Turn of Events|Beastlands

"Mm, I guess I'm on edge," she admitted quietly and sat up on her knees, hands smoothing the leaf-skirt she wore. She was very grateful to have it. "Nuo, is it really true? Are you really one of... them now? Septi said that the queen made it official." She gave him a somber look.

"Yes," Kaylin answered softly. "I remember. I hadn't believed you at the time. I suppose now I must." She seemed deeply sad. "Oh Nuo. I wish it were otherwise..."

"Them, huh?" Kaylin said, a bit of heat in her voice. It mingled with pain, becoming a bitter tone. "You already sound just like a faerie. What's wrong with humans, Nuo? I like being a human. I would never want to be a-a cruel and heartless faerie." She brought up the palms of her hands and pressed them firmly against her eyes. "Heartless," she repeated softly.

Kaylin frowned back at him. "I didn't say that you were heartless. I don't want to believe that. And I'm sorry if it sounds as though you had a poor childhood by your parents, but that doesn't mean that all humans are--"

She faltered, realizing that she was making much the same claims about faeries as Nuo was about humans both based off of limited experiences.

But...

"I only stayed because of you, Nuo, because I was worried about you," she told him. "It seems I had no reason to be. And I am extremely grateful for you... rescuing me. You have no idea-" her voice became a bit choked and she gave a violent shake of her head. "I have to leave this place," she murmured miserably. "I have to get away. I had wanted to take you with me, but I can see now that will not happen."

"I don't care," Kaylin remarked tartly. "I don't want to be here. I don't want to stay with faeries. I'm tired of all this, I'm tired of all of them." She stood up. "I-I don't even think I'm going to take Maple with me!"

Her reasons for that were a tad different than she implied, however. She did not want to take Maple from the rest of the faeries--the little sprite seemed happy amongst her own kind. And Kaylin had been keeping her away for quite a while anyway. It would be a painless separation, she hoped.

"I don't care, I don't care, I won't be held here like a-a-a prison!" Kaylin seethed. "How hard can it be? I'll just find a stream or a river or something and follow it east. And I remember some of the things the sprites showed us along the way. I'll get along."

She turned in place, a little flustered, and tried to find east. "So I guess this is farewell."