Chapter 13
Floran hears something, and starts to wake up. Floran took a nap while waiting for Yuki, and Floran thinks that she's here because Floran can hear a voice.
"Seba, are you okay?" Asks Yuki.
"Floran is okay," answers Floran.
"Good, that's good, let me open this for you." Floran can hear some noises outside, but Floran doesn't know what it is. It sounds like beeps, different kinds, and the top of the crate opens. Floran looks at Yuki, who is wearing different clothes, once that Floran has never seen before. Then, Floran looks around, and the place is big, with metal walls, lights coming from the ceiling, and other crates just like the one Floran was using.
"Where are we?" Asks Floran while looking around.
"This is one of our warehouse, it's just a place where we put a bunch of things." The warehouse has a lot of things, Floran doesn't know what it is, but they have a lot of things. "Come on, most people are asleep at this time."
"Is the sun down already?" Floran can't believe Floran slept that long.
"You could say that." She looks around, and looks back at me. "Let's go, who knows when the workers will get back."
"About that…" Yuki looks confused.
"What is it?"
"Floran can just stay here, Floran will just hide, and they won't hurt Floran." Floran doesn't want to go into dangerous place full of people who hate Floran.
"It's going to be fine, there aren't a lot of people in the city right now. We can just stick to the shadows, and we'll reach home."
"Floran prefers to hide here, Floran can find a lot of places to hide."
"Seba, this isn't a good place to hide, the workers are sleeping, but they'll be here in the morning, and they might inspect the crates." Floran still doesn't like it, but when put like that, Floran doesn't have many options.
"Okay, Floran will go, but I hope you have more of that dark brown brick." Floran gets out of the crate, and Yuki looks at me confused.
"Dark brown brick?"
"Yeah, the sweet one." Yuki seems to realize what Floran was talking about.
"Oh, that's chocolate, and when we get to my home, I'll get you more."
"Deal."
"Then follow me, and keep quiet. If someone sees us, let me do the talking, okay?" Floran nods, and we go on our way out of the warehouse. We go to what looks like a door, but it looks better shaped than what Florans can do. However, Florans prefer to use vines than doors. Yuki opens the door slightly, and peeks outside. She beckons Floran to follow her, and we get out of the warehouse.
Floran didn't know what to expect to see in a Hylotl city, but Floran can say that it's not something Floran could ever imagine. We get out into a corridor, but the corridor is made of metal with glass, and Floran can see outside. The city is truly under water, and Floran can see sand outside, with some strange plants growing outside. Floran can also see what must be fish, some really big, and other really small. There are lights in the corridor, and Floran would have seen more, but Floran feels a hand grab Floran's hand.
"Come on, there's no one here," says Yuki, and we continue on our way. We reach some stairs, and we start to go up. Then, we get into this big room, where we can see this round statue made of some bright metal, and lights on the ground pointing at it. We continue through another corridor, and we enter another big room, with some decoration that looks like their faces, and some glass boxe with fishes. We reach more stairs, we go up again, and we go right. We go through a corridor, passing a metal box with a window, and inside of the box were more wrapped things.
"Are those chocolates?" Asks Floran with a smile. Floran wants more chocolate.
"I'll get you some later," says Yuki.
"Okay." We also pass a table with chairs, but the weird thing is that the table had three red crystals that make it look like Yuki's face. Passing that, we reach more stairs, and Floran just wonders if Hylotl like stairs so much. We go up, and Yuki walks up to one of the many doors in the corridor.
"Okay, this is my apartment," says Yuki and she pulls something thing out of her pocket. She slides it into the door, we hear some beep sound, and she opens the door. She waves at Floran to go inside, and Floran does it quickly. The apartment, or whatever Yuki called it, is just as strange as the whole city. Floran doesn't even know what is what. The floor is metal, just like the corridors outside, but there's some couches, a table made of glass, a rug underneath, lights in the ceiling, and there's this weird board on the wall.
"Floran doesn't know what to say," says Floran.
"Well, I hope it's nothing bad. It is my apartment after all," says Yuki.
"It's not that it's bad, it's that Floran has never seen this kind of furniture."
"Well, let me give you a quick tour." Yuki gets to the middle of the room. "This is my living room, my couches, coffee table, and that, which I'm sure you have no idea what it is, is my widescreen TV."
"What does this TV do?"
"It shows moving pictures, and many other things. You'll get to try it some other time." She goes to a room behind the living room, and Floran follows. The room had cupboards, a metal box, a table with chairs, and so on. "This is the kitchen, I'll show you what you can eat later, but you're still free to grab whatever you need." We leave the kitchen, get back into the living room, and we go to a corridor. There's a door to the left, one to the right, one at the end. Yuki goes to the door on the right, and Floran follows.
"This is the bathroom," says Yuki, and doesn't say anything else. Even Floran knows what a bathroom is.
"Okay, got it."
"Good." We leave the bathroom, and Yuki enter the room to the left of the corridor. "This is my office, sometimes I have to bring my work home, so I might spend some time in here." Floran can see a table with a strange chair, and bookshelves.
"Is the last room your bedroom?"
"That's right, come on." We walk to the last room left, and go inside. The room has a bed, some papers on the wall behind the bed, a closet on the far wall, and another TV hanging on the wall to the left. The room isn't that big, but there's more than enough room for one person, maybe two. "Welcome to my bedroom."
"It's very clean, just like the rest of your apartment."
"Thanks," says Yuki and walks to her closet. She opens it, and starts to grab things from it. "You can sleep on the couch, here's a blanket and an extra pillow." She leaves her room and walks to the living room. Floran follows, hoping that the couch is better than sleeping in a crate. She sets the pillow and the blanket, even though Floran could have done that. "If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask, okay?"
"Okay."
"Well then, see you in the morning." Yuki walks away, leaving Floran in the living room. Floran takes armor off, and leaves. Floran would have put something else, but that day was a hot day. Floran gets on the couch, covers Floran with blanket, and goes to sleep.
Floran wonders how they know when morning is without looking at the sun.