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REALLY hopes she isn't intrupting anything...

The door chreaked open as Sin put her weight against it. She was concerned, as always that there would be people inside who wished her ill. Upon seeing no one she walked forward towards the scandly covered message board and pulled a small list out of her pocket.

Finding a stub of pencil on the floor, she wrote:
Hey Guys, Gael has just turned into a whisp, and according to Anthony, I need to get all of these items. I don't have any of them lying around at home, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

2 Ribbons - We have one...
1 small pouch
1 large pile of beads
1 feather from another Aerandir
1 small piece of metal or rock-ore
2 small pieces of wood
A piece of string

You can stop them by my house or mail them to me.

PS - Does anyone know if whisps float away if you take them outside? I worry about Gael.

Sin looked at the note one last time and then turned to head back to her house, where Chao and Sanar were hanging out with Gael - so she didn't float away.

Anthony walked into the main body of the lodge, a large sheaf of paper in his hands. He looked around absently as he rearranged some of the paper into two smaller piles,juggling them in his hands. He placed both of these down onto the long table as he pondered what he had found out about the change from the gryphon to wisp stages of the Aerandir growth. More like what he hadn't found, really.

Staring out of one of the large windows, he watched the walkway leading to the centre. It wasn't intentional, it was just that the middle distance happened to be right there.

It wasn't a large box, not really, but it was bulky enough to need to be carried by both arms and hindered Chao's sight enough to have caused the poor guardian to walk into several of the houses on the way to the lodge.

Huffing the guardian paused and rotated the strap of Sanar's bag, which had fallen down to nearly her elbow and looked around the corner of the box, sighting the wisp that was Sanar peering back at her curiously and there, only a few feet away, the walkway!

"Thank gods!" finally something to concentrate on, all she'd have to do was watch her feet and make sure she didn't trip on the stairs. "No more walking into buildings!"

Sanar floated along just above her bonded object, keeping an eye on the small collection of items that was bouncing along gently in time with Chao's movements as she rushed the last few feet to the path and finally picked up the pace as she headed for the Lodge.

Glancing to the side Chao caught sight of a familar figure, "hey Sin!" she called out to her friend.

Sin turned as she heard her name, Gael's whispy form nearly floating through her head. She paused - who was that. Then her eyes shone, it was Chao! She waived a hand slightly, moving the box up and down, "Hi Chao!" She called, smiling brightly as she noticed that Sanar was also in whispy form.

And then she saw the box that Chao was carrying. As she drew closer, she asked, "Is that the box... with the sake?" She wondered outloud, hoping Chao would not confirm her suspicions.

Gael was strangely interested in the other whisp, but as soon as she heard the dis-embodied voice of Anthony, her head swiviled around and she turned all of her attention to the young man.

Sin turned back towards the community centre, now looming in the distance, and shouted, "Hi Anthony!"

His face lit up with interest as he discerned, from their boxes the wisps and their coming to the Lodge that he was, in fact, going to be performing the odd 'ritual' of getting these Aerandir towards their next stage. At least, he hoped. Maybe there was some problem? It was awfully son after all.

He fretted slightly the light dissapearing from his face as he waited for both women to arrive in the Lodge and tell him the reason for their visit. He barely kept himself from hopping foot-to-foot with impatience.

After hopping up the steps towards the open door, keeping pace with Sin and pausing to let the older girl through Chao followed, making a very foolish, and quite brief, attempt to balance the box on her head. Supporting it with her hands the teen crabwalked in and then manuvered the box back into her arms and finally put the silly, bulky cardboard monstrosity down onto the Lodge's floor.

"Worst possible box to use," she grumbled, adjusting Sanar's bag and causing the whisp to bob slightly with the movement, before looking back up, "um, Anthony, Sanar and I are finished collecting the items on the list, but your note didn't say what to do afterwards. Sin have you finished too?" she asked, tilting her head and glancing sideways at the older woman curiously.

Anthony nodded and ushered the women in as they wrestled their boxes through the doors. He was relieved to hear that there were no problems, his heart slowed down just a tad and then ramped back up again at the thought of the change these two beings were going to go through.

"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear" he said, looking at them both bashfully. "I had intended for you to come here, I'll remember to make that more evident in future similar events." he added, professionally. He wanted for this to go well and there was a level of intuition he'd been told to rely on which he wasn't entirely comfortable with.

"If you are both ready then of course we can begin on getting these girls" he smiled at the two wisps "into a more corporeal state."

Anthony walked to where there was plenty of space on the floor and knelt down, using an arm to indicate that Chao and Sin might do the same