User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-25808351-20180124030225/@comment-28358106-20180307031046

The question obviously makes Lucida nervous, but in a different way, as if she's lost ground in the conversation.

"Well, um, I...don't exactly g-get to speak to a lot.  Of b-boys, I mean," she says, two of her hands fiddling as she looks down slightly, avoiding eye contact.

"I c-can't dance, so the formals we g-go to, I don't...um...really get to speak to a lot of boys, or anybody really.  I just have to s-stay on the sidelines and keep my tail from b-being stepped on by the waltzers, heh heh.  Mmm.  Um."

She gestures suddenly. "I m-mean, I can understand.  What because I look so different, I mean.  I mean, who has seen a Golem that looks like a four-armed Apophis?  Heh heh.  Mmm."

She continues to fiddle with her hands, setting books aside here and there to try and look busy.

As Marcus goes in, it's not that different than what he's seen before. The smell of succulent cooking wafts in the air, combined with the distant sound of running water, both indicative of Regna preparing dinner. Aegis and Aurum are nowhere to be seen.

But as Marcus enters the living room, he sees Gemmi on Thomas' lap. The tiny Gremlin Golem seems to have just gotten over something, and is rubbing her sniffling nose while Thomas pets her little head and murmurs something to her.