Izzy & Eliza...an alien tale
~~YARN'S JOURNAL~~
Is this a bad time to interrupt the story? Izzy and Eliza keep hearing strange noises in the forest and old Yarn keeps hearing strange noises in my ship.
Black Winny may be swaying from the trees. Izzy and Eliza might be scared to death, but I feel as though I'm losing my mind. If Leon were speaking to me, he might explain why old Yarn keeps hearing tiny voices echoing up from the abysmal guts of my ship.
I blast my music and turn up the volume of Izzy and Eliza's voices even louder than my tunes. It doesn't help. Even if I am unable to hear the voices beneath the floors, I know something is there and it's driving me mad. I can barely focus on the adventurous escapades on earth, but I am trying.
First of all, our earth girl and our alien boy are both keeping secrets. They each have personal problems and predicaments of their own.
Even though Izzy tries not worry about the unanswered Freemails to Klesia, he worries anyway. His own problems keep interrupting his efforts to study and befriend his Goodwill subject. Plus, he doesn't feel very good about constantly lying to the earthling, either. It may not seem like such a big deal, but to Izzy, hiding his alien identity is a slap in the face to Eliza. And that is exactly what Izzy might receive from the girl if he ever confesses.
He's concerned about his fellow Klesians, his ortnots…and Thilillian Yangsley of course. And there seems to be no easy answer as to why an entire planet and its moon aren't answering any calls or signals, but Izzian can only overcome one problem at a time. For the time being, his main problem is convincing Eliza that he isn't a freak.
Eliza's current problem involves figuring out whether or not Izzian is a freak. Think about how she must feel. This strange boy turns up in Sudden Bluff, already knowing her name. Considering how she's felt as though someone has been watching her for months, the boy's sudden appearance set Eliza on edge.
Was it all an odd coincidence or an organized scheme? Eliza has no way of knowing unless she comes right out and asks Izzy. She's not ready to do that, yet.
Eliza knows the strange boy has been keeping secrets, but she has her own secret too, and it's a puzzling one. Sometimes the earth girl senses things. Eliza knows she's not a mind reader, far from it, but her intuitions normally prove true.
Eliza knew that someone had been watching her from another planet. That seems crazy to a girl who has never believed in aliens. She doesn't know Izzy enough to trust him with her own secret ability, or her alien hunches.
If I know Eliza at all by now, she'll make Izzy confess first.
Besides, the strange boy could simply be a kid from Vegas. Maybe Izzian Klowosky is not a spying freak. Eliza doesn't know for sure and she doesn't really trust her powers. If she's wrong, she'll look like a fool.
Old yarn is getting stress headaches. Sometimes I want to jump in and tell the younglings how to behave. That's not why I'm here, though.
Perhaps I'll soon have the answers I seek. Maybe Izzy and Eliza will learn to trust each other. Perhaps Leon will stop pouting and explain the crazy noises I'm hearing in the walls. Sure, perhaps one day, pigs will fly.
Oh, but they already do. There's a small planet on the outer banks of Firithia with flying pigs. Not really, but it sure would be cool. Old Yarn loves bacon, especially bacon with wings. It's less fattening that way.
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CHAPTER 16