“Excuse me” Hoshi mumbled. A pale hand stopped short of touching the black feathers lining the blonde’s wings, “What are you doing…?”

“Ahmm…” The light haired girl in question blinked before grinning awkwardly, “I like your wings?”

“…Okaaay…”

Standing straight, she placed her hands behind her back as her hair went from a light lavender to a deep violet. Which, in turn, caused Hoshi to cock an eyebrow.

“I don’t have wings, but I like wings. But I don’t have wings”

“Yes you’ve established that”

“Established what?”

“You don’t have wings”

“You don’t have to rub it in” She pouted.

“I didn’t- I, ugh…”  Hoshi rubbed between his eyes, “Nevermind” He turned with a wave of his hand and began to continue on his way. He blinked when suddenly the girl was at his side (who’s hair seemed to begin to pale again),

“What’s your name?”

“Uh, why do you want to know?”

She shrugged before smiling,

“Dunno!”

“…Ah…Hoshi” After getting only a nod in response, a moment of silence passed before he discovered she wasn’t going to volunteer anything. He let out a sigh, “What’s your name?”

“Aniya” She spun around and began walking backwards in front of him, “Buuut you can call me something else if you’d prefer! Liiike… An ooor Ani ooor Yaya ooor…no that sounds sort of weird huh-? WAH!” Obviously not able to see where she was going, Aniya stepped on a rogue rock in their pathway and fell flat on her back.

“Um…watch your step?”

“Y…eah…thanks for the heads up…” She groaned.

“S’what I’m here for” Hoshi leaned over and grabbed a hold of Aniya’s wrists, yanking her to her feet. Of course, being graceful, she stumbled and fell against his chest.

“Eh…hehe…hi”

“Hi… Your hair’s changing again” He noted, taking a few strands of her darkening hair in his hand.

“…Nuh-uh”

“Yeah huh” He stood her straight again, “What you think I’m blind? I’ve got two good eyes, unlike you” He tapped the bandages concealing her right eye.

“Hey now” She frowned, “That was uncalled for” She covered the bandaged area dramatically, “I’m very sensitive about my eye!”

“…I don’t believe you”

“…Okay yeah. I lied. But it still wasn’t cool”

“Yeah okay, now seriously. S’with the hair?” He placed his hand atop her head and forced it to tilt to the side as she blinked owlishly, “You got yourself ‘mood hair’ or something?”

“…Ahh…”

“…You do don’t you? Hell that was my joke guess” He tilted her head back and cocked his head to the side, “Huh, that’s rather fascinating”

“May I have control of my head again?”

“Mm…no. I’m not done” He forced her head to face down before leaning in to get a look at the back.

“It’s the same all around!”

“Well now I know that for a fact now don’t I?”

“I’m not liking you so much right now”

Hoshi released her head and pushed her forehead to return her head to it’s proper placement before stepping past her. She blinked before turning on her heel and following him, staying behind him this time. Glancing behind himself, Hoshi noticed Aniya walking leaned over.

“…What are you doing now? Looking at my ass?”

“No. You have a tail”

“Very good. H-Hey!” He whipped around, causing his tail to slip from Aniya’s hands, “You don’t just grab somebody’s tail without asking!”

“…But it’s smooth and pointy. I rather like it”

“May I ask just how much sugar you ingest in a day?”

Choosing to ignore the sugar inquiry, Aniya held her chin in thought.

“What the hell are tails used for?”

“Uh…”

An unspoken thought came to Aniya, shown in her sudden surprised look on her now rosy face and the unreadable endless change in her hair between deep violet and some other shades of it.

“Ah Aniya’s thinking bad things!” She then took off past him, leaving him blinking at nothing.

“…You’re very strange. I rather like it”

Aniya stopped abruptly in her tracks, wobbling a little but not falling flat on her face today.

“What was that?”

“Nothing”

“Liar! You said something~!”

Hoshi stepped past her,

“Hair’s pink”

“Ehuh?” She grabbed a fistful of her hair to look at, “Hey lookit that!” She turned and quickly followed him, “See see, that means you make me happy!” She explained.

“I do huh?”

“Yesmm. Apparently!”

“Okay so what’s the purple/pinky one mean, eh?” Hoshi inquired, wiggling his fingers above her head.

“Ahmm…nevermind. SO! Where you going can I come?”

“If I say no…you’ll follow me anyway, right?”

“Mm…it’s a pretty good possibility, I’d say”

“I thought so. Ah, are you like this with everybody, all the time?”

“You mean weird, yes?”

“Among other things, yes”

“Nah, makes for an interesting first impression though huh?” Aniya grinned, leaning into his shoulder.

“Oh yeah, you’re making one hell of an impression alright” Hoshi shoved her shoulder away with his.

“Admit it, you want me around! You could easily fly away and leave me here!”

“I could”

“…But you won’t right?”

“I might”

“Don’t be mean!” She placed her hands behind her back, “I’ll be calm”

“…Stop looking at my tail”

“Sorry”