LUCEM
Lix Chapter

It feels like a few hours in this house. No meaningful talks have taken place since our arrival. The woman didn't come back to see me after the tea.

I think he might just be interested in something I don't know 'of me' yet'.

My name was not something written in the morning paper or shouted on the radio channel, but the woman greeted me as if she had had my name long in mind.

I approached Marbella in the room that would be our room while in this house. Again the decoration of the image of vines throughout the room, different is just the basis of color on the paper, pink. And the floor was left naked. A mattress covered in blankets with many motifs such as thick bread arranged in boxes, very tempting me to jump there.

"Don't do that, we're not good at iron-stringing if it's scattered," Marbella was like reading my mind.

"Ok, alright. Let's sit down then," I asked.

Marbella sat with her legs folded on the bed and I sat on a dangle.

"He looks beyond us." Marbella.

I frowned. Look up.

“I'm talking about that woman, Magenta. Its ability to see long distances,” Marbella said.

He took a pencil from my hand and played it. “What an amazing skill. Magenta's supernatural ability to see long distances was what convinced me of Maya's queen's threat from the start. A few days ago, when our rat friends—Marbella took a breath.

He used the data to pinpoint the exact location of our mice in brackets. He had spent so much time searching for them that he could get a picture of the condition of the mice and send it to me. He can also see our father and mother, which is the thing I care about the most Marbella's voice slowed down.

Although the glint of their lives is not entirely clear, but alive and stable, this picture may not be very much guaranteed, but I am willing to take the slightest chance whatever it is," Marbella stared blankly at the wall.

"Queen Maya?" My question made Marbella turn her head.

“Peach, yes. Magenta is great, ”he said, stretching his body and laying down on the bed.

I didn't repeat my question. Which brings me back to the starting point. The rat troop, father and mother, they'll be fine. And other things will find the answer and then everything will be fine. I promised it with my determination. The world owes me at least that much, right?”

"Marbi, can you guess how old Magenta is?"

"They are about the same age as mom and dad" Marbella replied.

I turned. "really?"

Marbella nodded.

"It turns out my guess was wrong" I muttered.

"I've guessed it. Look at your sparkling eyes when you see them" said Marbella.

"I don't shine" I argued.

"You can't lie to your super brother" said Marbella.

"Maybe just stupefied" I replied slowly.

"You must not have guessed his age, right? Just like Moonflower who had occupied space for so long, froze in her age when she started jumping in" Marbella said.

"What do you mean you believe that Moonflower is really three hundred years old?" manya curious.

"That's a thousand and three hundred years more, and he settled in twenty-one years physically" Marbella explained.

"So how old is Magenta?" my many.

"Eh, why are you so enthusiastic? Are you trying to ignore the man Magenta was with? You're such a brave man, Daughter," Marbella made an annoying look of admiration while sitting in front of me.

"Well...,"

"He was probably around thirty-five to forty years old physically, that's my guess" Marbella said.

"Very pretty at that age, hmm... La bella Magenta" I stuck my hand in the air.

Marbella laughed, kicking my legs. " You're going to hurt the feelings of Simonetta Cattaneo's fans, brother."

'What is it about beauty, one day I wonder, what makes men think that they deserve to want you? That beauty means you automatically agree, somehow, to be coveted, desired? That your beauty belongs to everyone?' Marbella quoted a popular phrase about the beauty queen.

I took the tip of the blanket and shaped it immediately into a flower, then knelt handing it to Marbella.

Marbella grabbed the flower and kissed it before throwing it back at me.

"La bella Marbella" I said, stealing the poet's tone.

We laughed together. Marbella lay back. "Don't be Giuliano, okay? I'll accompany you to play 'admiring', so we just have to admire that beauty to taste, agree?"

"Again," I welcome Marbella's curvy little finger.

I lie down on Marbella's side, she turns. He's messing up my hair. "Big cow, you keep sticking to me. Who's the girl who'll be willing to look after you someday?"

"Cat crazy, I haven't even seen a man dare approach you. I'm afraid I'll have to look after you for the rest of my life" I looked up at the ceiling of the room my brother was looking at.

"You care too much, but thank you for volunteering" Marbella said.

"Blame you for being my unsold brother" I said.

"Did you just curse me, brother?" Marbella.

"No" I answered. Reversing my body alert.

And the rush of cunning landed on my body was inevitable. He's too great, I don't have a chance to retaliate and can only survive.

The attack ended after repeated pleas of mercy and tears in my eyes. Laughter subsides.

"Aaaah, so tired.let's go to bed," asked Marbella.

I lay down next to Marbella. "Marbi, are we going to meet mom and dad soon?"

There's no answer. I turned my head, and saw that the cat was purring softly. His voice is almost continuous. Marbella once said that snoring is a mechanism to keep the bones and muscles of the cat in top condition. But to me his snoring has become a nonverbal communication between us, I can naturally distinguish the type of snoring Marbella, either when she feels calm and comfortable or snoring when she is disturbed, anxious or treating the pain.

If he refuses to answer me while awake, then I will look for the answer while he sleeps.

It's just that sometimes my little brother alienates himself before he starts snoring, and that gives me a definite explanation that he's not okay and may be feeling scared. At that time, I will be somewhere that will not disturb his sleep.

"Good night, Marbi. Sleep well, I'm here. Do whatever you want. Act silly. Be naive. Be unexpected. Be a good man. Be ignorant of nothing. Be the one who is always enthusiastic. Wanna know. Be weird. You can be all that while remaining smart and sensitive. I'll take care of you forever, brother."

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