Soul Lovers

Incandescent.

Few dexterous and embarrassing moments later.

“Seriously, this color? I have a feeling you knew what you did,” Sniffia complained, her body was glowing pink,

“Hmmm, maybe or maybe not,” Peirce said, as he leads, glowing green.

Reaching the village square, it warmly filled with all sort of welcoming glowing colors, shining brightly, reflecting the whole area as Peirce and Sniffia walked in then he looked at Sniffia as she was amazed by the sight in front of her, “to my opinion, you look kind of… great,” he said with a thumps up, Sniffia clenched her teeth, staring at Peirce with her venomous little eyes, he swallowed, “why did I get a feeling you're thinking about killing me right now,” he said leaning back, Sniffia leaned closer,

“You felt it right.” She concurred, as she sniffed, creeping her hands towards Peirce with an evil smirked.

“You... I... Am-This is the best I could do,” Peirce stammered, suddenly Node came to them, shouting their names, while glowing in purple, behind him Peirce and Sniffia could see the resentfulness gaze in the teenagers eyes from afar, also glowing in various colors.

“Peirce, Sniffia you made it,” he said trying to hug Peirce, Peirce dodged him and was really surprised, then Node looked at Sniffia trying to hug her also, Sniffia took a step back,

"He... called me by my name?" Peirce wondered,

“If you come any closer, you will never make a generation,” she fumed, Node froze, looked between his legs, nodded with a deteriorating half smirked and swallowed,

"... He called me by my name." Peirce kept in mind.

“Well, thanks for telling me beforehand,” Node gasped, then about going, he stopped and narrowed his eyes at Sniffia, “you glow differently,” Peirce skipped a beat, Node walked around Sniffia, placing his hand on his chin, observing.

Peirce went to him,

“Hey, Node, haven’t they call you yet for your naming?” Peirce asked trying to distract him from Sniffia, Node looked at him with a smile,

“Yeah, you are correct, I will be on my... ” suddenly he swiped his finger on Sniffia shoulder, then he licked it, “hmmm, this are glowing ginger slimes, use in my special recipe,” he said, looking at Peirce,

“Your reci-what? I don’t understand what you are saying Node,” Peirce said, Node looked at Sniffia, he studied with a critical squint,

“You are… ” Node took a step towards Sniffia, Peirce and Sniffia were both shocked thinking they might be in trouble, Peirce went to his front,

“I can explain, she is… ”

“She is disable,” Node said, in a pity way.

“She is what?” Peirce thought, then he said, nodding continuously, “yes, she is, she is definitely disabled,” he looked at Sniffia and winked, Sniffia pushed Peirce out of the way,

“What do you mean am disable?" she asked,

Node smiled, “It means you can’t glow like few Inhumane here,” he said then he looked around, “you see here foxy, some Inhumane can’t glow all the time, because of so many reasons; of old age, shyness, sickness, low in nutrients, because of… "

“Wait, who is nutrients, what does it mean?” Sniffia asked out of curiosity,

Node looked at Peirce,

“So unlucky, you haven’t tell her yet. What’s nutrient not who.” Node said with a smile and bowed, “Am Node Lei the only cook in the village or you may say in the entire world,” Node nagged, Sniffia widened her eyes.

"Oh! he's back to his normal self." Peirce thought, smacked his forehead, “Here we go again,”

“I thought they were all extinct, the Beast kingdom killed every last one of them, few hundreds years ago,” Sniffia said,

“Yeah, that is somehow right but lucky me,” Node folded his arms while he stared at Sniffia,

“You mean they are more of you guys!” Sniffia asked,

Node winked at her, “No foxy, I heard from my grandparents, exactly two hundred and sixty three years ago, We cooked the best food in the whole Kingdoms with our secret recipes to please the public and to prevent others from destroying us, then my family were nomads but out of jealousy the Beast kingdom sent for their heads while the remaining surviving Inhumanes escaped with little recipes without the knowledge of cooking, few that could cook tends to cook no more because of the trauma they experienced from the Beast Kingdom." he continued as he held up his fist in the air. "After I was given birth to and at the age of two I cooked my first meal using all sort of ingredients I could find, being a cook whatsoever I prepare on the table will be the sweetest no matter what, so the elders and my parents noticed my strange cooking and declare me the last cook in the whole kingdom, blah, blah, blah.” He put his hands sideways, “look at me am the most luckiest Inhumane in the land,”

“Node?” His friends called him, he turned and nodded, he looked at Sniffia,

“I will be right back, foxy,” he said and left smiling as his queue jingled around behind him. Peirce went to Sniffia,

“Please don’t steal him to your kingdom,” he whispered, Sniffia stared at him,

“Did he not know, he is one of the most wanted being, not only the Beast Kingdom alone but in the whole kingdom outside this village,” she looked at Peirce, “and am not going back, since Lord Jared is... dead, I won’t survive on my own there.” Sniffia said, Peirce widened his eyes,

“You mean, you are staying with us,”

“No, I mean am living here for another place to train on how to kill a dragon,”

Peirce sighed, “Not that again.” He said, rubbing his forehead, suddenly Inhumanes around took their seat facing one female Inhumane standing on the small wooden stage at the centre of the village square, “let’s sit down the naming is about to start,”

Few moments later, at the village square, everyone was seated, “Congratulation Node Lei our new youth leader,” the former youth leader hailed while holding Node's hand with a big grin on both faces then the former youth leader came closer to Node,

“What were you doing with the mudlark, you know he is the reason why the village is in this condition,” she whispered, Node looked at him then at Peirce drawing on a piece of paper, sitting with Sniffia as she looked at the beautiful, entertaining glowing inhumane swinging from tree to tree, then Node sighed and walked away.

-

At where Peirce and Sniffia were seated on a stint seat, Peirce was drawing the stars in the sky, he stopped then stared at Sniffia for a second, Sniffia stared back, Peirce immediately looked at his paper and continued to draw,

“Hey bubbles, why are you staring,” she asked then looked at the paper on Peirce's hand, “seriously, you are drawing the stars and you left this gorgeous glows in front of us, all alone?” pointing at the glowing inhumane then she smiled, “where is Grandma?” she asked, Peirce focused on his drawing while he replied,

“I saw her a moment ago talking with the elders,” Peirce said, Sniffia nodded, she moved closer, Peirce noticed that then he swallowed and moved a inch away,

Sniffia pursed her lips,

“Can I ask you something?” she said,

“Yeah, anything,” Peirce answered while still focused on his drawing,

“Why do the villagers hated you?” she asked, Peirce immediately stopped what he was drawing and looked at Sniffia as both colors on their bodies aglow, lively highlighted on their eyes.