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2023/11/04 Llegamos a un amplio espacio dedicado a todas las provincias españolas. Fue construido para una exposición universal de hace muchos años. Es bien de interés cultural español por la belleza que algerga.

We arrive at a large space dedicated to all the Spanish provinces. It was built for a universal exhibition many years ago. It is of Spanish cultural interest due to the beauty it offers.

Google Translation into French: Nous arrivons à un grand espace dédié à toutes les provinces espagnoles. Il a été construit il y a de nombreuses années pour une exposition universelle. Il présente un intérêt culturel espagnol en raison de la beauté qu'il offre.

Google translation into Italian: Arriviamo ad un ampio spazio dedicato a tutte le province spagnole. È stato costruito molti anni fa per un'esposizione mondiale. È di interesse culturale spagnolo per la bellezza che offre.

Google Translation into Portuguese: Chegamos a um amplo espaço dedicado a todas as províncias espanholas. Foi construído há muitos anos para uma feira mundial. É de interesse cultural espanhol pela beleza que oferece.

Google Translation into German: Wir erreichen einen großen Raum, der allen spanischen Provinzen gewidmet ist. Es wurde vor vielen Jahren für eine Weltausstellung gebaut. Aufgrund der Schönheit, die es bietet, ist es von spanischem kulturellem Interesse.

Google Translation into Albanisch: Mbërrijmë në një hapësirë të madhe kushtuar të gjitha provincave spanjolle. Është ndërtuar për një ekspozitë universale shumë vite më parë. Është me interes kulturor spanjoll për shkak të bukurisë që ofron.

Google Translation into Arabic: وصلنا إلى مساحة كبيرة مخصصة لجميع المقاطعات الإسبانية. تم بناؤه لمعرض عالمي منذ سنوات عديدة. إنها ذات أهمية ثقافية إسبانية بسبب الجمال الذي تقدمه.

Google Translation into Armenian: Մենք հասնում ենք մի մեծ տարածության, որը նվիրված է իսպանական բոլոր նահանգներին: Այն կառուցվել է շատ տարիներ առաջ ունիվերսալ ցուցահանդեսի համար։ Այն իսպանական մշակութային հետաքրքրություն է ներկայացնում իր առաջարկած գեղեցկության շնորհիվ։

Google Translation into Bengali: আমরা সমস্ত স্প্যানিশ প্রদেশের জন্য নিবেদিত একটি বড় জায়গায় পৌঁছেছি। এটি বহু বছর আগে একটি সর্বজনীন প্রদর্শনীর জন্য নির্মিত হয়েছিল। এটির সৌন্দর্যের কারণে এটি স্প্যানিশ সাংস্কৃতিক আগ্রহের বিষয়।

Google Translation into Bulgarian: Стигаме до голямо пространство, посветено на всички испански провинции. Построена е за универсална изложба преди много години. Той е от испански културен интерес поради красотата, която предлага.

Google Translation into Czech: Přijíždíme do velkého prostoru věnovaného všem španělským provinciím. Byl postaven pro univerzální výstavu před mnoha lety. Je to španělský kulturní zájem kvůli kráse, kterou nabízí.

Google Translation into Simplified Chinese: 我们到达了一个专门展示西班牙所有省份的大空间。它是多年前为一次全球展览而建造的。由于它的美丽，它具有西班牙文化意义。

Google Translation into Korean: 우리는 스페인의 모든 지방을 기념하는 넓은 공간에 도착했습니다. 그것은 수년 전에 만국박람회를 위해 지어졌습니다. 그것은 그것이 제공하는 아름다움으로 인해 스페인 문화적 관심을 끌고 있습니다.

Google Translation into Croatian: Dolazimo do velikog prostora posvećenog svim španjolskim pokrajinama. Izgrađen je za univerzalnu izložbu prije mnogo godina. Od španjolskog je kulturnog interesa zbog ljepote koju nudi.

Google Translation into Danish Vi ankommer til et stort rum dedikeret til alle de spanske provinser. Det blev bygget til en universel udstilling for mange år siden. Det er af spansk kulturel interesse på grund af den skønhed, det tilbyder.

Google Translation into Slovak: Prichádzame do veľkého priestoru venovaného všetkým španielskym provinciám. Pred mnohými rokmi bol postavený pre univerzálnu výstavu. Je španielskym kultúrnym záujmom kvôli kráse, ktorú ponúka.

Google Translation into Slovenian: Prispemo do velikega prostora, namenjenega vsem španskim pokrajinam. Zgrajena je bila za univerzalno razstavo pred mnogimi leti. Zaradi lepote, ki jo ponuja, je španskega kulturnega pomena.

Google Translation into Estonian: Jõuame suurde ruumi, mis on pühendatud kõigile Hispaania provintsidele. See ehitati aastaid tagasi universaalseks näituseks. See pakub oma pakutava ilu tõttu Hispaania kultuurilist huvi.

Google Translation into Suomi: Saavumme suureen tilaan, joka on omistettu kaikille Espanjan maakunnille. Se rakennettiin yleistä näyttelyä varten monta vuotta sitten. Se on espanjalaisen kulttuurin kiinnostava kauneuden vuoksi.

Google Translation into Georgian: ჩვენ მივდივართ დიდ სივრცეში, რომელიც ეძღვნება ესპანეთის ყველა პროვინციას. იგი მრავალი წლის წინ აშენდა უნივერსალური გამოფენისთვის. ის ესპანეთის კულტურულ ინტერესს იწვევს იმ სილამაზის გამო, რაც მას სთავაზობს.

Google Translation into Greek: Φτάνουμε σε έναν μεγάλο χώρο αφιερωμένο σε όλες τις ισπανικές επαρχίες. Χτίστηκε για μια καθολική έκθεση πριν από πολλά χρόνια. Είναι ισπανικού πολιτιστικού ενδιαφέροντος λόγω της ομορφιάς που προσφέρει.

Google Translation into Guarani: Roguahẽ peteĩ espacio tuichávape oñededikáva opa provincia española-pe. Oñemopu’ãkuri peteĩ jehechauka universal-pe ĝuarã ojapo heta arýma. Ha'e interés cultural español iporãgui oikuave'êva.

Google Translation into Hawaiian: Hōʻea mākou i kahi ākea nui i hoʻolaʻa ʻia no nā panalāʻau a pau o Sepania. Ua kūkulu ʻia no kahi hōʻikeʻike honua i nā makahiki he nui aku nei. He hoihoi moʻomeheu Sepania ma muli o ka nani o ia mea.

Google Translation into Hebrew: אנו מגיעים לחלל גדול המוקדש לכל מחוזות ספרד. הוא נבנה לתערוכה אוניברסלית לפני שנים רבות. הוא בעל עניין תרבותי ספרדי בשל היופי שהוא מציע.

Google Translation into Hindi: हम सभी स्पेनिश प्रांतों को समर्पित एक बड़े स्थान पर पहुंचते हैं। इसे कई साल पहले एक सार्वभौमिक प्रदर्शनी के लिए बनाया गया था। अपनी सुंदरता के कारण यह स्पेनिश सांस्कृतिक रुचि का विषय है।

Google Translation into Hungarian: Egy nagy térbe érkezünk, amelyet az összes spanyol tartománynak szenteltek. Évekkel ezelőtt univerzális kiállításra épült. Spanyol kulturális érdeklődésre tart számot szépsége miatt.

Google Translation into Icelandic: Við komum að stóru rými sem er tileinkað öllum spænsku héruðunum. Það var byggt fyrir allsherjarsýningu fyrir mörgum árum. Það er af spænskum menningarlegum áhuga vegna fegurðar sem það býður upp á.

Google Translation into Indonesian: Kami tiba di ruang besar yang didedikasikan untuk semua provinsi di Spanyol. Itu dibangun untuk pameran universal beberapa tahun yang lalu. Ini menjadi daya tarik budaya Spanyol karena keindahan yang ditawarkannya.

Google Translation into Japanese: 私たちはスペインのすべての州を展示する広いスペースに到着しました。何年も前に万国博覧会のために建てられました。その美しさからスペイン文化の注目を集めています。

Google Translation into Kyrgyz: Биз Испаниянын бардык провинцияларына арналган чоң мейкиндикке келдик. Ал көп жыл мурун универсалдуу көргөзмө үчүн курулган. Ал сунуш кылган сулуулугу менен испан маданий кызыгуусун жаратат.

Google Translation into Latvian: Mēs nonākam lielā telpā, kas veltīta visām Spānijas provincēm. Tā tika uzcelta universālai izstādei pirms daudziem gadiem. Tas ir spāņu kultūras interesants, pateicoties tā piedāvātajam skaistumam.

Google Translation into Malayalam: എല്ലാ സ്പാനിഷ് പ്രവിശ്യകൾക്കും സമർപ്പിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന ഒരു വലിയ സ്ഥലത്ത് ഞങ്ങൾ എത്തിച്ചേരുന്നു. വർഷങ്ങൾക്ക് മുമ്പ് ഒരു സാർവത്രിക പ്രദർശനത്തിനായി ഇത് നിർമ്മിച്ചതാണ്. ഇത് പ്രദാനം ചെയ്യുന്ന സൗന്ദര്യം കാരണം സ്പാനിഷ് സാംസ്കാരിക താൽപ്പര്യമുള്ളതാണ്.

Google Translation into Malay: Kami tiba di ruang besar khusus untuk semua wilayah Sepanyol. Ia dibina untuk pameran sejagat bertahun-tahun yang lalu. Ia adalah minat budaya Sepanyol kerana keindahan yang ditawarkannya.

Google Translation into Malagasy: Tonga amin'ny toerana lehibe natokana ho an'ny faritany Espaniola rehetra izahay. Namboarina ho fampirantiana manerantany taona maro lasa izay. Mahaliana ny kolontsaina espaniola izy io noho ny hatsarana atolony.

Google Translation into Mongolian: Бид Испанийн бүх мужуудад зориулагдсан том талбайд ирлээ. Олон жилийн өмнө бүх нийтийн үзэсгэлэнд зориулж барьсан. Энэ нь гоо үзэсгэлэнгээрээ Испанийн соёлын сонирхлыг татдаг.

Google Translation into Dutch: We komen aan bij een grote ruimte gewijd aan alle Spaanse provincies. Het werd vele jaren geleden gebouwd voor een universele tentoonstelling. Het is van Spaans cultureel belang vanwege de schoonheid die het biedt.

Google Translation into Nepali: हामी सबै स्पेनी प्रान्तहरूलाई समर्पित ठूलो ठाउँमा आइपुग्छौं। यो धेरै वर्ष पहिले एक विश्वव्यापी प्रदर्शनी को लागी बनाइएको थियो। यसले प्रदान गर्ने सौन्दर्यको कारण यो स्पेनिश सांस्कृतिक चासोको हो।

Google Translation into Norwegian: Vi kommer til en stor plass dedikert til alle de spanske provinsene. Den ble bygget for en universell utstilling for mange år siden. Det er av spansk kulturell interesse på grunn av skjønnheten det tilbyr.

Google Translation into Panjabi: ਅਸੀਂ ਸਾਰੇ ਸਪੈਨਿਸ਼ ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਸਮਰਪਿਤ ਇੱਕ ਵੱਡੀ ਥਾਂ 'ਤੇ ਪਹੁੰਚਦੇ ਹਾਂ। ਇਹ ਕਈ ਸਾਲ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਇੱਕ ਵਿਆਪਕ ਪ੍ਰਦਰਸ਼ਨੀ ਲਈ ਬਣਾਇਆ ਗਿਆ ਸੀ। ਇਹ ਪੇਸ਼ ਕਰਦੀ ਸੁੰਦਰਤਾ ਦੇ ਕਾਰਨ ਸਪੈਨਿਸ਼ ਸੱਭਿਆਚਾਰਕ ਦਿਲਚਸਪੀ ਦਾ ਹੈ.

Google Translation into Pashtun: موږ یو لوی ځای ته ورسیدو چې د هسپانوي ټولو ولایتونو ته وقف شوی دی. دا څو کاله دمخه د نړیوال نندارتون لپاره جوړ شوی و. دا د هسپانوي کلتوري ګټو څخه دی د ښکلا له امله چې دا وړاندیز کوي.

Google Translation into Persian: به فضای بزرگی می رسیم که به تمام استان های اسپانیا اختصاص داده شده است. سال ها پیش برای یک نمایشگاه جهانی ساخته شد. به دلیل زیبایی که ارائه می دهد، مورد توجه فرهنگی اسپانیایی است.

Google Translation into Polish: Docieramy do dużej przestrzeni poświęconej wszystkim hiszpańskim prowincjom. Zbudowano go wiele lat temu z myślą o wystawie powszechnej. Jest obiektem zainteresowania kulturowego Hiszpanii ze względu na piękno, jakie oferuje.

Google Translation into Romanian: Ajungem la un spațiu mare dedicat tuturor provinciilor spaniole. A fost construit pentru o expoziție universală cu mulți ani în urmă. Este de interes cultural spaniol datorită frumuseții pe care o oferă.

Google Translation into Russian: Мы приходим к большому пространству, посвященному всем испанским провинциям. Его построили для универсальной выставки много лет назад. Он представляет испанский культурный интерес из-за своей красоты.

Google Translation into Serbian: Стижемо до великог простора посвећеног свим шпанским провинцијама. Саграђена је за универзалну изложбу пре много година. Од шпанског је културног интереса због лепоте коју нуди.

Google Translation into Swedish: Vi kommer till ett stort utrymme dedikerat till alla spanska provinser. Den byggdes för en allmän utställning för många år sedan. Det är av spanskt kulturellt intresse på grund av den skönhet den erbjuder.

Google Translation into Sundanese: Urang anjog ka spasi badag dedicated ka sadaya propinsi Spanyol. Éta diwangun pikeun paméran universal sababaraha taun ka pengker. Éta dipikaresep ku budaya Spanyol kusabab kaéndahan anu ditawarkeunana.

Google Translation into Tagalog: Dumating kami sa isang malaking espasyo na nakatuon sa lahat ng mga lalawigan ng Espanya. Ito ay itinayo para sa isang unibersal na eksibisyon maraming taon na ang nakalilipas. Ito ay may interes sa kulturang Espanyol dahil sa kagandahang inaalok nito.

Google Translation into Thai: เรามาถึงพื้นที่ขนาดใหญ่ที่อุทิศให้กับทุกจังหวัดของสเปน สร้างขึ้นเพื่อจัดแสดงนิทรรศการสากลเมื่อหลายปีก่อน เป็นที่สนใจทางวัฒนธรรมของสเปนเนื่องจากมีความงดงาม

Google Translation into Telugu: మేము అన్ని స్పానిష్ ప్రావిన్స్‌లకు అంకితమైన పెద్ద స్థలానికి చేరుకున్నాము. ఇది చాలా సంవత్సరాల క్రితం సార్వత్రిక ప్రదర్శన కోసం నిర్మించబడింది. ఇది అందించే అందం కారణంగా ఇది స్పానిష్ సాంస్కృతిక ఆసక్తిని కలిగి ఉంది.

Google Translation into Turkish: Tüm İspanyol eyaletlerine ayrılmış geniş bir alana varıyoruz. Yıllar önce evrensel bir sergi için inşa edilmişti. Sunduğu güzellikler nedeniyle İspanyol kültürünün ilgisini çekmektedir.

Google Translation into Ukrainian: Ми потрапляємо у великий простір, присвячений усім іспанським провінціям. Його багато років тому будували для універсальної виставки. Це іспанський культурний інтерес завдяки красі, яку він пропонує.

Google Translation into Urdu: ہم تمام ہسپانوی صوبوں کے لیے مختص ایک بڑی جگہ پر پہنچتے ہیں۔ اسے کئی سال پہلے ایک عالمگیر نمائش کے لیے بنایا گیا تھا۔ یہ پیش کردہ خوبصورتی کی وجہ سے ہسپانوی ثقافتی دلچسپی کا حامل ہے۔

Google Translation into Uzbek: Biz Ispaniyaning barcha viloyatlariga bag'ishlangan katta maydonga keldik. U ko'p yillar oldin universal ko'rgazma uchun qurilgan. U taklif etayotgan go'zalligi tufayli ispaniyalik madaniy qiziqish uyg'otadi.

Google Translation into Vietnamese: Chúng tôi đến một không gian rộng lớn dành riêng cho tất cả các tỉnh của Tây Ban Nha. Nó được xây dựng cho một cuộc triển lãm toàn cầu từ nhiều năm trước. Nó được văn hóa Tây Ban Nha quan tâm do vẻ đẹp mà nó mang lại.

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honeysmokedham · 11 months

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TIMING: 6/5/2023 7:21 pm LOCATION: Axis PARTIES: Leticia @rhythmicmeow & Nora @honeysmokedham SUMMARY: Nora sneaks into Axis to pick up something she forgot and runs into a face from the past. Leticia realizes someone she’s been mourning isn’t dead. CONTENT WARNINGS: Parent death tw (mention), Suicide tw (no deaths)

Nora was a pit of emotions that swirled inside her, all clamoring against her walls begging her to express them. They were too loud. They were too demanding. They wanted thought and conscious effort from her that she didn’t want. That was why, with absolute disgust, she’d realized she’d forgotten something at Axis. Now Nora was sulking in Wormrow making sure he wasn’t home before she sulked her way into the office, picked up the snake from the bottom left drawer and left. At least it gave her a chance to drop off the gift she’d picked out for him. It was a hat that said ‘In Dog Years I’m Gay.’ She could already imagine the confusion on his face as he read it. At least that would be funny.

The stakeout was successful. Nora watched Emilio limp out. Probably on his way to the liquor store. Nora was in the door in a moment, quickly dropping the hat on his desk and grabbing her snake. “Sorry, Beyonce.” She’d only taken the snake out of her pocket because she’d been playing with Perro on the floor. Nora wasn’t going to wait for playtime to find out that Perror was a snake killer. Nora turned around, ready to leave and ran face first into a familiar face. Someone she hadn’t expected to see ever again, much less here in Wicked’s Rest. “Leti?” The name slipped out of her lips before she could stop herself. Quickly she dropped her gaze down, flicking her hood up with her free hand. Maybe Leti wouldn’t recognize her. She wasn’t the clean cut kid of the past.

Leticia should have ended her subscription to People magazine a long time ago. It came to the shop and almost immediately went into the trash. But this edition was different. Pine was on the cover with a brief statement about his missing daughter and then how he had… moved on. And was encouraging the world to do the same. It started another wave of confusing grief. It had been years since anyone had last seen Nora, and the assumption she had jumped to was a common one: Nora was dead. And the Pines were just going to replace her like she was some kind of doll.

So, she did what she always did when something hit a little too close to home. She went to Emilio’s with every intention of offering to pay for drinks, ready to prepare not to have felt anything at all pand to try and disassociate from the lingering grief. But when Leticia walked in, the immediate contact with someone caught her off guard. “Holy shit.” An apology hung on the tip of her tongue, but died at the glimpse of the face. “Nora?” Her heart was pounding, for all the things she had been feeling earlier in the day, it was now mixed with hope. She was hardly the same girl that Leticia knew before, not the polished presentation that had been advertised to the world via the Pines. Leticia moved carefully, putting her hands gently on the other’s shoulders and then dipped her head to get a look at the face again, or try to. “Is it really you?”

Leticia Torres. Pop rock star extraordinaire. A public champion of the LGBTQ+. Brand ambassador of the Pine Collection. Someone who'd known Nora for years. Suddenly Nora was a child again. They were on set for a photoshoot, and Nora had just gotten caught trying to scare Leticia for what had to be the thirtieth time. Leticia had always been so gracious with Nora, but her fathers were having her stand in front of the musician and apologize for misbehaving. On the list of famous people Nora had met and worked with, she ranked high. Nora actually liked the musician, unlike some of the assholes she'd posed with during her short career. But why was Leticia Torres standing in front of Nora now? Today of all days? The day that her own fathers announced to the world they thought she was dead, they were moving on, and they thought the public should too.

"I get that a lot," Nora mumbled, forcing her voice down to a different octave. "Similar face shapes." Nora did her best to sink into her hoodie. To melt on the spot. All thoughts of using her illusions escaped her in the stress of the moment. What would happen? Found and turned in the day after their announcement? So they could publically reject her for her replacement? Fuck. She hadn't thought today could get worse. Stall. Stall for time until she could think of anything to get herself out of this. Nora landed on talking about Leti’s music career. It was good stuff. The Pine family owned all her albums, and had gone to many of her shows. "I'm a big fan, recognized you instantly. It’s truly an honor to meet you. Your last show was-"

Nora paused midsentence, her whole body, still tense from the moment, froze. Nora was aware of Leticia's last moment. It had been metal. A spectacular transformation from woman to large cat. Of course, Nora remembered it. "You're a shifter." Nora forgot she was trying to pretend to be someone else. There was no more attempt to hide her voice or move her face from prying eyes. "That wasn't special effects. That's why you're here. Every supernatural comes here." Maybe this private investigation business would pan out for her.

Her heart dropped when the girl said that she got that a lot, why was Leticia expecting anything different? It was too fantastical to run into Nora in some random town in Maine. But with her father gone and her mother still in the wind, it would have been nice to have a win. Someone familiar to hang onto, something that didn’t feel like getting kicked in the chest. “Oh,” she whispered before pushing a practiced smile to her face, “Wishful thinking. Sorry.” Her hands dropped to her side, the feeling of defeat buried deep in her chest. The voice in her head reminding her that it was her own fault, she was breaking her own heart over and over again, looking for things that were simply impossible.

Ready to step to the side and let her flee Emilio’s apartment? Business? Leticia only stopped at the mention of her career. It was only a matter of time, she supposed. People didn’t seem to recognize her and frankly, it was nice. She found herself second guessing people’s intentions less and less, letting herself believe that she was making real connections with people while largely omitting a huge part of her life. A new wave of anxiety hit her. “Oh, really?” She kept her tone light, pushing more of a performance than before.

Her last show.

It wasn’t the most shocking part, anyone who followed her career the same way she did would have known that it had gone to hell fast. “I’m not a shifter, it was just a bad stage stunt,” she tried to explain it away with the lies that her management team had broadcast everywhere. Leticia moved again, this time looking Nora in the eyes, ready to tell the lie once more, only stopping because somewhere in the information, Nora had gotten lost. And so had Leticia. “I…” Was there any point in lying? “Nora, not many people know either of those things.” She worried at her lip, her emotions muddled. “Are you like me?”

The flip was switched. Leticia was back in performer mode as quickly as the disappointment had hit her. Nora knew the practiced smile coupled with the glossing over of very real emotions. When you were famous you did not own your emotions. You did not get to wear them on your face and proclaim them to the world. The public wanted to know that you knew you were special. The public wanted you to appreciate every single moment you lived because you gave it to them. To show anything other than a smile and appreciation would be to look at them with disdain. They would take it as an insult to everything they gave their public figures. It was as Reese Witherspoon had once said "No one who sees a photograph of us wants to see that we are anything other than totally happy all the time."

"I'm a bear." Nora let the hood drop from around her head. No longer cringing away from preying eyes, chin jutted forward. Nora knew what a mess she was these days. Dirt stained under her fingernails and against her cheek. She hadn't had a shower in two days. Her hair she'd started cutting herself, revealing being the only one touching it after a life of sitting still so others could dictate how she would look. The piercings were new too. Snake bites, septum, eyebrow. Anything to morph the cookie-cutter innocence of her youth into who she wanted to be now. "B-bugbear." The word stumbled off her tongue. "I didn't know it had a name. Until recently." Nora blinked. "I-I heard about your last show. I thought it was just funny publicity. But... Wow. Sick. I, you know, I didn't know there were other monsters until I came here."

Nora needed to get over this embarrassing habit of spilling every thought she had during times of emotional duress. She couldn't walk around with her cool emotionless facade only to keep ruining it because she had to deal with some uncomfortable truths. But this was Leticia. Basically extended family, she'd eaten at their table. She’d just always been around.

Looking at Nora fully now, Leticia exhaled slowly. She had known her for years, watching her grow up on instagram and seeing her throughout the years when she did work with the Pines. It had been two years without seeing her in person. A year of trying to accept that she was likely dead. And as Nora dropped her hood, it was hard not to tear up. She looked different now. The piercings were new, but not alarming. They had both been public figures and it was no secret that your appearance was specially crafted to be perfect. There was no room to explore yourself as a person or change even the smallest of details without severe scrutiny.

What Leticia was focused on was the dirt that had built up on her skin and the strange chop of her hair. This didn’t look like a girl that had been kidnapped, this looked like someone who had run away. “Are you okay?” The performance she had switched into faded away immediately, worry had taken its place. “You were adopted…” you had no idea. How could she have known? Had the Pines known about this? Was that why they tried to fill in that buffer between them so that Nora didn’t hide around every corner when Leticia was there? The pieces started falling together and while she didn’t want to pity Nora, Nora deserved better than that, her heart ached. No one should be born into this life with no guidance.

“I’m glad you found others like us.” I’m sorry I never told you. “I’m a balam. I was born with the spirit of a jaguar within me. Not a monster. And neither are you.” Maybe Nora had crossed the line of animalistic behaviors, judging by her hair, it wasn’t too far of a reach that those instincts might have overpowered other ones. But Leticia couldn’t imagine Nora in any other light than the sister she never had. And family, she had always believed, was there to support each other. Not judge them in moments like this.

"I'm g-" Nora wanted to say she was great. Nora had been great until the recent news kicked her in the face. "I'm good." Nora lied, nodding her head ever so slightly. "I'm adopted. Yeah." The pieces of the puzzle were clicking for Leticia, the say way they had clicked in for Nora. Pieces that made sense now that she could see the cover of the box. She could see the realization the moment it lit in Leti’s eyes. Nora swiped a hand across her face, begging her emotions to stay locked inside. This was just a lot. A new sibling, and the return of someone she'd seen as her older sister? In one day? Nora let out a deep breath, blinking while her eyes forced themselves upwards. She was going to keep it together. Her tongue pushed a piercing around in a circle as Nora worked to regain her mask. Her mask that kept cracking.

"They don't know. If you're wondering." Nora shoved her hands in her pocket, one of them going to Beyonce and stroking the smooth scales for comfort. "Um, I think if they did... Well, I don't know. It doesn't matter. They're fine now. You know." Words were hard. Words danced just out of her reach, keeping her in a constant state of ums and wells. "I eat fear. I um. People don't do that. You know? But I am a monster. I eat fear. Um. It's cool that you're a balam. Never heard of one until now. Jaguar? Sick. I've met a werewolf and a vampire so far. And Emilio." Nora didn't know if Leticia knew he was a hunter, and she didn't want to out her boss. Hopefully, she would just think she was calling him an animal if she didn't know. “How’ve you been? I haven’t read anything about you since the show.” It must have sucked, to transform on stage in front of everyone. Nora couldn't imagine why that would happen. Maybe Leti was bad at controlling her jaguar. The spirit of a jaguar. Was it not her? Was it like a possession thing? There were a lot of questions Nora was going to need to ask. One of which was why was it Balam and not jogjaguar or something like that. Werewolf, Bugbear, and Balam. One of those was not like the other.

Deep breath. Emotion's calming, Nora got it together enough to look back at Leticia. Beautiful of as always. Composed. Clean. God Nora was a mess, she knew that. She probably should have used the shower while being here but she hadn't wanted Emilio to catch her here after saying she wouldn't be at work. Plus she might have cried again. Which was embarrassing for her. But thinking of Emilio Nora was reminded, "Do you think we can do this not here? I.. I am excited to see you again. But I can't go back. I don't..." Nora licked her lip, pausing as she once more tried to figure out how to express her self "I never wanted to be famous, you know? That was their thing. I just wanted to know what I am. That's here. But he doesn't know." Nora motioned around at Axis. "He doesn't even know my name. He never asked. Just calls me kid. And look at this dump, I'd understand if he chose the money over an employee. You know?"

There were so many things that Leticia wanted to say. Two years of grief that had been written down in journals and private thoughts that she hadn’t dared share with anyone because she, like Nora, was supposed to be perfect. People loved the heartwarming stories, but the sad moments? The grief in the aftermath of a loss? There was an expiration on those feelings for the world. A week, maybe less, and then she had to be sparkling again. Grief wasn’t pretty nor was it marketable. Two years of thoughts had her mind swimming with everything she had wanted to say, every moment that she had missed, every open seat at her concerts that she had left just in case Nora just… showed up. Nora said she was good, and Leticia nodded. Good had to be good enough, even if Nora was looking up at the ceiling the same way she did when she was upset.

“I don’t think I would have been able to forgive them if they did.” She wasn’t entirely sure she’d be able to forgive them now, either. The anger from that article as still hot in the back of her mind, refreshed by Nora’s comment. Who could do that to their own child? Leticia couldn’t imagine her parents doing that, she couldn't do that to Nora, and Nora wasn’t even her blood. But she swallowed her choice words, tried to swallow the anger. Whatever Nora felt about the Pines, it wasn’t her place to influence her. Nora didn’t need Leticia’s image of family warping the one she had. Eating fear. Nora startling her so often made a little more sense. Not that she was particularly thrilled at being a meal. “Do you work for him? Is he not paying you? Her thoughts derailed at the question. This time, the sadness was for herself and not for Nora. “My pa…” Did Nora know about hunters? Had she run into any while she had been on her own? “I had to hide,” she settled on, deciding not to pile more onto Nora’s plate. “ Ma told me this would be the best place to hide. Safety in numbers.”

Glancing towards the back of the room, Leticia nodded her head. She hoped that Emilio wouldn’t be the type to sell someone out for a quick buck, but no matter how far she pulled away from the spotlight, she never became disillusioned with what people would do for money. Even people she liked weren’t immune to that. “We can go. Anywhere you want. I have a place downtown, a record shop. I live upstairs, so… There's a shower if you want one. Or anything else you need.” She paused for a beat, “He doesn’t know what I am either, or who I am, not the full version at least. He refuses to Google anything so I figured he was a safe bet,” she said, trying to keep her words light. Nora had been living in a dollhouse with the way that she spoke, only fueling her anger towards the Pines. All the piercings, the lack of showering, even the messy hair… Maybe that wasn’t the bugbear so much as Nora trying to get her agency back. “Whatever you want to do here, I’m in your corner.”

"It would have been different." Nora took a deep breath, "If they had known, I mean. I could've told them. I just didn't know how." Nora wanted to make excuses for all of this. For her. For her fathers. Nora longed to explain away all their actions and cling to the idea that her fathers' love was an unconditional well to draw upon that never dried up. Even if the voice hidden deep inside her had already convinced her they wouldn't accept this side of her, because it wasn't part of the perfect child they tried so hard to make her into. No. In this version she was trying to speak into existence, she'd run away not because she was scared of their rejection, but because she needed time. It was just one of those lies people told themselves to get through the day. They always looked different on different people, and this was the shape it'd taken around Nora. To Nora, that lie was a lifeline. Nora gripped it in locked fingers, held tight to her chest with an unspoken and unrealized fear that someone would rip it from her.

"Pay me? You've met Emilio before, right? Pay me? With what? His negative money?" Nora blinked, once again looking around his broken, dirty apartment. "His door doesn't even lock." Nora shrugged. "This... it's like a mentorship thing? I help him out and he helps me out." That wasn't the truth, and the lie stung as Nora said it. Emilio was paying her, he was paying her in the knowledge that she'd craved for her whole life. But Nora had learned by now that you don't out other people's secrets. If you do, you put them in danger. Nora didn't want to put Emilio in danger, but she also didn't want to lie to Leti. Imagine if they had been honest with each other years ago. They wouldn't have been alone with humans. They would have had each other. That knowledge sparked something in Nora, something that made her crave to spill all the secrets she held so that she could finally know this person who'd been a sister to her.

But Nora couldn't. Because talking got people killed. Because hunters were always on the lookout to kill monsters. Leti was talking about having to hide, and safety in numbers. "Hunters." Nora's monotone voice left no room for emotion. "Is there a hunter after you?" Odd to find someone hiding from hunters in a hunter's apartment. But wasn't Nora doing the same? Funny how life was full of parallels a person could be blind to until it bumped into you. “Wait, what are you doing here? Are you hiring him to track down the hunter?”

Nora slipped past Leti, taking the woman's hand and leading them towards the exit. Before leaving Nora made sure to look both ways before pushing them out into the light of day and walking the opposite direction from where she'd last seen the old man limping off. "Your store would be great." And Nora meant it. She looked forward to seeing what Leti had been doing with her time here. To spend time catching up with her. There were so many questions Nora wanted to ask about balams, and what Leti knew about the supernatural world. Most excitingly, it was thrilling to be back in someone's life who knew her, knew what she was now, and was still on her side. “Whatever you want to do here, I’m in your corner.” Nora had never heard more inspiring words.

“What would you have told them?” Leticia shrugged and shook her head. “You were just a kid, Nora. You… You shouldn’t have had to do this on your own.” There were a thousand reasons why Nora might have ended up in the custody of the Pines, a thousand more why she might have grown up alone, but Leticia hated the idea of it. Hated that Nora didn’t have the same experiences that she had, growing up near a protected forest where she could roam free without the worry of humans or hurting anyone. Angry that she was robbed of learning to love what she was from family who loved her in equal measure, even when she wasn’t perfect. Angry for all the moments that Nora was robbed of. And angry at herself for not questioning it.

But how could she? From the outside look in, everything was perfect. Even the photoshoots where Nora was dressed up like a jaguar and Leticia had a bear costume on, there had been little moments where Nora had stepped out of line just enough to be visible in a way that wasn’t perfect and someone would step in and demand she apologize. Leticia had wanted to step in a thousand times, to tell them that she was just a kid and that being weird was the whole experience of being a kid. She was learning about herself, learning to be herself. But that was the thing about tragedy, you didn’t know what it was until it was done and over.

“I made a joke about paying his employees, I didn’t realize he really wasn’t paying you anything.” It wasn’t as unbelievable as Leticia wanted it to seem, but she at least cracked a smile. There was a strange comfort in knowing that Nora had found a place here and that Emilio had been a part of that for Nora. The faint smile slipped away, the word opening the wounds open once more. “I don’t know. I don’t even know how they found my pa. Ma is out there, but she’s been quiet for a long time. I had just gotten off the phone with ma when I went on stage. I’m sure even if I didn’t transform they would be hot on my tail, my family was never much of a secret.” The idea of hunting down the hunter themselves had crossed her mind, but revenge was never something that rooted itself in her heart. And what good would killing them do? It’d just stain the ground with more blood and stain her too. “I was here to see if he could help me find the bodies.” Plural only because she had given up hope on finding Nora alive, and maybe putting her father and Nora to rest could give her some semblance of peace.

Leaving the building, Leticia felt lighter, which was not what she had expected when deciding to drop in on Emilio uninvited. She expected some complaining and some drinks and less thinking. She likely wouldn’t have even asked for his help to find out anything about her father or Nora considering how hopeless the world felt. But seeing Nora after all these years? Knowing that she was alive? Nothing could replace that feeling of relief, and nothing short of that could inspire hope like what Leticia felt now.

What would Nora have told them? Hadn't she tried once? Locked in her bedroom for a week after her first transformation, her dad's concerned about her. They hadn't believed her, but she knew she hadn't tried hard enough. Maybe if she had transformed into the bear in front of them, or if shown them the illusions she'd learned to cast they would have been able to accept she had been telling the truth. It wasn't fair to hold them to a standard of acceptance. Humans couldn't be expected to understand those things. Nora couldn't understand those things and they were literally happening to her. It just was. Nora let that part of the conversation fade away. Leticia was right. Nora shouldn't have had to do it on her own. Her birth parents should have made sure she was given to a family that could help her. She should have at least been given a note explaining what she was. But those things didn't happen and Nora did go through it alone, but she wasn't alone anymore. Nora had people now. People who didn’t just know how to help, they wanted to help. They were willing to accept her as is, no boxes she needed to fit into or live up to. Better yet, now Leti knew. In this moment? That was enough.

Nora shrugged again. "Only poor people work for money." Nora actually had no clue that she was getting paid for her modeling. All that money went to a trust set up by her fathers that she was supposed to get access to on her eighteenth birthday. Growing up Nora simply had to ask for something to get it. The world was at her finger tips, attached to a credit card linked to her fathers accounts. Where and how people got money was something she didn't start learning until her foray into the real world. To her, it really wasn't odd that Emilio wasn't paying her. You worked to achieve something, not for money. Back then it had to achieve fame for herself and her family, as well as pleasing her fathers and making them proud. Now it was for knowledge.

So hunters actually did kill people. Despite having two hunter run-ins herself, Nora still found it hard to believe. She had never even met a hunter before coming here. Perhaps Leticia's parents were just in danger because they were here, where the hunters were? Nora didn’t say that though. Even she could determine that was a dick question to ask. It wasn’t Leticia’s parents fault that there were a group of humans dedicated to destroying them. It must be a lot to go through, family being hunted. Losing her dad. Missing her mom.

Look at them? Two parentless monsters hiding out in Wicked's Rest. Wasn't it funny? Not in the haha I’m laughing way, but the wow, the world really did hate monsters way. Nora reached out a hand, placing it on Leti's arm. It wasn't much, she knew, but it was the comfort she knew how to give. "I bet Emilio will be able to find them. Maybe." Nora shrugged. "I actually don't know if he's a good private investigator." He didn't know who she was, and her face was plastered over magazines. Plus some of the questions he asked her were just stupid. "But I'll help. Any way I can. We will find them." Them, plural, because Nora had no clue she was included in Leticia's body search. Nora remained as oblivious as always.

Nora was practically smiling. The corners of her mouth were upturned at the slightest angle. She had been sure today would be miserable. After retrieving her friend, she was going to go back to her crypt and sit there. Possibly sulk. If that got too much she was going to go to her practice area and stab a tree for a bit. Instead, Nora got this. A reconnection. A new beginning. It was exciting to realize that Leticia had been keeping her own secret double life, and now they were not going to get to know each other both as adults on the same even footing, but as monsters.

#chatzy #chatzy: leti #reunited #i would die for leti #thanks!

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