“I love you.”

A silence follows. Just a few moments- but as it does when you’re anticipating something, those moments moved by so painstakingly you’dve thought time slowed. Though, in Chaya’s case, it had. She slowed the world down, just enough so that she could process the outrageous words that were just said by this human.

“What?”

Chaya finally replies, having found no better words in her translator.

“I- well… I love you.” Trariti insists, gently placing her hands on Chaya’s shoulders.

“You humans make no sense. I am not one of you. I do not ‘love’, from what I understand of the concept, you should not give yours unrequited” Chaya shrugs away the touch, disabling her image enhacer and moving toward the door, her now monsterous figure contorting as the enhancer reveals her truth.

“You cant just go all alien when you’re avoiding things, Chy. Just answer this for me before you run off. Do your people even have a concept of love?”