That night after putting the grubs to bed, Kieran called Lorelei up to tell her about the day.
"Hey, Lorelei, how was your day?" Kieran asked after the trans woman picked up.
"Pretty good. Tytoni is getting a bit more sure of herself when it comes to the grubs. Crutah and Anguin got into some trouble though. Those two are a handful." Lorelei replied, somewhat tired but pleased.
Tytoni was the rather shy amber-blood that was assigned to Lorelei.
Apparently she was a 7'8 female troll with wing-like horns and hair cut in a messy bob.
She was rather skittish and uncertain, especially in the first few days.
As for Crutah and Anguin, those two were a couple of the grubs that the two ladies were assigned. Crutah was a little olive-blood with cone-like horns and a shit-eating grin forever plastered onto her face.
Anguin, on the other hand, was an amethyst-blooded sea dweller, with horns that curved a bit at the ends, and only wore a mischievous grin when planning something devious.
Which was usually any time she was around her partner in crime, Crutah.
"Oh, what did those little trouble makers do this time?" Kieran asked with a laugh.
"They somehow managed to toss a sleeping Miiata into Anguin's water bowl. Obviously, she was not happy about this, and her screeching woke Leucil. Poor grub started wailing, which set Anguin off. Then, of course, Crutah started wailing as well. Took forever for Ty and me to quiet them all." Lorelei recounted, laughing a little bit at the end.
Miiata was a little peridot-blood with oddly shaped horns that made a sort of lowercase h shape, but surlier at the hump. She was quite the primadonna, or so Kieran was told.
Leucil was a brass-blood, with horns that were shaped differently than one another. He was rather selfish at times, but was usually quiet.
"Doesn't sound too much different than my day, which reminds me. Dualscar actually helped out today." Kieran brought up.
"No kidding! Did he really? That salty old bastard?" Lorelei exclaimed, surprised.
"Yeah. All five of the little grubs were crying, and he actually held two of them and calmed them down. Had to scold him on grabbing them, though." Kieran affirmed.
"Wow, looks like you're getting somewhere, huh?" Lorelei said.
"Yeah, hopefully he helps out more in the future. With five little squirts running amok, I'll need the help." Came Kieran's hopeful reply.
The two chatted on a bit more about the other groups and their little grubs before hanging up.
Apparently Lorelei had to deal with a lot of stress, especially from Group 3, which was Eliza and Zalphs, and Group 5, which consisted of a young trans man named Percival, or "Percy" for short, and Quetza.
Quetza was interesting. He was a slate-blooded scienterrorist with spiked horns who was onboard with the experiment, but seemed to still be a bit against it. Especially being in it.
Percy, however, was another story.
The poor boy was an overly worried young father, and would often times call Lorelei up for guidance.
He and Quetza had the least amount of grubs, though.
Only two, and they were both on the lowest rung of the hemospectrum, which should make them even easier to care for, but things were never so simple.
Leapus was a garnet-blooded grub with a foul attitude. The little grub seemed to always be angry at everyone, and would often times bite.
Aurlia, however, was the exact opposite. She was a little cinnamon-blood, who was sweet, if not a bit naïve, and would often times babble nonsense.
Even so, these two polar opposites seemed to cause their surrogate parents a lot of grief, and in turn, would cause Lorelei a lot of grief.
Kieran promised to help as much as they could, and made sure that the other groups knew this.
However, with five grubs and an adult sea-dwelling troll who barely helped, they weren't able to give out aid to the others.
Now, if Dualscar would actually help, that would free Kieran up a bit.
If only.