( t e x t ; open to both courts)

[sundroplet]

how many people does it take to braid hair?

assuming there is a lot of it?

think before you answer this is REALLY important!

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[sundroplet]

Yes, sorta.

[ a small sigh ]

I sort of left for the first time without permission before coming here? I came here on my birthday and I was going to make my birthday dream come true and then -- well, I've never seen a fairy so of course I followed and then I was here.

[wilder]

Seriously? The first time you left, you got taken by fairies? [He makes a slight click sound with his tongue] Talk about bad luck.

[He starts working on parting her hair now that he's got a sense of how far it goes]

What's your birthday dream?

[sundroplet]

Well, I suppose it's also my fault. I did say I'll come to help them, I just - I never figured they will take me this far. Mother must be freaking out.

[ but she has at least two panic attacks a day over it and this won't be the third. ]

I want to see the floating lights! every night of my birthday there are lights in the sky and I just - I really want to see them from up close.

[wilder]

Oh. Well... [A pause because honestly, he has next to no experience with parental concern. His parents are dead. Most of his friends' parents are either dead or a deadbeat.] I'm sure it'll be alright. Venturing out on your own's all part of growing up!

[Or something. He thinks he's read that somewhere in a book once]

The floating lights? [That's a new one] Don't think I've heard of that before, what are they?