[GitG] Tsuyu

[hisdivineshadow]

He blinked in confusion. "Which direction? Well, that would depend, miss. Where is it that you're going?"

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"I guess that Ilyamen would be the best," she said with a vague shrug.

[hisdivineshadow]

"Well, then, to reach Ilyamen you'll need to travel north. I can show you the way, if you'd like?" He offered her his hand.

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She blinked and put a finger to her lips. Thinking to herself, she eventually came to the conclusion that accepting his help shouldn't harm anything so, she smiled and took his offered hand.

"Thank you very much, I will gladly take any help you can give."

[hisdivineshadow]

Adarr nodded, and turned to begin leading the girl through the brush and toward the edge of the forest. One ear swiveled back to catch the whining note Petal let out, and he replied with a quick bark, encouraging her to keep up.

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Watching this exchange with some amusement, she caught up to him and walked at his side. "So, you can talk with your frienf, Petal? You understand one another?"

[hisdivineshadow]

"Of course. All Beasts learn how to speak with animals. Most, however, only learn the language of their affinity. Communicating with other kinds of animals is much more difficult." He quirked an ear at a songbird chirping nearby, and nodded his head in its direction with a smirk. "I can't be sure, but I think he's making fun of us."

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"Well, how rude of that bird!" she huffed in fake anger. "Well, wait, are you sure it wasn't just asking for some strawberry jello?"

She chuckled to herself.

[hisdivineshadow]

Adarr gave her a confused look. "Strawberry . . . jello? What's 'jello?'"

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She blinked and held up a finger. "You know, jello. It's made from gellatin and water and can taste like all different types of fruit..." she looked at his still confused face.

"Aaah...I see..." laughing softly, she shook her head. "No such thing as jello in Naruta, is there?"

[hisdivineshadow]

At first, Adarr's confusion only deepened, then something she said clicked in his head, and his eyes widened in understanding. He chuckled. "You're a Contrastan, aren't you?"

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Now it was once again her turn to look confused. She knew what Contratan was, but, did she really look like it?

"Well, Contrastan, huh..."

[hisdivineshadow]

He tilted his head and looked at her curiously. "Well, where else would you be from? By your own speech you seem to hail from somewhere outside Naruta."

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"Ah! Ah, y-yes, of course that's where I am from..." she smiled nervously, wondering how anyone, especially a beast, would react if they knew she came from a world that happened to write about this one.

[hisdivineshadow]

Adarr eyed her speculatively for a moment, then turned away with a mental shrug and continued forging through the brush. After some time, they came to the edge of the lush woodlands and found themselves at the border of the wide grassland surrounding Ilyamen. "Here we are. Ilyamen's no more than a full day's walk north of here. Do you think you can make it on your own?"