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[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

The sensoriums were often used to recreate people's homes--this meant familiar Earth imagery for most. But Devlin had grown up in a space colony, and Earth had been a very new and dangerous place for him at first.

So now, he wanted to show Hikari his old home. The small buildings and streets lined with trees looked like any neighborhood on Earth, but the sky overhead was covered with a transparent biodome. Outside were swirling golden clouds and streaks of lightning from the Dragon Storm. The gold clouds, lightning, and high winds outside the colony were just as familiar to him as blue skies and sunshine were to anyone from Earth.

"What do you think?" he asked.

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[at-a-peak.livejournal.com]

Well, that was...kind of worrying. Had Hikari mentioned a brother before? If she had, somehow it hadn't filtered into the "oh crap, oh crap, oh CRAP!" portion of Devlin's brain until now.

"Good brother?" he guessed.

This was code for "How dead am I? Scale of one to ten?"

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

Hikari giggled a bit. "The best!"

Oh dear Hikari, you really need to learn to read guys a bit more.

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

CRAP.

"That's great," Devlin answered, somehow managing not to broadcast "I'll be over there making out my will now" all over the place.

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it really is," Hikari said. Still completely oblivious. "He's always been looking out for me."

[farfrom-tree.livejournal.com]

I'm dead.

That was the only thing running through his head right now. That he was going to die a horrible, painful death at the hands of Hikari's older brother, who also had a small monster partnered to him that could evolve into a very strong form that would likely crush him easily. Or burn him to a crisp. He kind of hoped for crushing--it was faster and left less time to realize you were in pain before you were dead.

"That's really great," he said.

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

Hikari smiled, moving over and giving Devlin a hug. Not saying anything else for the moment. Right now she was just happy to be here with Devlin and talking to him about her family.

[at-a-peak.livejournal.com]

Devlin hugged Hikari back, doing all he could to hide the looming sense of "Crap, crap, crappity crap!" At the very least, he could take comfort knowing that Hikari's big brother wasn't here right now.

Despite that, the lightning outside the observation dome struck with a loud crack.

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

Hikari smiled, pulling away from Devlin after a few moments. "So, what do you want to do now?"

[at-a-peak.livejournal.com]

"Whatever you want to do," Devlin answered, which was always a safe answer, as long as he didn't have to worry about any older brothers.

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

"Let's go get something to eat then!" Hikari said, moving her hand to grasp Devlin's.

[at-a-peak.livejournal.com]

"Sounds great," Devlin agreed.

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

Hikari smiled again, moving to lead Devlin out of the sensorium.

After all, there was a place where they could get REAL food, so why conjure it and disguise the slop?