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With the nights growing colder as they did every sweep around this time, all the sea-trolls on Alternia knew they had to find a host. A troll willing to house a highblood, though most of the time the arrangements weren’t very pleasant. As it was known that higher bloods have a somewhat…forceful tendency. Though winter wasn’t only a bad time for sea-trolls and their poor hosts, you see, winter on Alternia is harsh. Food needed to be gathered ahead of time and be able to last, the cold killed many trolls caught in its horrid winds, as well as left many young wrigglers orphaned for multiple other reasons. It was a hard time for all, and the few trolls who had friends were blessed this time of sweep.
Two of these seemingly blessed sea-trolls were currently looking for a host. The first of the two, Feferi Peixes, seemed to find a host easily. The first troll that she asked was still dangerously close to the sea, though of course it was needed.
Feferi was currently in her hive tidying up and packing a few things into a bag before captchaloguing it, as well a few other items she believed she might need. Of course her lusus already knew where she was going and knew Feferi would keep feeding her as best she could under the conditions. The young sea-troll left her hive, looking back for a moment knowing she wouldn’t come back here until winter was over. She kicked her legs swiftly, a bit too naturally. The swim to shore would only take about thirty minutes for her.
Those thirty minutes were spent thinking about her host, her moirail, and her lusus. It was an understatement to say she was just excited about staying with someone for the winter. Though she couldn’t help but wonder how living with this troll would be like. Would she like it? Would she hate it? Would she come back next sweep? Or would she try to leave his hive early and try to live with Kanaya again for the rest of the winter? Soon her thoughts left this and she was thinking about her moirail. Had he found a troll to live with yet? She hoped so! The Alternian days were getting colder much quicker, and if he stayed on his little shipwreck island, he would freeze to death! Not only would she miss his whining and gossip, but what about her lusus? How could she feed it without him!? So many worries and questions to be answered, some sooner than others, gathered in her head.
Before she knew it, she was on shore, a large smile on her face as she walked in the direction of the hive clearly visible from the water. There was a noticeable bounce in her step. She knocked on the door of the oddly shaped hive. A scuffling of shoes could be heard from inside, as well as whoever it was tripping on what sounded like horns. The door swung open to reveal none other than Gamzee Makara. “Sup sis,” the troll said a smile laid gently on his lips, “welcome to my motherfucking humble abode!” the slight fluctuation in his voice apparent. As he was stepping aside to let her in, he stepped on a horn that had been lying on the floor and scared himself as she walked in the door. Feferi’s smile never faltered, though she was a tad surprised to see just how many horns the troll had, and they were everywhere! This was going to have to take some getting used to!
After Gamzee had shown her to a GuestBlock she managed to quickly unpack most of her things and set up her husktop. She turned it on immediately. The heir just had to know if her moirail had found anyone to stay with. Logging onto Trollian, she saw he was online and started pestering him as soon as the husktop allowed.
-- cuttlefishCuller [CC] began trolling caligulasAquarium [CA] --
CC: )(-EY!
CA: oh hey fef
CA: im kinda busy
CC: W)(at’s wrong? 38C
CA: its nothin
CC: --Eridan!! Come on! You can tell me I am your moirail after all!
CA: fef its nothin
CC: PL-EAS-E?
CA: fine
CA: i cant find a fuckin host
CA: no one wwants to share their fuckin hivve wwith me
CA: im goin to fuckin freeze to death because a them
CC: No you’re not! I’m s)(ore w)(ale figure somet)(ing out!
CA: fef
CC: Yes? 38)
CA: could i crash wwith you and gam
CC: No no no!! Come on! You need to find someone else to stay wit)(!
CC: You talk to Karkat a lot! Maybe you s)(ould ask him!
CC: )(ave you asked )(im?
CA: wwhat
CA: a course I asked him
CC: )(-E)(-E!! 38)
CA: and he said no just like all the rest
CA: wwhats that hehe for
CC: WHAL-E maybe you s)(ould ask him again! maybe you s)(ould tell him that no one wants to be your )(ost? )(-E)(-E!!
CA: wwhat
CA: wwhy wwould i do that
CC: w)(ale you know karkat ALWAYS wants to be the leaderly type!!
CC: just tell him that’s w)(at leaders do!! )(e)(e!!
CC: besides you need someone to stay wit)(!
CA: fine wwhatever ill do it
-- caligulasAquarium [CA] ceased trolling cuttlefishCuller [CC]—