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Sakhile smiled and patted the other boys head; "Good! We can drop by and see some practices! Though we'll have to sneak in.. Mama and granny always get noisy when I come home muddy." He jumped out of the puddle and scampered off; "This way! You any good at climbing tree?If so we can go in though one of the windows in the back. Otherwise its up the ladder where we'll get caught."

He paused to make sure Virian was following him before setting off again, making sure to splash in every puddle he came across: since h was already muddy, why not?

"It's easy to climb trees!" Sakhile declared with all the confidence of a child growing up in the tree tops. "You'll be climbing in no time." How did you teach them to climb? Easiy; you just climbed and they followed! At least that's what his other non shifter friends had done... they had not liked being outraced so often by him and the other shifters so they'd learned quickly. Sakhile had just thought he was an excellent teacher....

"There's always someone watching the ladder... since it's the main entrance and all that!" He stopped and pointed to a large tree just down the street. "It's up there!" And it was quite easy to spot; for the Crystal Rain was all about appearances; they'd cultured the growth of crystals about the their tree and along the stairs leading up to the main entrance. A wide covered walkway encircled the entire building as it stretched through several of the trees. Soft sounds of music drifted down from above; there must be a show on or practices. Sakhile looked around and pointed at a near by tree. "We can climb that one and jump down to the theater from above! Then sneak in through one of the walkways."

"Yeah, hopefully no one looks out a window till we're in the clear." Sakhile said, "If we move to sneakily someone always notices so I try to act casual.. sometimes it works." Not often, but enough that he still tried if he couldn't find a way to sneak in.

A voice from above made him start in surprise. Oh no! Mother had spotted him...
"Sakhile!" He looked up to see her leaning out a window glaring at him. "You are supposed to be helping us clean!" She paused as she took in his friend and the state of mud on both of them.

"Though it looks like you two are going to need cleaning first." She sighed as she climbed out the window to scamper effortlessly down the building and tree to the ground. She picked both boys up before they could flee and stalked off up the stairs to go in though the main entrance; "You two come with me.. no way am I sending you back boy all covered in mud. I bet your mother would have a heart attack. Gods knows Sakhile's startled me plenty of times with his messes."

"Ahhhh, but moooom." Sakhile started to whine.

"No buts. Today is cleaning day. And you just added more mess to be cleaned!"