Chapter 14: Lesser Spirits
Aric listened to the lights with a look of surprise on his face. He could actually see the spirits. He immediately sat up, his sudden movements scared the spirits, and they all flew away screaming.
"Wait, wait! I am not going to hurt you, please." He begged. The spirits paused, unsure if they were the ones he was talking to.
"Is he talking to us?" one asked.
"It can't be us," another responded, and soon they burst into talks of whether it was them or not.
Aric found their banter amusing, their tiny voices going back and forth repeatedly.
"I am talking to you, the little floating balls of light," he said. The spirits immediately went silent for a moment, and then, in the next moment, they burst into a rage.
"Did he call us balls of light?"
"How dare he do that!" They started berating Aric.
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry! I didn't mean it as an insult. You all look beautiful. Your light is warm and nice," he said, trying to convince them.
"Hmm, I like this human-elf monstrosity," one spirit said.
"I'm not a human-elf monstrosity. I am a half-elf. My mother was a human, and my father was an elf," he said.
"Ohhhhhhhhh, I've never seen that before," one spirit sounded like he understood, only to say he didn't.