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Pinging a message out from his senshi phone, Erinome gathered up some fruit in a little cloth and carried it with him. Sneaking out had become commonplace but after his last adventure, he’d figured that the other slept for the most part heavily. As long as he kept quiet and avoided the spots that wreaked on the stairs he could get out without worrying them too much even if he felt a bit guilty about it.

Once he’d made it far enough away, he took out his senshi phone again and let them know he was close to the little park that had a nice thing called a garden in it. It was apparently an area of flowers and plants that people were allowed to touch, as long as they didn’t damage or steal them all. Feeling a bit soured about it, he took a seat on one of the benches and opened the little cloth-wrapped bundle of fruit. He’d grabbed starfruits, dragon fruits, and some of the berries Ian had gotten him.

After the last time, he was feeling like talking about the questions they had asked might help him figure things out. It was all really complicated and he needed to figure something out because he really was stuck with things. Ian was so nice and helpful, it was apparent how much they cared because they kept bringing him to Chaldene and kept trying to make sure he didn’t get sick or hurt. But there was still that feeling, the fact that they had been Amel, that had him conflicted. It was hard to detangle Amel from Ian and it wouldn’t be fair to either if he thought of them as one and the same. It was why he’d been trying to talk more, drink more water, and eat more things to help with his throat so that he could get more than a few words out without soreness. He’d never be as wordy as he could be via text but he figured it might be easier over time if he made himself speak more.

Looking up, Erinome smiled and nodded. “Mhm Good to see you too.” The small little moth senshi scooted over to give them more space to sit if they wanted as he sat with the bundle of fruit in his lap. He unwrapped it a bit and held up a handful of blueberries. “Brought snacks.”

His fingers were still stained a bit from the ones he’d snacked on earlier and he had remembered to bring a small knight to cut up the dragon fruit just like Ian had shown him. It was so interesting how all the fruits on this planet had vastly different ways they had to be handled in order to be eaten.

“Need help… it’s about half truth boyfriend.” That was the best way he could think about bringing up the topic as he watched them. “Complicated…” Which was probably an understatement but he wanted to see if they might have an idea as someone who grew up here on this planet.

Pulling his legs up, he sat cross-legged on the bench while not taking up too much more room. It helped that he was short at times like this. He looked over all the different colored bags of seeds and tilted his head in confusion at some of the names. “What is ranch? Or Taco?” Picking up one of the bags, he sniffed it and made a face. Just the smell burned almost like it was something with pepper or… spicy that was the word. He set the bag back down and went for one that said original which he figured meant normal.

Once he had that in his lap he nodded and tried to think again before speaking, his words slow with pauses between as he bumbled through things. “This Chaldene used to be the old Chaldene I knew. But they aren’t anymore but still feel like them?” Shaking his head he wasn’t sure if that was something that made sense since it hadn’t made as much sense to Xander when Ian had tried to explain either.

“Same but not the same… hard to separate the who was and is.” Shrugging, he shoved a few seeds in his mouth before remembering the empty baggie in his subspace. He figured it might be rude to spit things out on the ground so he’d put the shells in the bag to throw away later. Julienne and Ian had been teaching him more about how things were on this planet and he was slowly picking up on it.

It made sense, maybe he might try some of the other ones that weren’t that spicy flavor. Spitting the shells into his empty bag he tried some of the other ones and found most of them completely foreign in taste which left him conflicted on how he felt and it showed on his face as he tried each one out.

Pausing in his snacking, Erinome scrunched his face up as he tried to think. Dating was a new word but he figured he had an idea on what it meant since it was a less serious version of being married which was the cover story Xander had said to use. “Together yes… Don’t know what happened to them. Got cut off by chaos…” Trailing off at the end he looked up at the stars and wondered still what might have happened but Ian didn’t know and he wasn’t sure who else might know.

“Both read, are kind, and patient. But different.” They had similar looks but it wasn’t exact which was why he’d gotten better at not calling them Amel even if they hadn’t seemed to mind. He didn’t think it was fair that they were okay with it since they weren’t them even if they felt like them. It didn’t make sense to him which was why he was stuck probably.

“Maybe too kind… feel bad. Don’t want to hurt them.” And it didn’t help that he kept sneaking out and nearly getting in trouble while they slept since they had to be awake during the day unlike him.

Blinking, he felt a bit confused at the terms and it still shocked him a bit that that much time had passed with him sleeping. That and he really hadn’t gotten to figure much out about what had happened during things while helping on Daedalus. It was a chaos-tainted planet much like his own but he hadn’t gotten much information on what was going on while helping and afterward, he hadn’t been able to do much of anything about following up with anyone really.

Taking a break from the seeds to eat some more berries, he pulled out the bottle of tea that was always stocked in the fridge. It helped since he was still getting used to talking, it was something he never really had to do much of ever even back with the old Chaldene. There was just that understanding or he’d been able to write letters or things to get his point across and it had worked out. Now instead of letters it was text but it was something he was glad they had showed him to make up for his silence.

“Not sure… I like them but… I miss the old. Never got to…” Scrunching his face up he was trying to think of the word. “Mourn?” Since Amel had died one way or another while he’d been stuck sleeping in those thorny brambles. Maybe it would get better in time but he still really liked Ian but was it only because they felt like Amel? It was confusing and he didn’t know how to feel about it but maybe he should ask them. They’d only really met him out of the blue and had taken him in without really asking much. Even going along with the idea that they were married because he’d made a mistake when deciding on a last name for his disguise as a human.

Sighing he looked down at the bottle as he sipped at it. “Lonely I guess but worried to ask.” Because he had felt cut off from everything when he’d made it here and still did from time to time as more things were just so foreign to him. But at least Hamal was kind too and so was Xander and Ian. He’d only met one bad human so far really and even then he felt like maybe they weren’t the worst.

Nodding he fiddled with the loop on the bottle for a moment. He hadn’t thought about it, but it might help him figure things out. It probably would help him feel better about sleeping in the bed by the other which probably was odd for humans who weren’t dating as Hamal had called it. At least he felt like it might be based one some things he’d seen in the games he’d been playing on the little thing that Ian had gotten him.

“Thank you… humans… are so different.” His face scrunched up again as he thought about it all. Everything was so complicated here but then again maybe it wasn’t that they were complex but that he never had to think about the more complicated things back then on his planet or with Amel. It had just been easy to be around them and in the same way it was easy to be around Ian.

“Seeds are good though too, thank you.” Holding up the bag of the just plain salted ones, he ended up liking those the best so far. The rest were too strong of a flavour for him when it came down to it. “Can I have the rest? Can bring you more snacks next time?” Because he did enjoy their company too even if he was still figuring out how to talk to people.

He had a lot to think about tonight though and he did want to get back and maybe poke Ian to ask him things. It just depends on how tired they might be but he didn’t think they worked tomorrow so maybe it would be alright if he woke them up.