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"Mhm, his name is-"

"Ar'n!" Reid stated proudly and Aido nodded.

"Aeron," she translated smoothly.

((and, for those curious: Aeron=maculine form of Agrona who was the Goddess of war and death heart ))

If Aido had known that generally one was not supposed to go into the forest, more likely than not she would have steered their group in another direction. But the Tale had no idea of that rule and the forest merely looked like the one at home so she nodded and tried to pick up her younger brother.

Reid grumbled and quickly wriggled out of her grasp, he could move on his own after all, and headed towards the forest at a quick crawl.

With a shrug she followed, silently calling out to Rael who responded sleepily, letting her know he was nearby if anything should happen.

"Maybe," Aido murmured, following Deimos closely, her halo glowing warmly, illuminating the area around them. Stooping down she finally got a firm hold on Reid who huffed but didn't wrestle out of her arms this time. Crawling was hard work, espically with so many huge trees about to go around.

Emerald eyes glanced about, taking advantage of Reid's new posistion to see deeper into the forest they were steadily making their way into.

Aido glanced over her shoulder, just a flicker of worry in her gaze when she saw that the exit was out of sight. It was fine to be this deep into the forest when she was by herself but she couldn't help but worry about what might happen. If they went in too much further she'd call Rael and get them all out of there.

"Piie?" Reid asked curiously, tasting the sound of the new word and wondering what it could mean.

Reid was about to ask what a captain was when his attention was drawn up the sides of the huge tree. Besides him Aido gasped at the magnitude of it.

"Wow..." she breathed, she didn't think there was a tree in exsistance bigger than the Crossroads, but here it was.

__The Playground (RP w/ Rabid Ice Weasel)

Crow sat on one of the swings, boredly toying with her pilot goggles and trying to polish away the numerous fingerprints that marred the glass lenses. Trying to hold back a yawn, she glanced 'round at Lenore.

"Len, don't you think its time for bed?" she asked in a tired monotone. Lenore, who was currently preoccupied with sitting on the see-saw and bouncing, firmly shook her head.

"Not tired," the child replied, and resumed her solitary bouncing. Crow gave a groan and massaged her tired eyes - having a nocturnal kid had demanded a complete upheaval of her sleep patterns. Staying up this late in the day was equivalent to staying up until the wee hours of the morning for her now.

Lenore continued to bounce, her bare feet digging into the soft ground and leaving gouge marks as she propelled herself upward. She enjoyed the feeling of being airborne, even though it only lasted a few seconds. Looking around, intent to find a see-saw partner, Lenore searched for another guardian or Mishap that might want to play with her.

"Of course not ok. I UPSIDE-DOWN!!" Deimos shouted, flailing around with the tree, but the vine seemed to have an iron hard grip on his ankle. "LEMME GO, DUMB TREE" At this insult the vine lurched and the small wish doll fell from hsi tial to the floor. "Aeron!!!!"