by minifun990 » Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:02 pm
Tacking prompt:
First meeting
"You own skepluvi right?" A voice asked hesitantly on the phone, Ranea hadnt even noticed there even was a landline phone in her house until it started ringing.
"I do... I-Why do you ask?" She asked back. It sounded like a young mans voice, she wasnt quite sure how he knew about her farm. Perhaps they'd run into each other in town, or perhaps he knew some friend of a friend of a second cousins removed. It always seemed to be how information moved in small towns.
"Do you have room for another one?" The voice continued.
"I mean, yes but - are you trying to sell me a skep?"
"No! I mean, uh maybe... I have a queen now, but I dont have anywhere to keep her, I wanted to know if I could rent a stall or something." Ranea smiled a little, she could tell this guy was really attached to his queen.
"Sure, bring her in and Ill see what I can do" She paused for a moment. "You forgot to tell me your name you know."
"Oh! oh, my name is Erik. Can I come in tomorrow?"
"See you then."
Erik was a lot more outgoing in person. A bit younger too than she first guessed. The queen he brought in was very attached to the man, and when Ranea looked away she could see him in her perifireal vision making baby sounds or patting her. When she first greeted the grey queen she wasnt quite so friendly to Ranea, instead she was cold until Erik gave her a handshake and a smile. Then the queen was pratically nuzzling either human the whole time as Ranea showed off to Erik her farm and skepluvi.
It was heartbreaking seeing the sadness in both their eyes as Erik had to leave, the grey queen staring morosely out of her new stall. But it was also quite amusing, causing Ranea to shake her head and smile.
"You two do realise Im not splitting you apart?"
"What?!" Erik asked only then taking his eyes away from the citrine eyes of the queen.
"You can come back whenever you like, even tomorrow." Ranea stated. She wasnt prepared to be lifted up in a bear hug.
"Really??? oh my gosh thank you thank you!" Ranea just gasped for air and kicked futility at the air.
"I cant breath!" She wheezed, breathing in deeply as she was once again placed on the ground.
"Oops sorry."
"Its alright" She said, as fast as she could while still catching her breath.
The next day as the two introduced Ellessa to the other skepluvia they talked. Apparently one of Eriks friends' cousins' half sister (what did I say about small towns) had tried to get a pygmy skepluvi as a pet. They thought they found a reliable breeder but as Ellessa grew from the proper feeding they gave her they realized she wasn't a pygmy at all. They kept her for a while longer worried the queen might hurt their daughter until Eriks friend saw him reading a skepluvi book and told him about Ellessa, and he took the queen off their hands. It was love at first sight between the two but with only a large backyard Erik had to find something less temporary. He rang all the farms in what used to be wild skepluvia country, seeing if any still looked after them, until one directed him to call Calla Lily farm.
(577/100)
(Sorry for the huge thing, just decided I may as well write down some of my head canon for the two here rather than forgetting to ever write it)
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