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Lysium watched the older boy as he suddenly seemed to think of something else. She knew how people looked like then, because Faiga always seemed to daydream. "Yes, long name. A-tha-lus." Smirking she paid attention to his letter.

As he had finished she glanced at Shiver and sighed. Stop doing that! He made her look aside and she wanted to concentrate, but of course that wasn't what she told him. Why? It's fun! Because I want it.

Shiver stopped hopping around like a bird and sat down beside Stealth. Good. That was easy! You turn! He was happy that they had found such an entertaining game to play.

Lysium instead took some black paint and tried to copy the L as good as possible. Of course it didn't look that elegant, but still you could make out it's original shape.

Lysium's mouth became quite tiny as she pressed her lips together in concentration. Did her name look right like that? Putting her brush aside she looked at the scruffy letter and pondered. It looked right...but... "This one needs a tail." She pointed at the second letter and nodded wisely.

Somehow she wondered how people actually knew how it was right. Did it matter as long as you could see that it was almost the same? "Is it important?" The toddler asked and glanced at the playing daemon's once in a while.

Shiver watched Stealth with excitement. That was the best game ever, he would train so hard at home to learn how to change colour! It looked so funny, he had to keep himself from giggling mentally. But what kind of animal was that? A bird? No. It had to be something he didn't know. Hadn't Seduire said something about a whale which was big and...she hadn't mentioned colours though.

A white whale with dots which makes sounds?

"Yes. If you say so." Somehow she knew that name's were important, but writing was still pretty new to her. Still she believed in Althalus words and so she happily imitated his letters. They were simply black though, but after a while she added some red spots. It looked dark, Althalus' ones seemed more nice.

Dog? Luckily he had never met one, so Shiver wasn't informed about the usual procedure cat and dogs went through. Very funny. I like you, Stealth. The daemon said. It was different fun with Courage, because she was more good at physical play, but Stealth was kind of "brain fun" for him.

"Thank you." Lysium smiled gently and looked at the paper. It was almost like a present for birthdays. But Faiga had said that birthday's were only once a year and she still remembered her last one. She would really like to take this one home. Then suddenly she looked up at the boy. "When is your birthday?"

Oh yes, you can come and visit us and see the big birds. But Lysium doesn't like people at our home. He seemed a bit sad as he made the statement. Then he looked at the small Forgotten toddler.

Lys, when will Daddy come? The daemon asked mentally. Don't know. Suddenly she noticed that she had been spending a LOT of time alone and felt a bit insecure. Nervously Lysium bit her lower lip.

Lysium wondered if everybody had birthday around this time. Perhaps a year wasn't that long? It made her happy though that Althalus smiles. "Not long ago. 7th October, Daddy said." She had memorised the date, although she didn't really know what it meant. But she would learn soon enough, Lysium was sure. "When will he come to pick me up?]" She had started to miss her home a lot.

Shiver nodded and followed Stealth's eyes. Lysium looked sad. That was...a bad thing! I will tell her, then we will come here. Then we can do all these fun things. He moved towards the Forgotten girl and gently nudged her elbow.

Just when the sound of the drying paper echoed through the kitchen the doorbell rang. Lysium smiled for a short moment and then slid down the chair. She brushed across her dress for a moment and looked up at the older boy. "Thank you, Al-tha-lus." She held out her hands to receive the precious gift and turned to Shiver then, who made the attempt to hop onto her shoulder.

No.
Oh please, please. Stealth did it too.
He's taller, you're smaller. No. AND you have claws. Ouch.

Shiver pouted a bit, but somehow he got the point. He wanted to be a colour-changing lion in future, so he should forget about sitting on shoulders. His tail went up straight to show his happiness and he winked at Stealth. Yes, bye bye, Stealth. I will practise!

Lysium now waited for her father to come in or Althalus to open the door.

Lysium toddled after him and smiled as her Daddy stood in front of her. "Hello." Quickly she showed the paper to him.

Faiga was relieved. The girl didn't look like she had cried a lot and Althalus didn't seem to have a nervous breakdown. That was good. "Hey Princess, are you alright?" As the girl nodded he picked her up with a huff and cuddled her for a moment. Shiver watched the scene quite content, but hoped he wouldn't be hugged as well.

So he turned to Stealth and waved his tail in a goodbye-motion. I will, I will, for sure! Then he quickly moved out of the door.

"Thank you, Althalus. You're a very responsible boy for your age." Faiga smiled and offered him the promised money with a little extra tip. "Perhaps we can repeat this in future." Putting Lysium back to her feet he took her hand and turned towards the chocobo, which was tied to the fence nearby.

Lysium smiled slightly and waved the paper at Althalus. "Bye Althalus, thankyou."

(( That would be great. It was lots of fun for me! ))