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[unpocoloco]

Héctor
UN: OLLIN

STATUS: Graduate Student / Teacher's Assistant

ACCOLADES: I write music, know how to play a few instruments, mostly la guitarra.

BIO: !Hola¡ Soy Héctor. Yo hablo español y un poco inglés. I've come to Daybreak to learn a little about all this magic stuff and help out around the Campus. If you need an odd job taken care of, I'm your guy! (Unless you are la policía. Or someone I have borrowed from. If that is the case, do not contact me, por favor.)

© TESSISAMESS

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[panpiping]

who wouldn’t want to live with you?
and I know you said it wouldn’t happen again
but it really can’t happen again!!
I was going CRAZY knowing I was forgetting something!

I think
if I’m there with you
that’s the best way to not forget you

he’s okay!
he’s just dying
Poe is really really old
a lot of his magic is going into not dying
so I won’t be all on my own
he’s a good friend!!
but it makes him sleep all the time
so I’m sort of on my own anyway

oh!!
but I should only live with you
if it’s really okay
not because I won’t have Poe

[unpocoloco]

[Just dying. He winces a little. The way non-humans just brushed it off sometimes...

But for everything else, he finds he's touched.]

He does sound like a good friend.
I hope that you're okay.
And I hope you will be okay.
Whether or not Imelda is alright with you staying forever, I would like to help you out.
And have you around.
So, doing both at once sounds like a good thing to me.
At the very least, staying for a while can help you can find your feet, as the saying goes.

[panpiping]

[Sometimes things die, Héctor. And Poe’s had what normal people would consider many, many lifespans under his belt.]

that’s silly
I know where my feet are!

oh oh oh
if it’s easier
I can be a kid?
I’m good at it!
remember? I survived the changeling program and everything

[unpocoloco]

Mmm are you sure about that?
Have you checked?

[He's teasing now.]

I imagine you would be good at it
[He kind of thinks of them as being rather young in any case.]
Would you want to be a kid?

[panpiping]

now you're the thing that's silly!
do you want me to prove it?

hmmm
maybe!
I think...ummm

well

you said maybe my human parents
weren't very good?
so...
maybe I can try again

[unpocoloco]

No, it's alright, I believe you.


In that case,
when I let Imelda know,
I'll tell her you're ready to try this kid thing again.
And if she says yes, hopefully things will be better.

I think she might feel she owes you a little, considering we wouldn't be back together without your spell for the little ones,
but she'll also need to think about the situation with me.
We don't know what we're going to do about that yet or how long I'll last if we do nothing.
And I've left her to raise a child alone before, which was hard.
But I promise we'll both talk it over.
And I'd be happy to welcome you home.

[panpiping]

hee hee
I think it would have happened without me
since she seems like a smart adult
but I'm happy I helped

I can try helping again!
but not like that
I'll help with all sorts of things
let her know!!!
I can go to the market all by myself!!

and I bet
I can help you, too
you're magic and good memories
and I'm good at memory magic!

[unpocoloco]

I'll let her know.
And I'll tell her that you said she was smart.
And that you might help me.

You're sure you want to be a Rivera?
That's a lot of human boxes you'd be signing up for.

[panpiping]

...
...
...
like how many boxes

if it's boxes with doors it's okay
because you'll let me go in and out whenever
right?

[unpocoloco]

I'm not sure, I've never counted.
But there will never be a box without a door.
Ever.

[panpiping]

and permission?
I'll have permission to use the doors?
it's important!!

[unpocoloco]

You have permission to use all the doors.
Just make sure to knock if it's a bathroom or someone else's room.
If anyone inside doesn't want you in, they'll say so.

[panpiping]

yay!
yay!!
if I get to stay you might need to say it again
in person
on the premises
rules are very very stupid

[unpocoloco]

Okay okay
We'll do it.
If I forget, just remind me.
I'm pretty excited to go home myself.

[panpiping]

oh!!
you weren't allowed before, right?
because it's hard to not be a skeleton

but now skeletons are allowed!
we did it!!

[they didn't do jack shit, but let them feel important.]

[unpocoloco]

That's right!
We did it!
And my daughter is here, Coco.
Have you met her?
Oh you'd love her.
We're going to get on a plane together.
Imelda's going to meet us at the airport.
There's just so much to do before then.
But I'm so close.

[panpiping]

I have not
but I have memories of her from you!
I remember loving her a lot
even though we've never met

also
you probably know this
but just in case!!
I won't trade places with her
no more changeling business!

[unpocoloco]

You've got a head start then.

I'm glad to hear that.
I could not bear to lose her.
And also,
I would be very sad to lose you.

[panpiping]

hee hee!
me too

if it's okay with Imelda
and it's okay with you
will it be okay with Coco?
I hope she likes me
even if I do not get to stay
should I be little already for my visit?

[unpocoloco]

I'm sure it will be okay with Coco.
I'm already sure she'll like you.
But I will ask for you.

How little do you want to be?
Will you be safe, travelling?

[panpiping]

yay!

why wouldn't I be safe traveling?
I can be real real little...
I can take a dande lion!
oh but that might be hard if I have luggage
hmmm
I'll figure it out!

for the other how little
I don't know
what's a good age?

[unpocoloco]

Luggage, yes.
And if you're too small, it's going to be very difficult getting around.
Especially if I can't be awake the whole time to be sure things are okay.
Coco can help, but she is still young.

I don't think there is a bad age.
But I think an age where we can still talk like this and not seem weird would be best.
Also not so old that you wouldn't get a good second try out of it.
Younger than a teenager but older than a toddler...

[panpiping]

I've traveled by ship
but it's a shop now
and I've traveled by foot
but you're far away!
and I've traveled by dande lion
but they're too tiny...
maybe I can get a current map of fairy circle stations
on the bright side
no more veil!!
I don't have to be careful

hmmm
when my human exchange came back
she was supposed to be nine years old
so I looked like that
but she came back as fourteen years old!!
time is a funny thing

how old was Teto from when the magic made him?

[unpocoloco]

No more veil.
I would look into fairy circles.
I'm not sure how else you'll get through without a travel visa.
It's hard enough for me to get one of those let alone someone who's never been human.


Ah yes, that was fun.
I believe I was ten or eleven?
It's a little jumbled in my head now.
But that might be a good age.

When you were exchanged, did you just stay nine the whole time?
You didn't grow at all?

[panpiping]

it’s been some time
might be fun!

oh, no
when we swapped, I was almost two
well
I was one hundred and sixteen
but my exchange was almost two
they gave her back after eight years
in this place, anyway