They needed to get out of the house, as it seemed, though Sunny would be allowed to stay for the wedding, Martha Vir the captain's mother was having trouble being in the same room as Sunny. That was ok she supposed, parents were supposed to be protective of their offspring, and if Sunny wasn't something to be feared, than she didn't know what was.

So Sunny had grabbed her headphones, Vir had gone rooting around in the garage coming back with a thin board with wheels strapped to the bottom, and they had set off in the early morning sunlight. Vir seemed intent on trying to balance on the rolling board as it moved down the sidewalk.

Sunny didn't think he was very good, but what did she know about humans and their odd games.

Krill floated behind her soaking up earth's nice, warm sun. As a creature that didn't eat, sunlight was important for Krill. She still found it kind of weird. Despite Krill's need to be afraid of everything, he even admitted that early summer on earth was very pleasant. And he wasn't wrong their planet was beautiful, it didn't have the eclectic color selection of her planet, with its rainbow mosses and purple trees, but there was something charming about the green scenery spread across a high blue sky dotted here and there with vibrant colors. She closed her eyes and let the sun warm her skin.

Off to the side a sharp note echoed down the street, and she looked up just in time to see a group of the human kits riding past on their weird metal contraptions with wheels.

All of them stared, mouths wide open.

That is, until one of them plowed right into a parked car with a loud thud, and the squealing of a car alarm.

Sunny winced. Vir grimaced. Krill covered his eyes. "That wasn't us, was it?" The captain wondered sheepishly.

"I think it might have been, Captain." Krill muttered as they hurried on by. Behind them the kit had started to wale, and its friends were trying to help it back to its feet, "Should we stay to help." Krill wondered.

Vir shook his head, "Best not, other humans don't like it when you mess with their kids. Depending on what type of people they are, we might be blamed for hurting him. They sped up the pace and kept going causing more and more staring as they made it into the center of town.

"Where are we going anyway?" Sunny wondered

"My sister has Kimber at the rec-center for her Dance and then her Karate class later on, but forgot her phone. We're bringing it to her." They cut off the road and into another parking lot, slipping past groups of people frozen in their tracks, and into the back doorway of the building. Ahead of them was a long hallway lined in tile. Through a pair of windows lining the side, Sunny could see large, manmade bodies of water, where the humans were..... Swimming? She didn't know humans could do that. They made their way up the hallway, and Sunny peered into the rooms looking at odd climbing structures, and wide open areas covered in odd lines, where humans were busy playing games.

They paused at the junction of a couple hallways, "My sister says she's in the lounge area, there are a lot of people there, do you mind waiting here, Sunny?" Vir wondered

Sunny shook her head as the other two floated off. She had a knack for attracting attention, and trouble, and though the captain was known for similar problems, there were some humans who were still harboring anger about the war.

She waited in the hall, and waited, and waited. Where were they?

Just then, the distant sound of music reached her ears. It was coming from the hallway to her left..... She was sure they wouldn't mind if she just took a peek. Quietly she turned off her music and tip toed up the hallway, not like it would matter for all seven and a half feet of her.

With one eye Sunny peered through one of the doors little windows.

And was immediately stunned. The lights in the room were low, and the humans were standing in two double lines quite still. The soft thudding of a musical track began just behind them, and then they began to..... Began to what? How could Sunny even describe the things the humans were doing at that moment.

It was like watching a gust of wind through grass. All at once, and without a cue, the humans rocked to the side hands flung into the air and then paused frozen in place, after another moment, they rocked again to the other side freezing in place. Perfect canonization like they had been programed to do it. Sunny was frozen as she watched. The music began to speed up.

The humans in the front row stood in place though their arms moved with a surprising speed and accuracy out then in than up, than in some odd configuration back to an attention position. Behind them, the other humans were following a different pattern using their feet stepping to the side and then spinning around. Not one of them was out of step.

As they sped up, they rolled through each other cutting in patterns that shouldn't have been possible without running into each other. With the music, and the rhythmic patterns of their movements they created a kaleidoscope of human movement rolling one after the other in mesmerizing patterns. When they stopped, Sunny was almost disappointed, hoping that they would start again, when they didn't she ran over to another door, just in time for something else.

Again, the humans here stood in two long, straight lines. Their hands were behind their backs. All at once, they began to stomp a single foot against the floor creating a simple rhythm with their feet. Clack, clack, clack. Hands still behind their backs, they began to move their other foot. Tapping with the front and the sides of their feet against the floor with a rattling beat. The beat stayed the same, but the feet grew faster, and, as if they were making music with their bodies and their feet, they began to move their legs rattling and pounding against the floor in time with each other feet moving faster than Sunny would have thought possible.

The pounding rhythm grew up in her head mesmerizing her as she watched. The precision, and the synchronization was..... Beyond anything she had ever seen.

From there, she ran down the hallway peering into windows and watching the humans as they tapped into something.... Otherworldly.

A pair of two humans swung around each other like a pair of leaves blown in a high wind. They spun to the left, and followed by spinning back to the right. Without a single mistake or misstep they wove their feet through each other threatening every moment to trip each other, but instead rolling to the side in a massive arc using tiny steps to appear as if they were floating across the floor. They let go of each other immediately synchronizing their movements as they moved feet apart, and then they came back together like the snapping of two magnets right against each other.

Sunny ran to the next door in frantic excitement peering inside as a dozen women began to dance rolling across the floor with tiny steps, on the points of their feet. They held their arms out to the side as if they were gliding faces serene and smiling. All at once they threw their feet up in the air and began to spin, a set of whirling dervishes in gauzy white clothing. They stopped their spinning to leap to the side legs straight out in either directions toes pointed before coming down to begin spinning again. The way they danced made it appear as if they had no bones, simply pieces of ribbon being flung around the room.

The next door was opened, and Sunny peered inside. This time the humans she saw were all shapes and sizes. There were men and women and kits milling about in their places as a large man stood in front of them. Unlike Vir, and most of the other humans, he was hairless, with very dark skin, and a set of intricate inking up one of his arms.

"Now, remember, for this to work you have to be aggressive. That's the point, I don't want to hear any of this uhhh, remember, give me an AHHHHGG!"

At the very front of the line, Sunny saw Vir's sister's kit in her yellow T-shirt and green patterned pants. She wasn't wearing any shoes. Her pigtails were messy and, one of them was close to coming out.

"Now remember to start low, hands out front like sumo wrestlers, take your positions and we will try this again..... ready?" The humans had run quickly into their lines low in a half squat position hands out in front of them. The tiny Kit's face was split with a serious frown of concentration.

"And, on three, one, two, three."

There it was again, Sunny was dragged in with the sudden excited violence as the humans stomped their feet into the ground shouting after every step. All together the sound of their feet and their voices amplified rising up to the sky ceiling above.

A few moments of this, and they slammed their hands against their knees in a clapping sound over and over with the stomping of their feet. The room started with a rattle, and as it went on the humans grew louder, their movements more violent the rattling turned into a pounding and then a thundering. Sunny's eyes were wide with admiration and she took a step forward.

The humans broke suddenly as one of the kits screamed, the rest of the humans gasped. The large, dark human whirled to face her.

"SUNNY"

The room hung still in a single moment as Kimber raced over and hugged Sunny's leg. The humans stared on in total and complete confusion. Sunny waved sheepishly at the humans who waved in shell-shock back. Kimber grabbed Sunny by the hand and walked her further into the room.

"Mr Teacher, look look this is my friend Sunny."

The man just stood there staring, "Uh.... You're friend."

She nodded, "Yeah, my friend, can she stay PLEASE!"

The man rubbed the back of his head in awkward confusion, "I well, I.....don't see why not.... I guess long as she follows the rules."

"She will." Kimber chirped.

She dragged Sunny to her spot showing Sunny what they were going to do, and sunny followed her instruction. They had a bit of trouble figuring out what to do with her second set of arms, and then they began. Sunny did her best, but it turned out to be more difficult than she might have thought. She kept losing her timing or getting confused. She didn't notice when the captain and Krill showed up looking for her. She didn't notice Vir's expression of amusement or Krill's expression of terror.

***

Sunny saw something that Krill would never see about human. The way they moved in synchronization with each other as if they held some sort of unknown hive mind. It was the sort of synchronization and power that soldiers strived for in war, but could never quite grasp, but here were the humans teaching their young to work in time with each other, every step the same, every movement attached to the movement of another.

Sunny didn't know how they did it, because when they did it was like they tapped into something else, something that only humans could understand. Even their bodies behaved differently than they should, like bones turned to rubber and muscles pulled tight. They could fly through the air and glide like spirits, they could slither across the ground taking on the form and shape of different beasts as they "Danced" With each other

Krill theorized some sort of unknown human hive mind that even the humans rejected, but Sunny had a different idea. Krill would never understand as his species was less social, but she knew, while it was something more than simple observation, it was something other than a hive mind, something special about humans.

Humans can tap into something otherworldly, and they won't even admit it.