(I'm not on my normal computer at the moment and have a dodgy mouse, you can be 99% sure that Ayal is not rearing or attacking you i've just failed in pressing the right emotion button. I think he scared some fauns today by accident.)

I woke up in the playground, the rocks stealing the warmth from my body now they had cooled down. They had been warmed by the sun when I had nodded off there yesterday afternoon. I stayed where i was trying to clear the fuzziness from my head, antlers feeling far too heavy as they tend to do when i wake up. Finally making it to my feet I stand and stretch out the kinks shaking my head to dislodge the morning dew from my antlers and taking slow steps as i make my way down the rocky terrain and off the playground.

I bellow into the still air and wait for a reply as I sniff the air trying to pick up a familiar scent, finally catching one and trotting off towards it slowing as I hear the sound of water. I find the little red deer Vala resting by a sleeping deer and after only a moment of introductions she has cast a spell on me turning me green and scaly. It does feel rather odd no longer having fur and as the new scales of the kirrin pelt begin to itch I sneeze it away and bowing to Vala trot off back away from the water only to stumble upon Stella with another deer.

I stop amazed wondering just who this stranger is, i've never seen the white doe with a friend before having always found her on her own. Its not long however before we are introduced and both of us trying to tempt the timid doe into some games. She rises to the challenge magnificently and soon we are all hopping around like spring rabbits and laughing so hard we roll over. I grew hesitant though as the prancing about took us closer and closer to the pond, the thought of going near such a large body of water terrifies me to the my core.

I get my water from little puddles in the playground or ruins as nothing, not even the patience support of Stella and Luc would make me go closer to the pond. The weeds floating just below the surface just waiting to snare unsuspecting deer and drag them to the depths, no nothing will make me go closer.

I paced up and down several meters from the edge trying to hide my fear and agitation at them both being in the water, i know it gets deeper than their knees soon what if they get into trouble, i don't know what it would do. Please come out, please...

I bellow at them inadvertently scaring a bewildered faun who had i hadn't noticed at my side so focused I was on my friends in the water, it ran off and normally I would have followed to apologize but i couldn't tear my eyes away from them in case they got tangled in the weeds. To my everlasting relief they finally left the pond and trotted back to me, as Luc with the Day of the Dead Pelt tried to make peace with the faun i had scared by accident. I didn't mean to spook you little one but even stags are scared of some things.