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It made sense. She had been protected, shielded, from the sun for so long that her already sensitive blood had to be much more sensitiveness then before. She guessed if she had been out there forever since she was young it might be better. Not much for her, but it made sense why it wasn't bad for the Earthlings.

"I might have to do something about that. Although this cloak helps with the keeping the sun off my skin it is pretty hot and uncomfortable. Plus I feel like I look like I'm up to no good." she laughed at the last part. Hooded figures always looked suspicious to her, so she could only imagine what she looked like to the earthlings being hooded and so tall.

The woman found the things and Ilyra paid for them, thanking the woman.

"Well I have a pestle and mortar back at my camp..." But she didn't want to leave the other girl. She was hurt, and although Ilyra wasn't the one who did it it was her kind. Her kind and Ming'we's kind. But Ming'we hadn't said anything when she asked if the other girl would accompany her to her homeland. She didn't want to push it, but Ming'we hadn't said no either so it wasn't entirely off the board.

"I know," she defended herself, "but in my case I don't always get to choose comfort over protection. I'm not entirely sure that even if covered by the fabric that is used here that my skin would be protected enough. Hence my keeping the coat. I haven't been brave enough, or uncomfortable enough, to try to do without it." Part of her wanted to try, the coat was getting worse and worse, but she had blisters before and they hurt. She wasn't sure being comfortable was worth that risk.

Ilyra's smile brightened at Ming'we's question, and she didn't even have to answer when the other girl gestured for them to get going. "I really appreciate it. I accounted for many things about traveling, but I didn't think about how lonely it would get. I've always had others with me while I traveled, so I didn't think about how much silence there would be. Sometimes it's nice, you can hear the world around you, but sometimes it is just daunting."

"I was at first." she admitted sheepishly. She knew it was dangerous, but it was so nice to be able to see the stars when she slept at night. "But since I normally sleep during the day to avoid the sun I try to sleep places that are covered since they are darker. I bought a cloth with some rope to tie and make a shelter, and although I'm pretty sure it was intended to use for when it rained I use it to stay hidden." Thankfully it blended into the trees pretty well, that was when she found trees to hide in. After the small issue she encountered on her way she tried to keep as hidden as possible, and not stop too sleep until she found somewhere to hide.

"Oh Ming'we I promise you won't regret it. I'll be a good travel buddy." The fact that despite it all Ming'we was still willing to travel with her, even with her being a gull blooded Alkidike, meant that all hope was not lost. She hadn't completely turned her back on that side of her. At least that was how Ilyra chose to take it. "How far is it too where you're from?"

She laughed at the other girls reaction. They hadn't known each other for long, and Ilyra was started to regret that. Ming'we was kinda funny, even if Ilyra doubted that was what she was meaning to be. She knew that she was a hopeless case, but it was amusing to see someone else recolonizing that. "Sounds like a plan, and I'll provide you with company. Well you'll be doing that to me, but I'm sure that you can't like being alone all that much." After all if she didn't she wouldn't be going back to her homeland, she would be going off to live like a hermit.

"Sounds like a plan. That isn't that long really. Do you have a home waiting for you over there?" She wasn't sure how hard it was to build homes in Sauti, or if there were empty ones waiting for people to move into.

"For some time after Tahi was gone I liked to be alone, I didn't even want the company of my mother, but then I met my half sister and things kind of changed. Meeting her and talking to here changed my outlook on things a bit. She's been through hard times, she lost both her mothers, but she was going on and helping an earthling find out about their past in the process. I don't know what exactly what it was, but after meeting with her something inside of me just seemed to clicked and I didn't want to be alone any more."

"If you're now just a wind earthling then you belong here just like them." She commented. If Ming'we wanted to think of herself that way then Ilyra thought it should apply to all aspects of her life. "Although I've never built a house in Sauti I've helped build ones back at home. I can help if you want. I have no set time limit for where I go and it can be my payment for you keeping me alive out here."

She nodded when Ming'we apologized. She was sorry as well. Sorry that she wasn't able to do anything to stop it all from happening.

When she seemed surprised that Ilyra had a sibling the albino shrugged her shoulders. "I didn't know either actually. I was raised alone so when I found out I had a sister I was shocked. Turns out that soon after I ran away to live with Briella my birth mother had a child with a shifter hybrid. From what I understand it was purely to have a child, but Aisha granted them my sister. Even when I met up with my birth mother when I was older she never told me I had a sister. It would've been nice getting to know her growing up, but it's nice to know I have a sister now."

She watched as Ming'we acted strangely, but the topic was soon switched to house building. "I can help with that then, it shouldn't be that hard, as long as you want my help that is."

She shrugged. "You met me when I was a little older, so I didn't brag about it as much. My birth mother did as well as she could with me, I know that now, but at the time it was to constricting. I couldn't take it, and as a youngling I ran away. I got lost and Briella found me. She took me back to the island, where she was given custody over me. I now know I was a little harsh on my birth mother. But I wouldn't change anything, Breilla was a wonderful mother to me."

"Yes, keep me busy while I figured out what to do next." She didn't know how long she wanted to travel before going home, or if she even wanted to go back to where she once called home.