Friendship Bracelet



It takes almost 25 years for human offspring to reach full cortical maturity.


The average human can weight anywhere between 90 and 300 pounds with outliers dipping down to 70 pounds and reaching up to 700+.


Human skin color ranges on a scale of mostly brows and creams with translucent white at one end and ebony black at the other end. Heights can be anywhere from 4.5 to 7 feet on extreme ends of the spectrum.


Human hair is likewise set out on a spectrum of blond to black or, rarely, auburn, red or strawberry blonde.


Due to the nature of the human physiological structure, their infants are born surprisingly underdeveloped. To keep these infants alive, the humans create pack structures known as families. The classic nuclear family usually includes two parents and anywhere from 1- 20 children (in extreme cases) the parents are in charge of taking care of the offspring until a predetermined age when the offspring is expected to take care of themselves.


A human child reaches milestones of maturity which determine the health of the child. A window of age determines when it is normal for a human to talk, walk, laugh, smile, and begin speaking.


Humans are one of the only creatures in this galaxy to mature at such a slow degree. They are also one of the only species known to give live birth to their offspring, which may be why their children are born so vulnerable.


Human social ties are what keep the offspring alive until maturity.


***


Krill sat in the back of the car squished between two of the three brothers inside his specimen tube staring down at the snow which was coming down in thick flurries. Captain Vir and his second oldest brother sat in the back seat of the car as the old human drove his way careful through the snow. The other two brothers had taken the oldest brother's care and would be following shortly behind.


Waffles, the dog, sat on the floor just in front of Krill head resting on the captain's knee.


Apparently, it was normal for the humans to go out in weather like this. Traveling in a blizzard wasn't unknown or even all that thought about. It used to be more hazardous when cars didn't have emergency steering override, but now attached proximity alarms could track the movement of other objects around them and intervene if an accident was eminent.


It didn't mean that krill wasn't scared out of his mind. This all seemed very dangerous, but Captain Vir insisted to him that the family had been invited to a "Birthday party" at his sister's house, and it would be rude not to come.


Krill was under the impression it would also be very rude to die, but what did he know?


The car skidded softly on some ice, and the old human grunted wrestling control back from the icy roads as he took a slow controlled turn onto another residential street parking himself behind a long line of cars.


Jeremy and the second David pulled up behind them, and they all got out of the car, the dog taking the lead to the correct door.


Captain Vir Held Krill's specimen tube under one arm and a sparkly silver bag in the other hand.


"Prepare for mayhem, it's going to be loud."


Stomping the snow from their boots, the humans made their way up the steps and knocked on the door asking to be let in.


The door opened with a blast of noise not dissimilar to military grade decibel weapons. All of the humans, accept for the alpha female, cringed. Krill became very grateful for the control he had over his sensory systems.


Stepping inside was pandemonium. There were at least ten adults sitting at the distant table playing a game of cards, and there were about as many tiny humans. They ran around screaming and chasing each other with boundless energy. Their unsuppressed predatory play made Krill feel very uneasy.


He had never met a human child. He had seen them once or twice sure, but he had never interacted with one directly.


As soon as they walked in one of the human females rose from her seat and walked slowly over. She was relatively thin, aside from the massive bulge at her stomach which she kept protective hand over. Captain Vir walked closer and put an arm around her. She hugged him back before pulling away and frowning at his eyepatch, "What did you do to yourself, Adam."


Captain Vir gave a sheepish grin, "I uh accidentally lobotomized myself."


She frowned at him, but before she could say anything they were surrounded by a mass group of children chattering and pointing at Krill inside his test tube. One of the little humans let of a shrill scream and scampered towards his mother hiding behind her legs.


"Eww, what is it?" One of the tiny humans asked stepping back eyes wide with fear.


The rest of the human children huddled behind that first child nodding with large eyes.


All accept for one of the tiny humans. She was blonde, hair pulled back into two little tufts of hair on either side of her head. The puffy little outfit she wore was somewhere in the red spectrum though Krill couldn't tell exactly what color. He had a suspicion it was the hue that humans called pink.


She wore a paper crown and held a sparkly stick with a star at one end.


She was the only one brave enough to come up to his containment unit eyes wide with curiosity instead of fear.


She looked up at Captain Vir, "Uncle Adam, is he your pet?"


Vir laughed and knelt to look at the little girl, "No this is my friend."


The containment unit hissed open.


A few of the children screamed and ran towards their parents hiding behind older adult legs.


The little girl held her ground, "Oh, HI what's your name!"


She was loud, and absolutely horrifying. He scooted himself behind captain Vir's legs and away from the tiny predator and he sharp little teeth. The tiny human frowned and circled around towards Krill, "Hey, its ok, I'm not mean."


Krill looked up at captain Vir who stood grinning down at him, "Come on, and introduce yourself to my niece."


Krill did so hesitantly, "Hello.... Human larvae, I am Krill."


The little girl giggled, "My name isn't Larvae, its Kimber, and you can be my friend." She announced clearly pleased with herself reaching out to grab one of Krill's arms before he could stop her.


He nearly keeled over and died. Terrified that she was going to bring him back to her lair and eat him.


"Kimber," Captain Vir warned, "Be easy."


"Ok." Her grip loosened, but she still tugged Krill along after her. He went almost too petrified to think as the group of tiny predators parted around her. Some curious some scared.


The next few hours were some of the most terrifying, and interesting, moments of his life, the tiny human female seemed to have claimed Krill as her property demonstrating this action by placing one of the colorful party hats on his head. She claimed the dog in the same way insisting that both of them participate in her "Tea party" where they were made to participating in ritual of drinking imaginary tea and making Smalltalk. Not that Krill had to do much talking, the tiny human had a lot to say about things that didn't seem to exist.


He wondered if the human grub was sick.


Was she delusional?


Not only that but he witnessed what happened before humans were tamed. One small human, deciding that he was not getting what he deserved fell to the floor and assailed the adult humans with a sonic attack that rattled the windows.


The older humans winced, but came over to try and tell the small human to stop. In anger, the small human attempted to attack the larger counterpart.


It didn't work, and the larvae was shut into a room by himself. He continued attempting to use the sonic attack, but the adults just laughed it off. His weaponry had been effectively defeated by the door.


Eventually more of the small creatures became brave enough to approach Krill.


And they asked an incessant amount of questions.


Was he a boy or a girl? Where was he from? What was his favorite color? Were those his eyes? What was that thing for?


Kimber was the first to grow tired of the questions and made her claim on him by announcing that she, and her new best friend were done answering questions. They were going to make friendship bracelets instead.


He watched in confused amazement as the tiny human passed colorful spheres onto a string presently presenting Krill with the gift afterwards. He wasn't aware that you had to make someone a bracelet to be friends with them, but she seemed to insist that it was necessary to keep their friendship solid. When the bracelet wouldn't fit on one of his legs she decided that a necklace would work just as well and ordered that he wear it around his neck.


Ok, he didn't want to anger the tiny predator, so he put on the colorful beads. She seemed pleased.


Afterwards, she grabbed his arm and dragged him with her to the grownups announcing formally that Krill and She were now BFFs.


Catpain Vir grinned at Krill, and at Waffles who had been faithfully following Kimber around in hopes that she would feed her more cheerios left over from the tea party.


The dog was still wearing the colorful party hat.


"An interesting entourage you have there, Princess Kimber." Captain Vir said


She beamed up at him quite pleased before demanding that, as Princess she should get some cake.


At least the hiatus left Krill with time to relax from some of the stress, of course that was relative come to learn that you could in fact FEEL unborn human larvae moving inside a human mother. That, he thought, sounded exactly like the plotline to one of those human horror films, though none of them seemed to think so instead, insisting that the miracle of birth was beautiful and whatever.


Krill begged to differ, he knew how big a human birth canal was, and it was not, in fact, large enough for a grapefruit....


Apparently it stretches.


Dear Nebulon that was disgusting.


They spent a good few hours there before the humans began trickling away with their offspring. With her friends gone, Kimber cajoled him into a tour of her "Play" room insisting he memorize the names of each and every one of her stuffed animals, because it would be rude for him to incorrectly address them.


During their third "tea party" She formally dubbed Captain Vir the pirate king because of his leg and eyepatch.


By the time it was their turn to leave, She insisted that Krill keep on the bracelet or it would ruin their friendship pact, and that would be unacceptable.


He was scared she would come find him and hunt him down, so he kept silent.


***


Thinks I have learned


Human offspring use sonic attacks to get other humans to do what they want. Sometimes it works depending on the exhaustion level of the adult in question.


To have a good relationship with a human grub, one must make an offering of a friendship bracelet or necklace as a proper introduction.


It is a normal ritual right to drink fake tea with a dog. It may be some sort of primitive indoctrination ceremony.


Though human larvae are more fragile than their older counterparts, they are also more aggressive and would probably kill you if given the chance, be glad they aren't bigger.


Also important to note that human larvae are spawned in the heart of darkness growing to final maturity in the belly of their mothers, feeding off her body, by way unholy attachment, to feed their own hellish growth at which point they will claw their way from her womb potentially breaking her bones and ripping her open as a result.... They have tricked their human parents into thinking that this as acceptable birthing method.


Ballerinas are terrifying, but the human larva is a creature spawned of blood and darkness.


It is advised to accept all colorful gifts of friendship from these creatures lest they destroy you in your sleep.

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