205 Being Used (1/2)

”HE'S GOT A HUGE SPIDER...”

”Yeah, so?” Onacona asked back, obviously already having known about Tyr.

”BUT IT'S....it's... huge...” She thought that saying that Laz had a giant spider following him around would get more of a reaction from everyone than it did. Her little brothers and sisters didn't seem to understand while her grandpa looked as though he didn't mind. Only her mother showed a bit of a reaction, but seeing her father not take it as being an issue, she felt herself relax.

Sarah's mom obviously knew her dad quite well and over the years, many weird things have happened. The old man was always telling stories about how these things came about. For example, one day, when she was younger, they had gotten up early for breakfast and the entire living room was moved around. When she discovered it, she didn't think anything of it since it always seemed like stuff would change in the house without her knowing. She had always assumed it was her parents. But the strange thing was that her mom was arguing with her dad about it. Although they stopped when she came in the room, she had caught some what her mom was saying about how he needed to stop inviting spirits into the house. She had no idea what that meant, but it ended up being the cause of a fight later so it had always stuck in her mind.

Even when she got older and after her older brother had moved out, she would experience times where it felt like things were moving around the house, yet when she went to check, there was nothing there. Door's closing by themselves, lights going on and off, weird things like that were a normal part of the house she grew up in. But it never felt dangerous. It didn't feel like evil ghosts that wanted to kill you in your sleep were around, more like innocent creatures who were amused by modern inventions.

As such, she never felt fear from these things that happened around her. Instead, when she talked to her dad about it, he would always tell these tales of teaching spirits about the current world and things in it. She always found those stories exciting and kind of cute.

Due to these things that happened when she was young, she had a much higher tolerance towards the weird, much higher than her daughter, Sarah.

”Kamama,” her grandpa said softly.

”My name is Sarah, grandpa. How many times have we talked about this? Sarah.”

Why did Laz think this? There were several reasons. If something happened to Laz, Tyr needed to be able to survive on his own. To do so, he needed to understand all types of people so that he could react appropriately. And also, Laz had this weird feeling that Tyr might end up like Vivi and be able to become human. Or maybe he wouldn't. Either way, knowing how to act around humans in this world was a valuable skill.

”It's ok. No one is going to hurt you.” Laz did his bet to encourage Tyr. Currently, Tyr was in his smallest form that was around the size of a fist. This was the only reason he was small enough to hide on Laz's head.

Strangely, it was the smallest girl who walked up first and pulled on Laz's shirt. Looking down, Laz saw the little girl wave to him, like she wanted him the bend down.

Laz complied and squatted down so that his head was just a bit above the girls. She then stood up on her tiptoes and reached out a hand to touch Tyr. Tyr, noticing her hand coming, tried to back away, but Laz simply said,

”Tyr, it's alright.”

Tyr stopped backing away and just stood there waiting. Sarah looked like she wanted to scream out 'don't touch it,' but noticing the look her grandpa gave her, she restrained herself. She then glanced over at her mom who simply had a smile on her face.

The little girl then put her hand on Tyr and rubbed him a little before laughing.

”He's fluffy!” She said in an excited voice.

Hearing this, the other little boy and the slightly older girl came over as well and took turns rubbing Tyr.

”He is fluffy.”

”Super fluffy.”

All three kids took turns rubbing Tyr while giggle. Tyr, seeing them laughing and smiling, relaxed a little. After that, when they took turns petting him, he would rub their hands on his own, causing them to laugh even more.

”See? What did I tell you?” Laz said, moving a hand up to his head. Tyr climbed on and Laz lowered him to the floor.

”Go ahead. Get a little bigger.” Tyr nodded to Laz's encouragement and suddenly enlarged, going from the size of a fist to the size of a small dog. As he stood there on all eight of his legs, he looked up at the kids whose faces were covered in shock.

But that only lasted for a moment before they started laughing and giggling and getting down on the floor to play with the now larger, but still super fluffy Tyr. Seeing this, Laz couldn't help but smile. Even the older boy ended up on the floor, playing with Tyr.

As he looked up, Laz noticed that although Onacona was still fine, both Sarah and her mother had looks of shock on their face while staring at Tyr's now larger form . Sarah then turned to look at Laz and couldn't help but ask,

”Is it safe?”

”He's perfectly fine. In terms of age, he is the youngest one here so don't worry.” Laz reassured her.

”It's better that they get used to these things now, rather then later. Still, if you see something like this outside, don't let the kids get anywhere near it. This little one seems to have a close bond to our guest. Others would only see the kids as food.” Although Onacona said this to no one in particular, both Sarah and her mom nodded their heads.