Autodidactic Becky

Hilda was silent on the way home. She was wearing the new clothing Hao Ren had bought her while her torn dress was in the shopping bag, which she considered incredible as well as wasteful. She gazed at the shopping bag and fell into deep thought.

They were walking on the empty streets in the Southern Suburbs. Hao Ren did not use teleportation; he needed to let Hilda experience the public transportation system on Earth for herself. It was to divert her attention so that the anxious elf queen could ease herself. After all, Hilda was only going to stay on Earth for three days. She was just a tourist. But, things did not work out the way he expected to. Hilda was not in the mood to explore. All the while, she frowned. She questioned the way humans lived on Earth. Then she spent the rest of the day getting lost in her own thoughts, worrying about her homeland.