Keepa jumped to attention as Xurga spoke. It was a pretty good idea, he could already see a few people who they had drawn the attention of, not to mention the announcement which had come on a few minutes ago. Certainly, they were running out of time, and Xurga didn't seem all to comfortable being around the humans. [b]"<With certainty>"[/b] Keepa firmly replied, glancing to the scientist as he spoke in French and pausing for a moment before Skylar took his hand.
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[i]"<Yes, yes. This way, if you will>"[/i] I reply, pleasantly surprised by the bridge in the language gap. [b]"<Yes,[/b]I...ehrm...[b]you would not mind if I were to take someone with us...do...you?>"[/b] I inquire in response to Skylar, hesitantly and eager to distract myself from her as we followed the others by my reluctant lead at a hastened pace to match theirs, genuinely curious about her opinion before...Edgar? Caught up. I hoped she would forgive my forwardness, since she was just in being our only exception. [i]"<I am unsure how much you can understand, but I thank you for trying.>"[/i] beginning with a gesture to my comrades, namely Xurga, first before continuing, [i]"<That is Xurga. He is the equivalent of a hero and it was rude not to address him first>"[/i]. There was no way he could have known, but he wanted to learn about out culture...It was a good place to start. The words of Achashverosh and names peaking through the Frynch, but I hoped the others didn't notice. [i]"<The other one is Ashiek...he may slit your throat in your sleep if you make a mistake like that, again>"[/i] I say with laugh; as far as introductions went, it was about as good as he was probably going to get from me and I found it humorous, on a level, that he was so eager to join us. I prided myself on my truths and I suppose being a hybrid like our new friend, whom I knew little to nothing about, designated me as being most of the group to him. I was glad he spoke Frynch, since the crash-course on explaining the cultural gap would be embarrassing to word out into English.
As our new friend went on about something pertaining to 'Kill squads', I couldn't help but grow slightly skeptical. I expected Skylar to translate for me, but the fox didn't know or didn't care to speak Elvarian. He was an outsider; Humans couldn't be trusted by default, but a hybrid outsider had the potential to be much worse if we let our guard down.
Call me paranoid.
My mother was part of the tribe and I never knew my father. I was never told of him in depth and I could only assume the worst from him...I was very confused back in those days.