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Why it hadn't been thought of earlier was a mystery. They were Arrikanez! Rulers of their domain and certainly wealthy enough to have long since funded a playroom for the kids. It wasn't that it was a new addition, but a new concept to Donna who had only just remembered it and decided to introduce her child to it. Knowing he would be safe there and thus needing less supervision for the time, she'd dropped him off there just after noon when the other residents of the castle would also be leaving their tots to play after having had lunch. Waving goodbye she had left him there, which had turned out to be fine for him.

Tristan was getting used to his independence and felt comfortable enough in the playroom to venture into the center of the chamber and begin inspecting the toys. A few others seemed to filter in, but they were regarded with little more than a nod or a wave from the quiet child. He'd never met most of them, as there were always an abundance of kids in the castle, so he kept to himself as he commandeered a set of building blocks and idly began constructing a random structure to pass the time.

The boy looked up at the bunny and quirked a brow. He'd thought Amber and Reever were the only rabbits around here, but obviously that had been a false assumption. He looked him over for a minute before following the toy blade down to where it had settled. Tristan gently pushed it away and nodded. "I am. My name's Tristan." The sword prodding hadn't bothered him terribly much but a slight air of annoyance was obvious. After all, who liked getting poked around with some silly sword?

The pair reminded him a lot of his mom, as it were. Donna could appear equally as intimidating at times and a bit arrogant towards other adults, so the child had learned how to deal with such displays. He smiled a little and motioned to the blocks. "Buildin`. You wanna join me, or are ya gonna keep pokin me with that sword?" Hopefully they wouldn't take it as a smart remark - even though it was, and simply deflate. Something told him they weren't going to give up that easy, by the expression of the other children in the room, so he shifted a little in discomfort as he met their gaze.

Tristan glared at him. The bunny boy was alright but he'd just found a distinct, if a shallow, dislike for the reptile. He picked up the blocks and pushed some towards Raskir, giving Rii the cold shoulder. "I'mma rebuild them. Just cause you can't doesn't mean I can't build somethin."

The boy relented a little, not bothering to pursue the snake boy's attitude. Tristan figured he'd come to play when he was ready, or just wouldn't - either outcome suited him fine now that he had a playmate. He smiled a little at Rask, shrugging. "It's ok. Maybe he'll come back when he's done bein` that way." Offering a few more blocks, he seemed curious as to what Rask was talking about.

Tristan was more than impressed. He wasn't well versed in engineering but even he knew that square blocks didn't easily make a a curve. The structure was still fairly blocky, but it was more than he had yet managed. "That's really good. I'm buildin a castle." The boy nodded to the blocks he'd stacked up into a square structure, one side looking to be a tower of sorts for its height. Not as fancy, but he still looked to see what Rask thought of the idea.

The boy shrugged, striving to reach the top of the seventh block with a triangle shaped block to finish it. Thankfully it was stable enough and didn't fall as he leaned a little in and topped it. "All ya do is stack em. Your ship is more fancy than this.”

"That's good! How about a moat? We could get some blue blocks and put a boat on it." Tristan grabbed a few from around the area and put them around the castle in a funky shape that kinda looked like a circular river. "Now all we need is a boat."