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Hide and seek?

[littlefey]

[How about a young girl who has somehow scampered up a tree, in her dress, who is now peering curiously down like a cat from the best perch it had ever found? Except she's meant to be hiding, so she tries to climb higher, nearly slipping and definitely scraping her knee.]

Ow. [Smallest voice ever as she tries to hide again.]

[eldersister]

[ Well now, that puts Sigrid in a bit of a tight spot, doesn't it?

On the one hand, it wouldn't be very sporting of her to cut the game short because she wants to find out what that "ow" was about, but on the other hand she does worry. ]

Oh, I'll be looking all day, I just know it.

[ Said as she makes a show of trying to peer inside some shrubbery. ]

[littlefey]

[There is a rustle that doesn't at all cover up the little giggle as Morgana looks out from the tree leaves and then quickly hides behind the trunk again.]

[eldersister]

Hmm. I don't think I've ever heard a bird like that before...

[ She turns her eyes upwards, slowly strolling toward the tree Morgana is in, trying her best not to laugh. ]

[littlefey]

[Morgana is delighted with an intensity only young children usually are, her cheeks hurt from smiling too much, she feels like she could bounce on the spot. As Sigrid approaches she scrambles to hide better, but her skirt ends up hanging off the branch and she doesn't notice.]

[eldersister]

[ Oh, she reminds Sigrid so much of Tilda when she was little in this moment.

There weren't beautiful gardens to play in back then of course, but they made do with what they had. The joy was the same, and it warms Sigrid's heart to see it now. ]

And I don't think I have ever seen feathers quite as lovely as these.

[ At the last word she reaches up to give that hanging skirt a very careful little tug. Nothing that could actually compromise Morgana's balance. ]

[littlefey]

[The giggling continues, muffled behind her hands but no less plain when Sigrid gets closer. Joy is such a strange, and almost forgotten thing to Morgana that it overwhelms her when it comes and Sigrid's presence is seldom short of it. She tries to hold her breath when she senses Sigrid beneath her, but the little tug of her dress sets her off again in a giggle which is half a squeal before she leans over the branch to look down, her dark braids falling around her face.]

You got me!

[eldersister]

[ Sigrid makes a face of exaggerated surprise, gasping loudly. ]

So it wasn't a bird.

[littlefey]

[More giggling, until she almost can't breathe, but then Morgana moves so she can jump down to the ground with only a slight oof.]

Flying would be much more fun for hiding.

[eldersister]

Yes, but what an awfully hard time the rest of us would have keeping you out of trouble.

[ Said as she carefully plucks some leaves out of Morgana's hair. ]

I thought I heard someone say "ow" before. Do you think one of the castle ghosts stubbed its toe or something?

[littlefey]

[Just the little touches, the care, makes Morgana preen with happiness. Like a sunflower finally getting the first morning light.]

Oh. It's nothin' I just scraped my knee, see. [She said, pulling up her skirts, her petticoat spotted with blood over a not-too-serious but also not exactly mild scrape.]

[eldersister]

[ It makes the heart ache, how this child laps up even the merest hint of affection, as if it's the last she'll ever get.

Sigrid crouches to take a look at the scrape, relieved to see that it's nothing worse even if this will need to be seen to as well. ]

Well there's some dirt in this nothing that we need to get out, or it might become something.

[littlefey]

Ohhh but it's your turn to hide, Sigrid. [She says softly, not ever that fussed over her own injuries. She never had been. It was surely a trait she had gotten from her father.] You're so good at it!

all I do is texting

[arth]

I'm stuck.

And I love it

[eldersister]

Where? How?

[arth]

In a tree which has abruptly become in a lake.

[eldersister]

Why are you making me pull this out of you bit by bit?

You can't swim to shore?

[arth]

Because the situation is evolving.

I can try.

[eldersister]

This had better not evolve into "how do I avoid waterfalls" or something like that.

Are there strong currents?

[arth]

We all hope that.

I don't think so, but it remains to be tested.

[eldersister]

Show me where you are. Take some pictures.

[arth]

How is a picture of a lake where a lake didn't used to be helpful.

[eldersister]

Well I didn't know it's a new lake, did I? Because you seem to have developed a sudden allergy to telling me what's actually going on.

[arth]

I am assessing.

And making you aware.

And going to try to get down from the tree.

[eldersister]

Tell me where you are.