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Propped up against the tree, tailed by the gluttonous bush that devoured one of his bluffed "lucky cards" hours earlier in the day, Connie quietly watched the fatigued sun begin to paint the sky with a warmer shade of orange. He was starting to feel a tad similar; it had been a very long, adventurous day, but he knew that those strange stars tended to come out of nowhere and knock a pokémon out for a few hours. Maybe it was for the best that way, with such a shock to the system. With a soft sigh, he wondered if such a thing would actually be painful if one were conscious for it.

The blanket he had found in the back of the truck before Brenny had found the star had started out overly large for the small celebi, easily wrapping his little body many times over if Connie had been intent on doing so. As the star's effects were taking shape across the celebi's physical structure, it was becoming more difficult to accomplish that feat, and the teenaged tauros was afraid that the now-child was going to grow too large for the blanket to adequately warm. After a few hours, it had become increasingly apparent that the celebi's tiny stature was going to pass over into his new form, however, and Connie breathed a sigh of relief at the realization. He tightened the blanket around the boy's small shoulders, hoping it didn't get too much colder before Brenny had the chance to wake up.

The truck driver had long since left the area by now. It had been a bit awkward to try to explain the situation to the man, in order to allow Connie to be left behind, but at least they were done with their deliveries for the day... so he wasn't holding operation back by doing so. Still, he hoped it wouldn't reflect too badly on him with the department managers. Shrugging it off, he figured if worse came to worst, he could probably find somewhere else to work, but he didn't expect such drastic measures when there were so many employees out sick as it was. So he was safe... for now. That only left Brenny...

Frowning lightly in thought, he mumbled, "What am I going to do with you..?" Hiding a small celebi in an apartment was one thing, but a pixie of a child was another. And what if he didn't even like it in the city? It was certainly different from the forest... His expression relaxed, deciding to forget about the 'what ifs' for the time being as he peered at the serene face of the child, antennae peeking out from the folds of the fabric. He'd deal with the road blocks as they came, not any sooner.

Connie twitched upon hearing a voice emerge from the folds of the blanket he was clutching to, realizing with a start that he hadn't exactly come up with a good way to go about explaining everything that had happened. Nobody had really explained anything to the tauros once he had turned into a humanesque child, either, so he hadn't really thought that, maybe, that's how he could help Brenny. At least, that's how he could help at the moment.

He shifted his arms, allowing the newly-grown child to balance himself but making sure the blanket was still secure over the celebi's small frame before releasing it. "Don't worry about the truck," the teen brushed the thought away, more concerned over the more pressing matters. Brenny seemed a bit frantic about all the new little discoveries he was coming across when he had examined himself, and Connie was pretty sure being in his shocked-awake state wasn't helping him calm down any. It was hard to keep track of the barrage of questions, too, but he allowed the kid to try to make sense of it himself before offering any advice. There was no way of saying whether or not he would have had the capability of paying attention if any of the answers were given, anyway.

Smiling on the observations Brenny was making on his new features, Connie nodded. More intensely still once the tiny legendary had remembered the star he had grabbed from the floor of the truck, "That's right, it was the star; you got it." He relaxed his posture, as though he were showing Brenny that he could relax, too. "It's going to take some getting used to, but you can do it. I've been through the same, so I know what it's like," he explained, fiddling with his own unoccupied fingers. Bobbing his head again, Connie agreed, "I did promise. And even though you might look a little different, you're still the same Brenny I made the promise to. Don't worry yourself, I'm not going to abandon you here!" The kid was so scared, Connie was pretty positive that Brenny had had some bad experiences with being alone; he was so clingy! Maybe if the teen had asked about it... but he wasn't wanting to pry into something that had damaged the child so deeply.

"As far as I know, it's permanent, yeah. I haven't turned back into a tauros yet... but who knows?" Connie mused, folding his arms behind his head and leaning back against the tree, "I kind of don't want to change back, either, so I hope it is. Maybe you'll learn to like it, too." He offered a smile, but it was quickly contorted into concern, "Your sister?" He had a sister? "Well, um... it's possible she had the same thing happen. It sounds like it's happening more frequently with pokémon, after all," he thought aloud. His gaze turned sharp as Brenny expressed his sister's fear of humans, "You're not human, though. You're still a pokémon. You don't feel any different on the inside, do you?" The smile returned once his point of view on the subject had been established, "I can help you out, but I don't know if your sister would believe me. If you prove to her who you are, I'm sure she would easily be able to see who you are. ...You two were close?" Peering over, he lowered his arm to wrap it around Brenny's shoulders, giving a supportive one-armed hug, "I'll try to help you out wherever I can, alright? No need to get so distressed, it will be alright." If only he could transfer such easygoing sentiments to others, but alas, the world didn't necessarily work that way.

There was a bit of surprise over Brenny's focus on the missing truck, Connie feeling as though it were a trifle point himself. The more the celebi spoke of it, however, the more the pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place. Though he couldn't get the full picture out of the exchange, he could tell that he was going to have to help the kid work on that uptight, fear-stricken demeanor. "I know where to go," the tauros stated confidently, "See this path, where the grass doesn't grow? It leads directly to town if you follow it. It'll take more time than if we rode the truck, sure, but I can walk the distance. Maybe by the time we get there, you'll have gotten the hang of walking as well, eh?" He offered a grin in exchange for the hug, but the small celebi-child still seemed more than a little frazzled, "Don't worry so much, I've got the hang of things. You just gotta learn to roll with it." Never mind that Connie had insisted being left behind, if only because it would have been less of a hassle to explain this entire bizarre situation, but there wasn't really any need to mention something like that.

While he wasn't sure what precisely Brennen had wanted Connie to teach him -- for 'everything' seemed a bit excessive -- this lack of forethought wasn't about to detract the tauros. "Of course I'll help you out, you just let me know what you want to know," he assured. He jolted a bit when Brenny had latched himself onto the teen in an enthusiastic hug, but the surprise was quickly erased as Connie ruffled the child's mop of green curls, "No, you don't have to be alone any longer." He couldn't help if this was some sort of guilt reaction or something... After all, he didn't really see himself as taking care of a disoriented kid considering he normally just had to focus on himself, but he really didn't think Brenny was capable of staying safe on his own. Besides, who else would take the small celebi-kid under their wing? And would Brenny have even been happy with such an arrangement? At least Connie was pretty good at winging things, adaptability...

...and it seemed that Brenny wasn't too far off from that, either, adjusting quickly to the sudden topsy-turvy world that opened up before the child. However, the celebi's inability to rise to his feet had Connie perplexed, mostly due to the fact that the teenager hadn't anticipated that Brenny may not have really used his feet in his former body outside of standing in place. "You know, you just... roll up. Like this," he tried to explain before deciding that showing the boy was probably a smarter move to make. Leaning forward, he made sure his feet were underneath him and that the boy had loosened his grip on Connie's torso before rising to stand up fully. He still offered a hand, in case Brenny needed the extra stability when he attempted to do the same. "Hmm, I can see how that could cause problems, if your sister isn't open-minded," Connie replied with a similar frown, "However, she's your sister. You two were really attached, right? If that's the case, I can't see how she wouldn't be able to tell who you were, regardless of the changes. You might have been given more human-like features, but you were still born a pokémon, right?" He could only hope his sister would be lucky enough to have someone to help her out in these harsh weather conditions, whether or not she had also been transformed by a star. Smiling at Brenny's adorable exuberance, Connie was quick to reply, "I like you, too, little guy. Come on now, we should try to make it to the city before nightfall. You know how it gets colder when the sun goes down, right?" That blanket could only keep Brenny so warm, after all.