Welcome to Gaia! ::

“Who ever said I stopped teasing you Nana?” She gave him a small grin. “And good evening your self. Welcome to the world of night where you’re as likely to freeze as you are to step on some nasty little stinging bugs. All the little critters come out to play when the sun goes down.” She never heard Nana’s fumbling stumble because she was busy listening to everything else in the desert around them. They were lucky they hadn’t been discovered while they slept. She was chastising herself for falling asleep. “mm You know I’m not really sure if there is a safe way out of these lands?” It was a question even if she didn’t mean it to be. Just another thing she had to ask Nan since she didn’t know.

Magic? Well there was something that she wasn’t able to work with. She was about as magical as a rock at the bottom of a well. Caution she had but might be hard not to look like a target with her mask. She heard his wings unfurl and curl back up and wondered just what it felt like to have wings. Though flying blind might be a bad combination so daydreaming of such a thing seemed rather pointless. Night was her friend since she didn’t’ need to see to travel anyway. “Little critters that might not play nice?” She had been bitten enough times to know that not all the small things that bumped in the night were really sweet and cuddly. Sighing she shook her head. This had been a fruitless endeavor she didn’t’ even find out anything about Iota really.

She turned her masked head toward Nana and chuckled. “You’re young enough if I’m responsible for helping you break free of Demoni. In fact I’d be much older than you in that case. And I feel it sometimes.” She tilted her head. “Don’t mind me I just wish I had something solid when it came to Io…Lacey. Like where she was or if she was ok. I came down her to find out all that and yet I feel I’m leaving with nothing, well except a friendship.” She grinned under her mask. “That’s not something to be scoffed at so you’re right I’ll cheer up. Promise.”

Ah she was trying to cheer up and ended up depressing him. She really sucked at this didn’t she? “I’m sure you will too.” His words on friendship made her realize just how much he missed out on having just been ‘born’ so recently. “Well friendship is something that is wonderful and can be treasured no matter what Nana.” She nudged him gently knowing that coming in contact with her mask might not be the best feeling in the world. “You know anytime you’re you and not Demoni I would be happy to see you. I’m from up north.” It was hard to really admit that knowing that any time later Demoni might be able to access those memories and perhaps find her and send other’s to ‘deal’ with her. She didn’t even know where she would be back up north so it wasn’t like she could give him specific information though, so that did make her feel a bit better. “Still if you’d like we could start heading away from the trap you said Demoni was leading me to. I know you wouldn’t be able to come up north with me right now since the other demons in Demoni’s family might miss you but I’d like to stay with you for as long as you’d like to or are able come with me.”

She smiled behind her mask. She couldn’t see what he was doing so she was glad he was so good about telling her how he felt about things. “Then you should stay with me for as long as you can. This way you’ll get a bit older and perhaps a bit stronger. There’s no reason not for you to have some adventure.” She liked the idea of being with him. “Go as far as you are able Nana.” She planned to keep with by his side and calling out his name as much as she could. It was a small way to prove that Nana was Nana not Demoni. She stayed close enough that she was brushing up beside him and didn’t know how long she would have him. It was strange to make a friend only to know that she would lose him. “Nana. Is there anything you want to see while you are you? I know on the way north there might not be much and I can’t really help you spot anything at all, but I wonder what you want to see or feel on the way.” She was gonna take the time to give Nana as much of the world just for him as she could.

“Well if you see anything interesting in our travels I might ask you to describe it to me Nana.” Her own family had done that from time to time since her sight was poor. She kept close to Nan brushing up against him to keep track of him. She figured traveling back up north would be much faster this time, but she really had no idea how long it would take. A few days? A month? Still at least she had company this time.

She was right traveling was both faster and more pleasant with Nana. She found that as long as she was by his side with his wing over her she could move much faster. She liked to lean on him a bit but perhaps that was because he was a gentle soul. After a day of traveling with him she decided she liked and wanted a part of Nan to continue on even if Demoni came back later. She just didn’t know how to breach the topic with him and was clearly deep in thought making her steps less careful than the day before. After nearly stumbling for the third time that day she began to feel frustrated.

The first question was met with a grunt the second she stopped and cursed the fact her mask was off. It would mean he could see her frown. “I’m fine. I was just thinking, and apparently I can’t think and place my hooves where they belong at the same time.” She took a deep sigh before shaking her head. “Yeah if it’s ok with you can we stop and talk. I’ve got something on my mind and I really don’t know what to do with it.” She was blunt and wasn’t the kind to beat around the bush to much so to try and bring the topic up sensibly was killing her. She waited for a moment for Nana to get comfortable. She kept herself standing so she could pace if she felt like it.

“The thing is you said yourself that you don’t know when Demoni is coming back and that sucks since it means you might be going, but I don’t want to lose you to him. You’re nice and good and there should be more Azerin like you in the world. I don’t want that part of you that’s you to disappear.”