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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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[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

[unpocoloco]

Oh.
That is strange.
That must have been hard for them all...

It still doesn't excuse how they treated you though.

[panpiping]

I still don’t know
I mean
a lot of changelings I went through the program with
didn’t make it

it’s not unusual for us
to bear the consequences of our parents’ grief
or else they didn’t understand and they’d get scared
or we’d simply die
of natural causes

many children
human and fey
didn’t make it in those days

[unpocoloco]

I know what it is to be an unwanted child.
And to make it by luck alone.

It's not unusual.
But it's still wrong.
It's still painful, in many cases.
I think you're resilient to have made it and be as you are now.
I also think you shouldn't have had to be.

[panpiping]

well
thank you Héctor
and I’m sorry no one was smart or kind enough
to take you in
and love you like they should have

the worst part
(it wasn’t the worst part, that’s a lie
but mostly a joke)
was the DRESSES
too tight in the arms!!
clingy
not swishy at all!!!
except for the skirt

[unpocoloco]

Thank you.
Though, I found my own sort of love and family anyway, so it worked out.

[Now wist just needed theirs.]

Jaja
Mi hija can help with that.
She likes the swishy dresses too.
Nice short sleeves.

[panpiping]

yeah!
you did!!
good job!

yes! yay!
swoosh swoosh swish
and breeches! pants! leggings!
I'm allowed to wear things that are not dresses now!
and all the colors!!
so so many colors
and I don't even have to help dye things the colors!
not that I minded
that was a little fun

[unpocoloco]

Perhaps we can do that someday.
I bet you'd like that tie-dye thing that was popular once.
No more having to wear just one thing or one color.
Though, Imelda may protest anything that's too offensive to her fashion sensibilities.

[panpiping]

yeah! I want to do that!
whatever it is!!

> goodshoes.jpg

????

[unpocoloco]

[He chokes on a laugh.]

Dios mio
Those are beautiful.
She would hate them.
But, that just means wearing them when she's not around.