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Since her mother had yet to make it to the mainland V'demhe was left to look around Jauhar on her own. It was up to her to find a decent place for them to settle in. Though she wasn't exactly sure where her elderly mother would be more comfortable. So she had decided to look around the whole of Jauhar. Now she was in the southern area, her adolescent radaku trotting along beside her. His blue color caught the glow of the mushrooms and made him look ethereal, something Dem seemed to love. With one hand she reached out and gently stroked down his back. "Such a good boy, Maha." Her tone was affectionate when she spoke to him. The beast was pleased with the acknowledgment and started to strut rather than trot and it made the alkidike laugh.

Her laughter seemed to die down as she noticed that Maha was sniffing the air as if he had caught wind of something strange. As he moved to track it down, Dem followed. There was no way she would let her familiar get into anything on his own, he had yet to make it to adulthood. The two crashed through the forest until finally the radaku stopped and stared. He had found... a child. V'demhe paused and looked at the matori child oddly before she turned her head this way and that looking for someone else that would be watching them. She saw no one. "Strange."

She took note of how the youngling acted. He was afraid. It took her a solid moment of staring at him before she realized why. With a twitch of her antennae she took a step closer to the child then knelt down so that she wasn't quiet so tall. "Are you alright? It's not safe for little ones out here." Ironic that she was saying such a thing when she, too, had gone exploring the forests when she was his age. The thought made her smile. When she thought about something else she looked back at Maha and gave a small whistling noise. He reacted by sitting down and tilting his head to the side innocently. Giving the child her attention once again Dem would motion toward the radaku. "He gets hyper sometimes, but he's a big goof. His name is Maha and he won't hurt you." Hopefully that would put the youngling at ease.

His stutter was kind of cute but it made her wonder if he was still scared. She furrowed her brow a bit but didn't seem upset. Instead she turned to smiling once more as he mentioned the name of his father. "That's a nice name. Mine is V'demhe." The alkidike was hoping that if she introduced herself then he would relax a little. It bothered her a little that he could possibly be afraid of her or her familiar. After a small pause she shifted so that she was sitting on the ground, making her even shorter. "Do you know how to whistle?" If he did then she would teach him the pitch needed to get Maha to come to him.

Maha gave a snort when the bird landed on him and tried to stay perched. Turning his head he tried to look at the feathery thing, though it looked rather funny to see. The radaku would lose his balance and flop over in a heap of flailing legs.

The commotion of her familiar falling over made her look at the radaku with a dead stare. How had she gone so wrong in raising him? With a shake of her head she'd focus her attention back on the youngling. A smile took shape as she learned his name. Her smile broke out into a full blown grin when he said he knew how to whistle. "Good. I'll teach you a call that will make Maha come to you." She made the sound, forcing air past her teeth and lips in a shrill call. While she wasn't that far from the radaku he responded.

Maha, who had been trying to sniff at the bird that had used him as a perch, heard his owner call for him and his ears perked up. Again with flailing legs he got to his feet and moved over to Dem so that he was right up against her then sat down and laid his head on her shoulder so that he could stare at her. V'demhe gave a playful roll of her eyes at his behavior then looked Virain. "See. He's a big cuddle butt." When Maha licked her cheek she'd wrinkle her nose and swat at him. "It wasn't a compliment, Maha."

She watched as the youngling tried and failed to make the sound, but what he did make seemed to cause Maha to tilt his head oddly at the boy. Dem gave a small chuckle, expecting the boy to try again, but the next noise she heard from from the kinfa that decided she was a safer perch than the radaku. V'demhe smiled at the bird. "Well hello there." The bird being on Dem's knee made Maha somewhat jealous and he put a paw on her lap as he slowly leaned that way. He was hoping to be sneaky and lay on her before anyone knew what he was doing.

As Virain asked her to show him the whistle again she nodded her head and gave a quick shrilling call. Since Maha was already near her he got somewhat confused by the sound. So rather than get up and get closer he lifted his snout right up to her ear and nuzzled in, sniffing and puffing. "Ah, come on Maha, that's my ear." The alkidike pulled away and reached up to wiggle a finger in her ear to help get rid of the wet nose feeling.

Her long ears picked up on the muffled laughter and she eyed the younging a bit. "Oh ho~ You dare to laugh at a great amazon do you?" V'demhe did her best to make her voice dip low so that she could mimic a serious tone. One brow lifted upward and she leaned toward Virain slowly. She made it comical before she reached out with one hand and gently poked the boy in the side. "Feel the wrath of the alkidike." Unable to keep her serious tone she laughed. At least the child was relaxing a bit more now. She didn't like that he had been afraid, though she couldn't blame him. The rumors surrounding her race didn't help either.

As Virain made whistling sounds, Maha tilted his head and gave some small chorus of his own. It sounded like a drowning cat, but he did his best. Finally, when he heard the right tone, the radaku did an army crawl to cover the space between him and boy then started to lick at Virain's toes.

Seeing the play that Maha did with the boy made her smiled. It was good to know she at least had instilled in the radaku a gentleness. Maha followed the toes as the boy tried to pull them away and once they were hidden he lifted up so that he could try to lick the boy's face. The laughter egged him on. Dem gave a chuckle of her own before she snapped her fingers. "Easy, Maha, he's still little." The familiar trained his ears back toward his owner and rather than continue to lick he laid beside Virain as calmly as he could.

V'demhe kept an eye on her pet for a moment before she grinned at the boy. "See, now you know how to call him." She wasn't sure if that was a good or bad thing in the long run but she tried not to think about it. Turning her head to look around the surrounding area she had to wonder again why the child was out and about all alone. "Say, Virain.. where are your parents?" Had he wandered off from them?