"Erm. I feel the need to warn you guys. Your green house is on fire."

Gafinalan Henry looked pained. (Yes. We know.)

Mertil smiled. (We shall build a new one.)

"But"

(Really, don't worry about it.) Mertil insisted.

"Won't it spread to the rest of the house"

Gafinalan smiled. (No. I have fixed the force field to surround the house itself, excluding the green house. The sprinkler system I installed in the greenhouse has been set off by the smoke, so there may be something left, when the fire burns out. We will just have to see tomorrow, Mertil.) he said to his friend.

(Yes.) Mertil said softly. Sadly. They seemed fairly optimistic.

Gafinalan smiled at me. (Do not worry about it Daisy.)

I was sitting there thinking, Oh, yeah, sure. I won't worry about anything. The guy I liked just turned out to be a blue, furry, four legged creature. Hm, nothing to worry about there.

I noticed him watching me and smiled.

"I still like you, you know. You can't get off the hook with this alien thing." I said. I then stared, shocked and blushed in embarrassment. Oooh, I really, really hadn't mean to say that out loud.

He smiled with his eyes like he'd been doing (so cute!) and just laughed in thoughtspeak.

(That is good to know. I do not wish to be 'off the hook' with you.)

I grinned.

Mertil seemed a little embarrassed to be wrapped up in our lovey dovey chatter.

Mertil

I stood there akwardly, not wishing to disrupt their conversation, yet wishing to be out fighting the blaze.

I was terribly worried about the Illsipar root! If it burned, we might have nothing for Gafinalan to use for pain killers. True, there were human pain killers. But such might be dangerous. We had no idea what affect these drugs would have on Andalites.

They continued to converse while I stood at the kitchen door, which was hot from the blaze, though the force field kept the fire out of the kitchen and the rest of the house. When I next looked at them, they were both sitting on the couch, close together, talking quietly. I could not help but admire Gafinalan's charisma and ability with females.