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"Number seven? Very well, perhaps we shall," Progolo replied pleasantly as Ari prepared to leave. He tapped his door, a sound he knew that Kala had come to recognize as a beckon. She responded immediately, dropping her super-slueth air and cantering over to him.

As she arrived at his heels, she looked over to Rawiya. Why did she look so...droopy? Was she sad? Trying to be comforting, she stretched out her neck and ruffled Rawiya's neck feathers with her beak.

A Meeting Between Faust, Blanche, Emi, and Karma

As the sun spread it's warm rays over Ar'Idil, and rose higher and higher into the sky, Faust chirped excitedly and pushed his keeper out of the cabin with his antlers. "Nyuuur!" It was a beautiful day, and the gryphon desperatly wanted to go outside and play, who wouldn't? Finally succeeding in moving Karma from the couch inside, to the warm outdoor air, Faust bounded off of the porch. He fluttered his wings, making his body hover for a moment, and landed awkwardly on his legs with his wings spread out. Giving a slightly surprised 'Wark', Faust managed to regain his composure, and began to prance about the green grass happily.

Karma giggled, and sat down on the porch's edge, letting her legs dangle and sway. Faust had acted as if they hadn't been outside in ages, and, she supposed that it must have felt like that, but that didn't neccisarily mean it was true. Sighing, and watching her charge run around in the seemingly endless field in front of Setone, she recalled that, while it seemed like a lot longer, they had actually gone outside a few days ago. Karma shrugged, and looked at her surroundings, then back to Faust. They hadn't really met that many people and Aerandir, only -she took a moment to count the few they had met, they had only really met four: Chao, Sanar, Air and Oleo, and Faust didn't really get that much of a chance to actually meet Chao and Sanar, just get aquianted. "Hmmm..." She whispered quietly to herself. "We really should get to know more people and Aerandir." Karma thought about that for a while, wondering how one was supposed to go about meeting people. She couldn't just walk up to a random cabin and knock on it, could she?

Faust's ears perked as he heard the voice. It didn't sound like Karma's voice, or the voice of anyone else he had met before. Pausing his prancing, Faust turned his feathered head behind him so he was facing Emi. Did she speak? The gryphon curiously 'Wark'ed at the new person, and gave Karma a quick glance before he happily trotted over to Emiko, Blanche, and Toby's cabin.

Karma too, had heard the voice, and she looked over her shoulder to see who it was. "Oh! Good afternoon," There was a brief pause as a smile found it's way on her face as she noticed who it was. "Emiko!" She remembered what she looked like from when the met very briefly during the eruption. Pushing herself off of the porch, and jumping to the ground, Karma checked behind her for Faust, only to realize that he had already made his way over to Emiko -he was probably extremely excited at the prospect of making and playing with new friends. As she drew nearer to her previous pen pal, Karma began to raise her right hand, offering a welcoming handshake. "It's nice to finally meet you." She smiled at Emi and stopped walking forward when she arrived beside her.

After Faust had sufficiently 'introduced' himself to Emiko via a quick, excited click, he pranced over to the cabin's porch, and at the same time, Blanche. Faust laid his head on the edge of the porch, and tilted it as he stared at what he thought was defiantly the most colourful gryphon he had ever seen. He opened his beak and let out a curious 'Nyar?', then straightened out his head so that all that could really be seen was his crimson Ptarmigan head, his cream ears, and his tan antlers.

"Yes, it does seem strange." Karma agreed, releasing herself from the handshake. "I'd have thought that we would have already crossed paths, like now, earlier." Her eyes followed the same path as Emi's, and landed on Blanche, she smiled. The Aerandir looked so cute, covered in various colours of paint. Then again, it'd probably take a while to wash out, Karma silently wished Emi luck with that endeavor before she spoke, "So is that Blanche?" She hoped that she remembered the name correctly.

Faust watched as Blanche slid backwards on her paws. Odd, he had never had that effect on anyone before; she looked almost, scared. The gryphon pondered the meaning of her actions curiously, coming to no real conclusion other than it must have been a strange reason. While it might not have been that much of an answer, it was good enough, and Faust proceeded to 'introduce' himself.

To Faust's delight, the paint-covered gryphon responded. Giving her an excited chirp, Faust was about to attempt to jump onto the porch -something that would have most likely ended in a painful failure, when he noticed the yellow smear that had come from her paw. He stared at the smear, then Blanche's paw, the smear, then back to her paw. How'd she manage to do that? He voiced a questioning 'Nyar', quieter than his greeting one, and then motioned towards the smear with his antlers.

"Oh, yes that sounds wonderful, would you like any help?" As the word drink came from Emiko's mouth, Karma felt slightly relieved. It was a hot day, at least it was in her standards, and her throat was beginning to get dry.

Faust chirped, confirming Blanche’s actions, even though he knew that she knew what he meant anyway. Staring at the strange pot that the fellow gryphon had just nudged, Faust pushed his feathered head higher up, so that he could peek over the top edge of the tray. Letting a slow, and fairly quiet whirr exit his beak as said tray was pushed his way, Faust was washed over with the realization that it was, in fact, the strange blobs that were letting Blanche colour the paper. That was still really cool.

Faust watched intently as the other gryphon gently pushed the tray even closer to him. Though, when he saw Blanche demonstrate the new, and apparently entrancing phenomenon of painting, Faust found himself slightly surprised. Somehow he had thought that it would’ve seemed much harder than simply pressing something down on the blob of colour, and then doing the same onto the paper. Of course, that wasn’t to say that he was disappointed, no. For some strange reason, he was actually rather excited. Faust was filled with the urge to try to do it himself, it seemed like fun.

Moving his head so that he was once again looking at Blanche, Faust’s ears twitched as he heard her question. Yes! Of course he’d like to play! Faust chirped excitedly to her, and promptly trotted over to the stairs. Oooh, if it had been a while ago, then he would’ve been tripping over himself, but now… Now he knew he could successfully conquer all the stairs that would stand in his way. The gryphon made quick work of jumping up his previous arch-nemesis, and walked over to Blanche, his hard, parted hooves making a soft clopping sound as he came.

“She’s adorable.” Karma interjected, then giggled as she heard the rest of the statement, “Ah the wonders of paint.” Involuntarily wiping the back of her hand against her forehead, Karma pushed up her long sleeved shirt. Thinking back to the morning, Karma couldn’t quite remember why she had chosen a long sleeved shirt, but she dearly regretted it now. Her attention drifted back to Emi, and she felt a pang of pity for the poor girl. While she only had a shirt and she felt hot, Emi had a fur coat, and she could only imagine how well that mixed with Ar’Idil’s weather.

As Emiko began towards the house, Karma followed suite, walking up the stairs, onto the porch, and stopping beside the door, unsure of whether it’d be very polite just to waltz into someone’s house uninvited. “Well I suppose that I’ll have to give him a bath either way, anyway.” Karma stated truthfully, it had been quite a while since Faust’s last bath, and he wasn’t getting any cleaner by himself. “So if it isn’t too much trouble, I’ll bet they’d both enjoy it.” She continued, smiling as she glanced down briefly at the pair of gryphons, Karma nodded at Emi. “Alright then, I’ll wait here.” Leaning against the house as Emi slipped into it, Karma enjoyed a warm breeze as she waited for her friend.

After a short while, Karma peeked into the house, and, seeing Emi walking towards the door with two chairs in her arms, Karma pushed (Or pulled, depending on the door.) the door open wider, and attempted to help Emi set them down, if she needed any help, that is. When Emiko exited the building for the final time, Karma sat down on one of the chairs, “So how have things been going for you, lately, Emi?” She asked curiously.

Faust clopped his way slightly closer to Blanche. Peering into her eyes, he tilted his crimson head to the side, and emitted a rather curious chirp. The gryphon was at a loss for any ideas as to what the fellow Aerandir could have wanted. After a brief pause, however, a thought leapt into his mind. Maybe it was a game! Perhaps he was supposed to copy her actions! Excited at the thought of learning a new, and most likely entertaining ‘game’, Faust followed through on both his thought, and Blanche’s ‘lead’, leaning his beak up close to hers. Awaiting the next action to follow suit in, he gently nudged the soft white fur beside her ebony beak with his own.

Karma grinned, “Why thank you.” As Emi seated herself, one of Karma’s hands found its way to the back of her neck. It most certainly wasn’t just Emi feeling the heat that day. Karma’s hand had pulled her short, silvery hair away from the slightly sticky skin that it usually fell loosely beside. It’s first job finished, Karma’s hand fell back down to her lap.

The lady nodded, her eyes grazing over the fair-sized pile of white paper, and landing on the rather welcoming jug of juice. Her hand was quickly sent back to work as it lifted said jug, and carefully poured some of its contents into one of the conveniently placed glasses nearby. Looking back over to Emi, she poured some juice into another cup, and handed it to Emi as she brought her own to her mouth.

“Really? Wow, congratulations! It’s great that you’ve managed to narrow the list down to just one sort of item. You know, if you wanted, I think I might have some nice gems floating around in my jewlery box back in my cabin…” Letting her sentence drift off slightly, Karma soon pulled herself back into the normal swing of conversation. She hadn’t been sure if Emi had already made plans with someone else to have the gems sent over, or if she might have some herself, but it seemed like a rather exciting idea –being able to help Blanche grow and become a child, so she had tried nonetheless.

Grinning slightly, Karma shrugged. “I’ve been well, as has Faust. He’s actually been attempting to learn the art of flying over the past few days. Just as you said, it’s been quite sunny and warm lately, so it works out rather well.” Letting her eyes flicker over to the two small gryphons, she smiled. It seemed like they were getting along pretty well.