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Grethel tapped her foot a little, waiting rather anxiously for the door to open. She'd never been very patient, and actually visiting a person without giving notice beforehand was pretty new. The fact that someone hadn't rushed to open the door weren't reassuring her, either.
The woman bounced on her feet a little, wrinkling her brow.
At least the lantern was happy, if the slight glow coming from her backpack was any indication.
A young girl with blonde hair which reached up to her bottom opened the door and blinked at the stranger. "Hello...Miss ? How can I help you ?" She asked in a hushed voice as her golden eyes inspected the lantern with a slight smile. Another lantern one. She wondered if this one was supposed to be as strange as Sarosh.
"Hello sweetheart," Grethel's face seemed to twitch lightly at the word 'sweetheart', clearly not accustomed to calling anyone that, "Errr.. Is Lena home? I'd like to speak with her, if it's possible?"
The woman chose a strand of gray hair and began twirling it nervously. It wouldn't be a good first impression to the other guardians if she were rude. But children had really never been her forte..
"Oh you want to talk to Mom. Please come in, she's in the kitchen making some tea." The blonde girl made a friendly gesture and quickly moved towards the kitchen. "Mom, there's a woman with a lantern who wants to talk to you." Tyyne announced as she watched a very amusing scene. Devotion was sitting below the table and hugged the teapot whereas Lena was trying to get it away from him. The fairy was sitting on the table and looked down from time to time. "Woman...lantern...get her in !"
Blinking lightly as she made her way into the kitchen, Grethel couldn't help but smile lightly. Poor woman! Hopefully her child-nee-lantern would never develop such a fondness for teapots.
"I'm sorry for disturbing, Ma'm, but I was looking in some Anima brochures and since I really needed some help figuring this stuff out, and you seemed to have an Anima too, and were pretty close, I thought.. well. Oh, and I'm Grethel and I've acquired myself an Anima lantern.. Umm.." her voice trailed off, eyes fixed on the pretty little boy.
"Yes, yes, right. I'm Lena, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'll help you as far as I'm able to and I would even offer you tea, but my anima here..." The young woman pointed at the blonde boy who grinned sheepishly. "I told him that one of his brothers came out of a teapot and since then he's trying to protect it." She sighed and looked at the lantern in Grethel's hands. "Feel free to sit down though. I bet Devotion would like to look at it, right young man ?" Glaring below the table she waited for a reaction. And indeed the anima decided to move out of his hiding place and examine the new arrival. "Petty." He announced and moved one hand through his hair.
"OH, thank you!" the relief was palpable, "I'm really sorry for bursting in at such an inopportune moment, err.." Smiling lightly as Devotion as he announced that her lantern was pretty, Grethel put it down on the table where it began to glow happily. Apparently, even a lantern could be vain.
Taking a seat, lantern in fron of her, the woman smiled even wider.
"Ah you know, with a house full of kids every moment is inopportune." Lena said and watched Tyyne ,who was neatly arranging tea cups on the table ,with a smile. "I think I can't answer to much questions, because Devotion is still pretty...new to us. But I'll try." Lena said and managed to pull the teapot out of Devotion's hands, because he was now occupied with the lantern. It glowed so awesomly shiney, it had to be female. The fairy quickly moved onto his shoulder as he straightened and poked the lantern quietly. "Petty." He announced again.
"I can imagine," actually she couldn't, but sympathy seemed to be the best direction - and Grethel had the feeling she'd soon know the feeling, anyway, "Oh, so he only.. evolved recently?" Maybe she'd gone wrong, but with the way the boy was admiring the lantern.. it was cute. What was with the fairy-creature, though? The brochure hadn't brushed that.

As if on cue, the lantern glowed just a bit warmer as Devotion complimented it. Yes, it definitely knew that it was a pretty lantern. In it's own mind it thought that it was even THE prettiest lantern. All the others on the Lantern Tree had been so.. bland. They wouldn't have been able to glow as bright or pretty as it, it instinctively knew.
Lena nodded and looked at Tyyne. The girl was still scared about Devotion sometimes because of his strange evolution. "Somehow he just started to glow and shake and then...woosh..he was here. And the fairy too." She shrugged and started to set up some water and put tea into the pot.
Devotion petted the lantern and stared at it. What a pretty light it had. So shiney, so wonderful. "Gow ?" He asked and looked back at the grey haired one. This pretty one needed to be freed.
"Huh. Shaking, eh?" Grethel cast a quick, suspicious glance at her own lantern, as if it would begin shaking and evolving immediately. "What's with the fairy, anyway? The brochures Cerena gave me didn't say anything about fairies." Smiling slightly, disarmingly, the gray-haired woman looked sheepish.
"Gow? What does that mean?" she looked quizzically to Devotion, waiting for some sort of 'adequate', eloquent answer.

Ahh, someone appreciated it's prettyness! The lantern focused on glowing for the other Anima, ignoring it's suspicious guardian.
Devotion pushed a strand of his hair aside before touching the lantern slightly motioning to the fairy to sit down on it. It looked like a strange way of silent communication and out of sudden he started to smile broadly. Lena just shrugged and poured some tea into the cup in front of Grethel. "Probably grow. He's not so good at talking yet, but he loves affection as far as I've noticed. The fairy...well, she's special as far as I know. There was little feather attached to his lantern at first." Sitting down beside the woman she looked at the lantern curiously before smiling at Tyyne.
The lantern glowed invitingly, liking someone that Devotion liked instantly. They, too, would probably appreciate it's shinyness.

Sipping lightly from her cup, Grethel nodded. "So a feather probably symbolizes some sort of fairy creature? Doesn't seem like my lantern will be getting one of those, then." she shrugged, somewhat happy that she wouldn't have to take care of two persons instead of one. "He wants it to grow? He's not the only one. The suspence itself is killing me. What if it's a boy? I don't understand boys!" the older woman's voice had taken on a slight whining quality, her immediate stress shining through.
"Which reminds me.. how do you KNOW what type - memory, I think the brochure called it - your lantern is?" this had been bothering her for a while.
"Yoo nam' ?" Devotion poked the lantern and tried to imitate it's shining by smiling in a very intensive way. And somehow he wondered why he didn't have a name. The other one was Tyyne and that was Momlena...but who was he ?
Lena nodded slightly. "I haven't talked to the owner of the garden yet. Cerena was her name, right ? She told me that devotion was his memory when I talked to her last time. And it's also visible in his behaviour. Look at him..." Lena sighed and pointed at Devotion hugging the lantern. "There's not so much difference between boys and girls...I have two girls who are roughhousing just like boys." She grinned. "Do you talk about Nalini and Jessila ?" Tyyne asked and Lena couldn't but agree.
It was saying something, truly. But what? The poor lantern didn't know, and dulled it's glow slightly as a form of apologizing. But it did look rather nice and almost-but-not-quite-but-still-somewhat-close-to-shiny, so the lantern forgave it for speaking weird.

"Yeah, Cerena." Grethel nodded as Lena talked, filing the information away for later use, "Yes, he does look rather.. devoted. It's pretty cute." a smile and the woman turned to look at the blonde girl, "What is your, sweetie? I forgot to ask, I'm so sorry!" That'd been so rude of her! Ack! Bad Grethel, bad!
It was a nice little lantern and it was pretty. He loved pretty things especially females and he was very sure that this one wasn't male, although...he loved pretty males too. Suddenly something tugged his ear and he looked up at the fairy, who seemed a bit jealous. He grinned as an excuse and stopped hugging the lantern. Lena sipped some tea whereas Tyyne looked up at the woman with her golden eyes. "I came from a leaf, miss. We're called Edens. Mum says I was a daisy before..."
The lantern was a bit disheartened that it's new friend stopped trying to warm it up (though it really didn't need it, it was a nice gesture), but the pretty flying thing deserved attention for being almost-shiny too. The lantern resolutely intensified it's glow, concentrating on making it warm and pretty for the two almost-shinies.

Blinking slightly, Grethel finally registered that she'd skipped a word. Oh drat.. "Oh, that came out wrong - I meant, what's your name? Though.. a leaf?" well, at least it was something that was somewhat 'alive' instead of a 'dead' lantern.
Devotion looked at the fairy with a somehow angry look as he noticed the sad feelings about the lantern and placed a soft kiss on it's top. It was the prettiest lantern he had ever seen, he was sure and he would paint pictures about it. Tyyne bit her lip as she noticed that she got the question wrong and looked at the table's surface. "My name is Tyyne, Miss. Yes, we come from leaves. My friends do so too. I deliver them sometimes to new parents." She looked a bit proud as she talked about this fact and Lena smiled at her.

The lantern continued it's glowing, happily enjoying the attention - this was the good life, surely! Aye, when it attracted a soul it'd remember this one and his niceness. Or so it hoped. Really. But the flying thing.. was weird. It didn't seem to like the lantern, even though it had glowed prettily for it. Huh.
"Wow, that's a pretty big responsibility for such a young girl - you must be really good at it." Grethel nodded desidedly, happy and a bit impressed despite herself. The girl was rather nice, didn't make too much noise and seemed like a responsible young lady; the niceness seemed to be a family trait, though. The gray-haired woman speculated that not many would've been so ready to answer her questions, and invite a stranger into her home without any prompting.
Tyyne blushed and was awfully happy that she was called something special. Usually she didn't think so well of herself and so this was a welcomed change. She was just about to mumble a thank you as her golden eyes noticed Devotion pulling at the lantern, moving it into his arms and hurrying off with the glowing lamp towards his room. "Oh oh..." Was all Lena exclaimed and simply stared at the door for a few moments. "Come back here ! Oh hopefully he doesn't break it....
Eee, new stuff! The lantern had never been moved around by anyone but it's guardian and couldn't help but be a bit afraid of this new developement - what if the other Anima dropped it?
Standing up rather quickly, almost throwing the chair over but managing to steady it in the last second, Grethel stared at the door. On one hand the boy seemed to like the lantern rather much and didn't seem particularly inclined to hurt it. But accidents could happen, and the lantern seemed to be rather.. distressed?
"Umm..?" gesticulating helplessly towards the door, the woman turned a despairing look on Lena, not knowing what to do with this. If she went off after the lantern herself she'd end up making a bad impression, surely, but on the other hand something might happen to the precious item while she hesitated in the kitchen (though Grethel's logical side seemed to think that if something happened it'd be an accident, but quite frankly, who listens to their logical side?).
Tyyne appeared to be the most calm person in the room as she just got up and moved out of the kitchen to follow her new brother. It was easy to detect were he was hiding, because of the babbling he did. In fact he had carried the lantern into his room, had placed it onto a small table ( of course he had thrown all the crayons and everything off at first ) and now sat down in front of it bowing his head slightly. "Petty. Lanstern." The fairy seemed a bit annoyed as she picked up a crayon, which appeared to be much too heavy for her. Lena's eyes twitched before she looked at Grethel and grinned just as she wanted to say sorry. "Come on, it's better to follow them, I guess."
"Sure.." Grethel quickly went out the door after the young blonde, making her way towards the room.
However, it was rather hard not to smile when she saw Devotion sitting there in front of her lantern, "Yeah, it is rather pretty. And it glows a lot, I think you may have noticed." her words were meant for the Anima, grimacing slightly as she mentioned the lantern glowing a lot. Situating herself a little ways from Devotion, but still where she could easily reach the lantern should it be needed, Grethel smiled at the boy and his sister.
Lena was relieved that only the room was a mess, but the lantern was luckily intact. "Phew..." She moved one hand gently across Tyyne's head, while the girl tried to help the fairy to put the crayons into a neat order. Devotion instead loved the attention and nodded at the grey-haired woman. His finger pointed at his chest and he picked up one of the crayons, a red one of course, holding it like a sword. "Pwaaaaaaint." The boy announced proudly and hushed to find a peace of paper to settle down beside the lantern to draw it. It really seemed like he was exactly trying to get it's shapes. Lena shook her head and sat down beside Grethel. "Well, probably your little one will be as active too ? At least she glows a lot. Do you still have questions by the way ? Did you already got this...letter thing which told you to buy something ?"
Oh goodness, she might just die from cuteness overload. He was going to paint it? So cute! If she had been a bit younger, Grethel would've possibly squealed like a schoolgirl at the sheer affection the boy was showing the lantern.
"As long as she's just as sweet, I think I can live with it," not that she had ever referred to her lantern as she, but it somehow seemed appropriate, "Hmm.. well, not really. The thing about how to figure out what Memory she was was what's bothering me the most - I'll have to figure it out one of these days -, so yeah. Thanks a lot, by the way. I wasn't quite sure if it was okay to just show up.." Grethel stopped, embarrassingly aware of the fact that she had been rambling like a loon.
Scratching her head she put up a confused face, "Nay, no letter. Maybe I'll get one soon..?"
"You're always very welcome. As you see Devotion likes your little one." Lena tried not to mention that he seemed to like almost every female being who cared about his attention. He was very different from her other boys and so it was interesting to watch him, although sometimes a bit strange. "I got a letter to buy him an item which matches his fiery potential, but unfortunately I wasn't at home that day and well...my daughter bought the heartboxers." Tyyne smiled proudly as she watched Devotion painting. Red and orange and yellow swirls were quickly mixed up and he beamed proudly as he got up and offered the paper to the new woman. The lantern should have it to know how much he admired it's glowyness. "Go ? Fo yoo !" Devotion said as he watched his mother getting up. Somehow it seemed like playtime was over.
"Yes, it does seem that way." that one'd be a charmer when he grew up, absolutely no doubt about it, "Well.. they fit him." Grethel smiled crookedly.
"Why, thank you! I'll make sure to show it to her first thing when she arrives." the gray-haired woman winked at the boy, completely smitten with his dedication, "I'm sure she'll love it."
"Well.. thank you for helping me. And it was nice meeting your kids. I think we'll need to get going now." delicately folding the drawing so it wouldn't be hurt before stopping it in her pocket, Grethel took the lantern with one hand, "Thanks again. Should I walk myself out?"
"Go." Devotion announced got the woman's other hand and lead her towards the door. He stood there until they had gone out of sight and waved goodbye. Lena was leaning against a doorframe and just shook her head. What kind of child had she received now ?