since we live in this province, even though neither of us look like her, and I'm a Yelthtmonooip?" Xnewtyan asks sarcastically.
May answers "Yes I am Xnewtyan, I'm just glad that there's not a chance that either of us will be chosen."
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