Tahnahos took a deep breath, a vague attempt to hide the fact that he’d nearly jumped out of his skin in surprise. There was a Vrekan standing on the table in front of him, her talons taking chips out of the varnished wood. Talons that were longer than Tahnahos’s fingers.
“Fucking Light, Elksia, you scared the shit out of me!” Tahnahos growled, moving his tablet. “What the fuck are you doing here anyway?”
Elksia climbed off the table and pulled out a chair, sitting next to Tahnahos. “Dunno, mate.”
Tahnahos closed his eyes and sighed. He then looked back at Elksia, just as someone else peeked into the room.
“Tahnahos, you have a visitor… Oh, she found you!” Teekay waved. “Let me know if you guys need anything.” Teekay quickly disappeared, knowing not to interfere.
The Vrekan grinned, waving at Teekay briefly, before turning back to Tahnahos. “So, Tenuk, how you doing?”
“You never said why you were here…” Tahnahos frowned. “Surely you’re not just here to say hi or something?”
“I’m here to say hi, yep!” Elksia got up again, wandering over to the fridge to grab herself something to eat, only to be confused that it was empty. She closed the fridge door again, stared at the panel, shrugged, then sat back down.
“Is that all?”
“Yep.”
“Why?”
Elksia shrugged again. “Am bored. Got nothing to do! Now Kairos is back, he does all the work! I just do little bits. So I am bored. Really, really bored. Lonely too.”
That last sentence caught Tahnahos off-guard. Granted, he was already off-guard, since Elksia had just teleported in front of him during his off-shift, but that wasn’t the point.
“You’re lonely?”
“Kairos got an actual god to fuck now. Ain’t really got much more to teach me. And he ain’t interested in me. I’m just a student, you know?”
“I guess…” Tahnahos frowned, relaxing a little. After all, this was Elksia he was talking to. Despite having gone their separate ways, he and Elksia had a long, twisted past together. “You were abandoned by a god who promised to take you in. I definitely understand that. I thought I’d be spending my new, godly existence going on adventures with the Allmaker. Nope, instead I am sitting down here, acting as a border guard.”
Elksia smiled. “I used to be a border guard. Could be worse. But yeah. It sucks. And there ain’t anyone like me, you know? Well, except for you Divine guys, I guess. I dunno if you’d want that though.”
Tahnahos paused, looking Elksia up and down. “I… are you implying…”
“I dunno what your dating life is like down here.”
“The only being available is Phovos. And she is… Well, she tries. But I know she isn’t interested in me…” Tahnahos sighed. “… In that way, at least. I’d have to tell her first before I started dating you.”
Elksia grinned, leaning forward. “You never know. She might be into threesomes.”
“She really isn’t. But I still have to tell her… She’d be fine with it. Probably glad. But I don’t want to be rude.”
“Fair, fair…” the Time Drake tutted, before leaning back again. “Anyway, can I get a drink? I’m fucking parched.”
“Oh, sure!” Tahnahos beamed, getting up and heading to the fridge, dragging Elksia with him. “Since you’ll be here more often, I’ll show you how this magic ice box works…”