[we'll all love you just the way you are if you're perfect] [open]

[lesser_son]

Melou, wearing his usual look of utter woe, is picking huckleberries on the edge of the woods. He remembered a basket this time, and is working steadily, his fingers a little sticky from accidentally squashed berries

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[scoffandjest]

Have a Dinadan, Melou-- he's generally good at making people feel better. That, or he is so annoying that they get mad at him instead.

"You must be one of Mordred's," he says.

[lesser_son]

Ahhhhh. Melou looks up sharply.

"Ay. Sir Mordred."

[scoffandjest]

"You look like him."

[lesser_son]

"Ay." He looks highly uncomfortable. "I do not know you, sir."

[hniit]

"Hi." It's a girl, a girl about Miranda's age in jeans and a sleeveless shirt, sitting crosslegged by the bushes with a book and a bottle of water. She offers a slightly wry smile.

[lesser_son]

Eeeeep. He didn't realise there was anybody else in his little patch of forest. He flushes. "P--pardon, lady."

[hniit]

She grins. "My name's Nita. You?"

[lesser_son]

Shyly, "Melou, my lady."

[tomboy_22]

Here's Anita, in her leopard skin, stalking silently about - but she smells Melou from a distance, and stops herself before he can see her and heads in another direction, to find a place where she can shift back to her human shape discreetly.

She's taken to wrapping a pareo around her neck, as a leopard - this way, when she shifts, she doesn't have to walk around naked. She's still prudish about that, even if it's less than she used to be.

[lesser_son]

Melou, helpfully, does not move anywhere. He is too busy being thinky.

[tomboy_22]

And so she shows up, grinning, a little later, a pareo wrapped around herself.

She stays about 3 meters from Melou, and clears her throat.

[lesser_son]

He looks up immediately. "Marshall!"

[eyrienprince]

Lucivar's in a good mood, and so he goes looking for Melou, because he's fond of the boy and he knows he frightened him a little last time they spoke. So he comes and finds him, and perhaps sits down next to him.

"Hey there, you."

[lesser_son]

Melou looks up and over, raising his mournful eyes to Lucivar's face. "Good morrow, sir."

[eyrienprince]

Lucivar finds a smile for him. "Looks like something's eating at you again."

[lesser_son]

"I would do more to please my lord."

[rebel_son]

"Brother," Melehan says quietly. For once, he is feeling equally confused and lost and like he's done everything wrong, which is probably the only thing keeping him from remembering he's supposed to be mad at Melou.

[lesser_son]

Melou looks up quickly, and does the thing he wants to do the most--he holds out his arms so Melehan will hug him.

[rebel_son]

He kneels down beside him pulls him into a stiff, awkward hug.

[lesser_son]

GOOD. Melou hugs back tight.