Long Journey ended|Atyar, Ilyamen

[kiyukit]

Meandering into the house, Mitte picked up all his things and put them in his bag, making sure to take his books, change of clothes and all five stuffed animals. Walking back to Ashley he grinned happily "All ready to go!"

[aivea]

"I'm going to go to Reave to see who else managed to survive," Ashley says to Carolyn while Mitte gathers his things.

Once Mitte says he's ready, Ashley takes hold of the other boy's hand and begins leading the way to Reave.

(Do you have anything in mind to happen along the way?)

[kiyukit]

(Encounters with other people? Meeting some of Mitte's relatives? Or someone who hates Clears and thinks Ashley's being horrible to Mitte?)

Mitte smiled contentedly and leaned against Ashley's uninjured side, humming a happy tune.

[aivea]

(Maybe they could meet Mitte's aunt? Where does she live? The only places Ashley can safely go are Atyar and Reeve, because Clears are extremely unwelcome everywhere else.)

Ashley tries to hide his worry as he leads Mitte along the way to Reave.

[kiyukit]

(I'm not sure. But she's currently wandering around looking for Mitte so it should work... and it'd make an intresting situation. She'd think that Ashley had caught Mitte and was using him for a slave... {Yay for preconcived ideas of what people are like} And Mitte wouild think she was being an idiot, if he rembered her that is...)

"So, what are we going to do when we get there? Are we going to catch butterflies?"

[aivea]

(Until they get to Reave, I guess we can continue in this thread. And she could be somewhere between the Reave and Atyar. Or maybe in Atyar.)

"We're going to make sure my family is alive, then I guess we can plant flowers to make butterflies come to Reave. I think I have a couple of flower seeds."

[kiyukit]

(Sounds good. Or on the road.)

"Yay! Thank you Ashley! I love you!"

[aivea]

(Just have her appear whenever you're ready to play as her.)

"You're welcome." Ashley takes three flower seeds out of his pocket and hands them to Mitte. With a smile he says, "You can plant these ones, if you see a good spot of them once we get there."

[kiyukit]

(-laughs-)

"Thank you Ashley!" Mitte took the seeds, and after carefully tucking them into his bag, leaned over and kissed Ashley.

"Yalin?! What are you doing?! Where have you been?!" the voice was shrill and piercing and came from a rather wrinkled woman a short ways up the path.

[aivea]

Ashley blinks in confusion, as usual when Mitte kisses him. Hearing a voice up ahead, he tries to figure out who it is.

"You're looking for Yalin? The boy with me says his name's Mitte, though," Ashley says puzzledly.

[kiyukit]

"Yalin!? What are you doing with this nasty boy!? Come away from him you hear me!? And what were you doing just now?!" The woman got nearer and kept on yelling, glaring at Ashley as Mitte hid behind him, shaking. "Ashley, make the mean aunty go away! Please Ashley!"

[aivea]

"Just what makes me nasty?" Ashley asks, trying to keep his tone steady. "Mitte can do whatever he wants, neither you nor anyone else has the right to change that. If he doesn't want to go with you he won't, at least as long as I'm here."

Protectively, he puts one hand on Mitte's shoulder and keeps a determined look on his face.

"If I have to, I guess I will...

[kiyukit]

For once, both Yalin and Mitte were in agreement, they weren't going with this person. Wrapping his arms loosly around Ashley's waist, Mitte peered around him and murmured "I was kissing him aunty..."

The woman was now standing in front of the two boys and glaring angrily at them "What makes you nasty? You're obviously a poor fighter and you're a cripple. What else need there be?" As she heard Mitte's soft voice her entire face flushed "You were doing what young man!? What kind of abomination have you turned my nephew into!?" She shouted at Ashley, reaching out to yank Mitte away.

[aivea]

"Don't touch him!" Ashley yelps, thoughtlessly. Afterwards, he feels a wave of guilt for having given an order to someone. "I've done nothing to him but kept an eye on him so he wouldn't get hurt! I'm sorry... but I can't let someone who scares him this much take Mitte away."

[kiyukit]

The woman gave Ashley an imperious look "You dare think to order me about you unnatural cripple?!" Suddenly another, younger woman ran up, yelling "Leave them be Gabes!"

Mitte during this time had molded himself to Ashley's back and was whispering "Don't let her get me again, don't let her get me..."