#5 Melisa’s story (part 4 - last)
"Eligio was furious with Paloma. He never forgave her for abandoning us on a foreign planet. I was also angry with her at the time... We were just children.
After a few days we got a message from Rufus that there was a flat waiting for us in San Myshuno. He helped us pay the rent for the first few months. I was just a child who was once enthralled by the Planet Earth. San Myshuno was a unique city to me. There were many cultures and they all were fascinating. (Although being non-human is not welcome here. They accepted occult sims - but you should be an occult at home, never be proud of it.)
Eligio arranged everything with the landlord, because he already knew how to change into the human form. We could move in immediately."
"I remember asking him if we have to stay here for a long time. Then he just shrugged his shoulders. We were sure we would be back home in a couple of weeks when things had calmed down."
"Our first flat was… okay. It wasn’t dirty but it was very old and empty. We never sought renovation because, as I mentioned, we were sure it was only a temporary situation."
"Eligio taught me to change into human form. He was a good teacher. Understanding magic came extremely easily and quickly for me. However, our skills and weakened magic slowly weakened without contact with our planet and we weren’t able to modify the disguise. Therefore, we chose forms that were to remain with us for the rest of our lives."
"Eligio: You can do it Mel! Come on, remember about the connection. Try to feel every cell in your body and turn them. Think about how your human form should look like and say the spell."
"Melisa: Eli I did it! I am a human! I am a H U M A N! Eligio: I knew you can do it!"
"The next days, weeks, years were hard for us. I was going to the elementary school in San Myshuno, Eligio got a job as a seller at food stands at festivals."
"Every night we talked for a long time about the future. Whenever I asked when we would return home, he replied that it would soon be over..."
"... but he knew it wasn't true. He stopped waiting for Paloma. He had lost all hope and the only thing that kept him going was me."
"Years have passed. We were still in the same place. I have learned to live among people..."
"... Eligio never did. He used his powers to steal from people and sell suspicious human substances."
"He became addicted to them, but I pretended that I didn't know. That was his secret."
"Because I also had my secrets."
"I often went out. I met random people."
"People who were not really that random after all."
