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"It's salt water taffy," she offers. It has salt in the name, though she doesn't think it tastes very salty. She picks up a riceball and offers it to him since it isn't sweet.

The idea of what animal Geto would be is a serious one, and Alluka wants to get it right. He's far more serious than Gojo, but it's not as simple as a cat/dog thing. (Though in some ways he reminds her of her family's guard dogs.) He's serious and filled with love and other emotions and takes care of people and cooks.

"I think you'd be a dragon," Alluka settles on. "Loyal and fierce and strong."

He takes the rice ball, but he's not eating it, yet, just holdihng it for a moment.

"Have you ever seen a dragon?"

She takes a big puff of air in, blowing up her cheeks. She hasn't seen a lot of things.

"Only in storybooks," she admits, "but I know they're real."

"Finish your riceballs and we can go up to the roof and you can see one." He doesn't normally do this, but it's not like he didn't upset the girl earlier.

Her face lights up. Alluka gasps. "Are you a dragon?!" If she was accidentally right, she's going to be super surprised and super proud. Oh! Oh! Oh!

She stuffs a couple riceballs into her mouth and chews them at the same time, somewhat resembling a squirrel. Alluka wasn't in a hurry to finish them, but she wants to see the dragon! Especially if Geto is actually the dragon, a dragon in disguise. That would be the coolest thing ever.

The riceballs are delicious, and she was hungry, but now Alluka is ready to see a dragon. She claps her hands together. "Lets go lets go lets go!"

"No, I'm not a dragon but I do use one when I need to." Suguru watched her stuff her face, sliding a hand inton one pocket where his fingers curl into his palm, the image of another girl superimposing itself for a moment before he moves to his feet.

Cleears his throat.

"If you can see it, I mean."

"Ooooh, that's really cool," Alluka says. Her grandfather really likes dragons, but she hasn't seen him since she was a little girl. He didn't come to her room either.

Her head tilts as she finishes her juice and skips toward the door. "What do mean if I—" Alluka pauses and misses a step as she thinks back to his world. "It's a cursed spirit?"

He's a few steps behind her

"Yeah, I control them. It won't do anything without me directing it so it's not a threat to you." But they're useful in combat and he's come to rely on them.

Alluka continues to lead the way up to the roof. She assumes the stairs lead to the roof. She's never been to the roof of Satori Hills. A cursed spirit that is a dragon and won't hurt anyone. That's really cool. She hopes it doesn't mean he could hurt Nanika or control her the same way.

"I don't know if I can see it here," Alluka says, "We don't have cursed spirits in Folkmore. But we all see the spirits that are here."

"I guess we won't know until we try." He follows her up to the roof, gaze moving over the city once they're up there, before he turns to look at her and calls Rainbow Dragon. He's not even sure his cursed spirits will come at his call, but it does, hovering above the rooftop and coiling with it's head down near where Alluka's standing.

"Can you see it?"

Alluka bobs up and down on the balls of her feet in excitement. It's far more important than the view of Epiphany, which is very pretty in a distant kind of way. She gasps when she sees the dragon, a real dragon! Dragon spirit? It counts.

"Yes!" Alluka laughs and giggles. "So pretty." She sighs. She wouldn't guess it's cursed at all.

"Good." At least she seems to have forgotten about earlier, to some degree.

"It flies too. Not today but maybe sometime soon, you can fly on it."

Alluka walks and skips around the roof with her eyes on the dragon the whole time. It's so much prettier than the cursed spirits who tried to kill her. Nicer too. Obviously.

"That would be so much fun! I would love love love to do that," Alluka says. She waves her arms out at her sides like she's flying.

"We'll see about it some other time." He's sitting on the ledge of the roof, watching her.

Not today is fine. Perhaps Geto is waiting for Gojo to come home. Perhaps he wants a nap. Whatever it is, it's fine. She's happy like this. "Okay!"

That's when wings grow out of her back, wings that look similar to the dragon above but much smaller and mostly black like her hair (her dog ears disappear and normal human ones take their place). Alluka keeps running around the roof, only her feet are a few inches in the air.

"So you can fly on your own? Is that something that happened here or something innate to your bloodline?"

"What?" Alluka asks and looks over at Geto. Then she looks at the ground, squees in delight, and runs without it changing her pace flying. "I've never flown before in my life! I'm usually a dog here!"

"So you've picked up a new ability then." Clearly one that makes her happy too.

"I'm a Familiar!" Alluka shares. "I turn into animals. Or sometimes I get things like this. And my ears. It's not on purpose."

Sometimes she can turn into a dog on purpose. Sometimes it's on accident. She still flaps her arms like they are wings and slowly makes her way over toward Geto, where he's sitting. "Play with me?"

"What did you want to play?" He doesn't move from his seat.

Alluka pauses and floats in the air before Geto as she thinks it over. They're in a large space with room to run (or fly) around. There's a dragon. It has so many options!

"Tag!" Alluka says. She wants him to have fun too.

"How about we do that another day? Maybe in a park where there's more room to fly or run?" He suggests after a moment, considering the options.

Alluka looks around them, surprised by the idea they would need more space, but she shrugs and nods. "Okay, I look forward to that." because he said another day. There is another day.

"Most the games I know are meant for indoors. What games do you like?"

"I haven't really played games in a while. I was pretty busy at home." He answers.

"What about you?"

"Oh," Alluka considers. She slowly lands on her feet.

"We saw Big Brother's friend in the hospital because he was really really hurt, but he's better now. Then we saw him off to see his dad, and we were going on my first adventure. Unless going to the hospital counts as an adventure?" Alluka shares. It's all about her first trip off the mountain, a hopefully long long first trip.

"Have you played Sevens?" Alluka asks. She starts showing the hand motions between them.

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