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Dear Diary:

The other day I went to visit Teki and an injured child she'd found at the hospital. At first things seemed normal and we enagaed ina bit of chitchat as well getting the poor fledgling ( soem sort of human blue jay cross) some grape jello and whipped cream. It was all rather pleasent untill we went outside, then things got odd. The strange presence I'd been feeling since about halfway through the visit turned out to be a leaf, a leaf that according to the child named Raven may become a child like her.

I'm convinced this is some sort of test and it is one I cannot fail. If I have been entrusted with a child then test or not though I will do my best to raise it as well as I was myself. It is moments like this though that make me wish that I had known more than just battle for the majority of my three-hundred years. I was a child once yes but I have a very skewed idea on how I was raised on what I should and shouldn't do. I do so wish I could have my parents here for guidance right now.

On a brighter note, whatever lives within the leaf is pleased with me at the moment. I took a long cardboard strawberry basket and lined it with grass figuring a leaf would want other plant material as a bed. It seems to have agreed and has made no attempts to show me that it wants anything new.

~Feeling that all is well.
Pash

" Pasta sauce is no place for a leaf that isn't basil," Pash said as he snatched his leaf companion in midair. It didn't float anymore really but sometimes like now it would jump into the air and hover for a second or two before landing. Pash considered this behaviour dangerous (after all the leaf couldn't possibly see where it was going) and he worked as hard as possible to keep his little one from danger.

"Stop that Owen no matter how much you struggle I'm not letting you drown or burn yourself just becuase you're curious." In the past day or so Pash had taken to calling the leaf Owen a play on the thought of it being the first thing he could ever truly call his own. Now as he looked down at the squirming leaf he wondered if perhaps he was cut out to possess living beings. No matter what he said or did Owen seemed to have a mind of his own.

" I'll have to call up Tek and have her ask the fledgling if this is normal." he murmmured. Raven as a former leaf child herself ought to know how her kin typically acted.

With a slight sigh he gently placed Owen on the kitchen table far from harm before turnign back to the bubbling pot of red sauce. Hopefully he could finish cooking his meal before Owen managed to make his way back to the stove.

It had been quite a while since Tyyne had last delivered one of these to a house, but finally she had decided to go on her own. There had been a list at the headquarter and so she had received Pash's address. Gently she placed an orange flowerpot, some fertile soil and a small envelope in front of the door.




[ Please roleplay the planting scene to make your leaf develop ]

Dear diary


Potted leaf children are not entertaining and very worrisome. Is he ok in there, is he bored or just sleeping alot. He wriggles from time to time and on occasion the leaf moves about the pot but not much else. I hope he is fine and that he emerges soon so I can stop worrying.

I also hope I'll know how to deal with whatever he happned to be. There will be envy of a winged child and confusion if it is plant like though I would love him one way or another. Still I hope that whatever my Owen turns out to be is something I can learn to adjust to and work with easily.

~ A Nervous expecting parent.

Pash

Parenting


Pash knew he needed a nursery, he had since he’d gotten Owen but he’d been putting it off because really what did he know about making a nursery. however now faced with the issues of having more than one child on the way he needed to get his as in gear. They’d have to share a room because he had only a two bedroom little house and he really couldn’t afford to move.

Thus he’d have to make the room suitable for both while still keeping it spacious and without going over budget. Elle gave him a small allowance for helping her out with things and he was currently unemployed and not getting too much of an unemployment check. Apparently they only started paying a baby bonus after said expected child was born.


Four hours later found the man hip deep in boxes and bags the room looked like horrible so far but hopefully by the end of the night things would be different. The children to be had needed many things : a changing table, cribs,dressers, blankets, pillows, baby books. He’d left things like bottles, bibs and baby cleaning products for when they were born, then he could ask doctors.

Opening a box containing a dissembled crib he let a small smile creep onto his face. Somehow this act of creating a nursery made it all just a bit more real. One look at the instructions and it hit him all at once. Parenting was not going to be easy.

Pash sat on the couch with Anao on his lap, the pair were watching Owen's leaf with concern and amusement respectively. Pash wondered if this was supposed to happen and even if it was should he be doing something? Was Owen stuck or just taking his time to escape the vegetative prison.

Anao simply giggled softly and resisted the urle to reach out and pet her oddly shaped sibling to be.

Pash watched nervously trying to read the plants life energy but everything was so mixed up that he couldn't tell what exactly was happening. Were this not such an important moment he'd have phoned Tek so he could speak to the little Jay girl about what was going on. As it was he could only watch, of course it somewhat reassuring once fur became sprouting out of the leaf.