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Dear gods. This was a side of kaiba she had never seen before.
He had a girlfriend, did he? it was...
Yoske refused to think about it, or about Triton's reaction, just focusing on her movement.
It was no use. Mental images she'd rather not imagine popped into her head.
She grit her teeth and clambered as fast as she could, driven by a sense of urgency.
The mental images got worse and more gruesome. Did she really want to think about how the two would...
"Damn it Kaiba..." she muttered, almost losing her grip on the branch, grimacing.
Great. she had said it out loud. now she had just blown her cover.

Really though. She was a Wraith or a shade. It didn't matter, she still had her body, although she was afraid to peek at her face or skin for fear of what she would find.
She didn't want to know or care about how... reproduction occured, could occur at all, or even be attempted with two incorporeal entities...

ergh... the mental images were enough to make the most elite Garo or the most hardened warrior react.

She hoped that her mutter hadn't blown her cover.
Although... she palmed one of her snakefang daggers.
Something seemed to be here, if that bonfire signified anything, and if there was fighting, she'd have to reveal herself anyway.

Journal

Sun shown through the trees and dappled the ground in patterns. Birds chirped intermittently among the cicadas' song. A fine day to be alive, as it had been observed several times though the day. Over the trees, not too far away, a cacophony of birds erupted into flight and a plume of flame briefly touched the sky. Two pairs of eyes and a ball of light looked up from lunch. The owners of the eyes shrugged at each other and went back to lunch. The ball of light picked up a pair of pebbles and hit the two with them.

"Don't just go back to lunch! We have to check it out!" Pinkin swirled around Soti and Tonberry and their shoulders shrank.

"Do we have to?"
"Do we...have to?"

"Yes we have to! Come on, come on, come on!" The swirling continued. Looking at each other through the flying pink, Soti and Tonberry swallowed the last of their sandwiches in resignation.

"Alright, alright, let's go..." Soti mumbled through a full mouth.

"Don't talk with your mouth full!" Pinkin yelled as she flitted though the trees towards the flames reflecting crimson onto the sky.

They didn't find the...very odd troupe of wanderers until they were almost upon them, an observation Pinkin tried to keep a secret until Soti noticed and grabbed the fairy as she and Tonberry ducked behind a tree and a bush, respectively.

"See, there's people there, we can go back." Soti whispered into the wriggling fairy between her hands.

"But there's a cat on fire up there!" The fairy hissed. "They might need our help!"

Tonberry stared out at the wanderers though the leaves of his bush. Blinking, he looked up at Soti and Pinkin. "Can I...doink them?" He asked in his slow, halting speech.

Soti considered the wanderers that had just passed by them, a tall, blonde Hylian and a very odd-looking gray poe tugging along an ephemeral white creature. Soti looked back at Tonberry. "Sure, why not."

"No you cannot doink them!" Pinkin hissed, a little too loudly. Soti nervously sucked in a breath and cupped her hand over the indignant fairy. She considered poking her head around the tree to see if anyone heard, but figured if they didn't hear, or perhaps heard and chose to ignore, Pinkin just might let them go back to their quiet part of the forest.

The crow leaped from branch to branch in chase of the cat; stopping suddenly as the flame engulfed the feline, its extinction leaving behind only the mound upon which it had sat. Upon the mound lay a door, circular in shape, with a delightfully aged smell. The aroma of rust swam to Melis’s nostrils, drawing her closer. With a crawl that closely resembled that of reptilian species, Melis scaled the spherical door frame until she reached the crest. She breathed in again, detecting delicate scents mixed with tangs of odor she had never detected before. With a tug of interest she disappeared through the structure and out of view, chasing an unseen target.

Soti's curiosity got the best of her and she leaned further around the tree. The fire and the burning cat were gone, but now a door?

"There's no kokiri here you know." Pinkin murmured in a very matter-of-fact tone from inside Soti's hands.

Soti opened a finger and shot her a look. "We are not going to go just barging into a group of strangers, I don't care how much you want to socialize and do all that crazy-" Her irritation was cut short when she noticed Tonberry shuffling around, or rather through, his bush towards the circular door. Both Soti and Pinkin watched in shock as the small green poe struggled through the small branches to trip out the other side. Pausing for a moment to straighten his robe, he lifted his lantern and knife and continued his slow shuffle towards the door.

Tonberry had felt his options limit themselves as soon as they came upon the strangers; they were all once again taller and faster than he was. It just wasn't fair. Even the ones almost his size were clearly too fast. But that door...that door down into the darkness, it was perfect. In the pitch black he could sneak up on something, maybe even the pink thing that crawled in there. With his lantern, he might be able to finally doink something down there in the darkness. He made it to the front steps before he saw Soti's brown shoes step up next to him. Looking up slowly, he saw her staring down into the darkness absently, eyes darting around to the crew around him.

"I guess I...you know...come with you or whatever..." She mumbled, keeping so close to Tonberry he had to shift his tail to keep her from stepping on it.

He reached out with a free finger from his lantern and tugged gently on her boot. "Darkness. Come....on." He shifted and poked a few experimental doinks into the shadows as they covered them.

"Well now!" They both paused and turned at Pinkin's excited interjection. She wasn't even talking to them. She was at the door, talking to the strangers still outside. "Looks like we'll be first then! If you want to come along hurry up, it'll be really exciting!" She was far too excited in Soti's opinion.

Soti looked out at the tall Hylian, the one most similar to her form and probably her best bet to turn her in. Of all the times Pinkin had tried to get them into 'social' situations, it was Tonberry who had gotten them all into a crowd. "Or you just couldn't, you know, if you don't want. We're ok on our own." She shot Pinkin a look as she sidestepped further into the darkness after Tonberry.

"Yoske..if your around" triton whispered to himself, knowing the skilled tracker that his friend was she would easily be able to follow them, find her way along. This was something he could have used her help on though..
Blinking as they stepped into the darkness, what once was so still and murky, the place had an almost soggy feeling to it, suddenly taken over by the chaotic winds. The torches flaring to life brought new light to the situation, more choices, the cat was truly mad leading them on like this, it was impossible to tell which path led where. Caught off guard as the banshee spoke to him, he hadnt noticed before that she had no left eye, now that he did though her little quip made sense, he actually found he rather liked her even. "We'll kaiba..you heard the woman, pick" he didnt know why he was leaving his fate up to the poe like that, kaiba had been his guide for so long though that it just came naturally.

"Alright alrigt I'll pick!" the dark little poe sighed, methodically going up to each tunnle observing it before moving onto the next and so forth.."Hmm..Left always leads to bad luck, and the middle seems far to obvious for the cat to have had something down there..ooh but right is what people always choose..hmm" the poe pondered, grinning after a moment. "Enni, meeni, minii moe..." he rhymed off murmuring the little song his finger pointing to the left entrance.
"Well to the left we go then! Hee hee bad luck or not" he only hoped it would be the right way..ah well if not they would simply turn around and head back.