<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e327/steusloffa/Junk/9b4c67d7-5e06-4750-8d35-191de0acc40c_zpsagryk5tp.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 200%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #BF0000">I Z U</span></span></span></div><br/><br/>Izu mirrored her smile,<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"That is because, silly man, our people have their whole lives to learn. It will take you a moment, I promise you."</span></span>She took soft steps towards the bed and joined him on the overly large pad, curling up slightly and facing him. Her gaze locked with his, Hazel eyes looking back at her with an uncharacteristically slight curiosity behind them. Izu had never been one to desire to know more, but even he couldn't resist this sudden urge to want to<span style="font-style: italic">learn</span>. So much had happened in such a short time, It caused Izu to go a bit bonkers before his sudden transformation, and now everything that had happened started to trickle back into his thoughts.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #008000">"My brother went to consult with some manuscripts to figure out why this happened...It may be a permanent thing...If that is the case, we may have to stay in my world. It was easy for me to hide away---I do not think it would be as easy for you."</span></span><br/><br/>Izu listened intently to her words, he hadn't even given any thought to if he'd want to reverse this or not. Hell, focusing on anything else except this new connection he felt was difficult enough. He never considered going back to his world, but there was so much left there that they couldn't simply abandon.<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #BF0000">Marmalade!</span></span>Izu's thought frantically raced to their kitten for only a second before the thought of alerting Alida to this issue even occurred. The damage was done though, and Izu cursed his new connection slightly under his breath. He needed to distract his mate if at all possible,<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #BF0000">"M-manuscripts?"</span></span>Izu feigned, poorly, to be stupid in some form or fashion.<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #BF0000">"You don't have technology here, that's right..."</span></span>The realization of this wasn't as bad as he lead on to believe, but anything would be better than Alida thinking about Marmalade.<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #BF0000">"Or clothing, now that I think about it."</span></span>Izu had tacked on that last bit before looking around the room, not spotting one bit of Alida's old clothing.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #BF0000">"So, am I expected to just walk around naked too? Are <span style="font-style: italic">you</span> going to be just walking around naked? Like, for anyone to see...?"</span></span>Izu furrowed his brow at the thought of anyone else looking at Alida,<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #BF0000">"Call me crazy Alida, but I don't think I'd react well to some random Joe walking up on you, nude. Even more so if he's walking around sporting nothing but fairy wood."</span></span>Izu didn't worry if Alida would understand his reference, but he was sure she could at least understand that the thought made him very uneasy. And then another thought crept into his head, hadn't she fled from here or something? Even if she hadn't, it was evident that some sort of battle had been fought around the area, the walls were still scarred.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #BF0000">"More importantly, is it safe for everyone to just be naked...?"</span></span>