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Chapter36: Meryl's POV
As the two girls walk through the massive garden area, Meryl allows her mind to focus on the details about Knives life that she had not really paid attention to. In them she discovers the lizaeri were created by Knives shortly after his and Vash's split almost twenty years after the fall. They had been the forty-second experiment, but they had been successful. Their blood was lizard and human mostly, with just a little bit of plant mixed in. He had appreciated them more than humans, seeing them as a boon rather than a waste because they were designed to live without the help of the plants that the humans were reliant on. There scaled bodies could tolerate temperatures up over two-hundred degrees or as low as negative twenty with little difficulty. Due to a set of glands on their throat they did not need to drink water as often, while a second set of glands allowed them to process nearly any type of food without worry. Like humans they had both sharp and flat teeth. They wore clothing more out of respect for him than out of need. Despite his treatment of them in the early years, they had come to an understanding and the lizaeri served him most willingly.

"They are called lizaeri, Knives made them out of loneliness. It's the reason he was able to maintain strength despite the fact he was not connected to the hive mind or around people as often. He had them, and then later he had Legato." She murmurs, stopping to look around at all of the small, lizard like people working on various tasks.

"Really?" Milly replies, glancing around as well, "some reason I cannot see him treating them like they are worth much the way he had been."

One of the lizaeri must have heard her because it came over to her clicking her tongue, "The massster is mossst nicce to usss! We'sss not ssspidersss!"

"I'm sorry," Milly responds, looking directly at the small lizaeri that she towers over, "I was not trying to be mean. I just know he wasn't always a nice person."

The little female hissed at her, "Jussst beccaussse he doessssn't like ssspidersss doesss not mean he isss bad to usss."

"Aizha! Watch your tongue!" an older looking female snaps, coming over to where they are, "They are gueztz and to be treated az zuch. You muzt forgive Aizha, she iz young. Iz there anything that you need? I am Eza."

Startled the two friends glance at each other, a subtle conversation about how to respond occurring in a moments time. It is decided that Meryl will be the one to deal with them since she had not been the one to anger the little lizard person.

"Nice to meet you Eza and Aizha, I am Meryl Stryfe and this is Milly Thomson. We were not trying to be rude, it's the first time we have ever seen people like yourselves. Can you tell us about your lives here?" she replies to the small female lizaeri, not sure how she knows it is female, but knowing all the same.

Eza waves the younger one back to her task, clicking her tongue at her, before responding, "We are happy with our livez. It is good work to tend the gardenz and plantz, zome of uz tend the bulbs and the ladiez az well. You know of the ladiez?"

For a moment she thinks about it before replying, "Umm, I have heard of Dai, but that is the only one Knives has mentioned having close contact with. Can I ask why you don't seem to hiss as much?"

Shrugging, the small lizard woman replies, "I'z practize a lot. Zome lettterz are ztill hard though. You were heading towardz the ladiez, why?"

Smiling, she answers, "To say hello of course, I met their sisters Tala, Merra, Yali, and Kikyo within the last weeks and wanted to meet them as well."

Nodding, Eza motions for them to follow, so the two girls do after a shared look. As they are heading towards the side of the dome Milly engages her by asking her about the various plants that they pass. Since Milly had grown up around plants, she has a better understanding of them. Just as they were getting to the door at the side of the room, the brothers approached. Eza nods politely to Knives, continuing to speak with Milly about the plants in the dome.

When they get to the door, the small woman opens it before anyone says anything more, but waits until the four of them are through before she followed. Once inside the second dome, the group stops as the three of us look around, it is also a bio-dome only it seems to be more desert like, sweltering hot and full of sand and rock. The difference is the fact that there are different areas dedicated to the various types of desert plants not seen in the outside world desert. Its amazing, down the connector wall of the dome, two bulbs rest, both tied into the domes top. There is a placing for a third bulb but no bulb within it.

"If you will excusez me, I need to check with the workerz to make sure all iz ready for the arrival of the next lady." Eza comments bowing slightly before scurrying off long tail whipping behind her as she goes.

"Interesting staff," she remarks, watching the small lizard woman vanish into one of the small structures surrounded by some thick leafed plants.

Eyebrow raised was her only response from the silent plant as they moved down the edge of the dome and towards the bulbs on the other end.

Still thoughtful, she considers the fact that while he hates humans, he seems to like the little lizard folk he made. Still considering it, she turns her attention to the creature outside, wracking her memory to determine what it was. Memousi, her mind eventually supplies her, human-mouse with just a very little bit of plant to complete the bond. They were the fifty-third experiment and maintained a small colony underground outside of the ship. There many task was to take care of the land around it, and any stray Thomas creatures that might show up as occasionally happens. They also scare off humans who get to close by sabotaging their stuff. By the time they reach the bulb she had reviewed every single detail she could think of regarding the experiments that he had done, ironically enough, the ones that might be the most important ones, the human ones, he had left in the hands of a set of humans who had served him as a god prior to their death so the details there were fuzzy. Shaking her head, she tries to clear her thoughts, but its difficult. Her mind finally breaks away when they stop directly beside the first bulb.

Inside the bulb a golden glow unfolds to reveal a beautiful woman similar to the others that she had seen, yet somewhat different with the facial structure. Knives! She exclaims as he places a hand on the glass, a moment later she pulls him in, hugging him before he has a chance to do or say anything.

Beside her she sees Milly smile from the corner of her eye. Turning her head a bit, she can also see a joyous look on Vash's face too.

Releasing Knives, he just about falls out of the bulb, as she turns her attention to Vash, however Knives lands on his feet. With Vash she does the same thing, only she keeps him in the bulb longer, carefully looking him over before giving him a second hug and letting him out easier. When Milly touches the bulb, she instead places her hand opposite, commenting, Welcome, your body would not appreciate in here so I will not hug you. You are blue-eyes, that makes you temper. I am Dai. As she comments, she glances at the one she is referring too.

Meryl can't help but chuckle at that, laying her hand on the glass she replies, "Hello, Dai, my name is Meryl," she begins.

"And I'm Milly," Milly finishes.

"The only person who calls us blue-eyes and temper is Knives. Vash tends to call me short girl, and her tall girl. Everyone else calls us by our names." She tells her, smiling at the energetic plant. So far she is the most hyper one she had seen yet.

Oh, Dai's eyes get wide, why does he call you temper? I understand immediately why she is blue-eyes but not you.

"Meryl sometimes has a temper, enough of one that most grown men are scared to annoy her." Milly answers before she even has a chance to say anything. "It was her nickname as a child too by her cousins."

Rolling her eyes she mutters, "Thanks Milly."

The impression of laughter fills the area, as Dai grins at her, That is amusing, and probably just what he needs to deal with. He's got a temper too.

Smiling, she nods, "I compared them once," she replies.