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Alasdair was standing at the base of a tree, hands on his hips, starring up through his bangs toward the thick branches of the tree that currently bore fruit upon them. He felt that given enough effort that he could climb up the tree and get at that fruit all on his own. Sure, he could ask for help, but where was the fun in that? Besides, he wanted to look good which meant doing it on his own. Something that would be made even better if he was able to bring some of the fruit to his mother, grandmother, and Faisal.

"Alright! Here I go!" He said to nobody in particular before he made his first attempt to scale the tree to go after the fruit that was just waiting for him to get it. The base of the tree was big enough that he couldn't get his small arms around it but at least it wasn't so vast that it was impossible to at least get a hold. From there he started to scoot his way up, more then certain that the rough bark of the tree was going to mess up the clothing he was wearing. Already it was catching here and there, leaving little scrapes and holes in the cloth. Something that he couldn't be bothered with worrying over when he had more important things to worry about, that being getting into the branches of the tree before his mother or grandmother realized that he'd slipped away on his own again.

His mother especially seemed to be the master of being able to find Faisal and himself whenever they wandered off anywhere so that meant he probably had a limited amount of time to do this, "Come on, Dair! You can do this!" He told himself as he continued the slow, upward scramble.

Dair gave a little humming sound before he turned his head, glancing toward a very familiar voice, before giving a grin, "Heh, you caught up, Fai!" He said, pleased to see that his brother had joined him out in the garden. He'd of liked to have made a lot more in the way of distance up the tree before it happened but given he liked having his brother around he supposed that he didn't mind all that much that he'd caught up so quickly to him. At least it wasn't their mother who had caught up instantly or he'd never have a chance to get at the fruit overhead.

He started his squirming upward climb again before he told his brother, "What I am trying to do is get up at that fruit up there. I want to bring it to Mom since she's so busy at the moment. I want to get some for you and Gram too!" Not to mention a fair amount for himself but that sounded selfish... so he'd just get his bit after he got the ones that were meant to be gifts.

"How am I going to carry it all? Hmm... I really didn't plan ahead that far." Something gave a bit of a laugh at the thought because he hadn't really considered how he was going to carry a bunch of fruit to those he wanted to give it to. He supposed that he would have tried to come up with something later? Now that Faisal was here with him he really wouldn't have to do that. They could split up the fruit and carry it to those that he wanted to share it with, right?

"Of course you can help!" He said, shimmying his way up a bit further and finally reached the first branch. Once he had he reached out, catching hold of the branches, and he pulled himself up into the tree. Once he was finally seated on the branch he perched there, dragging in a breath, "Phew! Made it! Alright, it's your turn, Fai! Come up with me and then we can gather all the fruit that we can carry." And then some if he had his way. Since there were so many pieces of the fruit to be had they could eat them as they went!

Speaking of which he reached out, plucking one of the bright red pieces of fruit from a branch, and took a bite out of it, "Mmmm... yep! It's really ripe and sweet, Fai. You should join me, they're really good."

Dair leaned over, watching his brother as he set to climbing his way up toward where his was perched. He gave a smile, clapping his hands, and said, "Come on, Fai! You can do it!" He cheered him on. He was quite impressed as he watched him make the climb pretty swiftly. The two of them were getting really good at this, weren't they? Soon enough there would be no tree in the garden that would be able to hide their fruit from the two of them.

Once Fai had joined him up the tree he offered him one of the sweet red fruits, giving him a smile, and said, "These really are great! Once we are done gathering and if we aren't caught by then we should go after some plums too." The red fruits, cherries he thought they were called, they were good, but plums were even better. That meant climbing down one tree and up another but it would be worth it.

Leaning over on the branch he glanced toward the house, then smiled, "Nobody's caught up yet!" Something he was quite proud of.

Dair watched his brother for a moment, then gave a bit of a chuckle as he saw the manner in which he ate the fruit. The two of them were likely going to end up stained red again from the cherries but he really didn't mind... or at least he wouldn't until it came time for their mother to try to clean them up. It was something that he didn't really want to think about right now, "They really are good, huh? Let's see about getting them gathered so we can move on to the plums."

Turning his attention to 'Suzu' he said, "Ack! Best be careful... I have a feeling we'd end up having to scrub the statue for a week if we got it stained." Their grandmother wouldn't be pleased at all so best that they didn't splatter too much fruit onto the statue... as tempting as it was to see if he could hit it from here. There was a long moment where he starred at the statue, tempted, but refrained. Another time, perhaps... and definitely another statue. Or maybe they could chuck the over ripe or spoiled cherries at the back garden wall?

Shaking his head to clear his thoughts he set to work picking cherries, dropping them down so that they would land in as good a pile as they could manage from up above.

Dair gave a pause, starring down at the cherries that he was holding, before giving one of them a squeeze that resulted in a lot of red 'paint' which had him grinning. It was really tempting, wasn't it? He looked over at his brother and said, "Oh! Probably a ton of trouble... but it's still tempting. These really do make the best paint given the nice, dark red you get when you squeeze them." Something that had him grinning from ear to ear just thinking about it, "Do we want to? Or should we paint the stone walk ways out here? Less of a risk of getting caught too early and before the art is finished."

It was something to consider he thought to himself as he ate the cherry that he'd previously squished, licking off his hand, before he set to picking more of them to throw into the pile. It was growing slowly, but at least it was growing. Soon enough they would have enough to share with others, something that pleased Dair to no end.

"Do we want to move on to the plums now?" He asked after throwing a good sized handful of them at the pile that sat below them. Best that they tried to move on to the next tree as he didn't want to get caught before the plums had been pilfered.

Dair was instantly nodding his head, liking the idea of painting all over the walls and the stones that were within the walls of the garden. Surely they wouldn't get in trouble if they did their paintings outside, right? Not as though it ran as much risk of people getting sticky that way. At least it made sense in his mind and made him look forward to getting to paint alongside his brother.

His brother was suddenly saying 'goodbye' to him and he watched him drop off his branch, to a lower one, and then... stuck a landing of sorts. He starred for a moment and then set to laughing as Fai told him not to do that, making him wonder how much it had hurt for Fai to land on his backside like that. If it was enough that his twin would advise him against it then it had to be bad. Instead he followed the first half of his twin's lead, dropping down from one branch, to the lower branch, then from there shifted so that he was hanging off it and shot for a landing on his feet instead of his butt.

He landed, stumbled a bit, and then after flailing his arms for a moment was able to stay up right. Not graceful or cool at all... and he was pretty sure he'd landed on some cherries. Lifting up his feet one by one he found them stained in red... but decided he really didn't care. Red feet never killed anyone and it was barely noticeable given the color of his skin. Now if he'd gotten it in his hair on the other hand, that would have been different. Looking at his brother he asked, "Are we ready to get the next bit of fruit? If you didn't break your butt that is?"

"Ohhhh! Huh, I'd of never thought of that." Dair said, cocking his head to one side. So his brother had meant to land on his backside? He thought on it a moment and then said, "I bet that landing would work best when jumping off the back of the couch and trying to land sitting down on the cushions. Oh! Or on the bed too!" Jumping on the bed was too much fun even though they were always warned that they shouldn't do it or else they'd fall off and land on their heads.

Giving a nod he said, "Alright, let's get going." He said, quick to gather up what fruit they had, carrying it over to where the plums were located, before dropping said fruit into a pile once more, "All the trees are looking good as far as fruit goes... so which one do we want to climb first?"