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"That should be it for the pumpkins." Periwinkle, Peri for short, said to the worker that was handling the deliveries. Peri often had to come and deliver pumpkins for the academy since he and his sister owned the largest, and closest, pumpkin farm, and they were the only two workers. It was a good thing that he liked tending to them so much and that he had more strength than one would think. Otherwise pumpkin delivery would be impossible.

He had the worker sign the tablet for confirmation of the pumpkin delivery and headed over to put his trailer away so that he could move it out of here safely. Out of the corner of his eye he could see that some freshlings were out and about, and tried to keep an eye on them while he hitched the cart back up so that he wouldn't hurt any of them accidentally.

Peri had just finished securing the trailer when he heard a voice behind him and he whirled around and jumped a little! After that though he had a moment to calm down and realized that it most likely wasn't something that was going to eat him, but instead just a little freshling. What had they been asking again? "My... ears?" He said, unsure that he had heard the little freshling correctly.

He looked at one of his ears, and the back at the freshling, still a bit confused as to why they would be so interested. "Uh... sure I guess? As long as it's soft touches and not pulling or anything." He mostly found his ears to be an annoyance that usually got in the way, but he didn't mind if others asked about them. It's when they just went up and touched them that he got annoyed. And the freshling had asked after all.

Peri was starting to get a little creeped out. Not from the Hallowed hybrid, after all, he was "technically" a hallow too even if he didn't look that scary but she did say she loved his ear after all. He kind of wanted it back now. Unfortunately he wasn't too good with little kids and wasn't sure how to handle them, so for now, the girl got to keep his ear hostage.

"Right... Uh, well it's... nice to meet you Aisling? And Ginger of course." He did not want that thing trying to eat him. He looked at her feathers and shook his head. "I'm fine. I don't have to touch your feathers." Did this kid not have a concept of personal space or what? And she just asked a strange adult to touch her back... Now he was feeling like some sort of disgusting pervert. "Really, it's fine. I can't touch your feathers because... I haven't washed my hands." Hopefully that would ward off any more of the kids offers to "touch" her in some way.

He shook his head once again. "I actually graduated the academy a while ago. I just do deliveries now." He didn't say what it was, just in case she decided that she would specifically be looking for pumpkin deliveries. Little kids were smart, he knew that if she really wanted to, she would be able to memorize his schedule and might bother him every time he came back.

"So it means I'm only here for a little bit, and then I have to go back to my job." He said, trying to give her the hint. Kids were smart in some areas, but in others... Not so much.

He kept himself from blurting out that a freshling really shouldn't have a job in the first place considering how young they were. "Well, at least you have an idea of what you want to do. I'm sure there are plenty of jobs that involve familiars somehow." There was volunteering and sitting and all sorts of different ones. At least she had an idea of what she wanted to do. He and his sister had been raised to just help with the family pumpkin farm. At least he liked doing it, though he was allowed to leave if he wanted.

"That's cool. And familiars are interesting." Most of them anyway. He was pretty sure that some of the larger ones could and would eat him. "I'm Periwinkle." He replied, hoping that she didn't ask anymore questions that would require him giving out revealing information about his schedule.