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Vallen sprang up into the tree using his arms more then his feet. He adored climbing, it used all the muscles that he wanted to keep as well as sharpened the mind. The consequences would be gravity and that was never fun. He hung upside down and stuck his tongue out at Seze before assuring Vep, "Oh yes he'll just run, it will be good for him, excellent exercise you know." He winked and clambered back up the branch righting himself and started heading moving in large circles, too much energy coursed through his system. He avoided the cones tossed at him from Seze dancing on the branches like he was at ballet..That was until he slipped and landed unfortunately with one leg on either side of the branch. Owie. He groaned.

He rolled his eyes at his siblings. They were all goofy in their own ways but he loved them all the same. All his siblings were perfect in their own way. What else could be expected of his amazing parents. "Okay follow me and keep up!" Of course he would be watching the whole time to see if any one lagged behind. After all, he was carrying Vep so he was likely to be the slow one. Their traveling took a little while, how long exactly Kres wouldn't be able to say. He was so focused on trying to find that spot again even though he had well ingrained it in his mind. Kres was focusing so much that he almost passed it. He quickly adjusted his forward momentum and grabbed the trunk of the tree and hopped to a lower branch so his siblings wouldn't slam into him. "Okay so in the story mom was sleeping in a tree right? And the limb she had been sleeping on was curved kind of like a cradle right? Does that tree there not look like that?" He asked his siblings while pointing to a tree in front of them.

Vuka didn't laugh much, but undoubtedly his siblings would be able to recognize his broad grin as his special sort of inner amusement as Vallen fell. That was what he got for being snarky. He turned then to Seze as she climbed up and nodded.

"Thank you." He was just as careful picking his way after his eldest brother, and when they came to a stop he tilted his head as he considered the branch. Sure, it looked like a cradle, but couldn't there be other trees like it? He tip-toed out to the tree itself, hanging an arm from a higher branch for stability as he looked down at the 'cradle.' Huh, the bark said "It's definitely been used." Vuka turned his head back up toward his siblings. If he let logic go, this was getting rather interesting, but anyone outside of family would not likely be able to read his excitement.

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"You know for once he has a point," Seze winked at Kres. "He's so angelic when he sleeps what happened?" She giggled madly at her poking prod to her delight, Val opened one eye and glared at her. "Oh stop. Respect your elders." She almost choked on her giggles as she crawled up a little higher to get a good view of everything. "If anyone sees anything be sure to let us know the faster we know the faster we can act." She began to scan constantly.

It was finally time to look for the ghostys. She listened to Kres intently and did as he said. Her eyes never strayed from Vally. She didn't want him to get hurt after all if these were bad ghosty's. Vuka was watching behind them and sissy to their right and Kressy to their left. "I just saw something next to Vally!!" She shouted. Whether it was her imagination just wanting to see a ghost Vep didn't know. All she knew was that something odd looked like it was near Vally and she wanted to keep him safe.

Vallen grabbed his branch for dear life. "Hey, its COLD!" Ick, what a cold, wet creeper of a feeling this was. "Vuka!" He shrieked, "get back," for all he was a hyper brat Vallen wanted whatever it was to come for him and not his brother. He could see the pale silver smudge just as Vep had. "It is a ghost but I can't make out features yet." His fingers dug so deep he thought he was going to break nails. Not a good feeling at all, maximum creepy.

Then it disapeared for a bit," Vep, where did it go, should I move?" They were obviously here now and he felt terribly vulnerable so he stood in the hollow. Feeling better on his feet.

Kresimir's head snapped to watch Vallen. Had Vep actually seen something or was it just her imagination? He frantically searched back and forth. Vep said she saw one and Vallen said it was cold, did that confirm that there was one there? At least he could see his same protectiveness in Vallen as he yelled for Vuka to stay out of the way. "Vallen stay there but don't move." Once more taking the lead. "If you feel cold again, try to isolate the area and direction that you felt it. It could give us a clue to where they're coming from and where they're going. Everyone else just stay on the lookout." Maybe this was the worst possible thing for them to be doing. What would he do if one of his siblings got hurt? What if it was Vep? Would their parents kill him? Would his siblings hate him? Maybe it was best if they just got the heck out.

Vuka wasn't okay. He was fantastic. He had seen a glimmer of something and Vallen had gone cold. When Vallen stood to get between him and the Thing he had the same instinct, pushing forward at the same moment and bumping his brother's back. Then Seze came and added another body. Was everyone really so worried about him? Sure, he was a bit of a quiet one and gimped a bit but he could hold his own against a single person, and a ghost too, he was sure, so long as it wasn't some sort of powerful nature spirit.

For a moment he wanted to take Vallen's place, and then Vepkhia spoke. It could be a wild goose chase for all he knew but he didn't care. There'd been just a moment of belief struck into him and he wanted it to be true. 'Come' and 'here' both implied something was happening over that way, and so Vuka left the crowded branch and began to pick his way through the trees directly around his siblings slowly, as quietly as he could.

"Hello?" he asked. "We can only 'come' if you show yourself. Or speak again." He was ignoring Kres' leadership for just the moment, more interested in what was or wasn't going on.

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