If you haven't noticed yet, all my chapters so far are song titles. Some are pretty noticeable and I did mess up with the names a bit but it's now a trend I intend on keeping throughout all my stories.
So, in all my time living in the World of Technology, I have learned a few things. Actually not a few, but a lot of things; enough to make a list of them:
Things Not to Do in Front of Humans
Kill animals
Kill humans
Eat with your hands
Use any type of weapons, even if some come too close (there's apparently no sense of personal space here)
Get naked
Break walls or windows
Check if you can eat something that smells really good (some actually taste so bad, no wonder they are very skinny)
Take what you want or need from them
Talk to the humans that appear sporadically in boxes
Some of the things in there caused them to scream or look at me weirdly. I had to erase more than once their memories for safety issues.
Titian and I used an abandoned building near a town to live in. We tried observing how humans acted so to adapt to their customs.
The first thing we quickly realized was that we needed to learn their language. This was a first for us, since demons didn't actually speak a consistent language, but expressed what they desired to communicate through groans and hisses. We extracted as much information from them as we could through telepathic means, but their brains fried too easily. After a few tries, we had a rough understanding of their language. At the very least, we could read and write.
Titian suggested integrating in different human populations so to know their customs. We entered many buildings and tried to stand by so as to observe them closely. In one of the many buildings we entered, food was given to them and they just sat and ate. In one occasion, one of them approached us. The human asked us something and I repeated a phrase I heard somewhere. He looked at me weirdly, but thankfully Titian said something that made him go away. He came back later and brought us delicious food. Everything tasted so great! (Even the white hard thing that contained it all) It was in that moment that we learned that we needed something called money.
Titian got the information about money and explained it to me. Money was what humans gave in exchange for anything, if they gave the right amount of it. They used it with another one and got what they wanted. This went on and on, so money wasn't actually of value, just a way of making trade. Someone always had something you wanted or needed, so money was necessary.
Money came in many ways, but the main one was when you offered a service or object to a human. I was intrigued by what money could get me, so I decided to do a service since I didn't have a thing to offer. Titian also wanted to try out my idea and we looked were we could do something.
I ended up in a place that gave out clothes. Apparently, the service trading was called "job" or "work". When I came asking about the sign outside, a female asked me a few questions. I may or may have not used any telepathic help to answer correctly.
From watching the other females, I copied what they did and said the same to the humans that came for clothes. The male ones came and went quickly but the females took longer. The females were really irritating because they wouldn't take one garment and leave, but tried on a lot and at the end just took one or nothing! I had to control my instinct to lash out because that was apparently bad for business.
I was confused when money wasn't given to me at the end of the day. Titian explained to me that I would be 'paid' after some days so I kept working in that place for the time being. After finally receiving some, I didn't know what to do with it. We didn't need to buy food since we could hunt and we had shelter.
I decided to check out the 'mall' and see what goods it offered. After walking around and not knowing much about the stuff they were offering, I ended up at a very curious local. I was just standing there looking at the things they had on display when I felt someone behind me.
"Looking for something in specific?"
I wasn't startled when she talked, but I was still a little uneasy with human interaction.
"What you selling?"
"I see you're not much of a musician, are you? We sell instruments and any accessory necessary to each of them."
I looked at her confused. "Instruments?"
"You know, to produce sound and music? Mmmh, it's worse than I thought. Come here, time to show you what you've been missing your whole life."
Without much of a warning, she dragged me near the wooden articles of the store. I was intrigued so I didn't put much resistance, but I did growl in annoyance.
She grabbed one of the items in the wall and proceeded to touch with her thumb all the strings that were attached in the middle. I was surprised to hear such a pleasant sound coming and it must have showed in my face because she laughed. She then began pulsating in different patterns all over the largest and thinnest part of this 'instrument'. The sounds were now varying and the sequence of them was so invigorating that I couldn't stop listening. It was as if everything around me blurred until it wasn't important and all that I could think of was the sound and how great it made me feel. I was shaken from this feeling of carefreeness when she stopped.
"I must have played really good because you were gone for a moment." I barely heard what she said after because I was entranced with the instrument. I reached out to touch the strings and when my fingers came in contact with them, I tried moving them like she did before. What I heard wasn't at all what I was expecting, for they were screeching. Why was my touch different from this human?
"Wow, you actually managed to make the guitar angry at you. If you really want to learn how to play, I give out lessons. I only charge ten bucks an hour but that's only if you're really interested."
The thought of me recreating such a wonderful feeling made my answer clear. Guess that I knew how to spend my money now.
"When start?"
Before was a description, now its perspective. I actually improvised at the last minute the ending. I didn't know what to put but learning to play the guitar seemed to fit since I play it myself. The Avengers are entering soon, and I'm going to start with the movie directly and not with its prequels.
