Chapter 2

"Oh"
Tiny nodded slowly, feeling anxious. Of course, who wouldn't? Being in a strange and new place, surrounding by strange and new people doing strange and new things.

How do you cope with a broken heart? It's something that has no known cure, which was a pretty sad thing concluding that most people needed one, and this one at most. The world was a cruel place, and it was hard to even walk in knowing that the one you loved had another; but you had to get over it, it's not worth wasting your precious life on chasing something that could never happen. Why do you need this? It was just so tempting to find the right person who will love you for who you are, but criticism is waiting around the corner from every person who didn't like you or love. Love is real though it is a feeling its real, Happiness is real, Sadness is real, So Love must be. Just somewhere. Somewhere out there.

Her grip tightened on Wy's coat, eyes stinging with unshed tears. Oh how she missed Cecel. She missed everything about her mother, but she was gone...Long dead. Every source of happiness she had disappeared. It left. Disappeared.
the family picture in her mind soon faded to just a tiny girl holding her little doll...her only friend...was that one little alligator she received on the day of her birth.
Her mother was a special one, many countries said this. She was a kind person. Always sticking up for the weak, making sure every was okay in her own silly way that made you smile. Being called weird? It was a compliment in her beautiful rosy eyes. Cecel always told tiny that she would become a Nation someday... Tiny ever wondered if Cecel said that to other micronations.

Tiny bit her lip and looked up at Wy, "Are the others nice as well?" she asked.

Once Tiny spoke up, I was a little surprised, but was happy that she was speaking to me, which I hoped was a sign that her nerves were easing. I smiled and replied to her "They are all nice people, I promise. Strange, no doubt, but I'm sure you'll be able to get on with them just fine." At that point, I noticed that she'd clutched tighter onto my coat, as if she'd become even more nervous in her thoughts. Granted, I expected her to be very anxious, but it looked to me like she was even more unsettled than I thought she would be for whatever reason.

I decided to continue speaking "You look a little tense, Tiny. Are you okay?"

Once I'd asked the question, Solomeya loosened her grip on my coat and hesitantly replied "I-It's nothing….honestly."

She could probably see the worried look on my face after she stuttered in her answer, but I quickly shook it off and smiled warmly at her "Alright, but if you need to tell me anything, I'll gladly listen to you." With that, I led her to her seat at the side of the room, then sat next to her for a moment and placed my things by the rear chair leg, then casually started to take out my sketchbook and pencil to pass the time. Apart from the soft scratching of my pencil against my paper, silence perpetuated the room. Tiny seemed to be lost in her own conscience while I was listening out for someone else coming in. I could hear someone approaching when I listened carefully and sure enough, the door flew open and a man in a royal purple cloak, covering his body, entered the room.

I was about to explain who he was, but like I should have expected, he announced himself in his usual loud and proud manner "The Principality of Hutt River has arrived!" I couldn't help but roll my eyes, but then got up and walked towards him.

"Can we not have any of that rubbish please? I need you to meet someone who will be joining us for this meeting." I said, trying to water down his flash and style while speaking in a hushed tone, since I wasn't sure how Tiny would take to it. Before he could reply, I got my next line in first "And she's spent the grand majority of her life in isolation so she doesn't have 2 Hutt River dollars and she doesn't own a Rolls Royce."

Hutt seemed to chuckle to himself before replying "This is most irregular, but I can make an exception for you my pupil." I didn't understand why there had to be so much fuss about him talking to someone, but that was the best answer I could have gotten from him. I led Hutt over to the chair where Tiny was sitting, where he seemed to know what to do.

"I'm the Principality of Hutt River, a micronation from western Australia." He said politely, extending his hand out for a hand shake "And you are?"

Tiny widened her Rosy-eyes in fear at the strange and loud man before her, she bit her lips and looked at Wy then at Hutt then so back at Hutt before she extending her tiny hand. "I'm the Principality of Solomeya, Micronation from Southern Cecel fleet" she said shakily, using her mother's ancient form "Fleet" as "Territory". She never understood why her mother used the term "Fleet" as "Territory", whenever she asked, her mother smiled softly and replied, "Because that was Ancient Cecel's term for territory and I must follow her traditions". She always got the sense of sadness in her eyes when she said that, as if she seemed nervous about talking about her past self before Ancient Cecel died those Many years ago by the Asteroid crashing into her land and destroying her and the Ancients: Southern Cecel, Genovia, and Athenesia.

She looked down and hugged her Alligator before mumbling something in her mother's tongue."Gummi Dalatia nenota Calsko mitamoray" (Gummi, are you scared too?) She muttered, talking to the green alligator as she petted its scales. The only reply she gotten was a blink of its Purple eyes.

Tiny was unsurprisingly very timid when she shook Hutt's hand, but even I was caught off guard by how much she seemed to almost fear Hutt River. Even amongst all the style and bravado, he seemed to notice Tiny's nerves.

"Well, I'm pleased to meet you Solomeya." He said with a smile on his face before turning to me "Look after her for me alright?" he jokingly came out with, before moving to the opposite side of the room to deal with his own business. With that, I sat down next to Tiny before whispering "See? He's not so bad. You don't need to be so scared of us." I gave her a little smile and a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "We're no more powerful than you, so why so unsettled?"