[center][h2][color=8cbed6][b]Lexie[/b][/color][/h2][/center]
She…existed. That was weird. Hadn’t she died not too long ago? The memories were rather hazy though, not nearly clear enough for her to regret anything she might have lost in her past life. If that is what it truly was, rather than a dream or delusion. She didn’t move around much until she could see, just a bit of crawling, sometimes bumping into someone or something else.

When Lexie was finally able to open her eyes, she saw a lot of green. And an enormous building, which upon closer inspection she could easily identify as a church. A human church, most likely. She – and her siblings, which there were a fair number of – were goblins. Whether she realized that based on her previous life’s information or if it was an instinctive knowledge, she wasn’t sure. However, in the end, it did not matter. More importantly, she could now walk, which she did, to explore the place a bit. Not the whole of the church, though, since being as small as they were made it take longer than she’d like, and tired her out besides. 

By the time she was getting hungry, an older, wrinkled goblin approached them, and had them gather around him. Lexie did so, wondering if this was their father – and if so, where the mother was. Not long after, an older brother returned from a hunt, carrying a pair of rabbits. They weren’t exactly how she thought they should be; the shape was right, and though they weren’t a small thing to a goblin, the size wasn’t exactly wrong either. However, they both had a bony sharp horn protruding from the top of their heads. Lexie eyed it curiously, somehow drawn to the sharp thing nearly as much as she was to the smell of food.

As soon as both rabbits were laid onto the ground, Lexie walked closer bravely. The rest of her siblings weren’t so prompt. Perhaps they were afraid of older brother? Regardless, she grabbed a rabbit by the neck, and dragged it just a bit away from the older goblins, and closer to the pile of younger ones. [color=8cbed6]“Food?”[/color] she asked them, waving at the rabbit pointedly. As an example, she plonked herself down right by the corpse’s head, and bit into its neck. She was able to suck some fresh blood out of it, and nibbled on the neck and shoulder until her hunger was sated. She wasn’t hogging the whole rabbit at all; at least another goblin should be able to eat simultaneously.

[color=8cbed6][i]We really are tiny, after all,[/i][/color] she concluded. She wasn’t as grumpy about that fact anymore; it was just how life was now. That she wasn’t the only one also helped, though she did note the older brother was larger, and her mind supplied [i]hobgoblin[/i] in regards to him. [color=8cbed6][i]I wanna grow like that too,[/i][/color] she determined, still holding the rabbit head between both hands. Although her hunger was sated, she had not departed yet. She’d overheard two sisters talking about weapons and hunting. Lexie also felt that having their food brought was a luxury, so the self-sufficiency was most likely another goblin instinct.

Given that, Lexie thought how she could safely remove the horn. Pulling at the base of it unfortunately accomplished nothing. The best bet was to smash the skull, but she’d have to be really careful not to damage her target. Crouching over the head, and wrapping her hands protectively around the horn, she kicked and ground her little knee at the base of the horn, knocking the rabbit’s head into the ground each time she did so.