[b][i][u][color=00a651]Nelos Oakleaf[/color][/u][/i][/b]

	As they were walking, Nelos noticed Seninia's body language change slightly. He loosened his grip on her hand, slightly, worried that he was doing something wrong. Still, she didn't let go, so neither did he. She informed him that the parchment was something called an "invitation" and that she was not a traveler, but rather, a Neko. [i][color=00a651]Boy, I sure am learning a lot.[/color][/i] He thought, smiling at her.

	After a few minutes, they arrived at the room they'd be staying in. Inside were things he had never seen. Weird things made of wood with pieces of rock that had been melted down, stripping them of their essence. The wood itself had been treated with some sort of unnatural substance, preventing it from decaying and even deterring most if not all wood burrowing insects. There were large soft things made of harvested cotton and covered in threads made from that same cotton, framed by more treated wood! This room horrified him, and he clung tightly to Seninia. Streak could plainly see his discomfort, but didn't seem to mind any of it at all. 

	Seninia mentioned that she had stayed in better places, and Nelos wasn't at all surprised. She placed her suitcase on one of the large soft things, calling it a bed. Apparently, it's what travelers and Nekos slept on. [color=00a651]"N-no. I mean, I use bedding,
 like anything else, and I've seen plenty of animals make places to sleep from the environment around them, but I always just slept inside-"[/color] He stopped himself. Was it wise to let someone he had never known in on his one and only secret? It could mean the end of him, and by extension, his forest. Still, if she was to be his mate, he'd have to learn to trust her. 

	[color=00a651]"I sleep inside the Mighty Oak, the first tree in my forest. It's... it's how I came to be."[/color] He said, a nervous yet nostalgic smile playing across his sleeps. [color=00a651]"It's really old, so it's got this huge empty place where it rotted a bit, but then some termites ate all the diseased wood, making it better. The termites ended up all being eaten by birds, and then a fox moved her family in. Eventually, the hollow became big enough that I could be grown there. Even after I came out, there was a lot of moss and soft brush, so I started sleeping there. Every time I got bigger, so did the Mighty Oak, so it was okay to make the hollow a little bigger too."[/color]

	Nelos turned to Seninia, noticing that as he had been talking, she had grown and was smelling some flowers. The presence of living plants in this terrifying place made him feel a little better. Selinia commented on their beauty, to which Nelos replied [color=00a651]"Yeah, they are beautiful, aren't they?"[/color] Just then, a bee landed on one of them, and Nelos smiled contentedly



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