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[April 25] [Crossover: Tales of Legendia/Suikoden III] Forest of Friends
Title: Forest of Friends
Day/Theme: April 25, 2011 "we'll run?"
Series: Crossover - Tales of Legendia x Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Fenimore & Yun, Yuiri
Rating: G
Author's comment: The 'set in the Suikoden world' half of a pair stories for No True Pair.
Lately Yun had been walking dangerously close to the barriers on her own. Fenimore looked down at the younger girl from her perch atop the roof of her house and wondered if Yun thought she was doing all this in secret or if she knew she was being watched. "As long as I can see her from here," Fenimore thought, rubbing her fingertips along the smooth shaft of an arrow, "I know that I can protect her." She wasn't exactly a crackshot, but the mossy rooftop provided a convenient vantage point. And at this distance from the village, one shot was all it would take to alert other members of the community to the danger faced by one of their own. Someone like Yuiri, better with the bow, could make up for any of Fenimore's mishaps with a single brilliant shot.
Yun and Yuiri were sort of similar that way. They were calm and talented. Who in the village didn't admire one or the other of them in some small way? Yuiri was good with weapons, knew plenty of tribal lore, and had proved herself time and time again as second-in-command (and future leader) of the clan, but between the two sisters, she wasn't the one who had captured Fenimore's starry-eyed attention. That was Yun, little and strange and spirit-chosen. Yun's gift was understanding and it wasn't just the spirits who spoke to her, it extended to animals too and maybe, Fenimore was starting to wonder about this a little, to plants?
"Fenimore! Do you like sitting on your roof?" Yun suddenly called up to her, cupping her hands around her mouth, "I see you up there a lot these days!"
She- she knew! How embarrassing. Fenimore could feel her face burning as she crawled over to the edge of the eaves and climbed down the ladder. "H-how did you know?" she asked softly, feeling stupid.
"The birds told me. There's a nest in that one tree there," she pointed up to indicate a thick pine with branches jutting out over the roof, "And the birds that made it were afraid you were going to upset their eggs. Don't worry though, I convinced them not to be concerned about it. You wouldn't do something like that, Fenimore."
...Yun really was a sweet girl. She didn't even bring up the birds' nest to her tribeswoman. She just believed that Fenimore was too nice and cautious to do anything bad like that. "Hmm. I see. Thanks for explaining."
Yun just smiled and nodded. "You know," Fenimore spoke up, figuring that she might as well use this opportunity to summon up her courage and ask Yun about the things that had been on her mind, "I've been seeing you wandering around here a lot lately. ...Any particular reason for that...?" Then again, she didn't want to come off too pushy. "Or, uh, is it just a whim?"
"Well," Yun clasped her hands behind her back and rocked from her toes to her heels, "I don't want to go against Great Auntie and Yuiri's orders, but there a some flowers just beyond the barrier that I've been talking to lately. They turn their heads to follow the sun through the leaves and they tell me about the things they see flying overhead- things I've never seen, like a dragon and a member of the Winghorde."
"It's true then! You can talk to flowers." It sounded poetic, but insane. Animals were one thing, they clearly had separate lives and consciousnesses, but it was almost impossible to think that one short-lived flower could have a unique personality (or maybe it didn't and Fenimore just couldn't comprehend this properly).
"I suppose it's not...something you can teach," Fenimore concluded.
"Is it something you want to learn?" Yun smiled, loosing her hands and letting them swing free.
"If I could, I guess," Fenimore shrugged, "But that's not the kind of skill you can just pass on. ........Is it?"
"Sorry. I don't know how. I don't know how I can do it myself, really. It's the same with the other types of understanding. Being able to listen- I mean really, really listen- is important, but no matter how hard some girls try it seems like they just can't get any further than the listening."
"Uh, well," Fenimore cheered at the knowledge that she, at least, was not the only one who'd cared to try, "Just because I can't doesn't mean you should be kept from it. We could go a little past the main barrier to the flowers together. It would be safer that way, right? Than just you alone, I mean."
"Hee hee. Fenimore, don't encourage me to be bad," Yun giggled, but the glint in her eye told a different story. "Are you ready then? Let's do it. But we've got to be quick. Make sure and run!"
Day/Theme: April 25, 2011 "we'll run?"
Series: Crossover - Tales of Legendia x Suikoden III
Character/Pairing: Fenimore & Yun, Yuiri
Rating: G
Author's comment: The 'set in the Suikoden world' half of a pair stories for No True Pair.
Lately Yun had been walking dangerously close to the barriers on her own. Fenimore looked down at the younger girl from her perch atop the roof of her house and wondered if Yun thought she was doing all this in secret or if she knew she was being watched. "As long as I can see her from here," Fenimore thought, rubbing her fingertips along the smooth shaft of an arrow, "I know that I can protect her." She wasn't exactly a crackshot, but the mossy rooftop provided a convenient vantage point. And at this distance from the village, one shot was all it would take to alert other members of the community to the danger faced by one of their own. Someone like Yuiri, better with the bow, could make up for any of Fenimore's mishaps with a single brilliant shot.
Yun and Yuiri were sort of similar that way. They were calm and talented. Who in the village didn't admire one or the other of them in some small way? Yuiri was good with weapons, knew plenty of tribal lore, and had proved herself time and time again as second-in-command (and future leader) of the clan, but between the two sisters, she wasn't the one who had captured Fenimore's starry-eyed attention. That was Yun, little and strange and spirit-chosen. Yun's gift was understanding and it wasn't just the spirits who spoke to her, it extended to animals too and maybe, Fenimore was starting to wonder about this a little, to plants?
"Fenimore! Do you like sitting on your roof?" Yun suddenly called up to her, cupping her hands around her mouth, "I see you up there a lot these days!"
She- she knew! How embarrassing. Fenimore could feel her face burning as she crawled over to the edge of the eaves and climbed down the ladder. "H-how did you know?" she asked softly, feeling stupid.
"The birds told me. There's a nest in that one tree there," she pointed up to indicate a thick pine with branches jutting out over the roof, "And the birds that made it were afraid you were going to upset their eggs. Don't worry though, I convinced them not to be concerned about it. You wouldn't do something like that, Fenimore."
...Yun really was a sweet girl. She didn't even bring up the birds' nest to her tribeswoman. She just believed that Fenimore was too nice and cautious to do anything bad like that. "Hmm. I see. Thanks for explaining."
Yun just smiled and nodded. "You know," Fenimore spoke up, figuring that she might as well use this opportunity to summon up her courage and ask Yun about the things that had been on her mind, "I've been seeing you wandering around here a lot lately. ...Any particular reason for that...?" Then again, she didn't want to come off too pushy. "Or, uh, is it just a whim?"
"Well," Yun clasped her hands behind her back and rocked from her toes to her heels, "I don't want to go against Great Auntie and Yuiri's orders, but there a some flowers just beyond the barrier that I've been talking to lately. They turn their heads to follow the sun through the leaves and they tell me about the things they see flying overhead- things I've never seen, like a dragon and a member of the Winghorde."
"It's true then! You can talk to flowers." It sounded poetic, but insane. Animals were one thing, they clearly had separate lives and consciousnesses, but it was almost impossible to think that one short-lived flower could have a unique personality (or maybe it didn't and Fenimore just couldn't comprehend this properly).
"I suppose it's not...something you can teach," Fenimore concluded.
"Is it something you want to learn?" Yun smiled, loosing her hands and letting them swing free.
"If I could, I guess," Fenimore shrugged, "But that's not the kind of skill you can just pass on. ........Is it?"
"Sorry. I don't know how. I don't know how I can do it myself, really. It's the same with the other types of understanding. Being able to listen- I mean really, really listen- is important, but no matter how hard some girls try it seems like they just can't get any further than the listening."
"Uh, well," Fenimore cheered at the knowledge that she, at least, was not the only one who'd cared to try, "Just because I can't doesn't mean you should be kept from it. We could go a little past the main barrier to the flowers together. It would be safer that way, right? Than just you alone, I mean."
"Hee hee. Fenimore, don't encourage me to be bad," Yun giggled, but the glint in her eye told a different story. "Are you ready then? Let's do it. But we've got to be quick. Make sure and run!"