Lani's body started to grow and fill out, but not significantly. She was now beautiful, but she looked barely eighteen, and it was hard to believe that she was Nushi's older sister.
I could see why she kept herself in the body of an old woman. I was sure that she must have had trouble with all the villagers with a cute face like hers.
"See, this is what I look like, a child. No one respects like this! They either try talking to like I am a child, or they ignore what I say, and then I have to punish them!" Lani said as I still held her hands, but I could feel her starting to shake.
"I understand, but I think that you look beautiful like this, and I wished you didn't need to transform like this. I will still treat you the sa no matter how you look, but you need to start treating as an equal then. x has given his position of Lord of this area, and while I may not be as strong as your father, I can still hold my own if you hadn't noticed," I said with a grin, and Lani rolled her eyes.
I let go of her hands, then stood back up, and turned to the table. I started to stack the papers so I could get a better look at the map.
The papers were notes, and invoices, so I made sure to not mix them up. There was nothing more annoying than having soone ss up things you had been working on.
I was going to ask her what she wanted to do with them, but I stopped myself. Lani seed like the type to think that I was upset about it, no matter how I said it, and she would end up getting angry.
It was better for to just feel my way around, and there weren't too many different types of docunts. I was able to sort them out quite quickly, but I could really read anything; I just knew that they looked like bills or receipts.
As I did this, Lani stood up and stood beside , barely coming up to my shoulder. She watched what I was doing curiously, but she wasn't making any effort to stop .
At one point, she even leaned into , but I ignored it, not wanting to make a ntion of it. If I were to say anything, I was sure that she would react poorly, so I just continued with my sorting.
Once I had the papers into their stacks, notes, bills, and receipts, I turned my head to look down at Lani. She was resting her head against , and part of just wanted to be quiet and keep her like that, but we had things to do.
"Where would you like to put these stacks so we can look at the map better?" I asked, and the question startled Lani, and she jumped back from just as I thought in surprise.
As she did, Lani collided with the chair and started to fall backward. I dove forward, giving up my own balance, and pulled her out of the way of the chair to save her from getting seriously hurt.
I turned in the air and then crashed to the ground with Lani on top of . Both of our faces were a hair's breadth apart now, and I was staring into Lani's beautiful turquoise blue eyes, but she jumped off in a panic again but didn't trip over anything this ti.
"What are you doing?! Why did you grab like that?! Are you trying to have your way with ?! Were Lidy and my sister not enough for you?!" Lani barked, and she changed back into the old woman's body again.
I sighed and got back up on my feet, and glared at her.
"I was trying to keep you from getting hurt! You were the one leaning against and then jumped back into the chair that you would have fallen on!" I growled as I dusted myself off.
"I am… a Demon… Why do you care if I get hurt? I wouldn't be hurt by sothing like that!" Lani said in a confused voice, but I shook my head.
"If a woman fell onto a chair like that from the place that I ca from, she would get seriously hurt. I didn't see you as a Demon at that mont; all I saw was a girl that was about to get hurt," I said and then turned back to the map.
I should have known better about her; I had just ntioned our high strength, but I couldn't help my body's reactions. Even with my mind cranked up from my Water Totem, my natural instincts to help a person kicked in and overrode everything.
"You are strange, and I don't know if I should trust you. I want to know why you just didn't put all of my papers into a stack, or even just pushed them off the table? You didn't have to do that, and I wouldn't have said anything if you did, so I don't get it. Why sort them?" Lani asked, and I answered her as I looked over the different threat markers and the recorded average strike tis.
"It would have been rude for to do either of those things. I was going to ask you what you wanted to be done with them, but I assud that you would have thought I was upset about them. So, instead, I figured that I would clean them up, and when you ca over and got close to without saying anything, I assud what I was doing was right," I explained, but that didn't satisfy Lani.
"That is not answering my question. Rude is what n do; everyone I have t has been the sa! They are all rude and inconsiderate, and they all act the sa and want the sa thing!" Lani said, getting visibly angry, and I finally turned from the table to look back into her still sparkling turquoise eyes.
"I did it because I wanted to, and I didn't want to make a ss. Maybe all the n you have t are like that, but this is the first ti that you have ever t , and I am not from this shit hole. Maybe just give the benefit of the doubt before you start lumping up with everyone else. I decided to stay here and help out because I wanted to, not because your father ordered , or even asked , so I can leave at any point if you want," I growled, getting tired of getting labeled with the Status Quo for n in this world.
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