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(after Eli runs away from home, he crashes at Seth's...but not all of Seth's roommates may be happy about this development cool )

Though his walk with Seth had helped work off some of his nervous energy, as the clock drew closer to evening he found himself pacing around the apartment once again. Noe was coming home soon. He'd have to tell his sister...what? That he ran away? That he'd learned things about Shimy that made it so he couldn't quite bring himself to trust her unconditionally anymore?

The worst part was not knowing how she'd react. She might be okay with this...or she might kill him. He didn't really spend enough time with his little sister to feel confident in avoiding a violent scenario.

Were those footsteps? Or was he hearing things?

"Uh...nothing much," Eli answered truthfully, wishing he could read minds. Then again, being able to read emotions hadn't really helped him much so maybe it was better he couldn't... He frantically cast about for something, anything to say other than simply blurting out the sad truth, and settled for, "So...Seth told me you two got engaged. Congratulations~" He was sincerely happy for her, but his overwhelming sense of dread kept him from looking his normal sort of overly cheerful.

"It didn't," Eli said, with a shrug. In fact, even just remembering being told made him color; he supposed it would've been embarrassing in from of anyone, but fainting in front of Seth was a lot better than fainting in front of his sister. But it was once again his own nerves and emotions playing up and he was starting to feel a bit dizzy really...

"Oh, for goodness' sake, Eli, she's not going to bite you or anything." Eli froze, and glanced over his shoulder, only to have his worst fears confirmed--Elti had indeed finally decided to show herself to one of Eli's siblings. As usual, she favored her almost Hyte looking projection, appearing as a young teenage girl of about fifteen, with short layered silvery hair, faunish downturned ears that appeared to be covered in fluff, and a fluffy doglike tail curling up in the back. Eli was slightly alarmed to see Elti had bothered to manifest her horns, which tightly curled around just above her ears--before Elti pushed his side back to face his sister. "Eli left the Cottage. He's staying here for now. That wasn't so hard, was it?"

"Elti," was all he managed to squeak out.

"Get a handle on what you're projecting or you'll just end up hurting yourself again," Elti clarified in a soft voice, putting a hand on Eli's shoulder as she leaned in to speak this in his ear.

Eli took a deep breath, let it out, and faced his sister ruefully. "Elti's right. Um...Noe, this is Elti." She's a world dragon? No, that didn't seem quite right to say...