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Colors exploded in every direction that Llujah looked as he entered the aviary. Many odd and brilliantly colored birds took to the air as he and Belinda walked through the park, making a rainbow of feathers fall from the sky. Llu smiled and spun around in the falling cascade of feathers in delight. This was his first time in an aviary, and the sight of all of the birds was enough to lift his spirits to the brim. His tail wagged happily as he skipped through the park hand-in-hand with Belinda. He began to wander over to a small greenhouse where a special exhibit was being displayed. He looked to Belinda with pleading eyes and the Eilian smiled. "Go on ahead, Llu. I'll be right out here." Llu grinned and nodded, dashing off to the greenhouse.

When he got inside, he could see that the small building was built like a tropical rain forest with birds to match. He followed a small path winding through the building and stopped at a small stand where an employee was selling sticks of bird seed. Llu walked up to the stand and pointed at one of the sticks. "Can I have one of those?" The employee smiled at the odd boy. "Sure. They cost one dollar." Llu nodded and handed over a one-dollar bill in exchange for the stick of seed. The employee smiled. "Now, just be careful with the birds." Llu smiled. "Mmkay!" As he held the stick, several birds began to flock around him and peck at the seeds. The spawn giggled and held out the stick for the birds to eat.

Llu smiled as the bird continued nibbling on the seed stick until it looked up abruptly and glanced around, eventually resting it's gaze on a figure in the shadows. Startled, the bird took off, leaving Llu on the ground, feeling rather confused. He turned around and looked in the direction that the bird was looking and spotted a young man, older than himself, sitting in the corner being rather suspicious. Llu hesitated. He was always told not to talk to strangers, and yet this particular stranger didn't seem all that strange. Rather, he looked lonely to Llujah, sitting all by himself. Llu smiled and walked over to the young man, sitting down beside him.

As he seated himself, Llujah was able to get a good look at the boy. He was tall, taller than Llu, and he had two odd red tentacles coming from his hips. They reminded Llu of the tentacles that Adelle had when he went shopping with her a while back, only these were red and had odd looking bone-like structures on them. Besides the tentacles, Llu noticed that this odd boy had a third eye in the middle of his forehead. All of these were very odd, as was the fact that this boy looked a lot like Adelle. How strange... After noting and logging all of these facts and ignoring his desire for tentacles of his own, Llu finally spoke to the young man. "Hi. What're you doing, sitting all by yourself? Aren't you lonely?"

Llu smiled at the greeting. At least this odd young man was nice. He wagged his tail happily and smoothed out his skirt. When the boy spoke again, Llu looked up at him curiously. He then looked back down at the tentacles, who seemed to be holding his hands back. He frowned a bit and gazed at the red things. They looked... almost cruel. He turned his large green and blue eyes to the boy. "Why are they so mean? I wouldn't want tentacles like that, though I still would like tentacles. I just have wings, see?" Llu flapped his small hip-wings, flaunting their uniqueness.

Turning back to the boy and his meanie tentacles, he smiled a bit. "Your tentacles are like the tentacles that one of my friends has. Her's are kind of small, but one of them is super mean and hit me once." Llujah pouted at the memory of that odd encounter, then once again focused on the boy. He smiled kindly. "My name is Llujah! What's yours?"

Llujah looked to the boy curiously. "From your dad? Does he have tentacles, too?" His daddy... didn't sound too nice if he had a big temper. Llujah didn't want to meet him. But if this guy had a daddy, then... "What's your mama like," Llu asked out of the blue. He smiled proudly. "My mama is really nice and pretty and awesome! Sometimes she can get pretty mad, 'specially when I break something I shouldn't have, but I bet your daddy gets even madder. It sounds kind of scary." Llu shuddered at the thought of someone being even scarier than his mama when they get mad.

Llu looked back up to the boy and grinned in realization. "You know Adelle, too?! That's so cool! She's so nice and cool, huh? She took me shopping once and bought me a super pretty dress and some pretty pants!" Llu's wings fluttered and his tail twitched in his excitement. This guy knew Adelle! How cool was that?

Llu smiled at Iah. "Iah, huh? That's a really cool name! Nice to meet you, too!"

Llujah smiled and tried to imagine what Iah's mama looked like. Whenever he tried, though, he couldn't help but think of his own mama with white tentacles on her hips. He started to drift off at that image until Iah spoke again and Llu caught the word "he." The Greed spawn's eyes widened and he looked at Iah, confused. "...Did you mean 'she?' 'Cause you said 'he' when you mentioned your mama..."

With what Iah said next, Llujah caught yet another key word: "Fitzroy." Llujah pursed his lips and fluttered his wings, slightly confused and somewhat irritated. "You're a boy, right? Why'd ya kiss another boy? And why did you kiss Fitzyroy? He's my friend and I know him, so... I'm confused."

Llu smiled a bit at Iah. "Adelle's your sister? That's kind of cool!" He chuckled and swished his tail. "And that does sound a bit strange, yeah."

Llujah listened patiently and curiously as Iah explained about his own "mama." "I guess that makes... a bit of sense. After all, my mama can only have babies with another lady 'cause she's an Ee-Eilan, so I guess it can make sense that your mama daddy mom can have babies with a man." Llu nodded and smiled.

The Greed spawn blinked. "Well... I-I dunno. I guess it's weird, but it's not bad..." He waged his tail thoughtfully. "As long as you're happy, it's okay, right? That's what my mama says. Even if people say that it's not okay or it's against what they believe, if you and the other person are both happy, then it's okay." Llu smiled kindly.