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 Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 4:14 pm
It was weird. Sylvite was fast. She wasn't quite Superman but she had to be getting close to as fast to a car. On the other hand, it hadn't looked like the fairy was all that fast earlier, when she'd been watching it and chatting with Athalia. Now it was like she wasn't making any kind of headway at all in catching up with it, though. Every time she looked away to dodge a tree and then look back, it was exactly the same kind of distant, hard to make out figure that it had been before. It was still kind of bobbing and fluttering towards the hedge. It was a short chase. Less than thirty seconds later, it had made it, with Sylvite the exact same distance behind that she'd been before. It was only then that it seemed to stop. It turned. It was still kinda hard to make out a face, but in that second, Sylvite could have sworn something was watching her. She heard a giggle coming from no particular direction. Then it was gone, and Sylvite, who was still running full speed, crashed straight into the bushes.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2020 8:47 am
Muffled footsteps eventually joined her while she introduced herself to the hedge and while he didn't initially say anything, he did eventually clear his throat and stretch out a hand to pull away some of the more tightly wound branches.
She'd hit that thing at one hell of a speed and he was fairly certain there would be a few confused and perhaps exasperated gardeners in the morning. Fortunately plants did have the capacity to grow and recover, hell, with enough creative pruning it would look fine. The spotty patches where a shower of leaves had flown up would just have to be a new feature for a while.
"Are you all right?" he afforded, under the assumption she'd be absolutely fine. "You ran in to that at a fair speed," he added, stating the obvious but it did need to be said. Had she not seen that she was headed right for it in the first place, he thought she had, but that clearly wasn't the case. Either that or the fairy had done something to her and it might not have even been been there as she approached.
"It appears you have ended up in roughly the same spot I tend to end up in."
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Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:56 am
There were some muffled grumbles from inside the hole in the hedge and then a series of soft thumps as Sylvite dropped to her knees and then flopped flat onto her back. She looked up at the string lights while she blinked away the stars. Oh. Athalia was there, too. "Whatever. I'm fine," said Sylvite, pulling herself up to a cross-legged seat, never mind that it made everything start to spin again. There were scratches on her face and leaves in her hair, and the headband was nowhere to be seen, but she wasn't really hurt. It wasn't like she'd tell him if she was. She reached up and started picking out the leaves and flicking them back towards the bush. At least whatever had been messing with her clothes seemed to be gone, too. "That was one fast fairy," she said. "And very committed to routine. Like, wow." She felt like she might have changed course if someone had come sprinting at her at thirty miles an hour, but not the fairy, apparently. She squinted through the gaps in the hedge, but she didn't see anything except some extra pots and shovels and other garden storage. "So is it gone now?" She glanced back to the senshi.
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Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2020 3:03 am
"I have to commend you on your dedication to your investigation," he shook his head. It was in his best interests on this occasion not to question her reassurances. If she was fine then he'd believe her, his kind and her's were probably meant to take a beating to a degree and somehow he doubted a bush would give the right amount of a beating to knock her down for long.
"Very few people would pursue quite so...determinedly," he added and peered through the bush, his brow lifting as he realised that actually, it had moved. His expression may have implied that he'd been taken by surprise and he did stretch his hand passed her to push against the branches so that he could get a closer look.
It was a storage for gardeners?
"Not so committed that it went exactly the same direction," he murmured thoughtfully and stepped back again to glance over his shoulder at where he'd come from. Had he really been distracted enough that he hadn't noticed it had adjusted its path ever so slightly? It had been small, but it had been enough to shift it from the 'usual' hedge and in to this one.
"I never see it twice in the same night," he replied, capable of multitasking in this particular circumstance, or at least enough to answer her. "But then again it also usually ends up over there for me..." he added and motioned towards another set of bushes, the one he was familiar with.
"So perhaps there is a possibility that you will see it again," he admitted with a wry smile.
A momentary pause.
"It might try to lead you into a wall this time though so you may want to be careful, I'm not entirely sure that the park's gardeners will be able to patch that one up quite so easily."
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:15 am
The world slowly stopped spinning the more deep breaths Sylvite took. She did have to kinda scoot back as Athalia went to look through the hole. She didn't wanna be that close to him. "Determination is key," she said with a shrug, that smug little smirk coming back. "I mean, mysteries aren't gonna solve themselves if you just sit there and watch them." She raised an eyebrow at him, but there wasn't too much bitterness or malice behind the jab. Then she stopped and frowned a tiny bit instead, because should she really be teasing a senshi that she wasn't about to stab? She looked over to the other hedge instead. The other bush? It was all part of the same hedge, but that one was definitely several yards away. "So it did move," she said, mostly to herself, and she peeled herself all the way off the ground so that she could go walk in the direction that Athalia was pointing. "And I'm pretty sure it was looking at me. Huh." She needed her notes. There was a small chance it would come back, but based how these things usually worked, she didn't think so, and she really didn't think it was gonna come back happy. After a short second spent chewing her lip, she turned back to the senshi. "Okay. That was my fun adventure for the night," she said. "See you later, bug boy!" And then, like the fairy before her, she vanished.
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Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:23 am
And just like that Athalia had been left to his own devices again - Sylvite seemed to enjoy exiting in that fashion, though given they had only met twice this was a rather quick assumption. Should he have the opportunity to observe her again though he would probably crack a smile if she chose to do the same thing again. Teleportation might well be her calling card, who knew, eh?
Still, with the performance from this evening now concluded there seemed to be little point to him loitering. He had work to do and given he had never seen the thing come back before during the evening, he thought it pertinent to go about the rest of the night as normal.
Safe to say it was time to make a nuisance of himself and this particular park wasn't going to achieve that. With that in mind it wasn't long before Athalia was on his own way to a more active part of the city to continue his patrol.
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