Thick Skin and A Jeweled Heart [8.1]
"The King wishes to see you." A young girl at the age of ten looked up from a stone figurine of a mighty steed. It huffed and flipped its mane before going once again stagnant, only scuffing its hooves against the girl's palm intermittently. She placed it on her bed, jumping off and walking to a man in his 20's. The man's skin was light green with specks of copper and gold resembling freckles all over his complexion. His eyes and lips were shiny and of a deeper green. Even his hair looked shiny and kept in place. Actually, his whole body was shiny. It seems, that the man was made out of pure aventurine, a kind of mineral. The man nodded and stepped aside to let the girl out of her room. As she walked alongside the man, she smiled. "You're always so odd, brother. Would it hurt you to speak more?" Her brother just glanced down at his little s...