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It was a really nice day outside, one where the sun seemed to be shining, the breeze was blowing, birds were singing, and it was just perfect! Enough so that Junjie couldn't help but to stare out the windows in a rather envious manner, finding that the chickens that were outside eating bugs were lucky compared to him. Why couldn't he be playing out there? A question that he knew the answer to, it was dangerous outside, there were strangers out there, he might be seen, and so on. He'd heard his mother's speech more times then he could remember, the one she gave him every time that he asked to go outside when the sun was up. It really was such a bother. Did it really matter to people what he looked like? Couldn't he go outside if he promised to keep his wings hidden? He knew the answer to that too, the answer was a firm 'no' because it was a promise he couldn't keep. Try as he might anytime something got his adrenaline going, be it being too excited to getting startled by something, his wings popped up. He was trying to get better at hiding them but thus far no luck. Still, despite everything pointing toward him being better off inside, playing in his room, he wanted to go outside!

The boy walked over to the door of his room, peeking out up and down the hallway, then went sneaking down the hall to the big room with the cots in it to check on his mother. She seemed to be busy today, there was a pretty woman from town with the most amazing amethyst hair that was going to be have a baby. He was told that it could be at any moment or hours from now, that one couldn't rush child birth. He'd watched from secret for a little bit but didn't really get it. It seemed pretty boring since nothing was going on and no baby had made an appearance yet. As such he ended up going to his room to play. Seeing that there was still little going on that he noticed he wandered back to his room, pacing around a bit. Maybe... maybe if he was careful? If he stayed on their land, then nobody would chance seeing him? He could play out behind the coop or amongst the tall stalks of corn? Nobody would notice him in there, those plays were taller then his mother at this point.

Giving a nod of his head, deciding that this was the best course of action, he hurried to pull on his boots, tying them quickly, before he crawled onto his bed, pulled open the curtains, and stepped up onto the windowsill. He looked from side to side, just to be careful, and hopped down making sure to jump out far enough that he wouldn't risk knocking the window box where he grew flowers over. After a less then graceful landing he picked himself up and hurried across the yard to where the tall corn grew, disappearing from sight into it.

Playing amongst the corn, chasing various bugs, and even picking a checking the progress of the vegetables only had the power to hold the attention of a child for so long though. Soon enough something else, something he loved, drew his full attention to it, the sound of the stream that cut through their land. It had such a wonderful, babbling sound, one that had him peeking forth from his corn fort, glancing the way of the water. Maybe if he was fast he'd be able to get some time in by the water? He couldn't swim but he could at least take a peek, right? Just a little one of course! At least that was the plan.

Junjie hurried over to the water's edge, peeking down into it, then gave a squeal of delight when he saw what was there at the edge of it, frogs! How he loved them, they sang such wonderful songs at night, they jumped really high, and they were colored in a manner similar to him with a lot of browns and greens. Hurrying along he set to chasing one of the fatter ones, oblivious to the fact that he was getting farther and farther from home as the amphibian refused to be caught easily.

"Ahh... come on, Mister Frog, you aren't making this easy!" Junjie complained as he continued to follow along after the hopping creature which seemed to always stay one good hop ahead of the boy with the mismatched horns. Pausing for a moment Jun rested his hands on his hips, starring down the frog as though he could stare the beast into submission, "Really, would it be so bad to let me hold you?" He asked before he took a couple of rushing steps forward, then lunged. Junjie's feet got tangled up in the tall reeds the grew at the edge of the water, causing him to tumble forward, but he was able to catch hold of the fat frog which gave a displeased croak as he did so.

As he lay there at the edge of the water he gave a bit of a grin, "Ha! Gotcha!" He said in pleased sort of way, dragging himself to his feet, holding the squirming animal in his hands, "Wow! You are a really big one, aren't you?" He asked as he lifted the beast up a little higher to get a good look at him, his purple eyes sparkling with delight. After a moment though his eyes went from focusing on the frog to focusing passed it, his eyes locking on someone near to his age with bright pink hair, the little creature at her feet, and then there in the water he noticed something big and scary... a monster of some sort! A squack of surprise escaped from his lips and his wings popped open behind him, flapping like mad. He should run his mind told him, telling him how lucky he was at the moment for having seen the large beast. If it wasn't for the bright colors of it he might have missed it, something that would have caused him to get eaten for sure!

Of course while he was safe, to a degree who knew how fast the thing could move, what about the girl? What if the river beast ate her?! Should he try to save her? He wasn't really a warrior or anything, he was just a boy with a frog but he couldn't very well leave her alone, could he? Looking down at the frog for a moment, as though the creature would give him him all the answers, it just starred back at him. After a moment he let it down then hurried forward, grabbing up a stick as he went, "Hey! Girl! You have to watch out! There is a monster in the river!" He cried out, hoping that she would hear him and move away from the water's edge before the beast was able to make a meal of her.

His moment of being heroic was disrupted nearly instantly as the big 'river monster' launched itself forth from the water and came at him, something that caused a cried of shock to come from his lips. Junjie scrambled have a couple step, stumbled, and landed hard on his backside, "Ow..." He squeaked out, scrambling back a little bit when he heard the girl calling out to the monster by name and telling him stop. That was beyond startling to him, the creature... it was hers?! He would have been impressed and more then curious if it wasn't for the fact that the thing was likely going to eat him.

He scrambled back a few steps, his stick forgotten, instead struggling to get himself to his feet. Well now that was a terrible idea, wasn't it? He'd thought that the girl was going to be eaten by the river monster but instead it seemed that she was some sort of monster tamer. A shame that he didn't know that before now... and more of a shame that he had slipped out of the house a voice in the back of his mind whispered. Wings fluttering quite rapidly as though trying to help him him to his steady himself he held his hands up in front of himself in a defensive manner, "I-I'm sorry! I-I thought you were trying to eat her!" He exclaimed, hoping that he would be able to appease the beast's ruffled feathers, so to speak since it didn't appear as though the large creature had any.

Taking few more steps backwards he kept his hands up in front of himself, his whole body shaking, his wings lifting up, opening wide, as though attempting to make himself look bigger. Even spread to their full wingspan though he was quite minute compared to the brightly colored creature, "M-Maybe... Maybe I should go back to c-chasing frogs?" He suggested, hoping that if he didn't get any closer to the pink haired girl that the brightly colored beast might let him go free without a bite wound or two.

Junjie went from worrying over being eaten by an offended river beast to looking at the girl that he was protecting as she spoke to him, talking about how the big creature was only trying to protect, that being what she was wasn't a welcome thing around most. He tilted his head a moment, spotting all of the various features that seemed to point to her being what he was, a hybrid. It was strange, this was the first time that he had ever see someone that was like him, someone of mixed blood. Up until now it was just his Dovaa mother and the Orderites from their small village that came to his mother for healing. That he was actually able to see another one, it was so strange but at the same time amazing!

When the young, pink haired girl asked him if he was a Hybrid like her he turned slightly to the side, looking at one of his fluttering wings which was a rather large banner that seemed to announce what he was, and he flushed a little, tucking the wings behind his back, "Ah! Ooops... yeah." He said, lifting a hand to tug at one of the little braids that his mother had put in his hair, "My Mom is always telling me to hide those but when I get too excited they kinda... popped up..." He said, embarrassed by the fact that he had given himself away so quickly. He really did need to try to get that problem under control but for the time being his wings rarely seemed to obey him.

Take a few steps closer to the girl, getting quick close now, he couldn't help but admire her, "Wow! You are so pretty colored!" He said, finding himself a little envious. She had bright pink hair, purple horns, and, "Oh look! You have purple eyes too!" He said, sounding quite amazed and excited at the find, to think that the first hybrid he'd ever meet would have the same eye color as him. How wonderful!

If Junjie noticed the manner in which the pink haired girl moved to put distance between them he didn't comment on it. If anything he was likely to think of her as shy if anything, "Your welcome." He answered her words of thanks instantly, watching as she seemed to be looking up at the big beast that was giving him another growl. It seemed that the big guy really didn't like him, did he? He supposed that the stick was to blame. One never made a good impression if it involved swinging a stick at someone he thought to himself, deciding that he would do his best in the future to avoid doing such things completely... well, unless the need for a stick arose, there were still dangerous things out there that wouldn't turn out to be friends with small girls.

When the girl introduced herself he gave a happy sounds, wings aflutter, "My name is Junjie!" He said, more then happy to introduce himself now that she had done the same. As she introduced Lanzecki and Uassae he gave a curious sound in his throat, "Hmmm... Ayrala Keinling and Aeduan Drakien." Not words that he'd really heard before but it was always interesting to learn new things he thought to himself as he took a step closer to the smaller one of the two, finding that one far less intimidating then the big one with the whiskers. Squatting down in front of Lanzecki he said, "They are really, really neat! I've never seen anything like them before." As though that weren't already obvious given that he had been convinced that the one call Uassae was out to eat Erionda. At least now that he knew the truth he might be able to make up for it, right?

Give how important first impressions were though he might very well have dug himself a hole too deep to get out of when it came to Uassae. So long as he still had a chance to attempt to make friends with Erionda then he was happy.

"A new species... I see." He murmured, starring at Lanzecki. He didn't know much about them and not nearly enough to know what a new species was and what an old one was, maybe something more akin to the whiskered beast? He looked between the two for a moment as though comparing them before he looked back to Erionda as she told him about the conditions she'd found the egg under and he couldn't help but to wrinkle his nose at the thought, "That sounds terrible... it was good of you to save him." He said, glad that she had been able to at least help this little one away from the collector though he still felt bad for the others that he was sure were still stuck in such conditions. Some people really were just as bad as his mother had made them out to be, weren't they? Still there were nice ones it seemed since the girl had helped this baby, right?

When she mentioned how Drakein didn't like to see others of their kind bonded he found himself wondering why that might be, especially when she said that these two seemed really happy with her. That was an odd question but he could offer no answers since he knew too little to be able to even fathom a guess. Turning back to Lanzecki he gave a bit of a smile when the little one started to sniff at his hand, curious if maybe he'd be able to pet the pretty Keinling when suddenly Erionda was scooping him up and pulling him away, seeming to be explaining that Junjie wasn't food...? Pushing up to his feet he starred for a moment before giving a bit of a chuckle, "Yeah... I am sure I wouldn't really taste all that good." He told the little one.

The bigger, whiskered Aeduan commented on how Lanzecki must be hungry already and then Erionda followed by saying that he had only just hatched and she was still teaching him what was and wasn't food, "Ohhh... I see." He murmured, then glanced toward the river, "Does he eat fish? I have seen a lot of them in the small stream over there." He suggested, not sure if Keinling at fish or not, "Is that something they like? Or do they eat bigger, meatier things? Maybe eggs?" So much to learn from Erionda and her two friends he thought to himself. Not that he had a Keinling or Drakein himself, but that was no reason not to learn about them.

Junjie seemed to be listening quite closely to what the girl was saying, nodding from time to time, then gave a smile, "I see... well, that makes sense. I know that there are things that my mother likes to eat that I don't really like." It made sense that the Drakein would be the same, that they would have their own idea of what did and didn't taste good, and it would appear as though Uassae didn't care for fish. She added that he used to eta raw meat when he was small and how he now found his own food. So she only had to feed them when they were little then they grew to being able to find their own meals? That was quite impressive, "It's cool that he took over feeding himself. I bet it's a good way for him to find all of his favorite things, huh?" He said, glancing over at Uassae for a moment.

His attention went from the big male to the smaller one when Erionda said that Lanzecki hadn't really decided what it was that he liked quite yet. He was still little so it made sense, he probably wasn't really able to eat a big enough variety of things for him to really make a decision one way or the other, "I see... well, if you need help with finding food for him I will help." He offered, then smiled at the mention of 'plants and berries' looking in the direction he'd come from, "There are some really sweet berries growing at our place... though I am not sure what my Mom would think if we all went there to get some." He mused, if she looked outside and saw Uassae she might have a fit...

Shaking his head to clear that worry he listened to what Erionda was saying about forgetting Lanzecki's grooming, "Ohhh... how do you groom them?" He asked in a curious manner. You could groom something that didn't have hair? Huh... that was kinda neat, though how one went about it, that was the question, "Awww... growing pains? Poor thing... I know how this can be so I feel his pain." He said, making a little face. There was nothing worse then that ache though his wasn't really in his 'hide' per say.