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Sorry for the delay. Been busy.

Happy second summonday ! You're a big girl now ! razz

-Z

Well, as the snowstorm finally had decided to end, Ryuusei found herself able to make her way to she shop. At least, it was getting warmer...

Entering the shop as per habit by the window, the yellow feien glanced inside to see if there was anyone inside.

Kojak was, for once, actually reading the information on feien genetics on the message board. Though his eyes glanced up to the new information, he was mainly interested in the genetics. After all, most of the old news he was aware of, but this he had passed over -- and, oh, look, another feien!

... except wasn't Simon still in the bathroom? Did he fall in?

When she spotted the other feien, Ryuu finally fluttered inside, torward the noticeboard as well, landing beside him and glancing.

"Anything new on there ?" She asked, smilling, visibely trying to start a conversation.

Well, right. Back on the path of talking. "The posts above the genetics information are new, they were just added a little while ago." By himself and Simon, but -- hey. He hadn't caught Simon's name yet. Go figure.

Kojak turned to smile at Ryuu, that ohsocharming smile in place. "Otherwise, nothing new. Old stuff was taken down too."

"Really ? Hm... better check it out then, ne ?" She flicked a braid away from her face, then extended her hand. "Im Ryuusei. I don't think I saw you before... Might I know your name ?"

"Probably." Since there had been changes going on around the shop. It was what happened when you didn't visit for a while. At least, that was his thought on it. "No, I don't think we've met before. I'm good with remembering faces." Confidence was all ways there, plus that charming smile. "I'm Kojak. It's a pleasure to meet you, Ryuusei."

She withdrew her hand when she figured he wouldn't shake it, and peered up again. "I don't come around a whole lot, so its not surprising. Stupid winter." The feien made a face at that word. "At least its starting to melt."

"I wasn't around so much last month, myself," he said, shifting on his feet to look up at the notices. His tail swayed a little, slowly, as if mimicking the rate his thoughts were going at for the moment. It was a slow day. He gave Ryuu a small glance, raising an eyebrow. "Don't like winter?" For him, honestly, he couldn't care about it either way. Though the fact it was like melted slush wasn't too pleasant when one landed in it.

"The air's too cold. It doesn't feel good." She answered, only noticing the tail when it did begin to move. Well, that was a new one for her. A feien with a tail ? But hey, she had two colored hairs, so she couldn't really talk. He did as well, too...

"My bond told me that its warmer in summer, so I think ill'd like that better."

"It was cold when I arrived, so I suppose I'm use to it. I keep warm though." Kojak paused, head tilting back a little so he could look at Ryuusei. She did have unusual hair, compaired to the other feiens. Kind of like himself. "It's spring now, that's what Wren -- my bonded -- told me. There will be more rain, before the real summer warmth comes or something like that. Won't be so bad to be outside more then."

Silva stalked into the shop, scowling slightly. Dammit, he had thought he had everything he needed. How the hell was he to know that there were as many big east mountains as there were? He lived in Gaia, for crying out loud.

He looked around, dismissing the juveniles in the shop. They wouldn't know where Kalin was. Hell, HE didn't know and he was an adult. He would have to hunt down Yanvir again...

Dammit.

After a second Silva headed for the tunnel yet again. Maybe the little psycho had a map or something...

As she stepped into the shop, Sunil was not in quite so good of a mood this time as she had been previously. Something about how blue the sky was had pissed her off. Or maybe it was how happy everyone at home was. Who knew? Really, who cared?

"Feel free to come out and admire me!" Sunil said loudly, posing near the doorway with her hands on her hips. Scowling into the silence that followed she added a slightly louder, "Anybody?"

"Yeah, it won't. Maybe Zero will buy me that portable videogame thing, and ill be able to play outside." She said, joy unhidden.

Simon emerged from the bathroom feeling much refreshed. He'd taken his time in there, filling up the sink with warm water and then just soaking in it for an hour. It was probably a gross abuse of ownership privileges, not to mention questionable use of resources, but Simon did not care about that right now.

Unfortunately he had the poor luck to walk out of the bathroom at the moment Sunil was demanding worshipers. Toweling himself off with a square of (clean!) toilet paper, he drifted over in her direction. Not because he wanted to. Mostly because he wasn't really paying enough attention.

However, then there was a wide demand for admiration.

...Wtf now ?

Ryuu blinked, and sent her tiny braids shattering on her shoulders as she turned to look torward the rest of the shop, to see the source of the noise.

Frustrated at the lack of enthusiasm for her suggestion, Sunil looked about for vict- err... people to talk to. Spotting an adult feien who looked familiar and a little bit odd, she gravitated trowards him.

Getting close she paused, making a show of look at his glasses.

"Hello four eyes. You look familiar. Who are you?"

And, of course, time passed. And more time passed. And eventually Kojak had to go, because, well, he needed too. ( And obviously Simon occupied the one bathroom he knew about, wait. No, that like that. Try again. Though he would need to get the other's name. ) "It was good to meet you, Ryuu --" he sort of trailed off at the sight of both Simon coming out of the bathroom and Sunil coming into the shop.

... wait, what? He shook his head. "It's good to meet you, Ryuusei, but I've realy got to be going." He gave her that charming smile of his and shoved off the counter, giving her a last wave.

Though, was it really okay to leave the skittish one over there alone with the loud one? He really, really needed to get some names.

"Simon," said Simon, and blinked. He thought he might know her, too, but a) he hadn't seen her in halfways to forever if they had met and b) he wasn't about to make a mistake and potentially confuse her with some other feien by trying to address her with a name. He figured the problem would resolve itself if he just fumbled his way through it long enough.

This was bound to be interesting. Keeping to his personal pledge Indra had found the drive to leave the house and venture forth into the shop. It had been what, two months since last he had been here? Hmph, more like three. And from what he could see through a pane of glass it was bustling more than he had ever seen it in the past. Perhaps coming during the daylight hours hadn't been such a bad idea after all.

By the usual methods he found his way into the shop within a matter of minutes. Did he recognize anyone? Nope. Not a face. What was the next step then, if he couldn't just raise and hand and say "ho!" to an acquaintance? Akward...

Lucky for Simon, Sunil also had a horrible memory. You'd think placing a feien with both horns and glasses wouldn't be tough, but Sunil really didn't pay that much attention to people most of the time.

"Huh. You're pretty weird looking - I can't believe I've forgotten you." Sunil gave him a suspicious look. "Tell me about yourself. Maybe something will click."

"Uh, I own the shop," ventured Simon. He almost started to ask her what her name was, but... he had it in one of his old notebooks. He just knew it.

When Kojak left, Ryuu just gave him a wave as he did, and returned to read, and catch up on the info she might have missed.

"You own the shop?" Sunil said incredulously, giving Simon another head to toe look. "Did this place just go straight to hell while I was gone? How did you get possession of the shop?"

Sunil crossed her arms over her chest and gave Simon her best scowl. He owned the shop? Not likely.

Simon pushed at his glasses. "When Emperial left, she entrusted it to my care, legally and otherwise. It's only a recent transition, so it's not yet widely-known, but notices to this effect have been posted on the board."

"I don't often read the notices," Sunil admitted and then colored a little when a particular memory popped into her head. Fighting it back, scowled even more (if that were possible) until the feeling of failure faded.

Putting out a hand, she tried a smile.

"May I see your glasses? It must have been difficult to get the lenses so small."

Simon couldn't recall the last time someone had asked him that, so he shrugged and removed them, holding them out for her to examine more closely.

"I didn't make them myself," he explained, "I'm not all that good with my hands. Corvus made them for me."

"Ugh." Sunil said, snatching at them. "I suppose if the great and powerful b*****d made them, they're unbreakable?"

When Ryuu was done reading, she glanced again... and decided that perhaps, getting into the conversation might not be a good idea. Instead, she fluttered off to check the inventory and, maybe, check the spells again. She felt wierd not knowing any magic at all...

"Far from it. I already broke one pair; this is my second. They do stand up fairly well compared to normal glasses, but then that's true of most smaller objects. An ant can survive being dropped two thousand times its body length; drop a human even ten times its height and you risk serious injury or death."

Still a little unsure of himself Indra chose to drift towards one of the counters. True, there was nothing new there are first glance, but a fresh visit at least kept him from looking like an idiot standing in the middle of the shop waiting to be stepped on.

This venture, of course, brought him in close proximity to Ryuu. He smiled and nodded in her direction as he peered though the glass beneath his feet to the objects below.

Simon's observation sparked Sunil's interest, putting off the inevitable for a couple moments. Twirling the glasses in her hand, she gave him a genuine look of neutrality. (That's as good as it gets really.)

"Don't insects have skeletons on the outside? Wouldn't that act like armor and absorb some of the impact?"

The yellow feien caught Indra and his wave from the corner of her eyes, then turned to give him both a wave, and a warm smile, inviting him over if he wanted to.

"Anything small enough will be able to distribute the force of an impact better than a larger object of similar material," said Simon, holding his hand out. "If you drop a piece of glass two millimeters across from a large height it will not shatter, but a piece of glass two centimeters square will break in two or three pieces if dropped from the height of a human."

He seemed to be wanting his glasses back now.

It seemed a little contrived, but who was he to argue the intentions of others. It wasn't like his interest had been held in the particular spot he was in, so gracefully he strode over to where the young she-feien stood. "Good afternoon, miss."

"Same to you, too." She grinned. alot of new faces today. She sat on the glass, peering up at Indra. "And you would be ?"

Sunil didn't really feel like giving the glasses back yet, although she was starting to think it would take more work than it was worth to break them.

"Why?"

If dropping them wouldn't work, she could stomp on them. But sharp pieces of glass in the bottom of her foot wasn't really her idea of a good time. If only she had something else she could slam on top of them. Sunil started looking around the shop for inspiration.

"It's an aspect of physics," said Simon, starting to get just the tiny bit exasperated. "If you wouldn't mind...?"

"Actually I do mind," Sunil said, starting to feel amused. "You seem awfully impatient for someone in charge of a shop. How bad is your eyesight without them exactly?"

"Fair enough, Sunil," said Simon. He didn't seem to be squinting, at least. But were his eyes really focused on hers, or was his gaze just a tad bit off to the side? "They're mostly for reading."

Valsharess bobbed in the air and hummed a little tune. Her hands were clasped behind her back as usual and she hovered here and there with the tune of her song. It wasn't anything familiar and she may in fact have just made it up herself. She bopped her little head as well and her red hair bobbed here and there and her earrings jingled. She was in a fairly good mood and felt like perhaps she might share it.. of course that is if others wanted it to be shared.. otherwise she really did not care one way or other.

Val wiggled her tiny toes as she made her way to where she saw a few feien gathered. She wasn't sure if any of them were familiar to her at all but it looked like a few adults and some her own age.

At that he had to blink. He had never anticipated the things would progress so quickly... so simple. However he recovered long before anything could be seen as amiss. "My name is Indra. I've been around for some time, just not... around."

His long ears were beginning to pick up snippets of the conversation that had been in progress before he arrived. He sensed that it wasn't rolling towards a favorable conclusion. He made note of this and continued the introduction at hand. "And you, miss?"

"You know me?" Sunil said, scowling again. "Whatever."

Sunil tossed the glasses up in the air a little and then caught them again, watching Simon.

"Then why have them on right now? I don't see you doing any reading."

"Ryuusei, and pleased to meet you." She smilled, but that smile faded as she eyed Simon and Sunil. It didn't seem like this would end well, she also had that thought... And her common sence told her not to get mixed up into it. If she did, it was likely she couldn't get out of the mess.

"I don't come around a whole lot either... mostly because of the snow and the cold. There was a snowstorm where I live some time ago, it got so bad that you couldn't even see outside. Everything was just white."

"I've been updating the shop board," said Simon. He wasn't so easily shaken after his recent bath. Furthermore, the goal of "retrieve glasses" had given his mind a remarkable clarity.

Sunil couldn't argue with that, obviously one needed to read in order to write. She had a feeling though that he was trying to trick her. Which was probably just because she liked flipping the glasses around in her hand.

"But you aren't doing anything involving reading now are you? Why don't you just let me borrow them for a little bit. I think they'd look good on me."

Sunil flipped the glasses up and held them in front of her face so she could look at Simon through them.

Unfortunately for Sunil, this had the effect of massively distorting everything in view. It was also unfortunate for Simon: anyone with a passing knowledge of glasses could tell the prescription on these was strong, if the thickness of the lenses wasn't clue enough.

"They barely fit you," commented Simon, as if he could see Sunil quite clearly. He was right, though. The nose was a bit too narrow and the frames a bit too wide. He crossed his arms and frowned at her expectantly. "If you don't mind, I have to get back to work on the board. The genetics need revising."

Val made her musical-bobbing way over, first, to some adults that seemed to be having a discussion. In her own way she seemed oblivious that it was an argument.. or at least that was how it appeared. it may in reality have been that she really paid it no mind. She watched them from above, hovering here and there, still humming while while they talked and bopping her head and wiggling her toes.

She didn't know either of them, that she could remember, but the female was holding what looked like glasses. She didn't know that feien wore glasses! How fascinating!

"Hello feien adults." She said plainly with a polite smile on her face. "I couldn't help but notice those glasses. How interesting."

Valsharess buzzed around Sunil's head in a quick circle before she neatly plucked them out of the elder's hand and looked at them, drifting back up intot he air. She wasn't being deliberately rude. She just.. had her own way about her.

The tiny juvenile peered at the spectacles before putting them on herself. They were much too big and made her look bug eyed (and did her eyes cross a little?)

"Oo. Glasses. Spectacles. I must look one at this moment. You are distorted. Very strong. Strong indeed." She smiled and pulled them off, blinking to adjust her eyes again.

"What the hell?" Sunil said in protest, as the glasses were neatly plucked away from her by some strange juvenile. "That is so rude to steal someone's glasses like that!"

Simon couldn't see Valsharess's polite smile, nor could he make out her retrieval of his glasses, but he did gather from her words that his spectacles had changed hands. "You'd do well to listen to yourself, Sunil. Could I perhaps have those back?" he asked, stretching out a hand in Valsharess's direction this time.

"That I understand perfectly. Cold and I... we have very little to speak about. Our meetings are sparse and brief if I can help it." He looked about, trying to find something he might lean against as they spoke instead of plopping onto the frigid glass. "This rain, however, I believe I like. I've read of warm places where the rain falls even as it evaporates from the leaves and ponds. That is weather I would very much like to see."

And then his attention was spun full over to the development in Glass-capades. In his mind, he comprised a list of various outcomes and how he might defuse each. Choice phrases selected, he was prepared to jump in if needed.

Valsharess tilted her head at the two and landed. A contemplative look settled on her face, travelling from a slight furrow of her brown down her features into a pursing and wiggling of her lips.

"Well I really suppose it depends on your definition of rude. One might think that saying excuse me is a rude comment and then in fact you are being rude when others may think you are being polite."

Her mouth opened to continue before she realized she might ramble and she'd been warned against that. Val looked at the male feien who was looking at her and wanting the glasses.

"Well I suppose you can have them, yes. I mean I can't use them. Much too strong. It's a shame someone just left them here in this lady feien's hand. I found them. Yes of course you may have them!" She gave a smile and gave them back to Simon. She gathered that they may be his by how he asked, but her speech was just her own roundabout and confusing explanation. Everyone else may in fact think she was idiotic and/or insane.

"I am Valsharess. I suppose I should introduce myself to the both of you since we just met in this place. Thank you glasses, for bringing us together."

"Thank you, glasses," mumbled Simon, slipping the glasses back onto his face. He blinked at Valsharess. Yet another unfamiliar face. He supposed he might have to learn who everyone was if he was supposed to run this shop. "I'm Simon, the shop owner." He glanced at Sunil, now that he could actually make out her features.

Sunil just sputtered for a moment, wondering what the hell had just happened.

"Valsharess. That's a strange name. I suppose it fits," she muttered, crossing her arms over her chest again. "I hope you know you just ruined my fun."

"I like air, but not cold air like right now. I believe what you're talking about would be stream, Indra. Z told me about it when she was making tea. When water reach a certain temperature point, it becomes lighter than air, gaz instead of liquid, and soars up... I think. Her explaination was like greek, so that's all I kinda understood of it."

She didn't seem to mind the glass at all, sitting on the edge and letting her legs hang in the air, her yellow feathered wings closed against her back, having no use to keeping them spraid out as she wasn't using them at the moment.

Now that he was able to see again, Simon couldn't help but to blush slightly at his folly. He should have recognized Sunil sooner. Those markings and the hair -- it could only be Sunil, of course. Her personality had just been the icing on the cake. "Fun at the expense of others is the refuge of the very small-minded," he said, wrinkling his nose. "You're no better than Corvus, Sunil, and he was right about what he said about you."

"Simon.." She wiggled her pursed lips again. "I know your name from somewhere..." Her voice dropped as she talked to herself. "Simon.. simon..met a pieman.." She bobbed her head and then opened her mouth.

"YES! Halo told me about you. She's my bond you know. She told me a lot about feien I didn't know. She said that I was your bloom.. or .. something. That would mean child, correct? You gave birth to me? Interesting. Really." She had put only little thought into meeting her parent and had felt nothing but curiosity. "Isn't this funny? And I am sorry, lady feien. I will call you lady feien because you have not introduced yourself to me quite yet. I did not mean to ruin your fun. It didn't look enjoyable though, because you were not smiling. I apologize but I was told that fun things made you smile. I hope that you don't do all your fun things with such frowns on your face."

"Birth you...? Ah, no," said Simon quite firmly, intent on erasing any misconceptions on this juvenile's part before they could take hold any deeper. Particularly if she was actually one of his offpsring. While she bore little resemblence to himself or Yasha, she did look a bit like Fifth. "Feien don't give birth. Feien are borne by a fairy plant. Furthermore, we have 'children' only in a very technical sense. All feien are in actuality children of their mother plant."

"Refuge of the very small-minded." Sunil mimiced, rolling her eyes. "And I really don't give a rat's a** what Corvus said about me."

She gave Simon a hard stare, narrowing her eyes at him. She didn't like this little smarty pants than thought he was better than her. And the fact he obviously had been friends with Corvus only pissed her off more.

The fact that the freak juvenile was apparently his kid siphoned off a little of her rage into laughter.

"Your kid is a freak Simon. Like father like daughter?"

She gave Val her own little angry glare and then stomped off, leaving a conversation on a losing note for the second time in as many days.

Simon very quickly came back with, "Actually, yes. You do take after your father, don't you, Sunil?" His face reddened further.

Val lifted up into her hover a bit higher and looked after Sunil. "I was always told that freak meant original.. unles you had some sort of disgusting physical abnormality that made people unable to bear looking at you. At least that's what Gallium says." She looked back at Simon, totally unphased by insults. She remained completely calm. Everything seemed to roll off of her.

"Why are you blushing Simon? Are you embarrassed? Should I call you Simon or father or perhaps nothing. Perhaps you don't wish to know me? If that is so then I am completely fine with your wishes. Though I would expect a fairly good explaination. All actions should have plausible and logical reasons behind them."

Ryuusei just watched as Sunil left, and seemed a little relieved. This would be one to avoid, she took note... She really didn't wish to get in any trouble. All she wanted was to be happy, her friends happy, and being able to play games and do the things she liked.

It shouldn't be too hard, right ? It wasn't like if she was asking for the world on a platter.

Simon stopped sniping at Sunil long enough to listen to Valsharess and his color only reddened even more. "No, it's--" he began, then quickly abandoned trying to explain why he always blushed, as the explanation would only embarass him further. "I am sorry we haven't met sooner, actually. I've been... busy."

Which was a damn lie. Hiding out in a closet reading books to avoid contact with the outside world did not and never would constitute the definition of "busy."

He smiled in response. Of course he had known exactly what he was talking about, but he wasn't going to begrudge her explanation of the simple process. He appreciated that she was eager to share her knowledge even if it was of things he had learned long ago. In return, he would do the same.

"I'm quite intimate with concept of steam, down the element in fact. My bond jokes that all she needs to summon me is to set a kettle on the burner. But, what I am referring to a place. There are these forests, far south from here, where the sun lends the most warmth to the earth. They are tropical... muggy... steamy. The also have the strangest inhabitants... things to rival even what we find around here."

He was, of course, referring to wide range of exotic fauna that seemed to be the vice of bonds. Wasabineko had managed to keep a healthy cap on her collection... but he had heard rumours...

Val nodded and set back down, looking up at her father. "It's alright. I don't leave the house much. No good reason except that I don't. I explore around home and read and try and work on the intraweb-net-worldwide thing. ANd I help Gallium get piercing materials. She did my ears!" She shook her head and the 3 rings jingled a bit.

"I haven't seen any other feien with earrings. I think they make me original, though we are all original in our own way. I don't look much like you." Her shift of subject was very abrupt, almost in the same breath.

Simon nearly groaned. Apparently, he had passed on his worst traits to this juvenile. (Neither he nor Yasha had passed on any traits to Fifth, of course.) "I like the earrings," he offered. "Feien don't look much like their genetic parents most of the time. It's merely a facet of our biology. We're more related to the plant than each other."

After that, trough, she glanced at the time, and her tiny orange eyes whidened.

"Oh, im sorry, but I need to go..." She got up, looking a bit sad. "I hope to see you later, you're nice to be around ! See you, Indra !"

With this, Ryuusei took off by the same way she came in.

Seems like this kistune wants to wish you an happy summonday. razz

-Z

Zero didn't really know that to expect. The last day was... draining to say the least, and now all she knew is that Corvus needed to see her. It would have made more sence if he needed to see Ryuusei, but her ?

Talking about the yellow feien, she wasn't present. Zero almost asked her, but then she saw that she was in one of those REALLY awful moods, seething and all, thus it was a munch better idea to come alone, whatever it was. If she would have been needed, the summoner would have said it, right ?

Well, a little too late for that. She stepped inside, dusting off the small amount of snow that had gathered on her jacket before stepping furter inside. Maybe she was a little early...

Something dropped down from the rafters, falling to a stop right in front of Zero's face. It was Corvus, clad back in his old raggedy toga, looking... well, positively ghastly, to be honest. His face seemed unusually pale and haggard and his hair was disheveled. His gaze shifted about uneasily before coming to rest on Zero.

When he spoke, his voice was a raspy hiss. "Come back here," he said, darting towards the entrance to the back office, the door behind the counter marked "Do Not Enter."

Zero rose an eyebrow, clearly a little worried, but knowing better than to voice that worry. Thus, she simpely did as she had told him, pulling the door closed behind them. Well, if he told her to, it was okay to come in here, right.

"Everything's okay ?" Well, so much for not voicing it.

"Certainly, fine," said Corvus brusquely. He hovered around the desk, apparently looking for something, running his fingers across his jaw neurotically. His back was to Zero as he searched. After a moment he seemed to find whatever it was and went quickly darting towards a pile of papers, pushing them aside.

His face lit up into an unseen "aha!" He quickly gathered some small object into the folds of his toga, mending it into a pouch of fabric, and turned to face Zero looking triumphant. "Now, are you ready? Hold out your hand."

"As ready as I can be, I guess..." She held out her black and blue hand. All this thing going on about life and death recently was crazy, she had to admit... But how could she say no to something like this ? Her curiosity was too picked to worry about morals at the moment.

Corvus dropped something into the palm of Zero's hand. It turned out to be a large gemstone, pink and orange and black with delicate little patterns that shifted seductively even in the dim lighting of the back office. "Please keep still," said Corvus, clasping his hands and mumbling strange words under his breath.

Zero barely got a look at the stone before it started to glow a pale mix of orange and red, and she somehow managed not to jump out in surprise. She almost brought her other hand to cup it, but then remembered she had to keep still, so she did. She couldn't manage to keep her eyes away from the glowing stone, that... didn't seem very stone-like anymore. She couldn't completely tell because of the glow and the fact that she couldn't feel things with her hands, but it seemed like the shape itself of the stone was modifying itself.

The reploid kept sillent, not wanting to break Corvus's concentration.

Whatever magic Corvus was weaving, it was clearly quite difficult. His brow creased and his form tensed. Somehow, he managed to mutter the words of the spell (if it was indeed a spell he was chanting) through clenched teeth.

A growl rose in Corvus's stomach, rising up through his throat until it became a shout. Glowing magical energy flared to life around him, black tinged with golden swirls. Sheer force of will drove this energy towards the gemstone, engulfing the intricate little patterns until not a single speck of the stone was visible. The shout became a furious scream and Corvus suddenly sliced his hands through the air. The black and gold energy collapsed into the gemstone and Corvus fell back onto the table.

Not that Zero had time to worry about him. The stone in her hand was a stone no longer, shifting and reforming itself.

Zero found herself with a dilemia : Go for Corvus, or focus on the shifting stone. The choice was made for her, through : the stone, now in a state Zero could only describe as semi solid and semi liquid, gathered in the center of her palm, and began to mold itself into a feien, gaining colors and shape.

Then, there was a fairy peering up at her, her orange eyes confused. She had pale brown skin, light blonde hairs tipped in sky blue, horns, and, to her surprise, claws.

"What..." She asked. "What's going on ? Who are you ?"

"My name is Zero, but... just give me a minute, okay ?" Zero's brow creased, as she took a few steps torward the table, slowly as to not unbalance the fairy sitting in her hand, her cloth wings dangeling on the side, then called out.

"Corvus... ?"

"What happened to him ?" The fairy tried to stand, but stumbeled back.

"Don't try to stand..." Zero whispered. "He revived you."

...Revived ? So this strange feeling... had been death ?

Corvus shuddered and twitched on the desk, mumbling something that might have been "I'm fine" but could just as easily have been "aliens." He managed a short wave with his hand that would seem to indicate the former. He'd survive this. He'd feel it for a good two weeks if not more, but he'd survive.

Zero seemed relieved that he was at least still concious. "You want me to get you somewhere to rest, or something ?" She doubted that the table was confortable.

The ancient peered from her palm, still looking a little confused. So he would be fine. Good. Hitting the other priority now.

"Well, im sorry to break the moment but... What's going on ?"

"Ah, sorry. Im Zero, and ill be your bond."

"Bond ? I... guess many things have changed since I died ? If you could help me situate myself..."

"That's what im here for." Zero was surprised at how well the feien was taking the whole thing. If she had known that she had died and was just brought back to life, she'lld be freaking out. "Do you remember your name ?"

Her brow furrowed, as she still sat. "...Doesn't seem like it..." This was so wierd. So. Wierd.

"Uh, what about... Hari ?"

The ancient gave a smile. "Ill'd do."

From the desk, Corvus muttered something that was really best left uninterpreted and staggered into air. Now his ghastly pale form looked like it had been punched or deflated. He blinked at Hari once, twice, then drifted towards the door, waving his hand at it uselessly. He didn't have enough magic left in him to open the door up.

Zero almost said something, but stopped herself, knowing it would be useless to tell him to rest. Hari almost did it for her, but she stopped her in-extremis.

Instead, she went and pushed the door open, keeping it open long enough for him to come out, and came out as well. She glanced at the items, but Hari was probabely too tired to worry about this.

"Well... at least be careful." She said, before leaving on her own, protecting Hari from the chilly spring wind with her jacket.