[Kiel]

Kiel was still sulking a little bit, and muttering to himself about how hard it was to be friends with some people when all they did was glare and pull him down, so, like, he was totally unaware that Lucas was still following him until the dude jumped out and screamed down his ear.

“Wah!”

Well, like, okay, so the dude didn't scream or jump. Just kinda talked normally, actually. But, like, since Kiel was completely oblivious to the guy's presence, he may as well have dropped a piano on Kiel's head or something, you know?

“Like, way to give me a heart attack, man.” He even clutched at his heart as if the thing was gonna burst out of his chest, for sers. Then looked behind him, glanced at Lucas, then behind him again, like his brain was trying to connect the dots. “Like, I thought you ditched me, man.” Hadn't the dude just basically said he didn't want to be Kiel's friend any more? Like, Kiel couldn't understand why all that well, but he knew some people just didn't get on, you know? Knew, too, that, like, you know. Some people just couldn't handle the oodles of awesome that oozed out of him.

Like, right.

Still, he wasn't gonna look a friend horse in the mouth and stuff, you know? Like, for one, that'd be kinda gross and way kinky. For another, for some reason, like, he wasn't making friends over here and with Zeph busy, he was crazy lonely, man. Lucas might be a big fat meanie head like his boyfriend, but he was still following Kiel around, right? So, like, that meant they could be friends, right?

“Like, are you a stalker or something, man? 'cause, you know, my boyfriend's crazy big, hahaha.” Like he hadn't told the dude that Zeph could take him a million times already?

[Lucas]

Lucas considered taking a stance and demanding that Kiel took him to his boyfriend at once so he could rectify the kid's belief that he could thoroughly hand Lucas his ass. But...well, he might not be able to, so it probably wasn't the best idea. He was still roughed up a little, and couldn't be sure that even a measure as drastic as this would cause Kiel to stop insisting his boyfriend was such a macho-man. He figured the only way to put up with this was to simply humour him.

“Yes, I still find him terrifying. This guy I've never met, or even heard of. But I'm sure he's legendary. Just one of those quiet warrior legends whose victorious battles are kept secret because he's so modest, I'm sure.” Lucas said, a solemn look on his face, which he held for all of about ten seconds before one corner of his mouth became upturned. He genuinely wanted to meet the elusive boyfriend just to shake his hand and express his admiration for putting up with the Kiel - although Lucas had to admit he was becoming more accustomed to the rapid speech, and less irritated by his comments. Next thing he knew he'd be trying to off the boyfriend and date the kid too. He shook his head.

“I'm not stalking you per say, I just don't have a lot on at the moment. I've trained today, and since I don't have anything else to do, I'm hoping you'll be entertaining. You're my performing monkey.” Lucas said with a grin.

[Kiel]

Like, Kiel was pretty sure Lucas was being sarcastic again and that he really wasn't scared of Zeph, but that was okay, man. He didn't expect people to take him seriously all the time, you know? Especially about people they'd never met.

In any case, no matter how much Kiel hero-worshipped Zeph, he didn't really know all that much about him yet. Like, he was usually the one doing all the talking, and the few bits the dude had slipped weren't all that revealing, you know? So, like, it was kinda Zeph's fault that Kiel could only make up stories about him, since he was making it so damned easy for his imagination to run away with him. But it was still kind of a toss up about who actually would win in a fight.

Good thing Kiel wasn't serious about, like, pitting them against each other, hahahaha. Like, for sers, man, he'd been bullied as a kid. He wouldn't honestly threaten someone with the same, and if he was really serious about sticking up for himself, he'd do it himself, you know? Even if it got him pummelled all the way back to the farm.

“Dude!” Skipping over everything else 'cause, like, they'd already had that conversation, Kiel pounced on the one thing guaranteed to get his attention. “Monkeys! Man, I love those guys, you know? Like, they're so cute and fuzzy, hahahaha. and, hey, hey, aren't, like, humans descended from them or something? Which, like, means you're part ape, man, hahahaha!” Like, he got a real kick out of that, man, and scrambled away with his hands tucked into his armpits, trying not to laugh too much that he couldn't be all “Ooh ooh, ah ah!”

[Lucas]

Lucas couldn't help but smile at Kiel's antics - after he rolled his eyes at the kid's childishness, of course.

“It's not like you can talk though kiddo, you look a fair bit like a human yourself...and the impersonation is uncanny, you could go on tour with an impression like that...Kiel, the fast-talking monkey. People would come from miles around to see you...or throw things at you.” Lucas told him, muttering the last few words under his breath as he didn't want to invoke another sulking fit. As they walked, Lucas wondered about Kiel. He talked, an awful lot, especially about his boyfriend who he seemed slightly obsessed with. But despite all the talk, Lucas hadn't really learnt much about this Zeph, except that he was some sort of amazing fighter. Maybe Lucas was expecting too much; it wasn't like he'd known the guy for much more than an hour, so he shouldn't be surprised that he'd not gone into huge detail about his boyfriend...yet Kiel had talked at great length about everything else, which made the lack of talk about Zeph all the more conspicuous by it's absence. Still, it wasn't Lucas's place to pry.

“Right, we must be near to the place now, it seems like we've been walking for ages.” Lucas attempted to change the subject, aware that his long silence may have allowed a bit of awkwardness to creep in. He wasn't really sure if they were near their destination, since he still have no idea where they were going, or the area that they were in. He'd flown over the city a few times, but everything looked different from the air, and his sense of direction had completely surrendered.

[Kiel]

“Ooh ooh eeh. Hahahaha, yeah but,” Kiel acknowledged with a grin. “That's only 'cause, like, my ancestors were trying to be all understanding and, like, walk a mile in a human's shoes or something. I'm actually part lizard.” To prove it, he stuck his tongue out and waggled it. “Ssssss. See? Hahahahaha.”

He wasn't part lizard, of course. His kin and their ancestors would freak all over him if they found out he was calling their species such a derogatory name, but, like, you know. Most 'Vari considered themselves way closer to dragons than humans, any day of the week, even if they were pretty much identical biologically speaking.

Not that Kiel ever paid attention to that kinda thing, though. Like, his biology teacher could have told him they were all descended from space amoeba or something and he wouldn't remember it.

“Dude, like, you gotta have endurance for this job, man, or you'll totally walk your feet right off the ends of your legs, you know? Hahahaha, I wonder if anyone's ever done that for sers? Hey, hey, that's it, right?” For a minute or two, he'd forgotten he was working, haha, and had to, like, check the label on the package he was carrying to remember where they were going, but the number on the door was massive. “Like, you think they could make those numbers any bigger? Hahahahaha, I bet a blind dude could see that, you know?”

Skipping up to the door and coming to a halt with a final hop, Kiel knocked rapidly, paused for a second, then knocked again. “Hey, hey, Luc, man, you wanna do the honours or something? Hahahahaha, last time I was in this part of town this massive dude with, like, a horse totally tried biting me, man. The horse, not the dude. Like, it was a dog or something, but it was massive, man. Coulda swallowed my head whole, you know?” Hopping to one side so Luc had room to get to the door, he held out the package and blinked up at the Anyeli innocently. “Hahahaha, here.”

[Lucas]

Lucas stared blankly down at the passage, and for a moment considered taking it. Then he realised that he wasn't getting paid for this, and so doing Kiel's work for him was beneficial for exactly one person...and it wasn't Lucas. Instead, he gave the kid a withering stare, complete with one cocked eyebrow that said "Are you serious?" To reinforce the point, Lucas hopped off of the stoop and snapped out his wings, something that was quite an impressive sight when executed fluently. Feeling the wind gently teasing the feathers on his wing tips, he realised it was time to go. The day was getting on, and he didn't enjoy flying at night so much; not enough light meant not realising you were going straight through a cloud, although the soaking a few feet in made it pretty obvious.

“No can do kiddo, I've got things to do and people to see. Or should that be the other way round?” Lucas pondered for a moment with a flash of a wicked grin.
“Besides, I'd hate to keep your boyfriend waiting.” Lucas teased, knowing his words would provoke just the right type of reaction from the young dude. Lucas took a further step back, and received a dirty look from a women who narrowly dodged his outstretched wings.

“I'll see you later dude.” Lucas gave a mini salute and crouched, before springing himself upwards and pushing down hard with his wings to gain quick height. With a final swoop, he disappeared into the sky, still chuckling.

[Kiel]

“Awwwww, man, okay. Like, when you gotta go, you gotta go, hahahahahaha.” He wasn't gonna give the dude's innuendo the time of day, though, haha. Like, Luc already thought he was hot stuff, you know, with the sarcasm and everything. No way Kiel was gonna stroke his ego.

“Hey, hey, man, you get your grubby mitts off my boyfriend! You guys can glare at each other, but, like, I totally draw the line at, like, anything else, man.” The dude was already winging away, though, and totally left Kiel eating his dust.

“Like, dude. That was so cool, man,” Kiel said in awe as the door opened behind him.

“Excuse me? What are you doing on my doorstep?”

“Wah, hahahahaha, dude, dont' sneak up on a guy like that, man.” What was it with folk sneaking up on him today? “Here, here, I'm delivering this. From, like, you know.” Dude, he'd forgotten who sent it. Oh, right, that rude chick who'd collared him in the street. Except he couldn't say that. “So hi! Here, can you, like, sign this for me, man? Thanks.”

It didn't take long to hand over the package and get his sheet signed. This Macy Grey was way nicer than whoever'd sent the package, too, 'cause she totally gave him a tip. And then he was back on his rounds, all by himself, and wondering who he could bug by text for the afternoon.

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