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Ianios flew into the shop, settling down near the gemstone that had once been Celaien. He glanced around. The shop seemed empty. That was good. He hugged the gemstone to him, feeling its warmth. How he missed Cel still. Nearly a month had passed since his death and time had not eased his pain.

Ian rubbed a hand over the surface of the stone, sighing softly. Would he ever see Cel again or would he be forced to face the fact Cel was never coming back?

Ianios looked over quickly from his perch. He was still hugging the red gemstone and dropped his arms quickly. This was one feien he didn't know, nor had he even seen her before. He watched her, hearing the jingle of the bracelets she wore.

She was pretty, he gave her that. Unusual color for her markings. He hadn't seen a dark blue before. Wonder what her element was?

Ian coughed softly, not to surprise her. Perhaps they could become friends.

Ianios stood up, and gave her a slight bow. "Name's Ianios, but you can call me Ian." He smiled at her, remarking at her beauty. "You must get told this a lot, but you're very beautiful." He was blushing as he said it, but he meant it. Granted a lot of the other feien were beautiful too, but there was something.

He smiled, looking at the silver around her wrists and ankles. "You like silver too? My bond adores it."

Ianios was still blushing himself. He hadn't meant to make her blush, but had spoken the truth. And it was quite odd. In her spare time, Rynn too would craft jewelry out of silver. "Our bonds are somewhat alike. Rynn makes jewelry as well."

He smiled, taking a seat once more. "Have a seat. I promise I don't bite." He grinned, chuckling to himself. "That actually depended on who he was wanting to bite. Cel had gotten a few of those type bites before, and had quite enjoyed them.

Motioning to the gemstone, he gave Selene a sad smile. "Meet Celaien, my former mate." The gemstone was quite warm, even in the coolness of the shop.

Ianios nodded. "Thank you," he said softly, smiling sadly at her. He caught the expression on her face, but wasn't sure what to make of it. He glanced to the gemstone, then back to Selene. "It's been almost a month...I'm still not use to the fact he's gone," he said softly.

Ah, this wasn't how he wanted to greet the newcomer. He was bringing her down and he hated himself for it. Trying to break the tension he had caused, he decided to ask Selene more about herself. "Do you like silver as well? Rynn only wears silver, and though I have a silver circlet, I rarely wear it."

Ianios heard some buzzing near the doorway, and waved as he saw a smaller feien peek in. "Hi!" he said. "Come on in!"

Ianios smiled at the younger feien. "I'm Ianios, but usually called Ian. Or if you're Arith, you'd call me Ia." He grinned. He had never minded that nickname. "Are we to call you Val?" He liked this one, she was a lot like he, curious.

Turning back to Selene, he shook his head. "Never seen snow. I don't like cold much. I'm a plant feien," he went on to explain. "I like summer more. Aria, my bond's other feien, is a water feien. She likes cool where I take to warm. We're almost complete opposites." He smirked, wondering what she was doing at the moment. Probably playing a video game.

He wondered how he was going to do once winter really hit. Whould he be forced to wear that pink and white jacket to go anywhere outside? Dragon's fire, he hoped not. If the others saw him...

Ianios laughed. He hadn't laughed like that in a while, either. "No no, Arith is another feien. She calls me Ia, everyone else calls me Ian. I was just poiting that out." Valsharess was cute as well, in her own way. "Come on and have seat."

A sky feien? He hadn't heard of one of those! How interesting. Was she the only one? He was the only plant feien he was aware of. "I think I'd like to see this snow then. It sounds lovely." He would like to feel it, at least once, But if it was too cold, he's admire it from the house.

Turning back to Val, he smiled. "And what elemental are you? Just being curious."

Ianios nodded. "Well, I'd never met a Sky or a Respiration feien before either. Or another plant feien for that matter." He smirked, running his hand through his hair, spiking it. Ian drew his long legs up, sitting like Val now.

"You're not the only one, Selene. I still don't know a lot of the feien here, and I've been around since June. Though for the month of August, Aria and I joined our bond on an adventure." His blue eyes seemed to glow at that. "Are there any special spells for Respiration?"

Ianios bit his lip in thought. It was sorta like that, he guessed. All he knew was flight and Green Thumb, and those came naturally. "Maybe it's suppose to come naturally. Take my spell Green Thumb for instance. I don't think I am casting it when I tend to my flowers, but they seem to grow and thrive a lot better than when Rynn tends to them." It was the only way he could explain it.

Ianios shook his head no, watching Selene get up. Too bad she was leaving already, she was fun to talk too. It felt somewhat like he's known her a while. But they had just met! He waved goodbye to her, then turned to Valsharess.

Selene fluttered along outside, following the green feien curiously and humming to herself, as always. She didn't bother to brush the snowflakes off, not minding the cold much.

She rubbed a hand on one of the windowpanes, clearing a small circle of its frost. She peeked inside to see if anyone else was in there, although it didn't really seem like it because it was so dark. Oh well, there were darkness feien after all, maybe they liked it that way.

Selene jumped guiltily at the other feien's announcement, and wondered to herself about the feien's voice, making up a character for the person to. She sounded very self-assured, that much was for certain.

Selene took her time flying into the shop and landing on the counter. She started to walk forward towards where the other feien was standing, but tripped over a book and tumbled head-over-heels with a chorus of jingling from her bracelets.

She managed to recover herself a moment later and backed away shyly, her fingers absently working a lock of her hair into a braid. "Sorry, need to watch my step..." Her own voice was quiet and a little scratchy with disuse, but musical. She introduced herself with a smile, "I'm Selene, I don't believe I've met you before."

Selene blinked as the other feien took her hand in a vice-like grip and tried not to wince. "N-Nice to meet you." She waited for Ursa to let her hand go... and waited... "Erm..." She opened her mouth to protest, but Ursa had finally let it go. She flexed her fingers slowly to see if they still worked.

She held her arm a little stiffly to her side and backed away a step for a little more space. What a strange feien... and a tail too? She'd never seen any feien with tails, although she knew they existed. "Yanvir or Semella... No, I can't say I have. I haven't been here for quite a while, so I suppose they must have come while I was gone. Are they some of the new young ones?"

"Really?" Her eyes lit up at Ursa's mention of such powerful magic. Resurrecting a feien from a gemstone? It was possible?

If Ursa was reborn, then what about that warm red gemstone, that Ian seemed so attached to..? Her mind flitted quickly from one possibility to the next, her curiosity showing rather obviously on her face, though she didn't notice herself.

She remotely realized that Ursa was still talking. Something about food? She nodded vaguely, her mind still spinning over this new puzzle. What a tale that would be, returning from the dead...

She resolved silently to ask her about it, and to find this Yanvir fellow. He would certainly know more, but if even Ursa couldn't find him after he ressurrected her, it might prove to be quite a task. A quest! How wonderful! A tale in the weaving. She smiled to herself.

"No offense, honey."

Her musings stopped abruptly as she snapped back to the conversation. Before she could think about it, she reacted with a confused, "Huh? Why would I be offended...?"

Selene grimaced slightly and dug her heels in to keep from tumbling forwards as Ursa gave her a slap on the back. Good lord, why did the woman insist on such physical conversation? She obviously meant well, what with all her good-natured chuckling and smiles.

Selene had no idea what the feien was going on about, what did it matter to her if she was skinny or not? As long as she stayed out of trouble, she was usually good to go. Ah well.

"There aren't any meeting places that I'm aware of, apart from here in the shop." She shrugged a bit, studying the other fairy curiously. She was a little rough obviously, but Selene got the impression that she was... motherly, in an odd way. Selene flinched slightly as Ursa's tail snapped loudly. Definately a bit rough.

Selene nodded in response to the big fairy's question, and listened attentively to her story, storing it carefully in her memory in case it bore writing about later on. The woman certainly seemed agitated... With good reason, she supposed. But why would there be a gap in her memories like that? It was something that ought to be investigated. She frowned slightly, but let her continue.

Selene leaned back a bit, slightly alarmed by the huge feien's rage. she watched Ursa's expression closely, wondering about what had driven her into such a temper. It was obviously something more than a simple gap in her memory.

"Ursa..." Selene tried out the name, and tilted her head to study the feien. "Well, it suits you, but not perfectly." She paused, taking a little time in forming her question. "He didn't tell you anything at all..." She frowned to herself, with a tinge of suspicion in her voice. "Who is this Yanvir? I haven't met him, he must be awfully powerful if he can do something like that. And either callous or stupid to just leave you to fend for yourself like that." She added hurriedly, "Not to say that you couldn't! That's not what I meant... but it seems rather cruel to leave a feien in... well in another world, practically, without a word to guide them. Well, for all I know it could be another world... " She trailed off, but pulled herself firmly out of the daydreaming before it started. This needed to be attended to first. "In any case, we'd better find this fellow. I'd like to speak with him too, I've some questions myself."

Selene nodded, listening to Ursa's story with sympathy. She didn't really hold it against her.

She smiled as the other feien offered her a cookie. "Thanks!" She munched on it thoughfully, with a nod of appreciation. "Wow, this is really good..."

Selene laughed quietly at Ursa's description of her human. "Mmhmm, I don't think any of them are all that bright. I wonder if this ancient is something to be afraid of, though?" She shrugged, wondering about the identity of this Yanvir fellow. Perhaps he was the villain, practicing dark magic with no thought of the consequences. She glared slightly at nothing in particular, annoyed at herself for drifting off again. She hadn't even met him yet.

She noted the falter in Ursa's voice as she mentioned her need of a purpose. She nodded slowly, "Yes, true... although, I think that's something that none of us knows, our purpose... We can only guess, until after the fact. Who knows, maybe the purpose is simply to spend your life searching for it." Her gaze snapped back to Ursa as an idea struck her. What if the feien could regain her memories? What if she learned of her previous life? Would she know what its purpose had been? Or would it just be like waking up from a dream?

"As for my questions... Well, I remember my childhood, but I don't know that that puts me much better off. I don't really know anything about our people, and I would like to learn more. Do the humans just foster us out to any human? And why? And... " Selene paused slightly, thoroghly disgusted by the idea. "Are we... sold? Like some common housepet?" The tall fairy sighed.

"I told poor little Indra that the gemstones are only here for protection. At that time, I didn't imagine that it would be there for anything else. But now I have doubts... I've been away for far too long. I didn't care about anything else that was going on, I just got lost in daydreams, I lost my sense of time, and society. But now, well, I can hardly help but notice what's going on, and I want to find out what's behind it all."

She shook her head. "I just don't know. I don't know why I waited until now to worry about it, I suppose I had just been too absorbed in stories and daydreams, didn't stop to think about things, really, until I saw the gemstones here. Come to think of it, how did Yanvir get hold of your gemstone in the first place?" She frowned slightly.

Selene smiled slightly in return. She truly was glad to have gained a friend, at last, for Ursa seemed like a straightforward, honest person. On the other hand, these questions still plagued her, and she couldn't draw her attention fully away from them for long. Perhaps it was the fact that she had voiced them at last? Selene certainly had voiced enough, this must have been the most she's talked in weeks.

Her frown deepened slightly. "A cache of gemstones?" She repeated, in disbelief. "But why? Does he think they're just objects, like everyone seems to? Another pretty rock for his collection?" She caught herself again, ashamed. "I didn't mean it that way, I don't even know the fellow so I can't say. But still... Indra had to be told what it was, and a lot of the others seem to just treat it like a corpse." She sighed.

She frowned slightly, confused. "Merging?" She took the cookie with a grateful nod, and nibbled at it thoughtfully. She shook her head, "I don't know if they purposely sell us or not. That's what I'm going to find out. The humans have too much of a hand in this, there seems... something wrong with it."

She nodded, grateful for the change of subject. This discussion had gotten awfully dark for having just met. She smiled warmly at Ursa's proposition. "Yes, that would be great. It's nice to know there's someone else of the same mind." Her smile grew, and she wondered to herself. "I think we have quite a bit in common."

Selene nodded as Ursa related her worries, wondering to herself as well about the implications of two feien being merged, regardless if only one of them was really alive. And if so, did resurrection give a person true life? Or was part of them left behind? Or perhaps it was something more, since they had a whole life behind them? "Indeed it is..."

She nodded emphatically in agreement with the bigger feien as she asserted angrily that Feien weren't objects. Her question brought up others as well... The identities of these feien were unknown to them, but did the other ancients know? Did they just find the gemstones, or did they have them for some darker reason? She shook her head slightly. That didn't bear thinking about for the time being. There were many things to ask these ancients.

Selene smiled warmly, "I'd be happy to."