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Won't Be Far Away

Gorvenalus  has a chat with Ferro before he leaves for Ferravale,  the part with  ############ is a memory section and I got some role play between Krisha and Ferro right before this so makes more sense….so enjoy!

Also I listened to this song alot and it fits here for this role play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcAnOTDeMjw

Rw:Abbey Wine Cellar
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The wine cellar is cool, dry, and dimly lit. It is a very large, low room, extending far back into the Abbey's underworks. The vast space is almost entirely taken up by rack upon rack of wine bottles and ale casks, barrels of all sizes, and shelves of flagons and stoneware flasks. For all the space available, the drink here only fills a small part of it, and most of the barrels still stand empty. There have been obvious work efforts occurring here recently, and the cellar is, if emptier than seasons past, cleaner than it has been in a long while. The further corners of the cellar are hidden in shadow, and consist of many nooks and crannies.
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Ferro was still down here, it was still the coolest area of the abbey and he had been here over a day and finally was starting to wake up from his over heating spell, he frowns as he slowly sat up and looked around not fully remembering how he got here just that he most likely tried to do too much and be out in the summer sun too long and so ended up here.
   
Krisha walks down the steps and heads to where Ferro is, seeing him awake she rushes over to gently hug him showing she is glad he is ok.   

Ferro smiles at the hug "SSSSSorry...sssssssems I ended um needing their aid. When I head back it will be night" Yes lot less hot then and its dark.   

Krisha pouts but then nods in understanding but also frowns. She didn’t bring her notepad as she figured he may still be resting and not awake

Ferro sighs "I will not be farsssssssssss...Ferravale in fact tissssss ssssafer here for you to be than...elsewhere" He slowly stands, with help if needed.   

Krisha helps him stand and stays close just in case   

Ferro shakes, he is steady enough "Let ussssss go elsewhere, they don’t want me here too long"

Rw Abbey: Cavern Hole

Ferro sits down, "You will be fine here, with Xander. I  trussssst him for ssssafty"
   
Krisha deep down knows she will be, but still she would miss her father, but also Xander   

==Next Morning before sunrise==

Ferro sat by the wall remembering when he first meet his adopted daughter and had to smile, though at first he was worried and unsure of a badger cub and how to care for it, but he did learn.

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Ferro had just gotten away from his tribe and looked at the small bundle in his arms and frowned, he was unsure what to do and his first plan was to find some village and maybe leave her with a beast.

He came upon a hut, he thought was abandoned and went inside only to be trapped by the owner, a hedgehog and his mate, who upon seeing the badger cub got brave and went forwards,” It’s a wee baby he has…”

Ferro hissed “Under…my protection…”

The small infant cried, it was hungry and scared and only a day old. Sure she had some water but she needed more than just water.

The hedge maid  keep her distance “Its ok..I can help. She needs milk and I have greensap milk, it will need slightly watered down and a couple herbs added. I have cared for many an orphan thanks to vermin but you don’t seem bad or you would of killed her by now”

Ferro stayed in his corner, not fully trusting the hedgehog but then slowly handing her the baby badger and watching from where he was and learning how to feed the child over a few weeks time till he had to leave, just barely half a season old was the badger he had named Krisha. He had to flee as the tribe found them and he didn’t want to risk the life of the hedgehogs he came to see as friends so he left….the tribe didn’t brother the hedgehogs and was only after Ferro and Krisha”

A half a season later a small dibbun badger has learned to walk, a bit later than most and she has only really seen one beast most of her life, her monitor father Ferro as she walks over to him and smiles, saying her first word “F..F…Father” And hugs him.

Ferro was surprised at this and so hugged her back and  smiled, ”Yes..yes I am your father” One day he would tell her what became of her birth mother and father but he waits, he waits for a long while, rarely letting her go off on her own and even then very short distances. There was a market ½ a mile from their hidden den, he let her go there once every 4 weeks for supplies, he would give a time limit she always obeyed and the one day she didn’t……it wasn’t her fault, it was his as he seen a couple warning sighs a few days before and decided he was over worrying, but he wasn’t……

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Ferro closed his eyes, the memory too much, his tribe had found them and he was scared he had lost Krisha forever.

Gorvenalus walks up and stops a little ways off “So..getting ready to leave?”

Krisha watches from the gate, she frowns as she listens.

Ferro looks over “It issssss bessssssst. SSSSSShe is ssssafer in Redwall, she needs to be around other beastssssss…..too long hasssss ssssshe been kept from interacting with otherssssss. Rarely did she go anywhere on her own and one time she did…my former tribe, all dead now, found and enslaved her half a sssssseason. And another time we were seprated, she was attacked by crows .”

Gorvenalus nods “Well all care for their children, adopted or by blood. You worry as any father would.”

Krisha starts to walk over and then stops, she looks inside the abbey as maybe she should go back to the infirm as if Xander woke and didn’t see her he may worry but she also wants time with her father, he wouldn’t leave Mossflower..would he?

Ferro nods “True…I have cared fer her….ssssince the day ssssshe was born, there was a sssstrong father/daughter bound I….ssssssseem to not have understood right away. It’s not like one pictures my sssspecies…sssshowing any feelings but hate, anger and causing fear”

Gorvenalus nods, “Well,  some do not get to know beasts, true it’s good to be careful of course but some judge too quickly on well that’s a fox or that’s a monitor…take me and Minsc we saw a squirrel and judged him good when he showed his true colors later on as evil…pure hate and evil. I try as some beasts here, not all no but some…to try and get to known a beast before I say your bad or your good or maybe your in-between”

Krisha walks towards them slowly and stops a short distance away.

Ferro doesn’t notice her right away “I…I wonder if issssss right thing…for Krisha here. And issssss not fully goodbye, I will be in Ferravale half a day away in my Blacksmith Shop and visit…..once in a while” Most likely not every often. This is a goodbye in a way. He knew it and it was not like he would stop by the abbey much at all, he would stay in Ferravale and when it got cold weather he would stay in his den and forge, heck a forge in winter was great for a monitor.

Gorvenalus noticed the badger maid but doesn’t say anything right yet, “She knows you care I am sure and she will be safe at the abbey and make friends, friends are always important to have.”

Krisha moves closer and listens. She doesn’t want to interrupt but she also doesn’t want him to just rush off.

Ferro nods “I had….have..few friendsssssss. I trust few and yes I know trust takes time to earn on both ends. I ssssshould go.” He goes to start to walk north on the road towards Ferravale.

“Do you want to rush off so quickly?” Gorvenalus speaks quietly.

Krisha frowns and starts to follow and stops, she then clears her throat and coughs roughly, so sore and rough sounding, a voice not used in over two seasons and just recently said one word….again she speaks. She clearly will have get use to reusing her voice, if it’s to stay…only time will tell” F…F….f…..father..” She reaches out a paw to him, it’s not loud, its soft but she is so close to him.

Ferro starts to say something when he spins around and stares wide eyed at Krisha ”W……What…did you…….?”

Gorvenalus smiles and watches off to the side, he will not join in, only watch.

Krisha goes to tightly hug him and lay her head on his shoulder, even though it hurts from under use she softly speaks as she leans back again “F…F….Father…..” She hugs him again.

Ferro wraps his arms around her and a rare time he lets tears flow, “Krisha….honey you..you sssssssspoke…after sssssssso long.” He kisses her forehead and smiles, that’s rare also, and looks at her. “I will…be close if needed, have Xander bring you to the shop. You will be safe here, you will be fine here…thisssssss I now know.”

Krisha nods and smiles, she doesn’t say anything again, maybe this is a one time thing a couple words today…one now and one earlier, maybe she will never speak again or maybe this is just a start. Still it will take time if she is to speak again fully. Tine will indeed tell.

Gorvenalus clears his throat “Shall I take her inside?”

Ferro nods and steps back” Never…..far away” He smiles and heads to Ferravale, feeling better on his decision to let her live her and he live in Ferravale.

Krisha watches her father walk off, she will miss him but she knows she will be fine and can see him still if she wants to. She will just not go off alone. She then lets the beaver led her inside.

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I play:
Oz-  Badger-young adult-Wanderer