<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;">Between Time and Outside</span></strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/ca/80/e1/ca80e14d974ba257a040889cd05602df.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><strong>NAME:</strong> Kyless (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=322870.msg15501371#msg15501371)<br/><strong>DAY:</strong> June 15th, 2021 | 9:30 AM <br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong> SOPHE Headquarters, Hallways of the Holding Cells &gt; Elevator, Going Up<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong> The Smart and Strange Doctor Toshiro and his Peculiar Marceline<br/><strong>MENTIONING:</strong> --<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong> Kyless is visible, <em>jingling</em>, and sneezing small, magical fireworks.<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> Her bells, her usual, Mayan-like clothes, and Toshiro's gift.</span><br/><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial;"><em>Was the silly human phrase not pear picking? Pears were the best human fruit, so why would they pick any otherthing?</em> <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. Kyless kept plodding down the stark hallways of SOPHE’s headquarters, ad-ja-cent to the Doctor Toshiro and Marceline, listening, and learning. He said he was curious, but thankfully <em>not</em> interested in capturing a Yeshawl. The Yeshawl would not have been as <em>patient</em> in their cell as Kyless was. <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. <em>His laugh was warm and short. Had she finally found a game the Doctor Toshiro wanted to play with her?</em> But just as sudden, his enjoyment disappeared. Kyless' golden eyes widened at him as the Doctor Toshiro glared at her, and warned her of games past. Kyless’ shoulder’s dropped. <em>So he did not understand.</em> She never hurt silly humans, not directly, <em>not</em> like other demons. <em>Did… Did Toshiro have those kind of demons in cells too, kept away from Outside? That was… dangerous.</em> <em>She</em> was dangerous, but there were different demons… There were stories… There were laws… <em>Maybe she should tell the Doctor Toshiro about -</em><br/><br/>Suddenly the floor in front of Kyless’ bare feet changed. The trickster’s bright golden eyes widened again, and she <em>stopped</em> moving, stuck in the doorway of the elevator that Toshiro was holding for her. <em>Was her magic back? Did she do this to the floor?</em> Toshiro said he was not leading her into a trap, but the floor was suddenly silver and shiny… And the walls were also the same, and there were no windows, no Outside at all. <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. Kyless looked up at him, startled. <em>Reward?</em> Her dark eyebrows twitched. <em>He was going to give her rewards for helping him, for wearing his gift, for making her magic and her head fuzzy.</em> <em>Jingle</em>. Suddenly the doors started moving and Kyless stiffened, hugging her blue-grey shoulders to her sides, but ultimately slipping through them to enter the elevator with Marceline. But, the trickster did not forget what <em>else</em> the Doctor Toshiro had said.<br/><br/>He said letting her go <em>sooner</em>. “I think you will keep me forever. Or, I <em>thought</em> forever.” Her nose <em>tingled</em> again, and the demoness winkled it to no avail. Another <em>sneeze</em> came, a with it another colorful flare in front of her face, this one yellow, green and purple. <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. “I…” Kyless paused, wiped her nose, and composed herself next to the smart, strange human Doctor Toshiro and his even more peculiar not-cat. "I thought you would never let me go, but are my <em>thoughts</em> incorrect, Doctor Toshiro?” The trickster was <em>still</em> visibly surprised. She had <em>thought</em> these silly humans were keeping her in her cell, no matter what she did, no matter how much she ‘helped’ them with the stories she knew. That was why she kept trying to escape, to find a way out on her own, because she <em>thought</em> they would never give her one. <em>These silly humans would never give her that kind of a gift.</em> Because as much as the Doctor Toshiro did not trust her, she did <em>not</em> trust the Doctor Toshiro either. Maybe these were just words, not what humans called 'promises'.<br/><br/>Suddenly, the floor, the walls, the shiny cell they were in - all started <em>moving</em>. Kyless lifted one bare foot off of the metallic floor of the elevator, and then the other, trying to understand. However, she still felt <em>un</em>-balanced, <em>un</em>-comfortable, and <em>em</em>-barassed. “I do not like this. I…” She realized that she wished she was asleep. She might have been in <em>this</em> place, in <em>this</em> cell before, but she was always <em>asleep</em>, or <em>mostly</em> asleep. <em>Otherthings were not as scary when they were asleep.</em> She focused on the doors that had opened to let them into the cell before, trying to make them less scary. Her golden eyes narrowed, but only a little, as then a <em>tree</em> began to appear. Its long, knotted branches were growing out of the closed metal doors, its green and lush leaves reaching out to them, all at once. <br/><br/>But then Kyless <em>sneezed</em>, and as she <em>lost</em> her concentration, she <em>lost</em> her illusion too. <em>Jingle</em>, <em>jingle</em>. Her head jerked forward from the force of her latest sneeze, and she held her forehead with her braceleted hand. The fuzziness was heavier now, painful even. The trickster had made a mistake; she should not have used what was left of her magic, what Toshiro had <em>given</em> back to her, with the old laws. “I still… hope it is a short day, Doctor Toshiro,” Kyless mumbled, and tried not to sound afraid, or worried of her peculiar, fuzzy sneezing. “What you need of me, I hope it is short.”</span>