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Fauve stepped out onto the front porch of her home. She felt bad for withdrawing the way she had, but she needed to have some time to rest, and for Merci and her to have some time alone to work out their problems. The mask girl stepped to the edge of the porch and leaned against the pillar there. The cool wind swept through her hair and blew it back away from her checkered mask, carried on it was the smell of fire.

Fire..... Fauve's attention was drawn to the flames dancing in the air. It looked so graceful and fragile, but it seemed to her, that the brighter the flame, the darker the shadow that surrounded it. Movement caught her eyes and her head jerked around, from the forest she thought she saw figures. She squinted and almost gasped, leaning back against the pillar as her legs threatened to give out. It... couldn't possibly be.... Walking in front of her were two masks that she recognized, on bodies she didn't. They were grown, Zahar and Kasai were grown..... and they were together....

Fauve leaned there, watching helplessly as the anger, hatred and lonliness she'd been feeling billowed up inside of her and threatened to choke her. It was exactly as Fauve had feared, he knew now, and he chose her instead. Fauve was useless, powerless, and unimportant, well we'll see about that. Her blue eyes smoldered from behind her mask, and her fists clenched, she watched Kasai reach into the fire as the other figures began to move away. She couldn't help the rage boiling inside her as she shot a thought at him and only him 'How could you! How could you pretend to be my friend!' She took a step toward him, then two.

She just couldn't face this... it was like her worst fear come to pass... she turned on her heel and bolted for the woods. Her eyes clouded with tears as she ran, branches catching at her. She remebered the last time she felt like this, when Ashirha had been hurt. Fauve slowed and dropped to her knees, she swore she wouldn't run off again and here she was, running alone into the forest. Tears spilled over the cheeks of her mask and she dropped her head.

Fauve jerked her head up and quickly wiped her mask with her sleeve. She didn't want him to see her like this.. she didn't want him to know how much him being with Zahar really hurt her. She realized that she would be filthy, Zahar was always radient and here she was kneeling in the dirt crying. 'I understand though, I hope your happy with her.' Fauve couldn't help the note of pain in her voice as she said that to him in a clipped tone.

He grew up, so he has to remember. Why would he want her, after all she was just an entertainer, no competition for a princess. She bowed her head 'She's a wonderful person, you made the right choice.' Fauve pushed herself to her feet and turned her back on Kasai so he wouldn't look at her, but she made not move to walk away.

She was happy he grew, he.. well, in her opinion he was perfect. She'd only glanced at him but, she shut her eyes when she felt his hand on her back. 'You mean your not involved with Zahar?' She was confused. She honestly thought that as soon as he was grown that he would run off with the princess. Fauve turned her head to look at him, 'I saw you with her, and I thought....' She felt like an idiot right now and she cast her eyes to the ground. 'I'm sorry, I... shouldn't have yelled like that.' She turned to face him and gave him a blantent once over, 'I am happy you grew....'

Fauve blinked and she put her hands in her hips 'Cern has nothing to do with this! He was my first friend, I saw you with Zahar and I thought that maybe..... because of before... that you were...' She frowned, why did he do this to her, why did he mean so much to her already. She glowered at him 'I didn't know that Galilee and Zahar had anything going on..' She finished lamely... she took her hands off her hips and folded her arms, from above her in a tree Inathe hissed lightly at his mother's agitation.

Fauve stood there and stared after him, she would be slack jawed if she had a mouth. How could he think that, Cern was... well.. Cern! Cern was like her older brother, someone she talked to about her problems when she felt overwhelmed, or when she couldn't talk to Ashirha, but he was never more important to her then Kasai was. She felt like crying again, like chasing after him and asking him how he felt about her, or maybe just telling him how he made her feel.

But... how did he make her feel. Staring after him, all grown up, she didn't know anymore. When he stared at her like he had she felt.. exposed.. like he was looking at HER. Inathe dropped from the tree to her shoulder and cooed in her ear. She looked down at herself and thought she would go to the lake and soak off her troubles. She shut her eyes and reached up scratching Inathe's head, she called after him a few words that only he would hear.. 'Kasai, no one is more important then you are.' She left it at that, hoping that perhaps that would be enough to put a salve on their damaged relationship.

She stood for a few more moments and decided that she probably better bathe away the dirt on her body, and perhaps find Cern. She didn't know who else to talk to about this, and he was her friend after all.

Kataio called back to Cinder, "Thank you that would be great." They were almost at the clinic anyways and she didn't know how long it would take to patch this guy up but she was already hungry. Kata did a quick check on Zahar and the man with the lizard tail.

Neither Zahar nor Kataio said anything until they reached the clinics door. "Zahar if you would like you can go on and eat or something if you would like. No sense keeping you here if you have things to do ya know?"

Zahar shrugged before saying, 'I have nothing to do at the moment Kataio but I would be no help in there. I will take my leave.' She turned and walked back to the fire close to Cinderfae.

Kata looked to the other person and waved him in. "Ummm... I'll get you to sit on one of the chairs for now. I wonder if Aricin is around." She then muttered, "I hope he is around somewhere he knows how to do this stuff better then I." Kataio pointed to one of the chairs, hoping that the being would understand.

Nika nodded and listened quietly. It was great and probably safer to know what Shi had just pointed out to him. Even though, he felt that he should have known where the arteries were on his own.

Perhaps, realizing the past wasn't as troublesome as it had seemed at first.

Being so avoidant and wary of the past was almost... unnatural. His past was what made him who he was. Even in this new life. It was natural to remember.

More convinced that he was going to go to the ruins and retrieve whatever it was that he was searching for, someday, not necessarily right away, Nika stood up and glanced at Shi.

'Do you still want to go? Did you even want to in the first place?'

If she didn't want him to go he wouldn't, but he wasn't about to let her go without him either.