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Another day, another trip for the post. The post, it seemed, hadn't been in quite some time, but Kiro was still a little surprised to find two letters addressed to himself. And thankfully nothing that looked like it was from Kai. In fact, Kiro had a sneaking suspicion he knew who the letters were from.

"Tsu? Wanna come through and help me read something?"



Kiro smiled as Tsu read the first letter aloud to him. There was a lot of halting, and uncertainty, but the young Aerandir seemed desperate to learn. And that desperation was making him persistant.

When he's finished, Tsu glanced up to Kiro hopefully. "How wassat?"

"That was really great Tsu. Want to make a go of this second one?" As he spoke, Kiro reached across and opened it, pulling the paper out and scanning its contents quickly before handing it to the Aerandir.



"Wow! Sanar's growed up! And..." Tsu glanced at the paper again. He knew all about who Sanar was, but he'd not really heard much about 'Gael'. Hmm... "And Gael! Could we mebbe meet them somewhen?"

Kiro nodded. "We probably will Tsu. I'm going to have to take a trip to where they live sometime, I'd guess. We could maybe see them then."

"Yay!" Tsu wriggled excitedly for a little while, before pausing. "Keeo... who's 'A'tony'?"

Kiro couldn't help but give a small cringe. Someone I was supposed to have done something for a loooooooong time ago... "He's in charge of the other island, kiddo. He does like what Alyosha does here, remember?"

"Yeah!"

Kiro nodded, before grabbing Tsu some paper. The boy already had his quill pen to write with. "Now, I want you to do a really important job for me, okay? I need you to write a letter for Chao. She'd love to get a letter from you as well as me." He absently tore the top and bottom from the 'list-letters' and stood. "I need to go put this on the notice board, okay?"

Tsu paused for a moment, looking stunned. He was going to write a letter?! "Cool!" he squeaked emphatically. Eagerly he made a grab for his quill and dragged the paper towards him. It was a step, Kiro reasoned, in giving Tsu a reason to keep up with the reading and writing. Maybe he should let the little guy start writing in his own journal sometime soon...



Well, what else was he supposed to write? He waved the quill under his nose a few times as he considered this. He didn't really know either of them, and Chao was an adult like Keeo was. Hmm...

At that point, Kiro reappeared, pleased to see Tsu had something written down. He had been worried the Aerandir would get writer's block, although it had never happened yet. The boy always seemed to have something to say. "That you finished?"

Tsu nodded, holding the paper up and seeking the blonde's approval, which he readily recieved. Kiro laid it down on the desk before getting a pen of his own and writing the letter to accompany Tsu's.



Then, satisfied, Kiro slipped the two letters into the envelope, addressed it, and put it to one side to be sent at some point in the near future.

Absently, Kiro chewed a lip. Lots of things had happened since he'd last written in Tsu's journal. To be honest he'd forgotten for a short while that there was supposed to be documenting going on. Which was a little negligant.

So, for the last hour, the neko-jin had been covering the recent events that involved an earthquake on the islands. Confident that it was well documented elsewhere (definately by the other guardians, and most likely in an official capacity as well) he didn't feel the need to cover it in great depth. To mention it had happened and its impact on Tsu was most likely enough.

It had, unfortunately meant that a lot of the guardians had spent their Christmas and New Year in something akin to turmoil. While it didn't seem that any of the houses had actually been felled by the events, one or two of them appeared to be in no fit state for living in.



Absently, Kiro glanced up as he finished writing. There. Updated. It had been nagging at his mind for a few days, but he hadn't been quite sure what to say or how to word it.

No sign of the terrible twosome, however. Kiro assumed they were through in the other room, Tsu most likely annoying the kitten to death. He stood quietly and moved through, leaning in at the door between the two rooms, before pausing with a smile. The two of them were curled up on the floor, Tsu's little hand lying on Hope's back as the kitten was heard to purr quietly. Kiro couldn't help but grin slightly. They pretended to hate each other. It was, however, far from the truth.

It was then that the kitten opened an eye, looking over at Kiro in a sort of 'don't you DARE wake him up and make him move me' expression. Kiro just shook his head and spoke quietly. "Don't worry. If you promise to keep an eye on him, then you can keep him as a cushion for now." An amused pause. "Deal?"

The way she closed her eyes and returned to her 'I'm comfy damnnit' posture clearly indicated that that arrangement was fine for the moment. Kiro, at any rate, clearly didn't have any choice in the matter.

Kiro remembered, when he'd first taken Hope in, that he'd been worried that the two wouldn't get along. And, up until very recently he'd still been worried that the situation wouldn't improve. Maybe one of them had matured...? Who knew, he supposed...

~~2006/01/28~~

The handwriting wasn't perfect. And the spelling was far from it. But Kiro felt that entry was showing the order of things, a natural progression. Tsu was growing up, and making entries in his own journal was just a part of that.

It just seemed right.

"Keeo, wassat...?"

Kiro leaned against the desk, watching Tsu in amusement. On the desk, pushed up against the wall, was a jar. Inside the jar was a bunch of fur and a feather. Tsu, of course, had been fascinated with this jar since Kiro had brought it through, barely able to resist reaching out and poking at it. Hope, also having been absent for several days, seemed to sense some change and had then returned to also investigate the new object.

"Hopefully," Kiro said, "there'll be another Aerandir inside of it."

"Like me?"

"Uh-huh, you were in a jar like that one time y'know."

Tsu turned his gaze away from the jar and looked up at Kiro. "I was?"

"Yup." Kiro paused then, a thought having struck him. "It needs a name. And I think she's gonna be a girl..."

"Bobeena!!!"

"No," Kiro said, biting back a laugh and wondering how he hadn't seen it coming. "There's already too many things called Bobeena, right? We might get confused."

"Oh yea... we mi'te..." Tsu then took a turn, pausing with a frown. He'd been trying to think of names for the made up people in his stories. He'd once seen one... what was it again...? "Wha' 'bout Rosette?"

Kiro nodded with a smile. Tsu was getting the hang of the 'not calling everything Bob' thing. Perhaps. Jury was still on that one he supposed. "Then, Rosette it is. And try not to poke her too much, okay?"

It was a good day when Tsu got to sit at the desk to write. He only ever sat at the desk when he was writing something important. And right now, he was writing something pretty important. He'd been letting the idea of the girl collecting sea shells mull in his mind for a few weeks now, since the day he and Kiro had been to see Pueblo and Fae. So, three sheets in (most concerning scribbling through mistakes and mispelt words), Tsu considered that he was doing fairly well.

Absently the boy dipped his quill in the ink, hesitated, before hastening to look up "breeze" in the dictionary, and then continued writing, the nib scraping out the Roman lettering with care and delicacy.

Then, frowning, Tsu stopped writing. He watched the page quietly, wondering why the top of the sheet looked to be lighter than the bottom. Almost like there was some sort of...

"...glow...?"

The jar, which Kiro had left up against the wall on the desk was glowing, the light vaguely pulsating. Or perhaps that was Tsu's eyes playing tricks on him.

"Keeo!! KEEO!! ROSIE'S GLOWIN'!!""

Tsukai, as it would happen, was the only one of the inhabitants to witness Rosie's 'birth' - and watched the specticale with a gaping expression. He watched the small creature slink to the edge of the desk, watching him with beady eyes. It wasn't so much a quiet or docile expression, more a wary one.

Tsu, on the other hand, did actually sport a quiet expression. He watched her for a few seconds, before reaching out with a gentle hand. "Hiya Rosie..." he murmured quietly. "You finally got here, huh? You've bin takin' ages... I was worried..."

Rosie watched the Aerandir's hand get closer and closer to her, her thick tail sweeping the table behind her. Her wings flicked a little as she adjusted herself, and raised her beak up towards Tsu's careful hand. Cooing quietly, she then pressed against one of his fingers, moving to rub her head along the edge of his thumb. She liked this one. He smelled alright to her. Safe. Calm. She inched closer to him to get a better angle as she continued to rub her head alongside the other's hand. She didn't complain much when Tsu picked her up, except to flick her wings out a little and give off a generic coo of surprise. Her tail hung loose, swinging as Tsu took her out of the door to go find Kiro, who was busying himself in the Centre somewhere.

"Keeo!! Keeo, Rosie's here!"

((RP - Kiro gets added to the Aerandir Staff))

It had been quite a while since Rosie and Tsu had had their encounter with the strange creatures at the back of the Centre. Tsu hadn't told Kiro about it, still not sure if they were 'allowed' to be there. Instead he had spent his time reading more books and writing down stories (his spelling was actually getting a lot better, Kiro had noticed with some pride).

Rosie also seemed to be getting herself a bit of a personality, her favourite past time seeming to be the chewing of anything she could get into her mouth. The desk seemed to be a particular favourite, and even now she clung to the corner, leaning over deftly to chew at the wood. Every so often she would slip and lose her balence, her wings flapping out a few times in surprise before settling down to her chewing again. At least, Kiro was sure she was chewing, despite having no teeth. It was a bit of a phenomenum really.

Absently, Kiro reached out a hand and ran it down Rosie's back. She paused in her pursuit of chewing and cooed a little, flicking her wings a little as Kiro dislodged a few feathers. At the sound, Tsu also looked up.

"Hey, Keeo?"

"Uh-huh?"

"Y'know in my journal?"

Kiro nodded, a little apprehensive. "Sure. What about it?"

"Is Rosie gonna be in it too?"

Kiro couldn't tell, by Tsu's tone of voice, whether Rosie sharing his journal would be a good or bad thing. And then there also came the dilemma that - when Rosie was old enough to keep her own journal - how would they feel about sharing?

"Well..." Kiro moved from the chair to sit on the floor alongside the Aerandir. "I was actually thinking of getting you guys your own journals."

Tsu's eyes went wide in surprise. He was expecting to have to share with Rosie. "Wow! A journal of my own!?"

"Mmmhmm, if you want one."

It was so easy to make children happy, Kiro reflected as he caught Tsu's energetic hug. Now to actually find some stationay that could suffice as a journal. Shouldn't be too hard to get he supposed.

Rosie, at this point, tilted her head with a quiet coo before going back to vandalising the edge of the desk.