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It wasn't too often that Dair left home without his brother, finding it to be a bit on the boring side, but Faisal hadn't come to join him today. He might have already had something to do though or maybe their mother or grandmother had something for him to do? If that were the case he was glad that he ducked out early. No matter what it was that kept Faisal at home he knew that he was on his own for a while.

It was why he decided that he'd have a bit of fun on his own. Since his father was at home recently that meant that Grane was likely in the stables. He wanted to go and visited the massive beast, poke at him a bit, and see if he could climb onto his back. Grane was no where near as friendly as Vanna's beast, meaning that it was a lot tougher to get to play with him. He was a beast trained to be a mount in the army after all, but that wouldn't stop him. If he meant to be a beast tamer one day Grane was a challenge that he would have to over come!

Standing between him and the stables was the marketplace, meaning he'd need to make his way through there. Lucky for him he'd grabbed his money, just in case. He wondered if he bought some treats for the beast if he'd be able to bribe him with it? That would be great! Deciding it was a good idea he headed into the shopping district, off to find some janarim snacks for Grane.

Alasdair found himself turning as he heard a commotion off to the side, eyes going wide behind his bang, "W-What in the name of Nerad and Essd?" It was a... a girl that looked like Faisal! The colors were a bit off, like her skin was lighter and her eyes were darker, but otherwise she looked quite similar. To the point that he couldn't help but to stare. At least until the woman below her started to pick a fight with someone that was probably less then half her age.

Giving a shake of his head he started forward. That old one was rather annoying, huh? That she would complain over someone that was just having fun. As he'd watched he found himself kind of wanting to do exactly what she was doing. Not the dancing part but the climbing part. Giving a grin he trotted around to the side, climbing up toward where the girl was. Something that turned out to be a good mood on her part as a moment later the girl fell... and was just sort of dangling there by her belt. Not only did she hang there but it seemed the woman wasn't even trying to help her. Geez, what an old hag.

Squatting down he held out a hand and said in a friendly tone of voice, "Come on, take my hand. I'll help you up."

Dair gave a smile when the girl took hold of his hand and he went about aiding her in her climb back up onto the top of the stand that she'd gotten knocked off of. He gave her hand a squeeze, glad to see that she was alright, before he released his hold on her. Seemed as though she was alright, going as far as insisting that she would have gotten up on her own eventually. Giving a nod he said, "I just made sure it was sooner then later then. Hm? Naw, what reason do I have to yell at you?" None he could think of since they'd never met before now.

As the woman below then started to make a bigger ruckus he said, "I'm gonna head a little higher up. Hopefully out of range of her abilities. One doesn't want to be close if she starts to toss around the scarier spells." He knew a bit about magic from his mother and knew that he didn't want to be close if the woman started to throw about dangerous spells such as fire, lightning, or ice.

Turning on his heel Dair started toward the building the stand was leaned against and set to work climbing up the side of it and onto that roof and out of sight. As he wasn't sure if the girl was going to follow or not he decided to wait for her up top, feeling that he shouldn't just abandoned her. Especially if she wasn't one for climbing up as high as he did. The higher the better if you asked him, though that was half because he was practicing so that when he finally went to Matori that he could climb up and then jump off some waterfalls with his friend Sara.

Giving a grin as the girl climbed up to join him on the room, giving her a thumbs up before he said, "Awesome!" He didn't see a lot of girls out there that were willing to climb up stands and buildings in such a manner. It was something that had him smiling a bit before he followed along after her, hopping over to the next roof once they reached the edge of the one they were on. The direction she was heading was the same direction that would take him to the stables so he felt it was alright to walk with her for a bit at least.

"Hm? Naw, not really. I might have just stayed on the ground the whole way to the stables if I hadn't see that woman hassling you." Seeing her in trouble made him want to help out even though it mean drawing him away from his current mission of sorts. After the save climbing up higher was a way to get away from the enraged shop keeper as well as a fun way to enjoy doing something dangerous and stupid. Usually he did that sort of thing alongside his brother but he didn't mind trying out roof running with others if they were interested.

"Yeah, I was going to go and make an attempt at poking at my father's janarim to see if I could pet it without getting bit." Something that had him laughing a bit just at the prospect, obviously not bothered one way or the other when it came to the possible dangers that such a creature presented. Why should he be scared? It wasn't as though Grane would really bite him so much as he was hiss, growl, and n** since he knew who Dair was.

As she mentioned her brother being at the stables, as well as the reason for why he was there, Dair gave a whistle, "Oooo, that sounds cool! More the part about their being possible babies there then anything else." He'd never seen a freshly birthed janarim before. It made him wonder what they looked like. Were they super cute like some animals were when they were babies? Or were they super ugly like other babies were? It was really hard to say since it could easily go the other way.

He found himself giving the girl a very curious look now as he was told that he would likely get along with her brother. It kind of made him wonder what her brother might be like and if he was a beast tamer himself. He gave a thoughtful sound before he asked of her, "Is he a tamer? Or just looking after the janarim mother?"

As she mentioned that they might be able to catch the end of the birth he gave a thoughtful sound. Did he want to see that? He'd heard that it could be quite a scene and so he'd never really tried to see in on a birth. At the same time he really wanted to see what a baby janarim looked like. There was so much he was curious about when it came to them that he wanted to go and see. After a moment he said, "We should go and see if we can get a peek. Even if it just means seeing the babies."

Poking at Grane could wait until later, there were babies to see!

"Oh! He's writing a book? Do you think he'd let me read that?" He asked in a curious manner, finding himself even more interested in this person who was both a tamer and an author of taming information. That was the sort of thing that could really help him out going forward since he was wanting to become a tamer himself.

Giving a nod at her comment he said, "Yeah, I'm not sure if I want to see that either... though I suppose if I become a tamer its something that I would have to witness at some point, huh?" He wasn't sure what he thought about being there when something gave birth but at the same time he didn't want to skip over things just because they might be 'icky'. He wanted to learn everything that he could about the various beasts of Oba and beyond so that he could become a good tamer one day.