[@LemonZest1337][@Old Amsterdam][@knifeman][@Alias]

She felt the heat of her cheeks when Katashi corrected her on her mistake. He was honestly like a little angel, a snow white prince, with pale skin. His eyes were so blue they were almost like a frozen over lake. It inspired a creative side of her that hadn’t been sparked in a while. He was like a little doll or angel. Then she heard Alice talking and the boy asking where to change.

She frantically flailed her arms around. Her heart racing out of sheer nervous embarrassment. 

“You don’t have to put on the dress,” she said, “I’ll find...find..find you something more normal. Wait do we have any boy clothes around….aaaa…”

She began to frantically look around the room. Staring at each of the individuals in the room she had made a terrible mistake in error right now. She was trying to correct it.

Kristian watched her reaction. Why did she smell so sweet? Humans don’t normally smell like that. And why was she panicking? He was in no mood really to be playing these games. 

“It’s….what you have on hand,” he mumbled just as embarrassed.

Mika turned to him.

“Only if you want to,” Mika said grabbing his two hands and staring at him with intent, her eyes were twinkling with the look of a sad puppy dog.

He didn’t want to. But he looked at the floor. This was some test from the other Ghouls, wasn’t it? Why was the leader so nonchalant about this? It was his body. His choice to do what he wanted with it. Not anyone else’s. It was. He took it back. 

“Just….show me where to go,” he said.

“I’ll take you to the bathroom,” Mika told him. She guided him gently towards the hallway and behind the stairs. While he followed dragging his feet doing so. Pointing to a door, “There you go if you need help, I’ll zip you up in the back. Okay.” She smiled.

Kristian just nodded his head and walked into the bathroom. There he was left with a choice. To lose even more dignity, after already losing the dignity he had already lost this morning or to escape. Live on his own like he had been doing.

But what if he was found? What if they tried to take him? Did he stay here? Could these ghouls protect him? They didn’t seem like they could. He didn’t know if he should trust them or not. Staring in the mirror as he began to derobe. 

Was he really going to go through with this? Slipping into the dress, it seemed he was. Placing it on, the individual in the mirror staring at him didn’t resemble anything he really recognized. The dress made him feel like a doll or a toy. Not a person. 

He was a person. Wasn’t he? 

Walking out of the bathroom he looked at the girl. Who was humming a song in the hallway. She looked at him and her eyes lit up in a way he couldn’t even express.

She looked at Kristian, he was dazzling. More beautiful in the dress she could ever imagine. She squealed and had him turn around. She zipped up the dress and had him turn forward again.

“You’re like a little prince princess,” Mika called out, “I am Sasaki Mika. It’s nice to meet you Kristian.”

“I feel awkward,” Kristian told her, trying to hold down the skirt of the dress. He didn’t really like this one bit. But she seemed to be enjoying it. Her embarrassment from before all, but seemed to have faded away. 

It didn’t matter to her as she dragged him along the hallway to present him to the group, untying his hair tie and letting his white hair fall to his shoulder. Kristian felt even more embarrassed now. This was not something he expected he would have had done today.

Mika just wanted him to have fun with it. He seemed sad or like there was a lot of trauma he was dealing with. If everyone else was having fun with it, maybe he too would have fun with it. 

[color=purple][center][h2]Natsuya[/h2][/center][/color]

He had been watching from the shadows and only decided to make his presence known now. He unfolded his fan and fanned himself for a second. While the charge he was asked to take care of stared at him as he appeared before her very eyes, their very eyes in the Birdcage.

“Natsu-san,” Sasaki-san said, “How did you get in here everything was locked up?”

He stared off a little and covered part of his face with his fan, “Ancient secrets I could not tell you about Sasaki-san. Or else a great curse will be placed upon you.”

“EEEHHHH!” 

Natsuya glanced at the rest in the Birdcage. Just the usual suspect. There was Katashi the man had an abhorrent amount of red suits that made him look like a gangster. There was a new girl, her name also started with a K funny enough, Travis looking like a wounded animal, and a new fellow girl in a sailor’s dress. She looked mighty uncomfortable in her outfit though.

Then there was Alice. She was like a key that unlocked the secrets of this modern world. Things he may have never known or understood without her. She made him like this modern world, without her he probably would see everyone in this city as a blight.