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Strelitzia and Chirithy inspect an unexpected visitor, 310 words

“Sure looks like somebody I know.”

“You think?” Strelitzia laid her hands on her knees and bent down to look closer at Chirithy, and therein the boy they’d found laying on the ground.

“Well, if you don’t know him, then perhaps... in a dream...” Chirithy placed a paw on their chin and made slightly squeaky noises of contemplation.

“A dream?” Strelitzia eyed the boy closely—nearly motionless, betraying the likely path he’d taken to get here, and yet the sporadic fluttering of his long eyelashes broke the illusion of death. “More your thing than mine, I guess. I wouldn’t remember.”

Chirithy shook their head. “In any case, I can tell he’s been around Dream Eaters before, so he’s probably from where we’re from!”

Strelitzia gasped. “Oh! Well, that’s good, right?”

“Mmm... you think so?”

Strelitzia suddenly remembered the rumors that had dropped the Book of Prophecy in her arms—in fact, some of the words that had been in the Book herself... the parts that she’d been able to read before her untimely demise, at least. Her eyelids were wet as the thought of her brother entered her mind.

Chirithy, ever responsive to Strelitzia’s emotions, hopped on her lap. “Well, at least we found him!”

“Where do you think we should put him?”

“Here’s fine, right?” Chirithy tilted their head.

“But this is...”

Chirithy took a look up and down the boy’s sleeping figure.

“No. It’s fine. I have a feeling he’s... connected to him somehow, you know?”

Strelitzia did the same, catching a hint of what Chirithy had seen. “Yeah.”

She lingered for a little longer as Chirithy made motions towards the door.

They looked back. “Any concerns?”

“No.” Strelitzia smiled. “He seems... friendly, don’t you think?”

“Yeah!”

“I hope he wakes up soon.”