Two-leggeds. Why did it have to be two-leggeds? [COMPLETE]

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Characters: Spirit, random Lumens, Kit Fisto, Cloud Strife
Content: Spirit arrives outside Niflheim and is very confused, to say the least. Later, Kit meets up with him inside the city, and then Cloud meets up with Kit.
Setting: Outside Niflheim gate, later just inside it.
Time: Afternoon
Warnings: None.

Prey animals that rely on speed are naturally light sleepers, so when Spirit's night abruptly became day he kicked off into a gallop before fulling waking up. As he turned around to face any potential predators behind him, his jaw dropped open.

Spirit's homeland did not, to his knowledge, have nearly that many two-leggeds in it. And he was sure it didn't have... well, it didn't have that thing all the two-leggeds were lined up in front of. As a final confirmation that he either wasn't home or was hallucinating extremely vividly, his herd was nowhere to be seen or smelled.

There's only so much even the bravest heart can take in one go, particularly when it resides in someone whose instincts prefer flight over fight. Spirit wheeled around, away from the two-leggeds, and ran.

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"It's nice to meet you in person." Kit smiled himself and nodded in greeting, ends of his tentacles swinging forward with the movement. They would have allowed him advance notice of Cloud's approach on their own, the Force completely aside; the boy's unease would have been noticeable rooms away, in sharp contrast to the calm neutrality (which seemed oddly shallow, as if there were room for only one or two other emotions under its surface) most common among the natives to the city. Sympathetic, he resolved to do what he could to alter that unease and make it a little less. He had been told, as a padawan, that 'How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.'. He had believed it then; his belief still held. "How are you?"