Porrim spent the last few perigees trying her best to not need to go in the city. She walked a lot further to reach the forests and spent there a lot of time, slaying beasts. She would return to her hive once in a while to check on Kankri. The jade troll would, of course, stop by her friend's resting place on her way.

It was the third winter when she returned from one of her hunts. She noticed something wrong with the hive. The air felt cold against her face. Her skin was protected by a thick black cloak. Only her face was visible. On her back she dragged heavily the body of a beast she managed to kill in the forest. It was hard for her to find it, seeing as it was winter and most animals were still hibernating.

When Porrim reached the front door of her hive she noticed that the lock was broken. She entered the place quietly and dropped the body of the beast on the floor. She didn't waste any time exploring the rest of the hive. She just quickly dashed upstairs to where her soon-to-be wiggler rested.

When she reached the room she stopped for a second when she heard voices. She peaked inside and saw two trolls examining the pupa.

"What the fuck is this?" The taller of the two exclaimed.

"I have no idea. It wasn't here when we passed by, last time. Do you think it's valuable?" The other one chuckled.

"Only one way to find out." The one wearing black raised one of the daggers she was holding in her hand but before she could hit the pupa, Porrim distracted her attention by shouting.

"Who are you?"

Startled by the voice, both of them turned around and looked at each other before smiling at Porrim.

The jade troll could see their faces. One of them was an olive blood while the other was a cerulean.

The olive troll had long, messy hair that was obviously never taken care of. Two small, swirly horns were seen in his messy locks. His ripped, dark coloured clothes were covered by a big hoofbeast fur cloak. The sign on the front, Leries, was almost transparent showing how old his clothes were. When his eyes met Porrim's he reached to his hip from where he took a green scepter.

The cerulean troll, however, put her knives back. Her hair was shaved on the right side and on the left side it was falling beautifully on her shoulder. Her horns were black beetle-like with a sharp, curved tip. Her lips and left eyebrow were pierced by what appeared to be gold. Her clothes were neat and taken care of. She wore a blue top having her sign displayed in black: Scorsci- The sign of the Fixer. On her shoulders, a black cloak was giving her warmth, hiding her body frame.

"Oh, we're terribly sorry. We didn't know someone was living here. Right, Ralyie?" Her lips were curved in a smiled that showed her intentions. The other troll put his scepter back and played along

"That's right. We'll leave right away." They didn't leave, however. They stood in place. Porrim knew not to trust them. She moved away from the door and walked towards her desk on which she had a knife. Noticing this, the one named Ralyie took his scepter again. The other one put a hand in front of him to stop him.

"What? But, Prirai, she wants to attack us!"

"Don't jump to conclusions. Maybe, you would be so kind as to feed us?" She smiled at Porrim. "You see, we have been traveling a long road."

Porrim kept walking towards the desk keeping her eyes on the trolls. Once she got there she took the knife in her hand and pointed it towards them. "If you truly have, then you must know that there is no room for strangers. Leave!"

Prirai laughed wholeheartedly. "You don't have to get aggressive. We will leave."

Prirai walked towards the door with Ralyie behind her. Porrim walked towards them slowly. Without warning, the blue blooded troll flicked her wrist to give Ralyie a sign that meant 'go all out'.

He used his speed to get behind Porrim in a second. He used his scepter to choke her and limit her movements. Prirai turned around.

"After we steal everything you own. Don't struggle and we might let you live." She grinned at Porrim showing her fangs. "Now, tell me what that thing is." She pointed to the crystal structure in the corner of the room.

"It isn't anything worth money." Porrim spoke without being able to control herself. She felt some sort of energy coming from the troll interrogating her.

"I see. Where do you keep your money?" Prirai continued.

Porrim tried her best to keep her mouth shut, but it was in vain. "There is a small bag under the fake-bottom of the first drawer." She used her head to point to her desk. The blue blooded troll walked over to where the desk is. After rummaging through it she took out a small bag.

"Is that it?"

"Yes," Porrim answered. After that she felt her head feel lighter and she hostilely asked. "How did you do that?"

Prirai laughed again and started explaining. "I am one of the only members of my caste possessing psychic abilities. Everybody is hopeless against me."

"Is that all we are going to get from here?" Ralyie asked sounding annoyed.

"There isn't anything else. We could take these clothes and sell them to the lowbloods. Many of them are dying, now that it's winter."

"Oh yes, we can make loads if we sell them of good prices." The olive troll laughed. "What about her?"

"I'll take care of her. Move back."

Ralyie did as he was told and stepped back from Porrim. Prirai took one of her daggers and put it through the jade troll's chest. Porrim fell to the ground while Prirai was cleaning her dagger with a white cloth. Porrim started coughing violently, until she finally hit the cold floor and her eyes closed.

The two other trolls ignored her as they walked around the hive taking anything that might be useful. They brought everything to the respiteblock where they put in a sacks everything they found.

They worked fast, but it took them about half an hour to get everything done. They walked out the door of the block carrying the sack not noticing that something was missing from there. They were about to leave when they saw the beast by the door.

"We're gonna have a delicious meal today." Ralyie smiled and picked it up. They were about to go out the door when a voice stopped them.

"Why don't we eat together, then?" They quickly turned around to look at another troll. It was Porrim. Except her skin was now white and glowing and her shirt was ruined by jade coloured blood.

"Didn't you say you were gonna take care of he-" Ralyie's sentence was stopped when he looked over at his partner and saw the look of pure terror on her face.

"I put the dagger through her heart. There is no way she survived that." Prirai whispered.

"Well, she fucking did." The olive troll clicked his tongue as he dropped the things he was holding and walked towards Porrim holding the scepter in his hand.

The jade troll started running and in a few seconds he was past him. Ralyie looked back and saw Porrim with her fangs in Prirai's neck. After a few seconds, she let go and the lifeless body fell to the ground.

Porrim used the back of her hand to wipe the cerulean blood off her mouth. Ralyie's eyes filled with rage as he started running fast towards Porrim. This time however, she felt her reflexes become better and stronger and she could dodge every attack from the olive blood. His moves were becoming sloppy and uncalculated.

Porrim managed to catch Ralyie's staff in her hand. He backed away. Feeling strength in her arms she snapped the hard metal in half, surprising the other troll. He started backing away from the raging jade troll in front of him. His back hit a wall and Porrim used this as an opportunity to run up to him and shove her fangs into his thick skin. The battle was lost as Ralyie lost his strength little by little.

After she was satisfied, Porrim let go of him and he fell to the floor. She sighed in relief.

She picked up both bodies and went outside. After she was far enough from her house she dropped the bodies to the ground. Not looking back, she turned around and returned to her hive. She tried her best to fix the door and climbed upstairs to the second floor.

She entered her bathroom and used the water she managed to get running to clean herself and her clothes. She put on a robe that somehow managed to survive the robberies and looked in the mirror.

She knew what happened to her. In her short time in the cave she learned of the beings called 'Rainbow Drinkers' and she knew she displayed the symptoms. Because of this, Porrim asked an elder to elaborate on how to control her powers, should they ever appear.

The jade troll took a deep breath. She closed her eyes and concentrated on what she wanted to do. She opened her eyes slowly and noticed that the glow was fainter. She kept concentrating and after a few minutes her skin was back to normal.

She walked back to her respite block and changed in some other clothes that were running around. Feeling tired she decided to get some rest and sort everything out later.

She woke up to the sound of something breaking so she stood up quickly looking for the intruder. Her heart almost stopped in her chest when she noticed a hole in Kankri's pupa. She left the room in a hurry and noticed how one of the vases she had in the hallway was broken.

Porrim turned left and she could see the shadow of another being at the far end.

"Who is there?" She shouted and stormed to where that person was. She stopped in her tracks when she saw a little wiggler with short nubby horns. He looked up scared at her, but in his eyes there was a glint of recognition.

Porrim couldn't believe her eyes. Kankri was sitting in front of him. He wasn't a grub anymore. He was a small troll, just like her. She smiled while looking at him, and Kankri understanding there was no threat, got up, and with slow steady steps walked towards her. He stumbled on his feet a few times but when he got to Porrim he jumped in her arms.

They returned to the respiteblock where the jade blood gave Kankri some clothes that she made a few perigees prior to his pupation. She made sure he was preoccupied in her block and she ran downstairs to take the beast she caught. She skinned it and made a small fire to cook the meat.

Porrim fed Kankri and gave him as much as he wanted to eat. After he was done he fell asleep instantly and the jade blood couldn't take her eyes of him. She started eating and after she was done she cleaned up and proceeded to keep watch over her wiggler making sure nothing would harm his sleep.