Blue

As Titus had gotten older, more capable of helping Symphony with her terrors. He often became her assistant in her devious endeavors. What they did in that attic...Emma would never know, nor quite frankly did she want to know.

She often heard mutterings of Spider and got goose bumps, terrified to think of what lurked in the shadows up there. She could just imagine the giant creatures and rats the size of house cats.

Poor Nautilus may get eaten by the monsters.

Although Emma doubted anything could devour her late cat's feisty kitten.

Nautilus had become fascinated by baby Symphony although it wasn't long after Symphony and Delmar's first birthday that they lost Patches long before her time and Nautilus disappeared. Emma had begun to worry, Symphony's cries for the kitten pulling at her heart, until she heard from Satrina. Nautilus had been lying on her couch with Llia one day when she came home and stayed there. The two kittens took comfort from the other, spending their time milling about the house, adventuring. Until Satrina moved away, disappearing into the night.

What Emma hadn't known was that Emma Blood and Diva Flora wouldn't return from their trp. While Shannon was shamed when Emma found out said woman had come on to Mason. Her family came before the "good witch". There were plenty more like her.

She didn't need a home wrecker, none of them did.

A thump and crash from above made Emma cringe, jarring her from her reverie. A loud yowl from Nautilus received a sigh. Breaking glass received a groan.

When the loud cussing started, Emma let her head fall into her hand.

Dear lord, would it ever stop?

Kona came running by, nearly tripping over the flower vase, Topaz had climbed on the furniture and lord knows where Carmelo had gone. And then someone started pounding on the door.

When Emma pulled the door open, she was rather stunned to see the blue girl standing there.

"Hi!" The girl smiled, her face bright, waving at Emma as if it was completely natural for her to be there. "Is Symphony in?"

Then the girls aqua eyes went wide, her mouth forming the shape of an O. "I'm so sorry, I didn't introduce myself." She laughed quite loudly. "My name's Nephthys. I'm new in town." Her face became bright again, smile so wide the corners of her eyes crinkled, her hand out for Emma to shake.

"Symphony was nice enough to friend me at school and invited me over sometime to study alchemy together so I said yeah, plus she said most of her fam's faeries like me and mine and maybe we'd get along since there's so few of us here. Plus she told me about Nautilus and her new pet dragon you gave her plus the Sanctuary you built for her so I, was like, cool! And she said I should come see. Anyways, nice to meet you." And Nephthys-after gesturing wildly through her long winded speech-held her hand back out for Emma to shake.

Emma just stared at the girl-Nephthys-her mouth hanging open and eyes wide, her hand still resting on the door knob and the creepy expression she possessed, of half a mind to slowly back a way and lock the house down. But after several more minutes, Emma's face twitched into a creeped out, half smile, with too much teeth and too thin lips, reaching out to shake Nephthys hand slowly like how you would approach a growling dog-if you were that stupid.

"Hi." Emma croaked. "N-nice to meet y-you." She cleared her throat, forcing a nice smile but she knew the fear was still in her eyes. Hopefully Nephthys didn't notice.

"Symphony's upstairs in the attic. I can-" Emma began, stepping back and pulling the door open to allow the blue girl access to her home.

"Oh, you don't have to. I can find my way. Don't worry. I know I freak you out. I've the tendency to do that."

And with that Nephthys skipped her way inside and up the stairs, pigtails bouncing, googles askew, humming to an unknown tune.

Leaving Emma standing in the open doorway, once again wearing a stunned expression. Before she corrected herself and put her smiling mask back on and closed the door.