Preview №5
As I finished with breakfast and had everything sat on the island, Azathoth came through the great room, smelling the air before looking at me as he stood, completely naked, covered only with his tattoos and his hair that now was only pushed back from his face as I froze and my eyes scanned his entire body.
“I… uh…” I said, finally able to blink again.
“Yes?” he said, crossing his arms and looking expectantly at me, “I walked here to find that smell.”
“You’re… naked.”
“So?”
“It’s just… whoa,” I said, closing my eyes and shaking my head as I finished taking up the food, “It- it’s breakfast, I made it for us,” I said, fixating my gaze on the stove to respect his privacy, “Go put on some clothes, Azathoth, and I’ll have it ready when you come back.”
“Of course, right,” he said.
“I made it a point to not turn around until I was certain he was out of my view.
“My God,” I muttered, setting the rest of the food on the island and grabbing the cups and orange juice.
“Right, of course, I’m back,” he said, “I’m wearing clothes.”
“Thank God,” I said, “Azathoth, this is breakfast. I… don’t know if you’re hungry right now, but it’s something we do on Earth. Go ahead, make a plate and dig in. It’s my favorite breakfast ever, actually.”
“If you say so,” he said, filling up his plate and stopping halfw2ay to the table as he tried it, “Khlahng-yeng! This is good!”
“Azathoth, it’s like I always say, don’t half-ass two things; whole-ass one thing and be damn-good at it.”
“This is… I thought food last night was good, but…”
“Fast food is just a quick meal. As actual food, it’s not much past taste,” I explained, “Compared to this, fast food is just garbage food.”
“Tdrakh-vih-nay-yuh,” Azathoth muttered as he savored the bagel and tomatoes in particular, “The food on Tanh Khlokh – Khu'aiy, it’s nothing like this. It’s mostly aintervened on.”
“Here, we call that undomesticated.”
“Interesting,” he said, “Do you have any brothers or sisters?”
“Nah,” I said, “I’m an only-child. What about you?”
“I have one sister and she is more into body modification than I am,” he said, showing me a picture of him and a girl.
She was a much different shade of blue, almost mauve. Her eyes were red where Azathoth’s were blue, and she had a dark, long mane that rested on her shoulders and had been dyed in strips from red to yellow, like fire. Her teeth, like Azathoth’s were the color of human skin, but she had eight fangs, which she showed off by holding what looked like a cigarette with her teeth. Each arm was covered in the tattoo of a dark dragon, outlined in the color of wood with dark purple runes adorning her torso, each hand wearing four rings with a glowing, purple gemstone. She had three breasts, unlike humans, and was wearing nothing more than a dark bra, underwear, leg warmers, and metal shoes. From her back was a pair of massive wings that were purple at the bottom and faded to black at the top with the section in her back being a vivid crimson color. On the top of her head was a pair of metal horns and a row of fiery-colored spikes. A dark, spiked tail, however, wrapped around her leg, ending in a larger spike that looked like it was made of metal leather.
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