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Ayame pushed her way slowly through the grass, her head barely above it. oh how she wished she wasn't so little. She was getting the hang of walking, her butterfly wings offering more and more balance each day. With Lavi working so often and leaving her to play in the illusions fields she found herself lonely yet she thought she understood why Lavi was doing what she was.

She stepped into a clearing that opened out onto a lake. water....ick it made her wings all sticky. But she had to get baths, said Lavi, so she put up with it, knowing anything Lavi would have her do had a reason that didn't bear fussing about. no fussing meant more fun, usually.

Her eyes were drawn to a figure on the waters edge. A new face, or wait....did she recognise that illusion?

Ayame, curious among other things, decided to investigate further into who the other illusion was. A kitsune girl, she realized as she took tenative steps closer, for dislike of the water if naught else.

It only took a moment even at her pace to approach close enough to make out the other illusion better. She quietly looked the girl over, though her eyes were shining like a candle in the dark with her curiousity. She seemed okay, a friend perhaps? or something else possibly...she drew her small frame up as best she could and spoke, trying to be a little confident despite the proximity of the icky wet lake.

"I'm Ayame, who are," she paused to think, speaking was so new, and she couldn't remember all the right words yet, but she wanted to get it right. It wasn't easy trying to make her wants known before she'd began finding out waht words meant what, or could get ehr what she wanted. "you?" As she spoke the last word it sounded more like two questions, what it was meant to ask and the wonder of if she had gotten it right, though the word couldn't have carried the second unspoken question too easily.

She did her best to remain still but with the water so close and the kitsune's tail so interestingly close it was all she could manage to not just turn slightly in place and flutter her wings.

[the poll is confusing me, i ignored the post entirely mistaking it for a sticky till just now... gonk xp ]

Ayame pouted at the question. She had said her name right, she knew that....had she not said the right words after? It frustrated her that she hadn't yet learned entirely how to speak properly. At least she understood what was being said to her clearly enough, she grinned to herself for that feat as she spoke the words again she was certain were right.

"I am Ayame. Good to meet you Veive." She did a little curtsy despite her annoyance with the action, it seemed so useless and nearly always left her off-balance, and her own facial expressions made it obvious she disliked it, as she hadn't learned enough self control. She was fortunate today, in front of this new illusion, and kept her balance as she stood straight again.

"Why do you sit by the water?" She looked down at the silt beneath the clean waters edge, noting the difference between a bath and this water. perhaps the more solid stuff could be used for her art? She shook her silvery hair to settle it better, her trip through the grasses having left them as if she had just crawled from her bed, and blew at the few stray locks that landed in front of her face.

[it's no problem now that i think to look for it =D]

Ayame frowned, puzzled at the question. It crossed her mind that she did suspect they had met before, but she couldn't think of where, or when even! She tilted her head at the kitsune girl as she thought and quite soon dismissed the notion of figuring it out altogether as nothing seemed to come to mind.

As the girl's face turned from quisitiveness to amusement when she curtsied she gave her a sour look, maybe it would be better not to curtsy at all, unless Lavi was watching, then she would have to anyway...

She watched as the kitsune settled herself and placed her feet in the water, leading Ayame to decide to sit nearby and face the girl. Soothing? water and soothing just didn't seem to go together right, but maybe the kitsune liked the water some? She puzzled with the thought as she watched the water ripple, reminding her of how the top of the grass looked from home when the wind was strong, and how at ease it left her just to watch. Maybe it was like that?

"I'm lonely, and sometimes there are fun things out here, since my mommy has given me per-miss-on," she struggled with the word and flushed in embarassment, "to go exploring here because it is safe and sometimes fun." Ayame looked again at the water and watched the fish swimming about the kitsunes feet. maybe water wasn't so bad, at least not if it was only your feet. But would the other girl mind if she tried it? she looked tenatively back and forth from the waters edge in front of her and Veive. This was the first illusion she had come across since she had first began exploring the grassy hills and nearby area, best not to turn the moment into something bitter by doing something wrong.

Ayame jumped, startled when Veive leapt up and then somehow pulled the water off of her that the fish had so courteously splashed her with. Her eyes widened as she focused, awed at the effect. She barely heard the kitsune's offer to sit.

As long as she kept her wings behind her she shouldn't be worry, she thought, and Veive could do that neat water trick too if she got splashed. She Sat down alongside her and pulled off her sandals and socks before trying to mimic the kitsune, curious now of the feel, yet her little feet didn't quite reach the water. Oh to be taller...

"Water is icky...but mainly just when it's bath time, My wings always get wet no matter what...why live behind water?"

She watched as Veive's toes dabbled in the water, wanting to understand better what made it enjoyable, but miffed at being unable to reach it.

[wah!!! gaia gave me an invalid mode thingy and then didn't keep my post! pooh... *re-writes, very upset*]

Ayame listened to Veive intently, holding her wings absolutely still as to not interrupt her.

She rocked and wobbled, kicking her feet slowly as she looked out to the cave again at it's mention. Wouldn't they get wet going in and leaving? She looked up at the sky and sighed as loving fingers of wind caressed her silver hair, leading to a soft smile as-

Ayame gasped and scrambled back in terror, wings fluttering frantically and hands clawing at the ground behind her as she tried to back up when the water suddenly submerged her feet. She lay there for a moment, her breathing quickened and her face flushed as she stared, wide eyed, at her damp feet and where she had been sitting. A little shakily she crawled forward and looked over at the raised water and then up at Veive, "Did you do that?" and as she finished asking whispered to herself, "If she and I are alike as illusions...what can I do?"

Carefully she resettled herself and dangled her feet into the water and felt herself relax. Perhaps water wasn't so bad after all, she thought to herself as she grinned and wiggled her toes, looking over at Veive with mild admiration.

Ayame kicked her feet in the water, actually enjoying it with the light wind accompanying her hair in light breaths. She fanned her wings slowly at the question and glanced back at them with some little self admiration.

"I can catch my balance...and hover a very little bit...They're pretty though...OH! I draw, alot." she grinned and held out the stub of a remains of her old red crayon, the frayed edges of paper coming off around it made it look nearly like a wax flower. She needed new ones, almost all of them looked like this now. It slowly dawned on her her deviation about her wings, and she quickly worked back towards it. "I drew myself once...my wings looked all ew. I wish i could do something as fun as this," she splashed at the water and smiled up at Veive.

Here eyes went to the girl's tail after a moment, her young attention diverted. it looked so soft, not as colorful as her wings, but white....somewhat like her hair. She puffed it out of her face where the wind had left it. "What do you do for fun, Veive?"