<span style="color: #FF8000">Nii looked up as she held the strawberry in her mouth. Her hand just frozen there as she listened to Arella speaking. Tilting her head to the side. Then to the other side. Her mouth mostly around the strawberry. She looked from Arella to Millicent. She blinked a bit. She stuffed it in her mouth and just stared at Millicent. Tooked away? She didnâ€™t want to be tooked away. She wanted to stay here with her new best friend. She wanted to stay here. She stuck her thumb in her mouth and started sucking on it. She didnâ€™t understand what Arella meant by her mommy was gone. Wasnâ€™t mommy just sleeping? Maybe she was gone. She had never woken up. It made her head hurt trying to comprehend and analyze this. Making her whimper in pain. She closed her eyes. Her head hurt. It hurt to force her mind to work extra hard to understand. Which caused for just a brief moment a burst of wind to blow through the entire resturaunt before it died down.<br/><br/>She had the ability for magic yet had not learned to control it. Her mommy never had time to teach her this. So it reacted to her emotions. Randomly using one. The only one she could somewhat control was the healing and only for minor boo boos and ouchies. She opened her eyes and watched Millicent show tender love and affection. She looked down. Mommy never really showed that sort of thing. She would say I love you once in awhile but...she always seemed too afraid to say it. She looked sad as she remembered that. Mommy hadnâ€™t been as openly loving and expressive of this love as Millicent was with her best friend Arella. She was soon over it and back to eating the fruit and whipped cream. She finished that and licked her fingers.<br/><br/>Looking back to Arella as she heard her talking to her again. She watched her with the syrup. Curiously sticking a finger in the sticky honey colored mess of goo that was covering not only the pancakes but most of the plate too. She stuck her pointer finger in her mouth and sucked on it. Her eyes lit up. That was yummy! She had never tasted such a delicious sweetness before. She then studied the syrup container. Then to Arellaâ€™s plate. Then to her own plate. Then to the syrup container. Then to Arellaâ€™s plate. She repeated this process numerous times before it seemed to click. This obviously noted by the way her face lit up as if having just come up with a brilliant observation. She did as Arella had done. Making an even bigger mess. She then went back to watching Arella. Picking up the fork and nommed on it. She never really used silverware before. Everything her mommy had ever given her never needed silverware. Except one time when she was given soup.<br/><br/>She then copied what Arella was doing. Except she held the fork in her fist instead of the way you were supposed to have a fork. â€œYuuum yuumm.â€ She said happily. Eating more of the pancake.</span><br/><br/><br/>Rico watched the girlâ€™s interactions. It seemed that children like Nii could learn much quicker from a child their own age then if an adult was teaching them. It seemed quite likely...as they could relate easier. Still...it amazed him that Nii could catch on so quickly even with her disability. It showed it was something that as she got older would not be an extremely huge hinderence. This was not to say it would not affect her life. That it would not always be there. Disabilities like Niiâ€™s did not go away but they could become controlled to an extent. He figured that it was highly possible that Nii was learning so quickly from Arella because she was so vibrantly showing and explaining it to Nii. In terms Nii could understand. Whereas an adult would unintentionally explain it like they would to someone else. Or to a child without that disability.<br/><br/>He focused in on Millicent again when she started staring at him. That is when he noticed her mouth was hanging open for a bit of time. He noticed when her brows furrowed. He could almost see the gears moving in the womanâ€™s head. Just not what those gears were moving over. He waited patiently. Blinking at the question but then quickly smiled. â€œIndeed. I am not human. Hence why I said human laws and human ways.â€ He listened as Arella and Millicent had a family conversation. Beginning to eat his food after muttering a blessing under his breath in a mixture of Italian and Greek.<br/><br/>He then looked once again at Millicent. Chuckling as she spoke about the eggs. â€œI can see your point. I happen to like eggs. Yet I can understand why you would not.â€ he finished his eggs and started in on the bacon. He looked at her. â€œThen you should adopt her. Make it official and legal so they have no say in what happens to her.â€ He shrugged a bit. â€œIt is not my place to actually make you do that. Yet it seems to be a logical solution.â€ He nodded his head. â€œYet...within a childâ€™s tale you can learn quite a bit. For children usually do not lie. Within all their tales is one or more grains of truth. One or more important facts.â€ he smiled a bit. â€œI do appreciate this meal.â€ He said. Continuing to eat.<br/><br/>He thought for a moment. Looking at the three ladies across from him. Well technically one lady and two little girls. Semantics really. He wondered if he should tell her what he was. If he did perhaps he should leave out the tiger part. He puzzled over this. â€œAh. Yes. You were asking about my race.â€ He smiled a bit. â€œI, milady, am an elven male. I grew up in Italy and Greece.â€ He smiled a bit.