Welcome to Gaia! ::

It had been here she'd found it, right? She could remember it quite clearly: the tall oak, the mossy rock, the little heads of - oh. Oh, no, there was no thistle here.

Strange. It was arranged just the same.

Soothe stepped toward the tree, rather confused, and sat herself down. The little mongoose she traveled with stopped with her, also confused, and curled itself around her leg. "Was it somewhere else?" She couldn't remember it being, but it could have been. Strange, she'd written the map out for herself, too.

(The little blue-grey doe must have been quite a sight, sitting alone with a frustrated tilt to her head in a seemingly arbitrary part of the swamp.)

She turned.

Well, she tried - she was still sitting, see, and so she could only turn part of the way. Chuckling, she rose to her hooves and turned fully to face the - oh! A Zikwa. She raised her eyebrows. "Hello," she answered, tone rather neutral, but, she thought, friendly enough.

She was working, or she was supposed to be. She should get down to business, she thought, never mind socializing. There were times and places for that! "I don't suppose you happen to be familiar with the place?" Soothe asked. The mongoose purred. "I picked this one up from a spot like it, and I'm trying to let him free, see - I'm Soothe." She gave an almost embarrassed smile - she'd meant to be serious, yes, but she hadn't meant to forget her manners.

"It's a pleasure," she added, somewhat awkwardly.