[PLOT - PRP] A Small Note (Gulliver & Kishi)

[Antidia]

Kishi grinned then took a sip of her sun tea. It was delicious, too bad Gulliver didn't want any. Today? Woo! Wait....

"I thought you were doing important work and looking for lost thoughts today and the next few days. Wouldn't I be a hindrance to that because I can't be stealthy and I certainly don't know what those thoughts look like, so I wouldn't be able to help you find them." Her excitement waned, but not to disappointment. She knew he had important stuff to do, otherwise he wouldn't be doing it.

"I don't want you to get in trouble or not do your job, so I am okay with waiting till you have some free time." She smiled and put a hand on his shoulder. "Really, I think it's best." Besides it'd give her a chance to carefully plan things. Like what to pack, what vase to put the magic flowers in, what snacks would be best to take, if she can make her tea or not in the wild. The important things.

It'd give her a few more days to finish her sleuthing too.  

[Antidia]

Kishi narrowed her eyes at him and took a puff of her pipe. She was deep in thought, contemplating what he'd just said. Suddenly what he was doing was unimportant? Something seemed fishy. Time to put those sleuthing skills to the test. "What were you planning to go do? I know you said you needed to find thoughts, I'd think those were important to find. What kind of work were ya gonna do?"

"Not that I wouldn't love to go with you today, I just don't want you to get in trouble or go too long with your thoughts missing."

Shicala

 

[Antidia]

Kishi sat, eyes narrowed and a serious look on her face. Slowly, she reached for her cup and brought it to her lips. She kept her eyes on Gulliver, thoughts focused on what he said. She took a sip, which emptied her cup so there was a slight slurping noise. It broke her concentration enough that she giggled. She put the cup down and smiled.

"So you've been feeling down and thinking about your life from before coming home? You never did really tell me about what's its like out there in the unknown. Did you have a family?"

She watched him close up his back to get ready to go. "Well, if you won't get in trouble by Rais, maybe I can go and then you can tell me about what it was like, and if you had a family. Are those the lost thoughts? A long-lost love, children left behind... though shouldn't they have come with you when you were called?" she was rambling nearly a mile a minute as she got up and started going through a bin near her pallet. She'd tossed her sleuthing hat aside and pulled out a few things out that she dropped on the floor.

"Okay, I'll bring my butterfly net so we can catch the lost thoughts. And I want to bring my gathering bag and some gloves." She knew perfectly well that his thoughts weren't lost in the manner that she could catch them. But she was a little superstitious about dreams being attached to butterflies and catching them to bring home would bring good dreams. She didn't hurt them or anything, but let them flit about in her nook and out into the tree. There's plenty for butterflies to do in there, and plenty of stuff to eat considering nearly all faun have little potted flowers around their doors. That and butterflies lived in there anyway.

She put the strap of her gathering bag around her head and put the gloves inside. She hooked the handle of the net into one of the loops of the bag strap on her back. She looked ready to go butterfly collecting.'

"You have the wipes, so we're all set. Can we stop by the kitchen on the way down though? Honeysuckle and sun tea don't really provide adventuring energy. I wanna grab some some nuts and dried berries from Bronson."

Shicala

 

[Antidia]

Something Gulliver said caught her attention and she had to stop for a second to process it. He spoke of "out there" in the present tense. That raised many questions for the pink faun. She eyed him as she passed by on her way out of her nook. She decided to let the statement percolate a bit before asking questions.

Once in the kitchen, she got some dried fruits and nuts, as she wanted. She let Gulliver get the sandwiches he wanted, and she passed on the dessert because she'd rather have a snack that'd sustain her if they were out for a while instead of a sugar high. Even if todays' desserts looked especially delicious.

((I'm skipping them ahead a tiny bit if that's ok?))

Once the pair crossed the bridge to the mainland, Kishi watched the landscape, observing the butterflies and watching the breeze make waves across the tall grass.

"Gulliver? Can I ask you about something you said back there?" She felt a little nervous, because this was a serious question. She'd gone over it a hundred times in her mind, trying to find a way to ask that wouldn't seem awkward. "Do you ... still go back to where you came from? Off the island?" She knew he'd arrived with Artemis during the Calling, when all faun were called home. She just didn't know where he was before then, and he didn't seem to talk about it much. If at all.

She found it a bit weird he'd call himself a loner when he's in charge of the whole faun military, and is a part of the prestigious Inner Circle. She wanted to poke fun of him for it, but she felt uneasy at the thought. All she could do is worry now that something was wrong.

Shicala

 

[Antidia]

Kishi blinked a few times and wasn't quite sure why this line of questioning shocked her. Then it occurred to her that maybe he didn't really know about Laisidhiel's history like she did. She just assumed he'd have been taught or something. She just naturally assumes everyfaun knows the same stuff she does.

"I didn't come to Laisidhiel. I sprouted here." She twirled her butterfly net in her hand and smiled. "I was among the first seeds to sprout after Laisidhiel revealed Herself to the island. I don't have natural parents and the Tree is my life-giver." She felt warm and fuzzy sharing this information with Gulliver. She didn't expect that this would turn into a bonding outing where they shared intimate details of their pasts. "All the faun are from my past." She said that a 'well duh' sort of tone. "We're all from the same place, silly. If you meant someone special in my past though," she quieted her tone a little bit and felt a little sad. "I only ever had Pan. He was my best friend when we were little. I don't know where he went, and I haven't seen him since I was just yay high." She held her hand out about at Gulliver's waist height. "We went on adventures together."

She smiled and started skipping on ahead. She turned around into a pirouette, swinging the net around her head and stopped abruptly at the end of her second revolution, bringing the net down merely inches from Gulliver's face. She'd put her serious face on. "What about you? Do you have parents, Gulliver of the Alder tree? Did you have a special someone you left behind. Or maybe that faun came with you? A lot of faun moved into the Tree during the Calling."

Shicala

 

[Antidia]

Shicala

Earth Blessing = power

Kishi kept the net set squarely between Gulliver's eyes until he had finished talking. Then, without flinching or making a sound, she pulled it back and twirled it around to catch a little blue butterfly. She gently removed it from the net and let it sit on her finger while regaining its senses.

"Of course I would have worried! It's heartbreaking to lose the one you love and never see them again. I'd be worried about the pain you felt, or still feel. I'd feel sad for your loss. And it would explain why you seem to sulk around a lot, so I would at least know how to cheer you up." She looked over her shoulder and smiled at him as the blue butterfly flitted away. "Now I just have to work harder to find out what makes you so sad."

She shuffled her hooves in the dirt on the path waiting for Gulliver to catch up so they could walk side by side again. "Gulliver, I know this can be a personal question, but I have been curious. What is your Earth Blessing? If you tell me, I'll tell you mine." She giggled and hooked her net to the strap on her back (of her pack with snacks in it).  

[Antidia]

"That sounds like a fun blessing. Being better than anyfaun at shooting. And what kind of tips? Can you like, do the crazy stuff I hear from other faun? Like that party where arrows make them come back with mutant babies? Or can you do things like shoot arrows that turn trees different colors or can you shoot the moon?" She was being silly, she knew it. But it was part of how she liked to look at things. It helped hide the fact that she knew being a sharpshooter meant he shot living things. Something she wasn't entirely comfortable with, so it was better to make light of the talk.

She wobbled a little on some of the rocks on the path they walked, as it wasn't as used as the main one. She appreciated the pretty field of wild flowers they were walking through. She extended her arms and spun around fully. "This is such a wonderful place, Gulliver! Smell the sweet aroma!"

After a quiet moment of just enjoying nature and the moment, she turned and flashed a mischievous grin. "My blessing. Close your eyes and turn around."

She intended for that to sound ominous.

shicala

 

[Antidia]

Kishi quickly sidestepped off the path, and with her blessing from Laisidhiel, with a puff, pop and swirl of leaves and petals that floated away on the breeze, she turned into a short (still taller than Gulliver) tree resembling a miniature scale or baby version Laisidhiel.

Whipping a branch back, she let it loose aiming to thwap Gulliver on the fanny. A few leaves fell to the ground in the process. She giggled, but it sounded a little like it was coming from on the other side of a closed door.

Shicala