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[wolf_faerie]

[Today you may find small white flowers growing around Mayfield. You may also find Aisling in one of three places.

A. On her front lawn.

B. On your front lawn. Yes, yours.

C. Somewhere in the park

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B

[strike_you_out]

[Hey. Aisling. Ever feel like you're being... watched by something?]

[wolf_faerie]

[She sure does. She's spied on people enough to know the effect it has on them.

So she whips her head around.]

[strike_you_out]

[No one to the left, no one to the right. No one behind. This leaves few places left to look...

Above her, resting on a tree branch, is Slugger with a handful of dead leaves. When the time seems right, he lets them go and watches as they drift down toward her.]

[wolf_faerie]

[When she sees the leaves, she looks up in the direction that they're falling from.

Who is that kid?]

What are you doing?

[strike_you_out]

[He waves down at her. After his latest regain, he's feeling kind of good.]

What are you doing?

[wolf_faerie]

Growing flowers.

[strike_you_out]

Real ones?

[wolf_faerie]

Yes!

[strike_you_out]

[This may require convincing.

He scoots his way toward a lower part of the tree limb where he can safely drop to the ground. But, landing in a crouch, he accidentally crushes some of the flowers and looks up at her as if anticipating some sort of... consequence.]

[wolf_faerie]

[He doesn't get anything but a scowl. Aisling doesn't like flower-crushers, but she won't attack him just for that.]

[strike_you_out]

[If Slugger feels anything in response to her disapproving look, he doesn't show it and instead looks down at the flowers. He won't crush any more, but he does pick a few, which he examines closely.

Apparently, he and nature aren't well acquainted (and he might be trying to eat a petal... then immediately spitting it out). In the end, he concludes that the flowers aren't just illusions.]

...How did you make these?

[wolf_faerie]

Magic.

[strike_you_out]

[Oh?] What are you?

[wolf_faerie]

I'm a fairy.

[strike_you_out]

Don't faeries have wings?

[wolf_faerie]

Why would I? I don't need them.