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Belgrio .pov.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" I asked the human boy, who was hiding behind my closet. "I am Prince Alexander," he said and gave me his hand. I asked, eyeing him suspiciously. "First of all, I'm not a boy, I'm 20 years old and my name is Alexander, secondly, I wanted to see what the forest looks like because I was very young when it was closed," said Alexander, and I looked at him in surprise and said "That you're 20 years old you still look like a little boy," I said with a laugh and Alexander angrily crossed his arms over his chest and said, "It's not my fault you're so tall and that's why I look short to you". "You do realize Alexander you can't be here the gate was made up exactly so that the world of the forest and people do not mix," I said, and Alexander looked at me with a gloomy look. "But I can't get to sleep, our magician gave us a magic key only for the journey here, because when a person uses it, the key is transferred to an unknown place, and for a person to be able to use it again, he has to find it again," said Alexander. why does the key do that?" I said rubbing the bridge of my nose. "It doesn't matter, unfortunately, I'll probably have to help you if I want you to get out of this forest safely," I said, running my fingers through my hair out of stress. Thank you very much, I appreciate that you want to help me" said Alexander and hugged me. I was confused for a while because the only ones who ever hugged me were my mom and my siblings, but after a while, I hugged him to sleep. "Come, I have to take you to my mother, let her make you some kind of costume in which you will look like a creature of the forest, because if someone finds out that you are human, there will be a disaster here," I said and went to the wooden box in the corner of the room and took out a brown leather cloak and threw it around Alexander and fastened the metal clasp around my neck and pulled the hood over his head. We quickly but quietly went out and crossed the city to its end where my mother's house is. I live a short distance from the city, and my mother and siblings live at the end of it. After a few seconds after I knocked, Mom opened the door and I immediately pulled Alexander in and closed the door behind us. "What's going on Belgrio?" Mom asked me as soon as we entered the living room. Alexander undid the metal clasp on his cloak and took it off. "For God's sake, honey, you're human, what are you doing here?" Alexandra's mother asked and quickly jumped up to him. "I wanted to see what was here in the forest, so our magician gave me a magic key, thanks to which I got through the gate, but the key can be transferred to an unknown place and until I find it, I can't get home," said Alexander. "Okay, I understand, and you probably want Belgrio from me to disguise him so that no one discovers that he is a person, who is he here?" asked my mother and I just nodded briefly. "Okay let's do it," said mom and she pointed to a wooden chest in the corner of the room. I took it. I placed it on the floor next to her. "What's your favourite colour Alexander?" Alexander's mom asked and he smiled and said "I like blue the most". Mom gradually pulled out of the chest a pale blue shirt, black loose cloth pants, black patent leather boots and a pale blue coat with a silver metal clip on which birds were depicted. When Alexander changed into these things, Mom moved one of the kitchen chairs and signalled Alexander to sit down. Then she took a brush from one of the glasses that she had prepared on the table before and began to gently paint Alexander's face with it, "this paint will make the same temporary tattoos and marks on your face as we have," said Mom. After a while, the same signs and tattoos that I had started to appear on Alexander's face, only instead of my red-green ones, Alexander had his blue-silver ones. Then mom put a white-blue-black flower headband on his head and conjured the same twisted horns on his head as we have and also lengthened his ears a little to resemble ours. Then she told Alexander to close his eyes and gently put her fingers on them and after a while, she told him to open his eyes. His eyes were no longer pure sky blue, they were just like that, the other was black. "Go look in the mirror and tell me what you think," said Mom, and Alexander stood up and walked over to the mirror. "Wow, I look completely different except for my blonde hair," Alexander said, spinning a few times in front of the mirror. "I hope you haven't forgotten what day today is Belgrio day," said Mom, crossing her arms over her chest. "For the gods today is the festival of lights," I said rubbing my nose. "All your siblings are already outside in the square, you wait for me here, I'm just going to get something upstairs," said Mom and quickly went up the stairs to the first floor. "How many siblings do you have Belgrio?" Alexander asks me and I laugh and say "Four brothers and two sisters". "So you have seven siblings in total?" Alexander asked me in surprise. "Yes, and what about you, do you have any siblings?" I asked him. "Yes, I have two brothers, an older and a younger one," said Alexander and he smiled so that his teeth were visible, which I found adorable.