Of Dragons and sprites (unfinished)

"You have the mannerisms of a frequent traveler." my new travel partner said, slightly bitterly, but I ignored it.
  "How am I supposed to respond to that?" I asked, hiding a small grin at their irritation.
They rolled their eyes and ignored me in favor of an apparently one-sided conversation.
"And yet you mentioned being bored and wanting to explore, while you may be were behaving like that as a side effect of staying home for so long, it seemed that was not the case with you." They continued.
I exhaled dramatically and interjected anyway, "And why is that?" I asked, raising an eyebrow with a grin on my face. Apparently I was taken as arrogant even though this was simply my curious, read as mischievous, face. This was apparent due to the reaction of my company.
They grimaced and said, "I don't know, it just is. I cant think when you look at me like that, it's weird." They snapped.
I huffed and rolled over onto my back to stare at the ceiling, but grinned as I dramatically sighed and said, "Tis a shame, for a moment I thought you were making a semi-rational deduction." I jumped out of the way as they lunged for me, I was laughing in my almost-mocking, (but not intended to be) way as they growled and picked themselves up off the floor.
They turned to face me, eyes seeming to appear as though glowing and venomous fangs bared in a instinctive intimidation display. I stopped laughing and frowned, almost disappointedly,     as I let them pin me against the wall, slamming both of us into the chipped cream paint. "Why do you push me away?" I asked, knowing several possible and probable reasons for exactly that behavior which I had questioned.
"Shut up Nixie!" They snapped.
"I told you you could use my name." I whispered. Names were very important in my culture and while I hadn't told them my more personal name the knowledge of any name aside from family names were very personal and potentially dangerous in another's hands. Their use of my species not only distanced them self from myself, but also was a rejection of my offer for a closer relationship.
"You are a naive fool." They snapped in response.
My eyes watered as I whispered,  "I'm not the only one who needs to grow up." as they slammed the door to our room.
You are probably wondering how I got myself into this situation, So let me inform you of the events of the last (3 days or 5).

There was a lot more noise being made than was typical for this area of the forest and I didn't have any explanation for it, so like any impulsive and curious individual with a distorted sense of fear in response to events in life, I went to go see just what was going on.
My family was used to me wandering off for periods of time, it was even expected for Sprites my age and species. So it wasn't really cause for alarm if I vanished for a few days and then explained it at some point during the week, somehow. Not that that was typical, I just didn't like my mom having panic attacks. Though, I had been doing that less since my 16th birthday, when I started to really mellow out more in over all temperament.
Back to what I was saying earlier, beware my frequent tangents, I went to see what was up with my hangout space.
So I walked over to the sound, after tripping once because my hearing is better than my eyesight on dry ground and I had forgotten to pay attention to where I was going, and I saw some random person putting on a big show in some desperate attempt to escape the small crow pursuing them. I recognized the crowd as local authorities, not that I knew them, it was because of their uniforms. I mean, I don't talk to many people any anything I have gotten into in the past were small game, and still undiscovered or unexplained.
I was curious, as mentioned several times prior, and I decided it was, while not a good idea, it was an amusing one, to get closer. It also happened to be the case that I was really close to the unknown criminal.This was a key detail since said criminal decided a hostage was an easier way to escape upon noticing me slinking around. Said criminal then proceeded to grab me and position me so as to use me as a sentient shield. Of course I could have easily escaped, the easiest means of which being my claws now foolishly close to my captor's self, foolish for my captor fyi, but being the ever inquisitive creature I was, I decided to play along for as long as it entertained me.

This was how I ended up a captive of the mercenary named, well one name of which is, Nadia, or Nico, or Zora, or that one time when their name was Zdenko. I honestly don't know if any of those are their real name is, or even if they have one at this point. However, they know mine.
Mystery name took me to their lair or whatever, it wasn't near ominous enough for that title but Mystery name called it that anyway. I pretended to be trapped for a few days while sneaking around without them knowing, I'm more surprised they didn't catch on that I hadn't been depraved a body of water for however long it had been, but they didn't know much about my species anyway.
I slipped up one day while getting really into a book I had found... in their office. That is how they found out about my various escapades.

They walked in and dropped something, I would like to say this is what alerted me to their presence, but it wasn't. I actually became aware of their presence when they shouted at me, "You are out!?"
I then looked up, and, after slowly blinking simply replied, "Yes." because what else was necessary?
apparently that wasn't all they wanted since they shouted again, "How long have you been out?!"
I though for a moment before answering, "Since ten minutes after you tried to restrain me." I informed them. They were not happy with my response, and to be fair, nether of us had any idea what we were doing.
"Why are you here? why didn't you escape?!" they asked, in a really loud and confused way.
"I actually wasn't planning to escape until I felt like it, and I didn't feel like it." I said, to which they responded by simply staring at me and blinking. This is when I caught on that they really had no idea why I was doing any of this and wouldn't leave me alone to read. "Is that unusual?" I asked, I was fairly certain I knew the answer but asked anyway.
"Yes that is unusual! Who just sits around after escaping?!" They responded.
I knew the answer was obviously myself, so i decided to explain my actions instead. "I was bored, this was entertaining, I had nothing better to do, you had books." I explained.
They still looked confused but gave up understanding my motivations and just sighed, "The authorities are going to be here soon so you might as well leave." They said without any energy.
I thought this over before responding with, "Nah, I will go with you for now." They just gawked at me.
I understood the obvious question of why so I explained myself, not that they would understand anyway. "You probably have something entertaining to do next, and you could use a 'hostage' if you get caught. I am not going to get a chance at adventure and its subsequent entertainment any time soon in all likely hood, aside from this, and you are interesting. " I said, leaving out how their sadness and loneliness had drawn me in, that had no probable advantages and several likely disadvantages.
They looked confused before running a hand through their hair and saying, "You know what I don't have time to make you go away so do whatever you want, I'm leaving in an hour."
To this I smirked and they grimaced, before I jumped out a window and ran home to get packed and tell my family I would be gone for however long on my journey of self discovery in a carefully worded explanation. My cat obviously come with.

This is how I got to the event's from earlier. Maybe I will elaborate upon the parts I let out later but they were rather unremarkable  and lengthy for a short explanation.

back to my present situation, I scowled and curled up on my bed, my cat crawling out from my bag and jumping onto the bed next to me. 'stupid crying over that idiot, i don't know why you care about that jerk, but whatever, you are sad.' he said somehow condescendingly and affectionately, before curling up right next to my face with no room for argument, with fur all over my mouth and everything. This is how I fell asleep and how mystery name found me.

get rid of some of that^


"Do you prefer Nadia?" They asked in a female form.
I shook my head, "whatever form makes you the most comfortable, and whatever alias."
"Not all of them were aliases, two were my real names. I could have had a gender neutral name but no! it had to be two gendered ones!" They rambled and I started to snicker.
"Oh that's funny is it? well I guess you wii just have to guess my names then hmm?"
they said with amusement.
"No fair! I can't do that, I have too much other very important stuff to think about!" I said, swatting at them playfully.
"So? I will do just that because you said that, and what is so important, what food to buy next? When will that new book be available? You are going to have to work for it and be a detective." they said.
"No! You can't make me!" I said in response.
"I honestly haven't had a friend in a long time." they said more sadly.
"Well you can't be friendless anytime soon and that is a fact."
"Is it really?"
"No, but noting in life is certain so this might as well be called one."
"Whatever you say."

"Why are you fighting so hard for that criminal beast?" They shouted.
because fuck you that's why "Because I love that criminal beast and you are an asshole!" I shouted. they didn't like this very much, but apparently N. really did like it. I think.