Chapter: 7th

The next morning there is a break in the classroom and Lórellin has to stick her nose in a folder she made herself: "What do you want from me?"
Gil starts up and then pretends nothing is: "What ?! Nothing, nothing at all I want from you ?!"
"Then why are you sneaking around me like a cat around its toy?"
"Well, I am interested in what you read there," replies Gil.
Lórellin puts her folder openly: "This is the script of our play. I played the royal cat who is supposed to help two princesses. Perhaps you heard how we all read the text yesterday. Unfortunately we are still missing people. Ourselves Nobody really wants to play in the parallel class ... "
Gil looks up dreamily: "Theater ... I loved acting in front of our families ... Our ancient dances that Inu and I always performed were loved by everyone ...!"
Lórellin: "Perfect! Then join us in our play!"Gil's eyes shine: "Really ???"
Lórellin: "Sure, why not? ... Here, take a look at the script and choose something."
She hands her the stapler. Gil takes a chair at Lórellin's table and reads you through the script.
Lórellin: "Some of the smaller roles have already been taken, you can tell by the name and class next to the roles.", She shows her the register of roles: "Look, Kittekat the cat, that's my role."
Gil: "Sweet name, Kittekat."
Lórellin falls silent and lets Gil read something in peace. She notices that Gil wrinkles her nose. But it doesn't just stop at the wrinkling of the nose. She moves the stapler back and forth in front of her nose, back and forth and keeps turning it to the side. Suddenly Gil puts the stapler on the table with a jerk: "Phew ...!" she gives off exhausted. Lórellin looks at her with interest. Gil returned their looks: "I can't read anything."
Lórellin gets hit: "You should have told me that earlier and not have to torment yourself here forever!"Gil: "I know, but I thought I could still read a word or two, but it doesn't mean anything to me ... What kind of script is that?"
Lórellin: "It is script whose language we speak."
Gil looks at her in astonishment and Lórellin continues: "Look and listen to me." She traces the individual words with her fingers while she reads out the text passages. Gil follows her carefully with both eyes and ears: "I see. It's pretty simple. Each letter has a sound that is shortened or lengthened depending on the following letters ... Here, for example," she points to a word: "Fraud. The The letter with the two bellies is only emphasized as a bra but with this little curl next to it it is emphasized as be. "
Lórellin: "You learn amazingly fast. That circle there is a small E. An E belongs to the vowels in the alphabet. Vowels emphasize letters. Hm, it took us about 4 years as children to be able to use our writing safely, you have it learned in a few minutes. Perfect! "RING RING RING
Lórellin: "Come on, off to your seat, luckily now we have language lessons so you can learn something again!"
The lesson goes by quickly and as soon as the school bell rings, Gil sits down next to Lórellin: "And? Have you already chosen something, Gil?"
Gil: "No ... I'm not really sure."
Lórellin: "Have you already spoken to Inu about it?"
"That's right!" Replies Gil: "I haven't even talked to her about it yet. Wait, I'll talk to her."
She gets up and walks over to Inu's table

> What was that last night? <
"... inu? ..."
> I didn't mean to ... <
"... Inu?"
> What did I do? <
"Hey Inu !?"
"Uh what ?! Eh yes, yes ... what is it?"
Gil: "I should ask you that, Inu. You were so absent-minded."
"I'm sorry. What's up?"
Gil crouches down next to her at the table and puts Lórellin's folder on her table: "Look, the class here is learning a play. We can't really read the script, but I thought we'd take part here.After all, we love dance and play. And I thought about translating the text into Elvish so that we could really understand it. How do you like the proposal ?! "
She looks at Inu hopefully, but is silent. Your dreamy gaze is directed to the table top.
"Inu?" asks Gil again. When there was no answer from her again, she nudged Inu: "Now say something Inu!"
She wakes up from her daydream and looks at Gil questioningly: "What?"
Gil: "Tell me, what's the matter with you? You've been so absent all day!"
Inu puts her hand on Gil's shoulder: "I'm sorry, but I'm not doing so well today, you have to understand that."
Gil pricks up: "I don't have to understand anything if I don't want to. So you're not feeling well, you say?", She puts her hand on Inu's forehead: "You don't have a fever. Are you sick?"
Inu: "No ... I'm not sick."
Gil sits down at the table with a chair in front of Inu and holds her hands: "What is Inu that worries you? ...We have to stick together in such a difficult time Inu! Tell me what you got. "
Inu gets a little nervous: "Well, I don't like to tell ..."
Gil looks deep into Inu's eyes and runs her hands over Inu's arms up to his face. She touches Inu tentatively, searchingly, as if Inu were fragile. Inu tries to dissuade her: "No ... stop it!". She struggles and takes Gil's hands from her face.
Suddenly it becomes clear to Gil: "Oh my god.". She opens her eyes in shock and jerks back.
Inu: "What? What is it? You really want to see through me?"
Gil: "You know that I and you can recognize the signals of the body ... And I saw through your signals ... There are feelings for Kai in you."
Inu turns red: "I don't know."
Gil: "Something happened last night that bothered you very much inside ... What happened yesterday?"
Inu: "Nothing! Nothing was yesterday!"
Gil raises his finger threateningly: "Don't lie to me!"
Inu: "We kissed., nothing else."
Gil's tone becomes more aggressive: "Nothing more ?!"
Inu: "I couldn't ... Something in me was blocking, luckily. I tore myself away from him and ran upstairs to our room, where you were already sleeping."
Gil: "Are you crazy? Don't fall in love with him! If we can go back to Caras, you will die miserably from a broken heart."
Inu: "Who knows whether I'll even go back to Caras."
GOSSIP
Gil's chair falls over in fast motion. An eerie silence has spread to the classroom. The pupils' eyes are on the two elves. Inu looks away to the side. Gil stands in front of her with a raised hand. Her face is turned down, she breathes angrily and then slowly drops her hand.
Inu slowly looks up. Her right cheek is flushed. In a strange tone, not entirely amused, not entirely hurt, she speaks: "That hurt ..."
Gil clenches her hands angrily: "You will never say something like that again!", Her body trembles with excitement.Inu gets up and walks around the table. Gil is still trembling, looking at the table. She raises her arms and then gives Gil a tight hug: "I'm sorry."
Gil turns to her and finally hugs her too. The burning air in the classroom is broken by the tentative clap of a student. Little by little, the rest of the students join in the applause. You can see tears in the eyes of some of the students, and Lórellin is also moved by tears: "It was ready for a movie."
Some students agree: "Yes, take part in our play!"
Gil and Inu only now notice that they are being watched and slowly break away from the embrace. Lórellin gets up and wipes the last tears from his eyes on the way to them: "Don't you want to play the leading roles in our play? The two princesses?"
Inu: "Theater? I didn't know anything about that yet. Of course we’ll be part of it, right Gil?"
She beats her head in despair: "Oh man, Inu ... But of course we're there, Lórellin!"RING RING RING
The last lesson begins and before Lórellin sits down, she asks Gil: "Can I come to you after school?"
Gil hesitates a bit at first: "Hm ... Okay."

After school was over, the girls finally showed up in front of the front door of Hitari's family home. Gil unlocks the door with a key that she got from under a flower box: "Hello ?!"
Inu: "There is nobody there."
Lórellin: "No wonder, he's definitely still at work. After all, he's currently working on a wooden sculpture."
Inu: "How do you know that again?"
Lórellin: "I have my sources."
Gil: "Come on, let's go into the living room, there we can practice for the play."

After a while everyone is in the middle of the theater play. Inu and Gil have set up the marble table as a stage and strut around on it. Lórellin helps with the text as a whisper. Suddenly the door closes and Kai says: "Inu ?!"
Lórellin: "Kai!"
Gil: "Lórellin ..."Inu: "Gil!"
Kai: "Well, now everyone knows what the other is called and can you please come off the table immediately! The plate is just placed on top, it takes off when you lean on it!"
Gil and Inu stand on an edge and jump down full, then Kai yells: "NO!" and screwing up his eyes in shock. When he didn't hear anything, neither a lamentation nor a bang from the record that fell back onto his standing leg, he slowly opened his eyes again: "How have you come down there without what happened ?!"
Gil: "We just jumped off. It's not that difficult!"
"Wait.", He makes it clear to her with a show of hands, walks over to Inu and picks her up. Inu starts up, startled: "Hey!"
Kai: "Tell me ... how much do you weigh?"
Inu: "We don't have any wipes. The biggest wipe is in clothes and weapons. Can you let me down now, please?"
Kai puts it down safely: "It's amazing not to have a wipe."
Lórellin intervenes a bit angry: "So what?I am also incredibly light. Mama says it comes from my mixed inheritance. "
"Mixer?" asks Kai, surprised.
She looks down, slightly blushing: "I'll explain that to you later at some point."
Kai: "Tell me, what are you doing here anyway?"
Lórellin: "We are rehearsing for the play what our school wants to do in a week. Gil and Inu are so free and play the princesses."
Kai: "Let me guess, you're playing" The Last Wish "?"
Lórellin: "Yes! Where from? ..."
Kai: "This is a