I walked my host back to her home. Her parents appreciated knowing where
she was at all times, so I informed them using my host's mouth that Katie
was going to the Sharing bonfire, also telling them what time she should be
picked up.
The bonfire was to be held on the beach, which was not too far away. It was not dark, so I walked to it.
There were sounds of humans playing volleyball, talking, and there was also music from someone's radio. The diversity of human music is something that I have never yet grown accustomed to. On the Yeerk homeworld, we have no forms of music at all, so my fellow Yeerks can imagine my reaction the first time I encountered it, in the form of what they call classical music. Katie had set her clock radio to play it at a designated time each morning to help her wake up. The sounds were so intricate, foreign, amazing- I was incapacitated for several minutes due to its overpowering affect on my senses.
As I walked my host onto the beach, I used her eyes to search for the other girl, Emily. I soon spotted her. I could feel Katie's disgust. *She* knew that the weapons fired at the mall were Dracon beams. This other girl, however, did not, and would not have assumed any connection between them and the Sharing.
I ran over to her.
"You came!" I shouted, careful to use the same inflection Katie would have used. "I didn't see you after that thing at the mall."
I had decided beforehand not to pretend that the incident had never occurred. It would be pointless. Emily knew I had seen the shots fired.
"I didn't see any reason not to come," Emily said, though Katie thought her tone seemed a bit uncertain. I was not familiar enough with human inflection to tell. "But that was just too weird, don't you think?"
"Way too weird," I agreed. "I bet they were probably filming for a Star Trek episode, or something."
"Must have been. Want to go play some beach volleyball?"
And that was how it went. To my great relief, nothing more was said about the incident at the mall.
The bonfire was to be held on the beach, which was not too far away. It was not dark, so I walked to it.
There were sounds of humans playing volleyball, talking, and there was also music from someone's radio. The diversity of human music is something that I have never yet grown accustomed to. On the Yeerk homeworld, we have no forms of music at all, so my fellow Yeerks can imagine my reaction the first time I encountered it, in the form of what they call classical music. Katie had set her clock radio to play it at a designated time each morning to help her wake up. The sounds were so intricate, foreign, amazing- I was incapacitated for several minutes due to its overpowering affect on my senses.
As I walked my host onto the beach, I used her eyes to search for the other girl, Emily. I soon spotted her. I could feel Katie's disgust. *She* knew that the weapons fired at the mall were Dracon beams. This other girl, however, did not, and would not have assumed any connection between them and the Sharing.
I ran over to her.
"You came!" I shouted, careful to use the same inflection Katie would have used. "I didn't see you after that thing at the mall."
I had decided beforehand not to pretend that the incident had never occurred. It would be pointless. Emily knew I had seen the shots fired.
"I didn't see any reason not to come," Emily said, though Katie thought her tone seemed a bit uncertain. I was not familiar enough with human inflection to tell. "But that was just too weird, don't you think?"
"Way too weird," I agreed. "I bet they were probably filming for a Star Trek episode, or something."
"Must have been. Want to go play some beach volleyball?"
And that was how it went. To my great relief, nothing more was said about the incident at the mall.