Unipsi, lovely entity

chapter 10: house

Unfortunately for Lis a bet is a bet and now she had to take in Idra for the week. She had no problems with the request itself. Her house is big enough to accommodate many guests, it was inside an Hakavor’s district so best safety available around. Lis problem was her family. She lived with her parents and little sister, well its the other way around, they live with her. She is fine with Idra’s presence but it’s unknown if her family is the same as her. The other problem was Idra herself.

She is not going to be a dickhead with my parents and my sister right? She is calmer when I’m with her will the same apply to my family? Hopefully yes, then I hope they won’t be the dickheads instead. I’m the one letting them live there. They are weakling that couldn’t keep up.

Lis lived inside one of the many small skyscraper that are the base of Leans cities. This tower usually about 100m tall are everywhere. Leans prefer cities with a lot of vegetation and to do so they live vertically in order to surround the buildings with parks and trees. Usually all buildings also have a private common garden, most of them also had a garden on the rooftop but it was connected only to the apartment below. Lis lived at the 19-20th floors of one of those skyscraper, the highest floors. The last two floors of the building where for her and her alone. However she had no use for all that space and nobody to look over it when she was away so she let her family in. Hers was a peculiar case. Usually non-voters like her parents are not allowed in such prestigious part of the city. She was in some love and hate relationship with them. She hated theirs idea, especially the one against wars and discriminations, but they where her parents anyway. On the other hand she had a perfect relationship with her little sister and was really proud of her, she is a doctor specialized in genetic diseases, probably the hardest and most prestigious specialization that a lean doctor could choose. Now they where in from of the elevator to Lis house. It was time to go up.

“Idra”

“yes Scilla?”

“don’t be an asshole with them”

“they are your family, I won’t do anything that will give you a reason to kick me out”

“promise me that you won’t hurt them”

“I swear on my honour that I won’t damage your family nor your house”

“thanks, then let’s go in”

So she live in a skyscraper. This is interesting. It’s my second time inside one.

If one could look inside Idra’s armour he would be able to see an exited creature. Before today Idra had never been inside a skyscraper. Esterians have no need for such structures. Their population is low and spread on way to many planets. To add more a lot of building where mostly underground due to extreme atmospherical conditions. It was rare for an esterian to even see a skyscraper.

The elevator arrived at the 19th floor. One massive door was the way to get in the house. Then Lis opened the door.

“I’m HOME!” she screamed.

Soon some heavy footsteps could be heard coming toward them. Then a lean popped out of a corridor running.

“Scilla! My puppy you are back!” then she jumped and hugged Lis. Her body was covering the small Idra behind. Scilla tensed up, she was not really pleased by the hug.

“mum, contain yourself, we have a guest”

“where?”

then Lis moved to show the esterian.

“hi”

The woman screamed and fell on her back. She was afraid.

“there is a monster Scilla! A monster behind you!” she screamed again and pointed at Idra.

Fuck, I guess it won’t be easy. It’s not my fault if every-fucking-body is scared of me. Maybe I should control her mind. If I release some stuff I should be able to correct her perception of me. But I suppose Scilla will find it out. If you scream for a monster and then calm down and accept its presence is a bit strange isn’t it?

“mum calm down, she is my guest. We work together”

The woman was in shock and probably in disbelieve. Idra wasn't saying anything. She knew that whatever she could say will create more problems to Scilla.

“how can you do this to me! To us! Bring a monster, a mass murderer in our house! I let you join the military because it was your desire, but this!”

“shut up! This is my house, my home, my rules!. If you don’t like it go get yours! Oh right you can’t cause you are a fucking incompetent!”

the woman start crying and ran away from the entrance to who knows where.

“Scilla, I’m sorry I broke our promise. But I didn’t mean to hurt her ‘mind’ I just said hi I..”

“it’s fine Idra. It is not your fault. This is my house and my choices, I rule over them. If she doesn’t like it she could get the fuck out”

“I’m still sorry, I still think it’s kinda my fault and she didn’t really say anything incorrect.”

“your species sold us weapons, you didn’t even use them. How can you be a murderer for such things?”

“you should have guessed by now that I have killed way more people than you, and I’m not even a soldier”

“I know. You told me some really fuck up shit about how you basically had torture an entire city of primitive creatures, however she was referring to the droxi war. You where 7 when that started and 14 when it finished. You had none of than blood on your hands”

“but I’m still a so called monster”

“a needed monster is really a monster?”

“do you think I’m needed?”

“yes”

She said that I’m needed!! I’m needed! She needs me! Let’s fucking gooo!!

Idra was surprised by Lis response. She didn’t expect that. Her plan was working, sort of.

“follow me, I will show you around so you don’t get lost”

“sure”

As she did with her ship, Lis showed her house to Idra. It was a massive apartment on two floors. The 19th was composed of several sleeping room all with a complete bathroom, there where a couple of living rooms, 3 kitchen connected to 3 different dining room. 2 libraries, a common giant bathroom and so on. After all it was a massive building and in contrast to the floors below where there are multiple apartment, she had all the 6200m2 area per floor just for her. Lis didn’t live on the 19th floor, she prefers the smaller 20th that is mostly a garden in the sky with some photovoltaic panels. Most of the 20th floor was dedicated to plants, a half indoor half outdoor pool and all the things that are needed to make a self sufficient floor.

“this will be your room, mine is at the end of the corridor, past le open library”

“thanks for the tour Scilla”

“go in, I have shit to fix”

Idra’s room was massive as well. But she didn’t understand. Up until now she was too focused on the “you are needed” part that she didn’t really looked around. To her it didn’t look like a room but as a small house inside another. Also everything was massive for her size. A lean king size bed was big enough to accommodate 5 Idras. She could fit inside a pillow case. Idra’s had always lived in really confined spaces. The years going around with Natrix didn’t help at all. All her live in the ship was contained in a 6m2 room but she like it, it was comfy.

“are you sure all of this is just for me? Can’t I sleep in your room? Like inside a pillow”

“shut up, you are not a kid and try to appreciate having some space once in a while. Can’t have all this air in space”

“you are right, but I don’t need all this space.”

“didn’t you say you lived in a big house?”

“big, but not unless. We didn’t waste space. Rooms where big enough for us, you could fit 5 people in this”

“well I don’t have smaller room on this floor, if you want you can get you a tent to sleep in”

“really?!”

“no, it was a joke”

“you meany”

“shut up and go in. told you I have things to do”

“can I come to your room later when you have finished you business?”

“I will think about it”

then Lis left Idra and walked back toward the 19th floor.

Defining parental role inside a lean’s family can be quite tricky. If the couple is compose of male and female the definition works as normal dad for the male and mum for the female. The same goes if one if male and the other a femari. However if there is a femari and a female or both femari an ambiguity problem occur. Lean’s language define only two sexes and femari are considered female, but calling both parents mum doesn’t work well. So there are two solutions, the ancient one define that the parent who gave birth was the mum and the other the dad. The new way define one of the parents, usually the one that had given birth to more kids, as mum and the other as pama. Lis case was one with both femari parents. Both her and her sister came from the same creature that they call mum. Needless to say that the relationship between Lis and her mother Kalina is not the best. Kalina is a “creative”, someone who isn’t really scientifically useful. Someone could say that her job as a writer is important, but not inside lean society. Everybody who isn’t a soldier or a scientist isn’t useful, in fact if you are not in one of those groups you can’t vote. Lis pama Liwa, was basically the same, a useless bartender. However Liwa ideas where more tolerable so their bond wasn’t so bad. Kalina was the real problem, a total progressive idiot that couldn’t understand the foundation of lean society and biology.

Scilla hatred toward her mum was more then understandable.

During the war, Kalina basically lost her job, nobody cared about bar stories written on paper. Liwa was having a hard time due to customers shortage and her little sister Wiola was still studying to become a doctor. Scilla was basically the only income of the family and she did her best. She provided them with everything, she risked her life every day fighting and then when she turned home she was backstabbed. Kalina wasn’t happy about the extermination war in the first place, she believed that reason could be used against enslaver, when leans started to use biological weapons she freaked out. Then at the end of the war, when her daughter was elected as ittra due to her massive help in acquiring the biological weapon that exterminate an entire species, she lost her shit for good.

To this day Scilla hates her mum but she doesn’t kick her out because at least her has to be a real lean, not a slacker. Kalina on the other hand was an incorrigible idiot that live in her own world of fantasies, so she keeps on trying to “convert” Lis, to bring her back.

Lis decided to go back, to explain to her mum how things are going to be. She didn’t care about what she thought of it. Sincerely speaking Idra’s collaboration was way above her mum feelings. The value that Idra is already providing is way more that all her mum had done until now. When she will meet with the liin their collaboration will become public and this will shake both internal and external politics. Now Lis was in front of her mother door.

“mum open the fucking door or I will use my authority to bust in”

Kalina, reluctantly opened the door.

“what you want, come back to hurt me again?”

“come back to tell you to shut the fuck up for the entire week. I don’t fucking care about you. Idra will stay here, so don’t try to pull some shit of yours. If you damage our contract you will be incriminated for you action ‘against all leans’ and you know what that means”

“how can you do this to your own mother? I brought you into this world I...”

Lis replay was full of anger and scorn.

“shut up! you stopped being my mother when you backstabbed me. When you tried to separate my sister from me. When you tried to take away all I had worker for. Be aware that nobody will come looking for you if you die in a so called accident”.

Then before Kalina could speak back, Lis pushed her with force in the room making her fall on the ground.

“maybe you should stay confined for a bit, to cool down”

then she closed the door and blocked it. It was her house so she had absolute control over it. Kalina started banging on the door screaming to be freed but Lis didn’t care. When her pama returns she will free her wife otherwise she will stay in there.

Meanwhile Idra was having a moment for herself. She had a not so strange tradition, breath on every planet that she set foot on. This tradition applied only if no environmental hazard where found. Icar 3° was a safe a to breath in planet so she was making her preparations to inhale the air without exposing her figure. She let air flow in the room and then she force closed the door. All windows closed and all the room scanned looking for possible unwanted observers. Then she removed her helmet. A black goo like substance retracted inside the hexagonal pattern of the suit letting the helmet detach. The mirror on the wardrobe was reflecting her figure. An almost perfectly symmetrical creature. Long light brown hair with a bit of red glares almost like thin copper threads were curled up on her head. Long hair in space are a mess and there is only a way to keep them, sticking them to your own head with some hair clips or similar object. From the side of her head some long pointy ears popped out of the mass of hair. Those elf like ears where all but human like. The could rotate to ear better like a dog or a cat can do. Her skin slightly tanned combine perfectly with the hair. Her eyes of a bright yellow at seems to reflect the light and beneath them a graceful nose with a bit of freckles. She then opened her mouth to inhale all she could. Hers canines stood out like wildfire in a forest. All her teeth were a bit more pointy but those looked more like fangs from a viper, in fact you could say that they were indeed venomous to some extend. It was a sublime sight. So beautiful to enchant you forever and block you from thinking of anyone else, but at the same time, her frightening smile, her sharp look of constant disgust was dreadful. If her beauty enchant you then her creepy smile will hunt you in your dreams until death.

She was by no mean human any-more.

--movement detected--

--Scilla Lis in coming upstairs--

--suggestion: put on armour to avoid discovering--