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Elias was mentally trying to keep track of everything the flutter was saying, especially when she started talking about her family. "It sounds like your family is really big..." Elias noted. He supposed that if he considered everyone in the tree to be his family, his was pretty big too. Only... he didn't think she had meant it that way. "It's just me and my mom in our home."

The teenage boy had been so caught up in finding out what they had in common and what was different that he hadn't even realized he didn't know the girl's name. "Oh." The boy looked down sheepishly, although he felt a little better because she must have forgot too. "I'm Elias. It's nice to meet you..." Oh wait, she hadn't given her name yet. He looked at her with a small tilt to his head, hoping she would fill him in.

"I guess... I never really thought about it too much." Elias had never really investigated too much into the lives of other faun living in the tree, so he didn't really know if his family was small or normal, but Siofra's family was way bigger than his.

Elias held out his hand, expecting to shake it, but was surprised when he was brought into a hug instead. The boy froze at first, with wide doe-eyes, slowly his body relaxed though. He had hugged his mother on occasion of course, but this was different. This was really different. He was silent for a long time, before breaking it by saying, "Siofra is a really pretty name, it matches you." Before things could get awkward, Elias broke the hug. "We should keep going," he smiled at her before looking away. Everything about this was so strange and foreign, and yet familiar... because she was just like him.

"Oh?" Elias asked, not noticing her blush because he had been looking ahead. "You've been this way before?" Elias had barely been out of the tree except for once so he had no idea where they were heading towards.

"My mom has told me about so many adventures of her exploring the island... but I haven't done much of it myself." Elias said thoughtfully. Even with the detailed stories she gave, it was hard to place them here. They always just sounded like fairy tales to him.

Elias smiled at her spontaneity, stopping what she was doing because she had to climb a tree. It was cute. The boy didn't quite understand the significance of going to a clearing, but he didn't really care where they went either. Elias paused, "I never really thought about it," It felt like there was a lot of things he hadn't ever thought about. Of course, he had only been a mature pae for a few days. "She does love me, makes me wonder if she will go back to doing that now that I am older."

"What sort of promise?" He said with a tilt of his head to the side as he continued walking down the path.

Elias listened to her proposition with interest. Making friends and adventuring a whole lot weren't things he necessarily cared about a whole lot. Adventuring was definitely more his mother's thing, despite the little leg-stretching adventure he was on night. Elias was also used to a slightly more solitary lifestyle so it wasn't a big deal to him to make friends. However, finding out where he came from... that was something he was very interested in. Especially now that he knew there was someone else like him.

"Sounds like a plan," He agreed. As they neared closer and closer to the clearing, Elias could feel a strange tug on his heart. The teen boy glanced at Siofra, thinking the feeling had to be coming from her. In his mind, it was getting stronger the more time they spent together.

"Oh? Ok." Elias nodded, the name didn't mean much to him, he didn't even know what a fae was. If Daring Do had ever mentioned this place to him, she likely hadn't called it by an official name either. When Siofra mentioned that was where she was potentially found, his ears moved slightly.

Finding Siofra made her so much more interested in where he had come from, and he certainly had a lot of questions for Daring Do when he got home. "If she found you here, then maybe its not very far from where you're from, and maybe that's where I'm from too!" Elias exclaimed. Of course... this theory he had further supported that they might be siblings. "I don't think I have heard anything about this place, but I think I have a few questions for my mom when I get home."

"Maybe." Elias agreed, if they were from the same place then they were definitely related like he thought. "Awesome," He smiled as he watched her hover a little, although he was still slightly distracted. There might have been some benefit to going back home with Siofra to meet her family, however going here seemed like a great start too. He could always ask Siofra's family questions later.

As Elias moved into the clearing, he took a moment to glance around. It was certainly different from the rest of the forest, but it also seemed ordinary too. Elias glanced at Siofra, waiting for her so say something. When he looked her way, he felt a strange tug on his heart. It was a feeling of belonging, something he hadn't entirely experienced before. Elias didn't know it was from being near his true home, he thought it was from being with Siofra.

They had only just met, and he barely knew her. The familiarity he felt with her because she looked like him wasn't something that could be argued with though.

Siofra grinned. "I'm sure you'll like it there. My parents are really nice~" The female couldn't help it. She loved her family to pieces, and the feeling was mutual.

The closer to the clearing they got, the more a blush spread across her cheeks. She could feel something tugging at her heart. A sense of... Something. Did... Did she like Elias? Jade eyes flicked over towards him, hoping he didn't notice her blushing like crazy.

"It's so big here!" Anything to avoid trying to figure out whatever that funny feeling was. "Have you ever seen such a wide open space before?" She was in awe. Something special was happening, that she was sure of. Be it a crush developing on Elias or something else, Siofra knew she felt something special being here.