Thread: Starlit Night (Mizzet&Wing)

Gima smiled and nodded, leaning her head against his side affectionately as a strong indication of how comfortable she had gotten around him, allowing him to directly touch her. She had very soft skin, like the most delicate of fabrics, without even a hint of roughness or blemish. Fairies lacked moles, freckles, or other skin tone or pigmentation distinctions, the primary differentiation being the blue ribbon-like designs on their bodies, their voices, and facial features. The fairy could see that humans, as they referred to themselves, had a more wide variety of different shapes, sizes, and other physical attributes, perhaps hinting at a smaller gene pool among fairies at least to her own knowledge. In any case, she could easily tell Aren from the other scientists, whom she simply referred to as human as opposed to their given names since she could not read their name tags for the time being. Over the next few days, the scientists continued to conduct their observation of the fairy, whom they all eventually fell to calling by her given name, Gima, before the week was even out. While she still gave them a bit of trouble at first concerning being put back in her cage each night, eventually the struggle became more of a game as she had grown accustomed to the makeshift tradition of being difficult. Like a stubborn teenager, she would call the accuracy of the clocks they used into question, or debated the definition of night. In the end, she always went back into her cage willingly and as the lights turned out in her room she laid her head down with her arms as her pillow and fell fast asleep each night. They learned that she was a late riser and did not cope well with cooler temperatures as she would become groggy and unresponsive if it became too cold in her enclosure. She could produce sweat and adapt to warmer temperatures well enough without side effects, although she did complain about the discomfort associated with prolonged exposure to the heat. She knew how to clean herself and make her own clothes from leaves, spending most of the time she had by herself composing songs in her strange fairy tongue and humming tunes to go along with the words late into the afternoon. However, they had not yet observed much evidence of what social structures, if any, fairies had. Gima seemed rather solitary except for her friendship with Aren, preferring to keep to herself rather than engaging in social activities with the scientists. Any interest she showed was purely of an inquisitive nature, not that she wished to participate at all. This seemed to be more of a personality trait rather than an observation true of the majority of the fairy population, since what use would she have of such an advanced language if they were primarily solitary beings? She was also skilled in a variety of crafts, indicating that they were skills taught and passed down through successive generations, although she had yet to make mention of family relations other than her mother. This, in turn, led to a rather interesting question... How was fairy mating or matchmaking performed? Gima did not seem to consider humans potential mates, rather she was simply amused by their ability to converse with her and nothing more.