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A few Inklings were walking on the hallways: some push the door, entering inside a room… others were holding either a laptop under their arm or a phone near their ear while talking loudly. A female Inkling, with a pair of round glasses in front of her eyes, was sitting on a black sofa.
Behind her, a window showing the tips of two tall buildings. She was holding an open book with her left hand, as her irises kept going left and right, gradually moving down. On its cover, a white tag with the words "Informatics - Lv. 2".
"Big bro, wh' aren't you saying anythin'?"
"Ah!" Hun turns his head down-right.
His eyes were pointing at his sister: her smile was touching her cheeks, while her head tilts slightly and her hands behind her back.
"Are ya thinkin' aboot that Technie girl?"
"The Technie girl…?" He turns to the left, walking near the stairs.
"Th' girl who keeps followin' you, whenever ya go." Her right eye winks.
Hun slightly lowers his eyebrows, as he was looking at the multiple steps leading down: on the middle, a red carpet stretches all the way through, not covering the sides. Suddenly, the boy blushes.
"Ah! I… ehm…" He smiles, still looking at the steps. "Well… I do think about her…"
Fara wraps her arms around Hun's stomach, as her head was gently stroking on it. The two siblings stop on the last step, as Hun raises his hands showing their palms and opening his mouth.
"But ya always want to hug me more… righ'?" She closes her eyes.
The boy smiles, as his right hand was caressing the top of her sister's head.
"Of course I would… as long as you don't bite people!" His left forefinger moves up and down.
"Aaaawww, Hun…" She raises her head, seeing her brother. "Bu' there are so many people out ther', that wants to hurt ya…"
"I can turn into a Squid and defeat them all!" The boy walks down.
Fara returns her arms in a neutral position.
"Wha' if you are standin' on a grate?"
"I'd jump, while turning into a Squid and spin in midair, returning to normal just before I pass the grate!"
"And wha' if ya also have concrete shoes?"
"Concrete shoes?" He raises one of his eyebrows, as he was turning to the right, seeing other steps leading down.
"Shoes so heav' 'hat ya can't jump!" She lies her right hand on a metallic handrail, as it was showing the reflection of her own hand.
"Well… I crawl up my fist and punch them right on their noses!"
"And wha' if your hands are tied up?"
Hun looks at his sister, while leaving his mouth open.
"… ya would need a small, gentle girl to unti' you and bit' the bad guys, dontcha?" She smiles.
"Ehm…" The boy scratches the back of his neck, as he was looking down on the wall. "If that happens, I'd never be able to look myself at the mirror anymore…"
The sides of her mouth return in their normal position.
"Why?"
Hun let out a sigh.
"Fara… I'm your older brother, now away from the 14 years old era… if I'm tied up and standing on a grate, then how I'm suppose to not let anyone touch your tentacles?"
"I can bite, bub!" She opens her mouth, raising her lips: her fangs were small but pointy.
"Your teeth are too fragile! The fiends could wear an armor!" He opens his arms.
"I'd kick them under!" She frowns a little, puffing her cheeks.
"Your legs are too short for that…" He slowly shakes his head. "I know you want to see me well, but you should grow up a little."
She groaned, then looks down the steps. Hun raises his eyebrows, as his foot touches the floor covered in a red carpet. In front of them, a thick door pulled till the wall. The small girl increased her pace, while her brother was behind.
"Wait!" He sprints, approaching Fara. "Of course you are almost reaching your 14 years! You'll definitively increase in size, when your 14th birthday will come!"
She kept walking ahead: her eyes were getting watery.
"Fara, please…" He stands in front of her, resting his hands on her small shoulders. "You know that in the past, I had your same age and I couldn't help mom and dad with the harvest and house fixes…"
She raises her head, keeping her frown and her puffed cheeks.
"They didn't refuse my help just because I was too small… but because they feared how I could get hurt! Like… like…" He looks on the ceiling, composed with blue and white tiles: he immediately looks at Fara. "Like my hands! My hands could have been very injured, with my weak strength!"
He strokes her left tentacle.
"I too want to stay with you, as long as possible… and even thinking about the idea, someone could do any harm…"
Hun pulls his sister against his stomach, wrapping his arms around her tightly.
"I-I can't possibly think about that. I don't even know what I'll do in such situation!"
They stood in silence for a moment, as one Inkling twisted his head towards them, then looking ahead.
"Bub…"
He looks down on her. She forms a smile.
"Mah stomach is growling."
He smiles, giving a kiss on her forehead.
"I'll make sure you have tons of meat on your plate!"
Fara expands her eyes. She jumps in the air, thrusting both her fists up.
"Yahoo! Ya are the best, Hun!"
He closes his eyes, while lying his hands on his back, puffing his chest and keeping his smile.
"Looks like farm boy didn't eat anything yet."
Hun opens his eyes: he turns behind, seeing Grina, Mirii and Bars.
"Hey there, everyone!" He waves his right hand.
The right foot impacts over a small hill formed on the red carpet: it bends forward, as the boy was falling down with his arm stretched ahead.
BONK!
He landed on his face. Mirii gasped, sprinting over him, bending her knees down. Fara calls his name, rushing towards her brother.
"Are you alright, Hunley?!" Mirii's eyebrows raise.
He raises his head: the central part was red with some faint bruises around the nose.
"Eh eh eh…! It's nothing!" He scratches the bruise located on the right side of his nose. "I tripped many times on our farm fields, before!"