Little Skaia Things (Homestuck)

Author: Ashynarr

Summary: So I promised myself a while back I would write some things for Homestuck, see as it's my other favorite fandom. This is a storage place for all my drabbles for the series and characters.

Disclaimer: Homestuck's not mine.

Warning: Probably not canon?

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Though none of her friends knew it, Terezi had had a lusus before she'd met her dragonmom. After all, there was no way an egg could carry a grub hundreds of miles from the brooding caverns, nor a way for a young grub to make her way all the way out to the coastal woods without being eaten or roasting in the sun.

She didn't really remember much about her first lusus, a not so small lizard who'd had a fondness for treetops and basking in the blistering sun while her charge slept. As such, their schedules tended to be separate, her lusus slipping into slumber as the night wore on, not stirring again until Terezi had crawled into her recuperacoon for the morning.

Overall, it wasn't terrible - they had plenty of time together first thing in the evening, while her lusus was still warmed from hunting and basking. The house had been built by a previous charge, cleared of most of their personal effects before they'd left for service, though there was enough left over for a curious young wriggler to get her hands on.

Then Terezi woke up to no lizard mom in sight.

Nights turned into weeks, and even her desperate searching could not find a trace of her lusus. There was no doubts that the old lizard had been eaten by something, and for the first time in her life she sobbed uncontrollably, lost and confused and alone. She didn't even see the huge statue until she'd wandered into it, falling backwards onto her butt as she tried and failed to keep her balance after the impact.

With a teary sniff she looked up, and up, and was momentarily distracted by the huge skull resting on one of the platforms. Whatever lusus it had come from must have been HUGE if that had come from it!

On the other platform was a large round object - like a chirpbeast's eggs, only much larger. With another, less teary sniff she pushed herself back up, trying to find handholds so she could climb up and see if it was real or not.

Hello?

Terezi tilted her head and frowned, wondering why she'd thought that.

Is someone out there?

She looked back up to the egg. "Are you the egg?"

Hehehehehe, I'm not an egg, silly.

A smile twitched on her lips at the humor leaking from the other mind. "Then what are you?"

I'm a dragon… or I will be one day. It's so cold outside my shell, I don't know if I'll be able to hatch for a while.

"I could get you something to warm you…" The young troll offered, thinking of the piles of blankets her old lusus had had to burrow in during the colder nights.

No, no, those won't do at all, the dragon decided, having seen - or not? - what she was considering. It has to be really warm; a biiiiiiiiiiiig warm fire would be just right.

"I don't know if I can get you that…" Terezi frowned, not sure if she could get enough wood to manage what a big egg would consider 'big enough'.

That's okay, it's still cosy in here, the dragon comforted. And we can still talk, too! I haven't had anyone to talk to in a loooooooooooong time.

Terezi felt she understood how lonely that could get. "I just lost my lusus, so I don't have anyone to talk to anymore either."

Oh, that's horrible. Maybe I could be your lusus then?

Terezi blinked. "But aren't you still in the egg?"

Weeeeeeeell, I can't do much of the stuff other lusus can, but I can still be there for you in spirit! And when I hatch, I'll really be the bestest lusus you've ever seen!

"Weeeeeeeeell, I guess I can be okay with that," Terezi giggled, feeling better than she had in over a week, and thinking maybe things would be alright after all.

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AN: Because seriously, how the hell did Terezi get all the way out to those woods and build a house without a lusus available to help her? I can't think of a good reason, but I guess this might suffice for those of you who are curious like I am.