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"Oh, it was no trouble at all. But I'm glad I could help." she said, sighing happily. She knew how he must have felt. She herself had been unsure during her and Keanu's quest, about how they'd manage to get all the items. She had quite a few people to thank as well.

Keanu blinked, and realized what he was asking. "Oh! I was looking for sand crabs." he said simply, and dug his hands in again, wishing he could find one or two to show Osu, but he couldn't see any of the V-shaped marks they made in the sand anywhere nearby.

"Aaaw. Well, it was nice to talk again. Perhaps we'll see each other at the festival soon." she said optimistically, smiling over at him. It really was nice to have someone to talk to, other than Keanu. Not that there was anything wrong with that, of course.

Keanu nodded. "Yeah, funny things that live in the sand." he said, smirking. Though....they didn't really look like normal crabs, though those were just as fun to chase about. His mother had a different name for them, but he couldn't remember what it was...

Kami smiled, and nodded. "Okay, have a nice evening!" she said, waving as he and Osu moved up and off the beach, giving another happy sigh.

Keanu was a bit disappointed as well, and he waved ith a muddy hand, rounded ears drooping slightly. "Bye-bye, Osu!" he said, got got up himself, tking a moment to rinse off as best he could. He knew he would probably be made to take a bath, too. Oh well. He watched Osu and Ieyasu disappear from view, hoping he would see his friend again soon.

In response to Fae's letter about copies of his journal entries, Kiro decided a trip from the Centre was in order to deliver them to her. In all honesty, Kiro had forgotten to copy the entries up as he was writing them, so he had spent an evening copying them up before setting off to her house.

He and Tsukai left the centre with the small, tied up, bundle of paper under Kiro's elbow - unaware as he crossed the island that there would be nobody home to greet them. The house certainly seemed deserted when he got there, and there was no answer to his knocks on the door. He sighed, wondering where the occupants could be. He absently rested the paper against the wall and scribbled a note on the topmost piece of paper.



Then, bending down, Kiro left the papers on Fae's doorstep before leaving. He rubbed at Tsukai's head gently with a finger as they made their way back to the Centre. "You'll see her again Tsu, we were just unlucky this time, okay?"

"Peep..."

A giggling Nehanda ran down the path to Delta's house, followed closely by Foenix. "Wait for me, hun!"

Nehanda was having too much fun running around, however. Foenix had insisted upon staying inside with lessons all morning. But now, the little girl had a very specific destination in mind. And she had a present! As they passed near the Centre, Nehanda stopped in her tracks. There was Syren herself. "Sywen! Hi!" she yelled. "Hi! Where's Dewta? I gots a sapwise for her!"

Getting closer, Foenix didn't recognize the woman, but she assumed this was the guardian of that gryphon Nehanda had played with at the festival. "Afternoon," she called out. "I'm Foenix. You must be Syren. Nehanda's told me a lot about you and your Delta."

Nehanda was very busy looking for Delta.

((Sorry this took me so long. I'd gone off to do a bit of packing.))

"Oh!" Nehanda looked a bit crestfallen. She'd really been looking forward to petting those beautiful, soft feathers again. And there was also that present she'd brought . . . "Hi, dere, Dewta! You get to be a kid wike me soon! Dat'll be wots of fun den." Deciding that talking to Delta was just as fun as petting her, the little girl plopped down and made ehrself comfortable next to the ephemeral head and horns. "I didn't weally wike being a wisp that much, though. It was neat going trough walls and stuff, but I wike to touch stuff, ya know?"

"Well, isn't that exciting?" Foenix didn't approach Delta, but gripped Syren's hand in a friendly manner. "From the looks of things, she's certainly going to be a lovely child. Has Aly given you a list of things to collect yet?"

Foenix nodded in sympathy. "Gathering the items isn''t exactly an easy task, especially on a place like Cetalu. If we were back on the mainland, you could just run out to a shopping center and find everything within an hour. But here . . . you sort of have to throw yourself on the mercy of people."

"But still . . . It was really exciting when Nehanda transformed. She''s just so great! Even if she''s one of the most stubborn kids I''ve ever dealt with . . . and I''m not even gonna start on her attitude towards lessons these days . . ." She trailed off and grinned fondly over at her charge.

"Oooo, but I really wiked flying! You can just zip awound, and you don''t get weally tired!" Nehanda was just sort of rambling, when she heard Syren''s inventory of her list. A thought occured to her. Beaded cloth? That was sort of like what she''d been . . .

Jumping up, she ran over to Foenix. "But we gots cloff!! And it''s weally pwetty, and I picked it out just for Dewta. all by myseff!"

Foenix looked down at Nehanda, over at Delta, and back at Syren. "Actually, we do. Nehanda told me that Delta liked the ''cape'' that she was wearing at the festival. We were on our way over to your house, because she wanted to give Delta a cape of her own. And it dows have some beads on it . . ." She trailed off and began rooting around in her bag.

Foenix had to laugh. "She sounds like quite a handful. Nehanda there is the exact opposite; she couldn't care less about her appearance. Half the time, she's running around covered with dirt from her gardens. Maybe I'll get lucky and some of Delta's attitude will rub off on her. Ah! Here it is."

Out of her bag, she pulled a folded length of fabric. "It's not much," she said half apologetically. "I sew, so I've got all sorts of fabric and stuff lying around. Nehanda thought Delta might like this one, with the blue and green beads." Bending, she gave it to Nehanda so that the little girl could display it to the wisp.