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The tree was quiet today. While it still humming woth life, it stil seemed to be a quieter day. Almost more lethargic in a sense.

Unless of course you were the small, brown faun named Kara-boo. Then you would have decided to pack a small bag and make a run for the quiet woods.

Not for any offensive reason. Just to avoid people. Kara-Boo got rather nervous aeoumd people. Unless the kitchen ghost counted. That paeson she culd stand.

Reaching the Quiet Woods, she went off the trail and found a nice quiet spot with a rather large tree surrounded by smaller trees and shrubs and wooded grasses. Smiling, she reach down and touched some.of the landscape, sighing when nothing happened. Yes. Nature was good for her.

Sitting down under the largw trees shade, she brought her bag around to settle in her lap. Lifting the flap, she muttered to herself as she took out the bag's contents.

"Orange candle for courage." She set a candle of the same color down in front of her.

"An etching of Artemis's hounds." She pulled out a dried leaf with a rather primitive drawing of a dog on it. She wasn't the greatest at drawing, but she was sure that Artemis would recognize her intent.

"Orange oil, for if the color is meant to be courageous, the oil doubly so." She pulled out a small vial of dark amber colors oil. She had also made this herself by boiling oranges down until they were paste and infusing some sunflower oil with said paste.

"Last but not least, me. Who is anything but."she said with a sad sigh.

That was her goal today. To offer Artemis a blessing so that she may be imbued with some of her Godly courage. She was so tired of her room. She had gotten her powers mostly under control, but she still held fear in her heart that the other fauns would reject her should she have an accident. It was rare. But it did happen.

This was a last ditch effort on shaking her own fears. So, she gently settled her candle and her picture in front of, and annointed it with the orange oil.

"Artemis, goddess of spring and the hunt." She started her oath with the first swipe of oil on her candle. She contiued anointing her candle with every sentence. Length wise, up and down.

"I pray to thee. Please bless me with courage i do not already have. Please alleviate my fears, for i know they are false and my own. Please give the strength that you had when you first lead us to the tree. Blessed be."

When she had finished her prayer, she held up her drawing of the moon and the hounds within. "I offere this drawing to you. It may be a bit primitive, but know i drew it with my heart." She settled the picture back down in front of the candle and held up the orangw oil she had made.

"I also offer this bottle of orange oil that i made, may it find you happy and well." She settled the orangeoil to the side of the picture.

Then she paused. She was forgetting something.

After a few minutes, she plucked herself up. With a happy sigh, she settled back against the tree and enjoyed the sunlight.

Licking her fingers, she quickly extinguished the flame (having an open flame in any natural environment was a hazard) and explained hurridly as though Artemis was there. "I'm gonna burn this in my room for you, but i am leaving the oil and the drawing here by this tree for you to hopefully find."

Then she did just that. She plucked the now cooled candle up, and into her bag. And the settled the oil and the picture against the trunk of the tree, and gave them a loving pat goodbye.

Then she gathered herself and with a nod of bravado, set off toward the tree again.

If Artemis heard her, maybe she would decide to bless her. But until then, she was gonna try to be brave in Artemis's name. It was a way to honor her power. Though smal, she believed that maybe Artemis would still find it endearing.

Eyes forward and shoulders back, that was how she marched her way back to the tree.


-the end-