Disclaimer: I believe it may be fortunate that I do not own SO: 4 TLH, just look at the state of the forum.

I would like to dedicate this chapter to all the nice people here but unfortunately I do not think it is any good for dedication material.

It is less humorous than the previous chapters but I had a sudden urge to write this kind of slice-of-life fic so forgive me.

Oh and one more thing, I also apologise to not giving this to my proof-reader of a sister. I'll get her to quickly go over it... sometime. This may also be rewritten... sometime. Here's Bacchus and Sarah starring in: Optician.


Optician

"Now, Miss Sarah, can you please tell me what you make of the first line?" The robotic man questioned politely, pointing to the first row of letters with a pointing stick.

The Featherfolk squinted. "Um, to tell you the truth, I don't think I can read it Mr. Bacchus. It still looks blurry."

"Hey, what'cha doing meow?" Meracle asked cheerily as she entered the room.

"Good afternoon, Miss Meracle. You see, I have noticed that Miss Sarah has been narrowing her eyes quite frequently. So I am examining her vision to verify whether it is the prescription of her glasses that is the source of her problem."

"It looks fun! Can I try too?" the cat-girl said excitedly. "I see a bowl of yummy chicken soup; then some yummy fried chicken and yummy chicken stew!"Meracle wondered dreamily at the thought of the food then glared at Sarah, all the while wiping away her waterfall of saliva.

At once, the flightless Featherfolk detected the hunger-filled tone and whipped her head around to find the 16 year-old already starting to creep up on her. Cautious, she slowly got up and off her seat, backing off towards the exit to the recreational room, "Oh no, Merry please don't look at me like that. It's awkward."

Just then Reimi entered and collided into two very feathery wings; the glasses-less Featherfolk seized the opportunity to hide behind the taller girl before a certain someone pounced at her. "What're you all doing here for?" She asked politely even though Sarah was basically using her as a human-shield.

Meracle, who was known to have a short attention span, quickly diverted her attention off the 'yummy chicken' and pointed at the board enthusiastically with the archer in tow, "This is fun Reimi, you should try too! Come on, tell us what you see!" Her eyes practically sparkled.

"Umm," the brunette tilted her head at various angles, "I don't know, what is it meant to be?" The Earth girl asked the tall Morphus giant who was standing rather awkwardly in the corner - no doubt Meracle and/or Sarah had interrupted whatever he was doing.

"That is a good question, Miss Reimi, I'm glad you asked. These are Roakian characters, which I am currently using to assess Miss Sarah's vision. However, it seems worse than I thought. She is going to need a new pair of glasses immediately otherwise I'm afraid she would strain the ciliary body and suspensory ligame-"

"Oh my," a ditzy voice cut in, "this seems complicated. I don't want to be a burden now. These glasses are just fine - I can still see through them after all."

"Fear not, Miss Sarah, the procedure is very simple." He reassured.

"Is it really okay? Thank you!"

Later that day

"Oh wow, things are much clearer now! Thank you, Mr. Bacchus!" She bowed and joyously skipped out of the room. Not long after her exit, Bacchus can hear the symbologist ask the green-haired Eldarian, "Why, good afternoon Faize! I didn't know you were a girl!"


The only bit I liked in this was the last line and that's it really.

Edit 26/06/10: yup got my sister to proofread it so all's fine and dandy (I hope)~

Sawahii