<div style="text-align: justify;">Like it so often does, the darkness got her talking. Hand in hand with the second blanket draped across their shoulders, Alannah pointed out Hercules, Vega, Altaïr, the Lyre, and the Swan that were all floating above them, completely unaware of the meaning they had been assigned by humans. But like you so often do, you run out of words at some point. She rested her head on his shoulder while the nightly silence settled over them. The last thing she remembered was the chorus of crickets in the tall grass singing them to sleep.<br/><br/><div><hr style="height:2px; width:100%; border:0; color: silver;background:silver;"/></div><br/>That next morning in the car, they were both positively giddy. Alannah's eyes were still glued to the passing landscape, but she could clearly feel how excited Dimitri was to be back home again. She smiled a little at the thought. She had never really been that far away from her home, so she hadn't ever experienced the same feeling to the same degree.<br/><br/>At the end of a road that had wound through green fields, a small number of reddish dark wooden buildings showed up. She couldn't stop an excited yelp from escaping her as she spotted more horses in a pen not too far away, grazing peacefully. Gravel crunched under the wheels as they rolled into the yard. She turned her head to Dimitri, biting her lip and raising her eyebrows in an excited, but nervous gesture. <span style="color: #4080FF">"Right. Let's do this."</span><br/><br/>For the moment, she wasn't as much concerned about the fact that Dimitri's mom might be in trouble, as much as she was with just meeting his parents. She had been through it a couple of times before, but never really liked it. And this was on a whole different level. She wasn't even dating a regular human, for starters.</div>