"But I did not say it for being weird. I said it because I felt it and I meant it. It doesn't of very mind that you have picked to call me the word weak, because I can't think of any example to say that it isn't true. My goal plan that I got doesn't include the word strong.."
Should it have? Riddle him suddenly perplexed on top of already a mixed concoction of emotions just bouncing from one cognitive state of another. So many beckoned his complete attention. Which, unsurprisingly, only saddled him with pings of feelings, such as excitement, envy, anxiousness, and even confusion, until eventually he settled back into contentment as it offered a reprieve from the energy required to think heavy in any other deep rooted direction. He still may have not known if he should have truly aimed to add strength into his lists of traits to hopefully accomplish within himself before the end of the year; however, that was a personal qualm for a different day.
"Ah, no, I don't think the food that has ever gone inside Muu's body is what made me be this size. Humans just kind of do it, you know. I definitely would not like to be bigger, but if.. If I was, I think it could've been very silly for you to have basically been the Kevin Hart and I could've been Rock Johnson. Ooooh.. Or Shaq!!"
Thankfully, the universe spared him from being tall. He knew his youthful spirit could not have handled the responsibilities that came with having a considerably lengthy height. Where he managed to land after a belated growth spurt making itself known during the pandemic-- which led to very interesting health discoveries he knew he would love to share with Aluin at a later date-- was exactly as far above the ground as he was willing to accept. Anything else and he may have needed to resort to some sort of experimental medical procedure to make him small again. Just like what had always been true about him in all stages of life, he would've done whatever was thought to be required of him to get him his way.
"I don't think me to be.. too worried about you being mean to me. There's a lot of other things that be of worrying to him instead these days, but, ah, I would definitely be able to tell you if you is being mean to me. Or you would be hearing it from someone else, because I am most for sure a tattle-tale."
With their unique history, it would've may have made sense for him to have succumbed to a full body sense of fear, or maybe even hatred, the second their definitely unanticipated reunion commenced. Muu, however, would not have described his then state of mind has falling into territories adjacent to either of those emotions. If anything, what he thought and felt most was just that he was more than happy to converse alongside the vampire for an eternity.
"Well, I think we could've done it.. I know being eighteen is when you are legally a grown up, but I think that was more of a time where the you and me was little, little boys. To now have to be here as the man with nothing in the middle doesn't seem very fair, you know.. I'm very glad you is back at all, though, because it is no secret to the universe that the Muu thinks of you often."
Smiling, he continued, "I knew you was a vampire well before you bit me. Which I wouldn't be too sorry about if I was you, because there was enough spunk in the Muu that was then to have bit you, too, if he had wanted to badly enough. I much better remember knowing it about you from even before you didn't have a tooth. You had to drink out of cute cups. You and the me used to share pictures of them that we could find on the computer somewhere. It was of the last times you was nice to me before you wasn't. That be a much better memory to live in than your one."
Oh, no, the dreaded inquiry: how as it been?
Now, that string of few words chained him down with cautious uncertainty and prayers to any kindhearted deity to aid him in successfully making it through a social interaction based on his feelings without failing most miserably.
"I would like to be telling Aluin that the life I got as a grown up is a very interesting one, but it actually is very boring. I have been dating who is my soulmate for many years now, and we is eventually getting married once we actually get the ball going. Her and me has the ideas and the money for the ceremony we planned to be simple, but there's just.. something holding it back right now that we haven't figured out."
"I have what I think to be a very cool job as helping take and edit pictures at advocacy events meant to show what grown ups with disabilities look like, and of what they is capable of doing. I do a lot of the ones where there is cross-sections between grown ups with many kinds of disabilities and how that it be impacting them in jobs where they are selling what is sex in any variety of way. It is what is of most fascinating to Muu, so that is why I do it."
"With my job and her one, all our money goes to one dog, one cat, and one very expensive Disney trip coming up for when it is Halloween as it will get to be a late birthday present for Miss Hannah. Oh, also I watch a lot of tiktok instead of doing literally anything else with free time I got."
"That's literally all I have going on. I'm sure that Aluin has a life that is of way more interesting than the one I got for sure. And you can probably do even more fun things when you turn into a bat. People can put you into blankets and give you little kisses when you is like that. If you be playing your cards right, that means you basically could be a double model. One in the magazines for fashion in it, and the other one for animals in nature. Leave it to a Pagan to be God's favorite.."
