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Acacia watched the stallion have his conversation with the birds, curious. He could communicate with them? It would appear so, since the birds seemed to take notice of her first. She smiled at the two birds. "Hello," she greeted them, as she'd attempted to do to the stallion. Then her snow white eyes met his brown ones, just in time for them to lose their color. "Eh?" Her eyes widened when the eyes rolled back into his head. "U-um, does this happen often?" she asked the birds, who didn't seem too bothered by it. She stood there awkwardly for several long minutes, unsure of what to do.

Then the still-nameless stallion's eyes rolled back into consciousness and brownness. For a brief moment, she was relieved. But that moment of relief quickly vanished as the Azrein nearly collapsed. Acacia instinctively moved to his side, but became even more startled when the stallion addressed her by name. "S-sure..." It didn't look like he would've stayed awake if she hadn't "allowed" him to sleep.

She sighed quietly, trying to calm her poor, caring heart down. Hopefully he was alright now... that had been so startling! She settled herself near the base of the tree, within talking distance of the peculiar male she'd found. While he slept, she took some time to inspect him and their surroundings more completely. The Azrein's antlers seemed to be not just stuck, but attached to the tree. But the stream came up right next to it... maybe that let him drink and bathe. Or maybe he simply didn't need to. Well, maybe she'd ask him when he woke up. Whenever that was...

Acacia had herself fallen into a light doze while waiting, so his first words made her jolt. And she'd just started to have such a lovely dream... she couldn't remember now what was in it, though. She blinked her eyes several times to get her vision to focus, surprised at the figure it fell on. Who was...? Oh, right. The stallion that was attached to a tree. She shook away her sleep as the two birds were sent away. She tilted her head slightly at his question. "My name?" She giggled. "First you use it without me telling you and then you can't remember it? That's an odd dilemma to have." Teasing done, she introduced herself properly. "My name is Acacia Winter. What might your name be?"

What an odd meeting. She was curious to see where this conversation ended up.

Acacia couldn't stop herself from smiling as well at the sight of the male's obvious glee in her response. How cute! Though he seemed older than her... Oh well. No matter what the age, cute was cute. She stifled a second giggle at the stallion's scolding of the tree he was attached to. When he asked her what her name was a second time, she didn't mind; she was about to reply again when he seemed to remember that he'd asked already. "It's not a problem," she replied.

What brought her there? That was a good question. What had brought her there?

"My hooves." The response came out before she realized she'd opened her mouth to answer. She smiled sheepishly as she explained. "I'm not really sure what brought me here, so that's the only answer I have. I was just wandering, um..." She paused, tilting her head as she looked at him. "What was your name?" He hadn't given it to her; he'd been distracted by Miss WhiteThorn, the gnarled tree.

Acacia giggled at his excitement, though quieted at the tree's protests to the stallion's movements. He was like an excited foal! But that was ok. Sometimes she wished the Azrien she met while with her father would act like that. Some of them were a little too serious...

The mare smiled in amusement at his question. "Not until you tell me. Unfortunately, I lack the talent of telepathy," she informed him in a teasing tone. She listened to the birds chirping, as if it would allow her to know what they were saying. She burst into giggles again at his reply. When she calmed, she spoke again. "Mibu," she repeated. "It's a wonderful name. You should try to hold onto it a little more tightly." White eyes sparkling like snow in the sun, she continued. "Would you be able to teach me how to speak to birds?" she inquired. It was interesting... Though if she ever did learn, she'd have to be careful not to make the same mistake Mibu had just made.

Acacia smiled. "Yes, it would!" she agreed, just going with the flow despite the oddity of it.

His little ditty about birds falling out of the sky was cute and he seemed so happy singing it. She giggled, resisting the temptation to n** at the wagging tail. "I'm just wandering. This forest looked like an interesting place, so I came here." She paused, then added, "I think I can get out. I'll just walk the same way I came in." Though not right now. Right now she was having fun talking to Mibu.

Acacia smiled and accepted the fruit gratefully. "Thank you." She settled and ate a few bites as she listened to Mibu speak. Purple beast things? "The badgers? Hmm... I don't find them that strange." She shrugged. "But I've lived around them most of my life, so I guess that's to be expected." Her adopted mother loved helping the local dragon, Longwei, take care of them. Apparently he wanted to preserve the diversity of the oddly-colored badgers, but the predators in the area liked eating the purple, miniature badgers more than the others... At least, that's what she thought Longwei had said. "You can see the lives of others?" she inquired. She assumed that's how it worked. Maybe that was what happened when he collapsed earlier?

Acacia listened carefully. A deity. A powerful but forgetful deity. How peculiar... When he "woke up" and said she could ask questions about her life, she wasn't sure what to say. "I don't really have any questions about myself... if there's something you want to tell me, though, I wouldn't mind." She paused then asked, "Is it lonely being here by yourself?" How long had it been, since he'd last had a visitor like herself?