Chasing a Dream|Acoia

[Devon]

Ryder found himself in Acoia after having a vision, but after spending a few days in Efil's temple he had come to figure out he had come here for nothing. Sighing he sat down in the library reading to himself and wondering if he hadn't started to lose his touch after training so hard.

~I couldn't have been wrong, something must be here or else I wouldn't have come.~

[Kender Bard]

Over time, people left the library to tend to their own things and some of the priests even had to excuse themselves, trusting Ryder alone in the books after he'd shown such care with them (and they found he was a Thuothian besides.)

It was during such a lull that there came a soft laugh. It was high pitched and seemed to come from a far corner of the room where there was an open window out into one of the many tamed gardens.

[Devon]

Ryder looked towards the area he heard the laugh, gently setting the book down. "Hello," he called out as he stood up to go and investigate the area. "I thought everyone left the library already," he murmured to himself.

[Kender Bard]

"Not... Everyone!"

Quick as a blink, something flew out of the garden towards him, hovering in the air just above his head (and consequently, out of swatting range.)

A tiny green creature with wings like a similarly colored butterfly hovered above him. Though tiny, he resembled a small man. "Hello!" he called out down to Ryder.

[Devon]

Ryder looked at the small winged man and nearly fell over. If it wasn't for the table behind him, he would have been on the ground. "Wh-what in the world? Who are you? What are you?" Ryder was astonished at the creature before him, he had never read or seen anything like this before.

[Kender Bard]

"Hmm I don't have a name yet," the fey admitted as he flitted after Ryder. "But as to what... Why I'm a faerie of course! Will you be my friend? I've been watching you. You look like you could use a friend like me!"

[Devon]

"A faerie," he muttered. "And all you want is a friend," he said out loud. Ryder relaxed a little bit and looked at the faerie oddly, he'd definitely have to look this up. "Where do you come from? And do you want me to name you?"

[Kender Bard]

"If you'll be my friend, you can name me," the faerie insisted. "And I came from where I came from. I hatched! In some human room. It was boring in there so I left. What's your name, human?"

[Devon]

"My name is Ryder, Ryder Alexandros," he replied to the faerie. "Do you mind if I call you Eco?" he asked the small man. He was more and more interested in the faerie's story.

[Kender Bard]

The faerie, now Eco, moved a little closer to Ryder, slower now, hovering just in front of his face. "Yay, friend Ryder!"

Abruptly the faerie threw a wingful of shimmering dust into Ryder's face.

From the garden emerged a second faerie. This one was bright orange, with wings like a monarch butterfly. When she saw Ryder get dusted, she broke into a peal of amused laughter.

[Devon]

Ryder closed his eyes as the dust hit him and sneezed a bit too. "What...what was that dust you just hit me with? And who is that?" he asked looking to the second faerie.

"That is faerie dust of course," Eco replied to his new friend, choosing to now rest on Ryder's shoulder. "And that is my sister..her name is...well she doesn't have a name! Say hello sister!"

[Kender Bard]

The orange faerie flew over to Ryder, doing a little twirl in the air. "Hello, hello, hello! My brother has a friend now and I don't! Isn't that unfair? I'm trying to find my friend."

[Devon]

"I don't know where you can find a friend," Ryder told Eco's sister. "I came to Acoia on my own to look into what I thought was vision," he said to the faeries.

Eco flitted around Ryder, before deciding to hover next to his sister. "Visions? Do you see things? Are you crazy?"

Ryder shook his head and sighed, "No I'm a Seer, using my sign I'm able to look into visions of the past or future."

"Oooh," Eco said. "Are you having a vision now?" Ryder shook his head again, "No..just wondering if I'm really talking to faeries."

[Kender Bard]

"Well of course you are," the sister chided with a giggle. "Who else would you be talking to? Trees? Oh, I did hear some humans could do that though! Can you? Ooh what are they saying now? Do they think I'm pretty?"

[Devon]

"I'm sure they do," Ryder answered slowly. "But I can't speak to trees, an Earth with a plant sign could perhaps," he explained to her.

"Ooh where do they live?" Eco asked him. "Mostly Mt. Humontis," Ryder answered.