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Twinket gasped in air noisily as she surfaced in the river. She ducked back under to take a breath of water, and then repeated the same action, taking yet another breath of air. Lately she was transitioning worse and worse between the water and the land... in fact just the thought of going up into the gypsy camp before her made her a little sick to her stomach, but she had come here for a reason.

Hovering in the water, trying to get up the nerve to go up on the land, Twinket thought back on the rabbit girl that had bought her last Tri-rune peice. Twinket had only come across two in the last year, and this second one was much like the first. She pulled the rune from her vest pocket and looked it over. Like it had been last time she'd looked at it, the split side was glowing slightly, much less so than it had in the last town. She sighed. That meant that she was going in the wrong direction, but it was something that could deffinitely be told to the rabbit girl.

She sighed.

Perhaps there was no need to go ashore.... "Hello?" Her voice was as light and airy as it had been the last time she and Anezka had met, and it didn't carry far... but that wasn't stopping her. Just the thought of being dry on the land was enough. "Hello!?"

Twinket stretched up and peered over through the brush at the approaching voice. As Anezka rounded the weeds, Twinket gave a wispy laugh and bounced around slightly with her excitement. "You! Spirits praised, I know this is right now." She peered at the rabbit girl and smiled, "Do you remember me? Icarus Protectorate?"

"Perhaps..." Twinket shook her head with unusual enthusiasim, and held out the tri rune peice that she had. "I've another peice of a tri rune." Before the rabbit girl could interupt, Twinket went on, "It's not one you can use though, it's the same peice that you have from another rune." The filor held out the rune so that Anezka might see that it was another piece very similar to the one she already had, with slight diffrences.

"I've only ever had a few of these to sell, and to be honest they're usually the corner peices like this one and yours... but this one..." She held it out again. "This one glows at the edge where it was broken. It's hard to see, but it's there all the same. I thought that maybe all the peices of all the runes were glowing, but I can't find another one to see." She frowned at it. "And it glowed three times as bright four towns back north, now it's just barely there." She glanced up at the rabbit teen. "I came to see if your peice was glowing."

Twinket smiled and ducked back under the water for a good wet breath and came back up with a grin, shaking her head. "It's a good thing, don't worry." She held her own peice over near Anezka's and frowned at it. "Yours is even brighter than this one ever was. Maybe... " She shook her head as she thought.

"I've heard that all the runes were once one peice, instead of three, which of course makes sense, but I've also heard that each rune will only reunite with it's original peices." She frowned even deeper. "Which means that each of these two peices has two exact matches out there... and that makes it even harder to complete one. Impossible even."

Twinket let the slience lapse for a moment, then picked up her train of thought quietly. "But I think the runes want to be found. I think they're telling us to find the other peices."

"I don't think lighthouse is quiet right... no." She turned hers over, looking at the back and then examined the slightly glowing edge. "It think it's more of a push than a pull. This one was glowing almost as bright as yours when I was up north... yours is glowing here but wasn't when you bought it."

She grinned at Anezka suddenly. "I think it glows like that the closer you are to the other pieces."

"I am too." Twinket endured the hug just fine. The filor was much more sturdy than she looked, but that wasn't saying much. "You'll have to watch it now, to see where it glows the most, and surely that will lead to the next peice." She grinned and held out the peice in her hand. "I
m going to head north and see if I can't find the other match to this one."

Twinket smiled and backed into the water. "You can count on it. And you'd better have at least one more piece to that rune, or even brighter wings when I see you next."

With a last wave, she called out once before ducking under the water, "Think about flying to visit me." and then she was gone.