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It had sounded like a good idea at the time, that he could be visit the nature trails, could get some good exercise away from home and see everything that was blooming. It was a good idea while he was following the signs that were along the trails and the good idea became a bad one when something interesting caught his eye and he followed after it off the trail. Now here he was an hour or two... or was it three later. He didn't seem nearly as upset about being lost as his dragon was. He had the thought process of: I will get home eventually.

He lifted a hand up to push his many braids back as he looked up at the trees, debating. These would be a lot of fun to climb up he thought to himself, he paused at the bottom of one of them.

While he enjoyed the 'walk' Ellie was looking back and forth frantically, trying to find something familiar, a sign that could point them in the right direction, or even smell something that might get them out of these woods. The trees were all looking the same though, the scents swirling around her were a bit confusing as it was the scent of plants and trees. Then on top of that was the fact that Valens had yet to even try to back track or to call for help. Instead he was just tromping on ahead, the same smile on his face that he always had. He didn't even look worried.

"Valens..." She murmured, reaching out to catch hold of the back of his shirt and tugged at it.

Valens looked back at her, tilting his head to the side, "Hrm? What's wrong? Not enjoying the woods?" He asked of her.

The Silver could only stare at him dumbly, mouth dropping open. When she did so his shirt came free and he hopped up to catch hold of one of the branches, hanging off of it.

Valens had to scrammble at the begining of the climb to get to the first branch which was always hard on both him and the trees that he climbed because he had hooves instead of feet. Once up on the first branch the rest of the climb wasn't to bad, just straight up through the winding maze of branches to the tip top of the tree. From up he he could see everything in the world! Or at least as far as the horizon.

He looked back and forth, seeing what interesting things he could spot. Trees, trees, trees, water, trees, blue dragon, trees, trees... wait... his gaze went back to where the dragon was, sitting and he narrowed his eyes to try to get a better look. The angel wasn't very good and the distance was a ways off but there was a dragon! Problem was he had no idea how big the dragon would be close up.

"HEY ELLIE! I SEE A DRAGON!" He yelled down to his Silver on the top of his lungs.

The Silver wondered for a moment if he were referring to her as he started to make his way down the tree. He was doing well for the most part, able to keep his balance. She was almost sure that he was going to make it the whole way, no doubt would have if he didn't end up in a hurry by the end. He let go at the bottom and allowed himself to fall the rest of the distance to the ground. He landed in a heap but was instantly on his feet again, brushing off then pointed, "Its that way! Lets go!" He quickly started off towards the direction the blue was in. He wondered if it were one of the ones that had abandon D-Corp a while back, maybe he could talk it into returning?

He had no clue if it were possible but was ready to try at least.

And poor Ellie was stuck following after him hoping to keep him from being devoured by whatever dragon he'd spotted.

Valens was sneaking about as well as Valens could given his size. He had thought that it would be best to approach the dragon in a cautious manner just in case it were one that had left D-Corp. If it were there was a chance the dragon might still be in a bad mood. The closer he got though the more he started to debate on whether or not it could be one of those dragons, it seemed kind of small, "He's closer to your size then the size of an adult." He told his dragon.

Ellie's eyes went wide and her steps slowed a bit when she finally caught sight of the dragon they were sneaking up on. A Chromatic? She felt her heart skip a beat but she tried to push passed her innate fear of the Chromatics. There were good ones among them just look at Hinder after all.

The Silver sniffed at the air, relaxing a little when she realized the dragon wasn't alone. There was someone with him, "A girl." She murmured, reaching to catch hold of and tug on Valens' hand to get his attention.

"Huh? Really?" He trudged along forward, closer to where the Blue was and finally he was able to spot the girl where she was drawing. Ooooo, an artist! He'd wanted to meet one of them ever since he'd talked with Z about her artist friend he thought to himself before greeting the girl and dragon both a cheerful and loud, "Hello!"

Valens's eyes went huge before he rushed forward towards where the girl had gone tumbling down, "Ah! Are you alright!" He cried, his tone carrying a lot of worry. He hoped that she was alright, that he'd not startled her and caused her to get hurt.

Ellie shook her head, sitting down and watched as her boy when he went rushing forward, "Valens..." She groaned. This wasn't how one was supposed to make friends, giving them injuries with their greetings.

Valens scrambled backwards, ears turning forward and his eyes widened in surprise. Now this he wasn't expecting... well he should have expected it given that he had startled her so much that she had fallen into the pond but at the same times weren't girls supposed to be the more gentle sex?

"Sorry! Sorry, sorry! I didn't think that... just didn't think." He said, lifting a hand up to scratch at the back of his head. The gears in his head were grinding to figure out a way to make it up to her.

"Umm... Ah! I know!" He quickly pulled off his shirt and offered it to the damp, angry girl. It was a bit beaten up, grass stained, and had a couple leaves clinging to it from his time up the tree but at the same time it was dry, "Here, you can dry off with my shirt." He could only hope that his offering would placate her and it wouldn't end with her throwing him in the pond.

Valens gave a bright smile when she took the shirt, taking it as a good sign. He shifted on his hooves, "I didn't mean to scare you, was just excited to find someone is all." He wouldn't admit that he was relieved as well, finding someone meant that he would in fact get out of the woods sometime today so long as he followed her out. If she allowed him that was, "I didn't think before I spoke loudly."

Ellie laid down, eyes turning to look over at the Blue dragon who seemed to be quite uninterested in her and Valens. She wondered if she should be happy about that, it didn't give her anyone to talk to but... given he was a Chromatic and thusly he could be a bit dangerous if provoked this could be best. Having the blue instead be uncaring was preferable to him attacking, she didn't have any desire to fight.

Valens gave a bit of a cbuckle as he moved to sit down on the tree trunk, "I just thought that it would be fun to go on a nature walk but I didn't know about the pond actually." He looked back and forth, "Everything... sort of looks the same to me in this place." That was as close as he wanted to admit to her that he had gotten himself horribly lost.

Ellie gave a smile to the girl, "Hello." She greeted her, before she opened her wings wide, tilting them so that she could sun them.

"Her name is Ellie." He told Damaris, "And mine is Valens Sammael-Black." It was strange having two names but his parents couldn't decide on which of their last names he would take so he ended up with them both.

Valens flushed a little bit, red showing the most brightly on the white colored part of his face, "Well... there was something off the trail that looked cool so I followed it." He said, looking down at his hands in embarrassment, "Then... erm... I wasn't sure where the trail was anymore so I just kept walking." In arbitrary directions even. Going straight might have gotten him somewhere faster but his attention span didn't allow for something as boring as walking a straight line.

His dark eyes turned to look over at Ellie before nodding, "A little bit. She can do greetings, say her farewells, my names, and a lot of 'Valens don't do that' 'Valens wrong way' or 'Valens are you alright'." She'd been learning English so she could better keep him in line.

The horse boy seemed to be quite delighted to find someone like him that had more then one last name, "Its nice to meet you... well aside from the scaring you part." He said, scratching the back of his head.