A New Addition to the House of Horrors

Tail waving, ears twitching excitedly, hands fiddling in her lap - Reia was excited. Or was she nervous? Perhaps a bit on edge? Well, whatever she was feeling, she was on her way to her new home. A place where she had been told someone would be taken care of and treated like "family", instead of like the slave she had been for so long. The idea was extremely foreign, and it was causing her to feel... wound up.

Finally, she stepped out of the car and bid the people who had driven her here farewell. She now found herself standing in front of a house, and the longer she stared at it the more her curiosity was aroused. This was it? Her new home? What would it be like to live with a real family, with someone who actually cared for her? Slowly, yet with jerky steps, she approached the front door and hesitated before knocking as loud as her weak fists possibly could.

"...Hello?"

For a brief second, Reia froze up upon being spoken to so kindly and welcomingly. She had no idea how to react, and simply stared at Altizica for a moment. However, after a moment of merely staring at him, she snapped herself out of it and nodded at him, stepping inside to look around. She set her small amount of baggage down next to the door as she made her way into her new home.

It was certainly nothing like the mansion she had lived in with her owner, nor the tiny room she'd lived in at the NEK0 trading post. This was... in between. It felt so normal in comparison to these things that it was almost off putting.

"Hm..."

After looking around a bit, she looked back at the man she was now supposed to call "father". Or perhaps "dad". She wasn't sure which one she preferred yet. However, now came the question that had been bothering her for a while now - what was she going to do? She was so used to being constantly put to work that it seemed only natural that this person would do the same. So, after a moment of confused staring, she finally spoke up.

"What... would you like me to do?"

Once more, Reia felt as if she was in shock. He didn't want her to do... anything? Aside fron whatever she wanted to do? Such a concept had never been presented to her before, and she became massively confuses for a moment. However, after a while of attempting to process this, her mind simply translated it into an order. If she should do what she wanted to do, then perhaps she should... pick something she wanted?

"What Reia wants to do..."

Then, her new father figure brought up seeing her room.

"Reia gets a room?"

She had never had her own room before - in her old home she simply either followed her owner around or slept with the servants. She was extremely curious about what this room would look like, and what it would feel like to have one of her own.

"Yes...Yes, Reia would like to see her room."

Reia was somewhat surprised to feel her hand taken in such a gentle way - but, unlike going into temporary shock like before, she simply went along with it and found it rather nice. However, she was not at all prepared to step into the room that Altizica had said was hers now. She hadn't expected it to be so... big. So much space, and that nice bed, all fpr her? It boggled her mind.

"Wow..."

Letting go of his hand, she stepped forward into the room and took a long, sweeping look of it. Thinking that someone had prepared all this just for her filled her with a warm, unfamiliar feeling she couldn't quite place. After a moment, she turned around, and gave Alt the first little smile she'd given since entering the house.

"Reia likes it a lot. It's... it's beautiful." She turned around and pointed to all the plushies sitting on the bed. "Do all those belong to Reia?"

Reia followed Altizica to the bed, bent over a little and stared rather intensely at the bed of plushies. Comfort, hm? She had never been presented with items meant to comfort her before. Come to think of it, comfort in general had been nonexistent before coming here. It was new, strange, but she still rather liked these strange fluffy things. Slowly and carefully, she poked one before picking it up and clutching it to her chest.

It was soft, and indeed very comforting - especially in a new home. A smile spread over her face once more as she looked up at Altizica and started asking questions.

"Do they have names? Can I give them names? What does the rest of the house look like?" Her voice remained a bit monotone as she streamed out questions, but deep down she was rather excited - emotion was just difficult for her to express.