It Never Ends, Does It?

Characters: Aikuen, Fira, Amy, Will, Kentar, Garnet

Location: Moledeep

Moledeep: Dibbun's Garden

It's another warm morning over Moledeep, and an otter sleeps near the pond. Aikuen had decided to sleep outside, as he didn't feel like going inside just to sleep in the infirmary. He lays on his side, face pointing toward the pond, and his back to the tunnel. As much as he hates it, this sort of reminds him of times back in his militia days. Sleeping under the stars, your arm, the only pillow you will ever get. Hot as hell. Wondering if tomorrow will be another battle... another fight...another kill. He shivers a bit at this. The militia, was the only place he felt completely accepted... and that's only because his fighting skill were unmatched, and no one dared try to do anything to him.

Aikuen involuntarily shakes his head, he hated it. The only reason he fought, was because he didn't care about dieing... because no one would miss him. But now, he has a beautiful wife, and family again. He tightens up in his sleep. Even though he left the militia, the militia never left him. and he curses that he was born with such anger and hate... that the militia actually egged him on for.

Fira has never usually let problems get to her, the ability to ignore the world and just let it pass over. Well she's tried that this time, it's just a little harder to do when there's so much to think about. Mostly she's just been quiet, out the way and sat around on her own with her nose in a book. She's not come out looking for Aik, she's just looking for a break and a bit of daylight after staying up most of the night under lantern light. It isn't hard for her to spot him there by the pond and she ends up thinking about it all over again, a little sigh escaping. She really doesn't want to end up arguing again, she hates that.

Aikuen has been up for a few minutes, still laying on the ground like he was sleeping, just playing with a dirt clod in front of him. Then the otter does in fact hear a sigh, as quiet as it was, but he automatically assumes it was just Amy... or Will... They been around here a lot, especially in the morning. He rolls on his back and places his paws on his stomach, looking up at the brightening sky. He didn't like what happened with him and Fira. He also hates arguing... it just tears him apart... but it all had to come out sooner or later... at least now, they have survived it... and now they can move on... He sighs and begins to tap his claws together, wondering if she will talk to him today... He really misses her...

It tears Fira up as well. She cares too much to just ignore it all and let it go. She can't just avoid him and everything else seems to have gone back to a state of peace again at least. She hesitates a little but after a minute she finally does walk over, just going to flop down to sit next to him and look at the pond.

Aikuen sees Fira hovering over him, and his jaw drops. He blinks a few times and then comes back to reality when she sits next to him. He awkwardly scrambles from his laying down position to a more or of a sitting position. He just stares at her for a few minutes, trying not to embrace her tightly, she might still need space... but this otter cant hold it in much longer. After a few minutes he finally has to say something, "...Fira?...Fi?..." he asks hopefully. He tries not too look too desperate, but his claws kinda dig in the ground giving it away.

Fira is still quiet for a minute, looking at the pond instead of him. She just trying to think of something to say that won't start it all over again "...Could do with some plants and things in the pond once it's finished" she finally has to glance to him then, lip reading again.

Aikuen lets her voice wash over him. She is talking, not exactly at him, but still! He gives a very small smile before glancing to the pond, then back at her. And nods, "Aye, plants and things... Well have to go to the river to get some reeds and we can start growing watercress also... and whatever else that doesn't naturally grow..." he chuckles, before continuing on, "The pond is almost done... a few more days, and it will be complete..." then back to the pond. As much as she tries to not make it happened again... until is concluded it will always be there. He glances back at her and says, "... I really missed you..."

Fira nods slowly along with the ideas, planning things, makes a nice distraction...until he says that last bit. She looks down again a moment later "Yeah, just...been thinking and all...reading"

Aikuen cant take it anymore, and he goes to embrace her very tightly. He pulls back so she can see him again, and laughs a bit, "No... I mean I really missed you... As soon as i closed the door behind me... I started missing you... that's how bad it was... And i know you needed your space... that's why i didn't come see you earlier... and believe me! i wanted too so badly!" he chuckles lightly, but then sighs. He goes to give her a hug again, and rubs her back a little before pulling away and says, "I'm sorry, But the worst of it is over...we made it through... And i still love you more then ever" he smiles a little, as he stares back at her.

Fira smiles faintly, she's almost trying not to but she really can't help it "I know and I missed you too it's just...difficult" avoiding an explanation "Just had to get away from it" she looks a little concerned again "Is everything really fixed now? Everyone talking to each other? No one mad?...Seasons forbid, any more problems?"

Aikuen shrugs, "I wish I could... But we're out of flour!" a small laugh, then to being serious, "I mean everything is all right... with the incident... Were all best buds again... and i even meet Kluna, once he got the fact that I'm not scary... he is real cute. You need to meet him..." then he thinks if she should tell her or not, and even though he doesn't want to tell her... she is still his wife, "I'm sorry...There is one... Kentar and Garnet were gonna get married in a few days... but now are thinking about calling if off... there still talking to each other though... so that's better... Oh... and garnet is with child..." he scratches his head, as he tosses in the last bit.

Fira settles down a little bit, it all sounds so reassuringly normal. She looks a little surprised at the news of Kentar and Garnet, eyebrows raising a fraction more at the mention of a child "Why are they thinking of calling it off then?"

Aikuen smiles as it seems she is a bit... well, more like herself. He scoots a little next to her, and almost places and arm around her side... but he pulls it back at the last second. He hmms as he answers, "Kentar almost hit her... and he is afraid that he will be an abusive husband. He said that when he rescued her... something happened to his head... Like, he said that he knew he was gonna hit her... but couldn't stop himself..." he hmms again, "I hope they work it out..." he begins to play claw wars with himself, to get his mind on other things.

Fira frowns faintly, rather a familiar thought and worry "Hit her? Alright almost but...why? What's Garnet done?" there's a tiny little sigh "There really never is an end is there?"

Aikuen sighs also, "He didn't say why... I asked and he never answered..." he hmms a bit and glances at her, getting the feeling something else is up, and he can almost tell what it was, "I will never hurt you..." he guesses. He decided to put his arm around her and gives a little squeeze "No it doesn't end I'm afraid... and I'm tired of it... Actually really tired of it... But there is some good news... Do you want to be the godparents to the stoats little one?" a light in the dark, perhaps?

Fira glances away as he guesses her mind, she doesn't say anything though, sort of shuffling into the hug and glancing back to see the rest. A brow raising at the last bit "Godparents?...You know a season ago my family was so much simpler" there's a tiny smirk. It's an attempt at humour! Feels better to talk to him again

Aikuen chuckles, and then he gets his favorite smirk in the whole world! He smiles a big ole smile and goes to grab her paw, something he has been wanting to do in quite awhile, he tilts his head and says, "A season ago? My family was also simpler... I had Will... that was it... now look at me!... Got more family then i wish to deal with... Including you, my beautiful wife... which i couldn't live without!" he grins and nudges her in the arm hold.

Fira can't really help it, it's so much easier to ignore the problems with him there to distract him. So long as they don't start arguing again she could even stop worrying for a while. She settles against his side, going to half put her arm round him, rub his back lightly "Mmm, one day just you then suddenly there's husbands, sons, possible future rat-in-laws and if Kentar is Will's brother I don't even want to think about what relation that makes his little family...it's very weird, Will still feels more like a friend than a son"

Aikuen nods, "I actually kind have giving up on trying to decide 'who' is someone else's 'what'..." he chuckles as he feels her arm warp around him, "For me... There is you... then there is Will... That's it... Kentar is my best friend, not son... and Racky hasn't been awake enough actually to give a title... And Amy... is Amy... That's how i consider it." he smiles faintly, and strokes her side gently, "As long as you don't hate Will or anything... being a friend works for me, but he calls you 'stepmum', i think thats funny..." he chuckles a little bit, before plating a small kiss on her cheek. Ah! that feels good to do that again.

Fira smiles faintly at the kiss and with a small sigh she just moves to rest her head on his shoulder "...Heh, stepmum. I keep thinking I'm supposed to cackle and be evil...really when did you hear of a story with a stepmum where she wasn't the villain?" she's kidding again

Aikuen taps his chin with his free paw, "I don't know... you could be!" He laughs evilly and says in a high pitched voice, "HEHEHE! Trouble! Trouble! Toil, and Trouble!" he then cackles and nudges her. Alright, he is done being stupid for now. He laughs and says, "He could call you Ma i suppose, ..." He could also stick something very mushy right here, but decides to bring up something a little more awkward! "When we have our first Kit... I'm gonna tell Will to not call you 'stepmum'... might confuse the little one..." he says, whilst keeping a good grip on her paw, so he can get a feel of her reaction.

Fira smirks a little at the sight of the cackle, hard to believe he could ever be dangerous. At the mention of kits there's a whisker and little ear twitch, her eyes glancing off for a moment before she shakes her head "Well let him call me what he wants. Might not be comfortable with Ma...and it sounds really weird"

"Here we stand. Worlds broken in two, two, two...Sleepless nights, losing ground, I'm reaching for you, you, you." Comes the sound of Kentar's voice from the path that leads into the garden. Next to him, is Garnet, and the two seem to just be singing a long with each other, their voices sounding so nice together. "Feelin' that its gone, can change your mind! If we can't go on, to survive the tide, love divides." Their voices quiet when they see the otters. "Afternoon otters!" Kentar smiles at them.

Aikuen laughs, "Okay Okay..." He can feel her go uncomfortable for a second, "Fine i wont mention it to Will...MA!" he laughs evilly, and slides into the pond. He floats on his back and slowly swims around using his rudder for movement. He lightly splashes Fira, "Hey Fi! Come on in... I'm no Pike... I wont bite...much!" he chuckles as he splashes her again. He hears the call of the stoats, and he waves lazily at them, "Hark! i hear the stoats on the move... Three of them i believe..." he laughs to himself.

Amethyst and Will had been awake and present through most of the otters talk hidden from view behind the same bushes they'd sat under the morning before. Will had been mostly quiet unless he was shushing Amy for being too loud. Amy had been whispering encouragement to Fira, telling her to 'kiss Aik and make up already', forgetting she couldn't hear her. And of course she'd 'awed' when the couple had made up, from her point of view. During this time Will had either shushed her or covered her mouth when she'd been too loud. After hearing about Kentar she'd become very quiet and he'd Left her to water the tomatoes as he'd been asked to. He heard the otters talking but he doesn't feel too bad about listening in since outside is rarely ever really private for any beast with birds and squirrels and like beasts hidden who knows where at any given time.

Amethyst hears the stoats coming and they sound happy. She smiles to herself though she'd still hidden from the other beasts' view for now. "They must have made up. Good. Now I won't have t kill him," she whispers to herself, though it's unlikely she'd be able to kill the stoat.

Fira of course doesn't hear the stoat's coming and she's watching Aik with a little smirk so it's a long delay before she sees Aikuen mention them and glances round to the pair, raising a paw for a little wave "Hey" So far she's still on the bank of the pond, if not for the stoat's she'd have dove in already

Will walks back to the dibbun's garden after watering the tomatoes and checking on Racky and Kluner. He sees the stoats and otters talking and waits near the edge of the garden doubting he'd be able to go around them without being seen with the stoats now here

Kentar and Garnet sit down upon the side of the pond, smiling at both of them. "Stoats on the move?" he grins. "Last I looked." the stoat looks to Garnet. "We were sitting down." he laughs with a big, bright smile. He then peers at Fira. "Who are you?" he grins.

Aikuen snorts at Kentar, and splashes in his general direction, but misses by a mile. He continues to circle the pond with his eyes closed, and says lazily, "Hiya Stoats... Had a good morning?" he asks, wishing that they would have given them a little alone time... at least a for a bit. But he still waits for Fira to jump in...

Fira gives Kentar a wry smirk back "Haha. I'm a very big fish, /clearly/" and she does turn to slip neatly into the pond, underwater for a minute before she resurfaces neatly somewhere a couple of metres behind Aikuen.

After a few minutes of just standing there Will decides Amy can take care of herself well enough since she does have her staff and nearly everyone is out here. It's too hot for him though and he goes back to the tunnel where it's cooler thinking maybe Racky or Kluner will be around and if not he can entertain himself just fine

Kentar watches Fira get into the water before he grins. "What do you think Garnet? Big fish for dinner?" he grins with a laugh, looking at the otters. "You two seem happy enough." he smiles. Garnet just leans back on her paws and watches quietly.

The shade Amy'd been sitting in provided by the bushes has moved and so does the rat-maid. She can hear the other more clearly now and if they were to look in her direction she'd be visible to them now though she's not aware of that at the moment.

Aikuen looks To Fira. Ah yes... she is now in the pond... But before he puts his plan into action he says to the stoats, "Why shouldn't we be happy... Were married, it a nice day out, and we have an almost done pond..." plus all that stuff that happened, has been somewhat resolved. He now puts his plan into action, "I think big fish would be good! And i know the perfect one too" He drops himself in the water, with a huge splash, and swims underwater until he comes right under Fira. He goes to tickle the bottom of her feet, then goes to grab her leg to pull her in a little bit.

Fira sticks her tongue out at Kentar as a response and she can just about see the shape of Amy hiding in the corner of her vision but she has Aik distracting her because she can guess what he's going to do. Just as he appears under her she springs out the way, diving down next to him and going to swim a circle round him before she dives off downwards at speed.

Kentar chuckles quietly at them, as does Garnet before Kentar spots Amy. "Hey Amy!" he calls out and smiles at the ratmaid before leaning over to whisper something to Garnet

Amethyst blinks a few times as Kentar calls over to her. "... Hi. Everyone," she says adjusting to the knowledge that she's no longer hidden. She can hear the splashing from the pond but has little idea of what's causing it though she assumes it involves otters.

Fira aims a quick push against Aikuen with a little grin, going to try and push him off one way and at the same time her off to the other way, still trying to swim away.

Kentar looks towards the water and sighs a little. "I wish I could swim." Garnet looks at him and tilts her head. "You can't swim?" The other stoat shakes his head. "No. But I can float just fine." he chuckles a little before looking back to Amy. "How are you this fine day?"

Amethyst smirks at Kentar's comment on swimming and answers. "Alive. And the rest of you?"

Aikuen chuckles as he is pushed, and gives her a few seconds, before charging after her. He catches up again, and swims sideways at her, sticking his tongue out again. But before Fira can make any more adjustments to her swimming pattern, he grabs her in a hug, and using the rest of his body, he twirls them both in the water. He grins and places his forehead on hers, looking deep into her eyes, as they continue to spin, and swim

Kentar shrugs slightly at the rat. "Oh. We're good I suppose. We're. Nervous. But we're good." he chuckles before leaning over the edge of the pond to see if he can see Aikuen and Fira. He chuckles quietly as he only see's himself. "Wow! There's a handsome stoat in the water!" he grins.

Fira lets a few bubbles escape in surprise but soon as she figures out what Aik's up to she just goes with it, going to give him a soft kiss as well. Twirling through the water, always fun.

Amethyst chuckles at the stoats remark and frowns a little hearing the water being churned up but having no idea what the otters who are mostly likely causing it are doing. "Is there a reason th pond is turning into a whirl pool?" she asks feeling a little left out since the others aren't talking much or doing much of anything, that she can hear.

Kentar nods a little. "Yeah! The otters are turning into one." he laughs. "So Amy." he smiles and looks over. "Bored?" he can't help but to chuckle. "Come over and sit with Garnet and I if you'd like."

Amethyst shrugs a little before going to sit with the stoats mostly ignoring the sounds from the pond til the otters break the surface. She catches the otter's words and smiles in his direction, "Hello, Aik. Working on th pond again?"

Fira is grinning by the time she resurfaces besides Aikuen, blowing a little water off of her nose. Another good reason for her to like the pond "I may have to disappoint you by not becoming dinner though. I'll find another fish in the river if it'll keep you happy...hello Amy" isn't worried like Aik.

Kentar and Garnet grin, laughing at Fira. "No, we don't want any other fish but you. Maybe we'll find a pike instead. I hear they taste good...Hey Aik, can I use you wife as a pike beater?" he asks. "I'm sure one smack over the head with Fira would be enough to kill any pike."

Amethyst keeps the smile on her face as she addresses the other otter, "Hello, Fira. Feeling better now?" To Kentar she says, "I don't know if that would work. Best t use Aik his head is much thicker an harder, though you may need help lifting him.

Aikuen still keep a a hold of her and treads water, and he also says, "Hiya Amy... I was just testing out the pond..." he then looks to Fira and smiles, "And i think it works great..." and then she comments about his head and he splashes Amy somewhat, "That's rude! I am as light as a feather!" he laughs a little bit. He then squeezes his wife, and give her a quick wet kiss on the cheek, before letting her go, to swim to the side.

Kentar laughs and falls onto his back, unable to help from laughing. "I don't think even with a badger helping, we'd be able to lift that otter! haha!" Garnet also laughs, but its laughing at Kentar.

Amethyst feels water suddenly hit her and she blinks it away and wipes her face with her paws. "That was /nice/," she remarks to the otter and then Kentar mentions a badger. More alert now, Amy focuses her attention on the stoat to hear what he's saying. Ah, it was just a joke. She relaxes again having nothing to worry about after all.

Aikuen also gets out of the water, but keep his back on the others for reasons that only Fira should know, and what Kentar can guess. "Lunch! Good, I'm starting to get famished!" he laughs, and holds out his paw "Here, i haven't see yah in days... your not gonna leave me alone that easily" he smirks.

Kentar grins at the otters before sitting up and yawning. "Mm. Lunch...sounds good." he chuckles a bit, grinning at them.

Fira smirks faintly at the words and takes Aik's paw, going to pull him off for the kitchen "Come on, I'll see what I can make before it's hardtack again" alas for Kentar she's already looked away so it falls on deaf ears and she doesn't offer to bring him any food this time.

Aikuen laughs as he is pulled off to the kitchen, and he hears what Kentar said but he only chuckles slightly as he enters the tunnel, then off to the kitchen. He keeps a big grin on him at all times. He is so glad that, not only are they talking again, but they can be all mushy. He forgot to tell that, she needn't fear hardtack... there out of flour. But i don't think Aik or Fira will care much as they make, lunch

Amethyst pulls out her lute as the otters leave and starts to strum on it, not singing along this time as she plays 'the bard's song' to herself, pretending the stoats aren't there.

Kentar listens then tilts his head. "Why aren't you aloud to play those sorts of songs regularly?" the stoat asks with a tilted head.

Amethyst says, "I'm allowed to play this one. Th ones I'm not t play upset Aik for some reason or upset everyone ... nearly everyone anyway. Why?"

Kentar shrugs. "Doesn't upset me or Garnet. We grew up with that sort of thing." he then shrugs again. "Was just wondering."

Amethyst nods, "So did I but others didn't and don't approve and doesn't like me t upset th otters."

Amethyst says, "That's not quite how it works and my rules were never on that sign to start with. The rules actually is 'Amy is not to bother Aikuen or Fira.' Fira's name was added later and it's a little funny since an older rule says 'Amy is not to talk when otters are present'. But I always break those rules anyway and there's yet to be a list made of what songs I can't play so it doesn't bother me too much. And you'd better not really do anything or I'll have to do something unpleasant to you. I'm not sure what but given a little time I could think up something more than appropriate."

Kentar blinks and very -very- quietly moves right behind Amy, leaning down to whisper in her ear. "You can't do something unpleasant to what you can not see." he whispers in an evil tone before laughing. "Sorry Amy, I couldn't resist!"

Amethyst grins and tries to elbow the stoat away, "You'd be surprised what I can do or find ways to do."

Kentar lets her elbow him, but pretends to make it hurt "Oh! Ow! Ow! Some beast, any beast! Get me a healer! Ow! I think she broke my ribs!"

Amethyst rolls her eyes, "Very funny." She knows she isn't strong enough to hurt him and has had her ribs nearly broken before, this isn't funny. "I know you're faking."

Kentar chuckles and sits next to Amy. Garnet moves to Amy's other side before they both secretly grin. "Ah. Sorry Amy. I tried to make you think I got hurt but..."

Amethyst starts up another song, "Get thrown by an otter and you won't need to pretend." She stares off into space a while before picking at her lute with the duck quill, the tune is 'My Rose of Old Redwall', she plays it slowly and doesn't sing this one either.

Kentar grins and so does Garnet. The stoats go to take the lute without breaking it, and then they both try to tickle attack the rat, trying to see if Amy does ever actually laugh at anything.

Amethyst does not wish her lute to be taken and reaches for it as it's pulled away, "Hey that's mine!" She growls as the stoats try to tickle her. She's never been very ticklish and just more growls at them, "Wrong rat, now give my lute back or else!" She still has her staff and even without it she has claws and fangs which she keeps nice and sharp should she need to defend herself.

Kentar and Garnet laugh before handing Amy back her lute. "Drat! We tried." he grins. "So. Will is ticklish?" he asks, his tail flicking evilly. "Thanks for the tip. And sorry bout taking your lute."

Amethyst glares as she holds her lute tightly to her chest, "I didn't say that. Though if you do go after him try to stop while he's still breathing. I'm going inside now where you aren't." With the aide of her staff she rises still holding her lute protectively with her free paw as she goes toward the tunnel to plot her vengeance on the stoats.

Kentar blinks as Amy leaves. "We're sorry...we..." he doesn't bother finishing. "Well. That was a mistake." he sighs. Garnet just shrugs. "She doesn't appreciate humor I guess." she says, taking his paw and then yawning.

Moledeep: Tunnel Entrance

Amethyst pauses by the entrance running a paw around the doorway thinking about whether she actually wants to go in or not. Undecided she sits down by the pile of broken wood that was once the rules sign. She still hugs her lute to herself and head down she allows the tears to flow down her face silently as she faces the mound of earth that makes up the tunnel of Moledeep.

Kentar happened to have looked over and just out of pure luck, he spots Amy. "Oh..." he sighs. "I will be right back." he stands and slowly goes over towards Amy and sits next to her quietly. "I'm real sorry to have taken your lute Amy." he says. "You can hit me over the head with your staff if you would like to..."

Amethyst had heard the stoat coming and wiped her face with her paws and tried to slow her tears. She's facing away from just about everything and if she were to lean forward she'd hit the side of the tunnel entryway. She hopes the stoat won't notice she's been crying. "... You are very lucky I like you, stoat and I am as I am or you would not still be breathing," she growls.

Kentar sighs and gently places his paw on the rat's shoulder. "I'm real, real sorry Amy." he noticed but pretends not to. "I promise never ever to touch your lute again." he then cracks a small smile. "Hey, I'll even make you a nice new one if you'd like!" he offers.

Amethyst turns her head to glare at the stoat,"This one isn't broken. I have no /need/ or use for another one."

Kentar sighs. "Amy, I'm sorry. I'm just an idiot. I didn't mean to do anything to make you angry." he says.

Amethyst says, "You could have been annoying without taking my lute." She's calming down some and pushes her plot against the stoat out of her mind for now.

Kentar sighs and rubs his face gently. "Amy. I am real, real, real sorry. I'm just an idiot. Just a total idiot. Okay? I'm real sorry. Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?

Amethyst turns to face the stoat and puts a paw out to touch Kentar's face, ".... maybe ...." she smiles a little and moves her paw behind his head and leans closer to him, "... would you ... kiss me?" she asks softly.

Kentar's jaw drops and his eye blinks and then goes wide. "Will I WHAT?!" he almost falls back but keeps himself up. "Would I kiss you?" he can't quite seem to wrap his head around the question. "But I-I-I-I I'm u-u-u-uh.."

"Is that a yes or no?" Amy asks playing innocent.

Kentar blinks. "Why in the world do you want me, of all beasts, to kiss you?" he asks.

Amethyst manages to keep a straight face though she's finding this very amusing. "Well, you're always so nice t me an th others aren't nearly as nice, you're th nicest one .... Y-you don't h-have t-to!" she says thinking of sad things to make herself cry a little to add to the effect. Yes this is a good punishment, much better than killing him.

Kentar is having a hard time not passing out. "But...I'm getting married to Garnet, and you love Will. I can't just...kiss you...

Amethyst pouts, "But you're not married yet and I won't tell."

Kentar blinks still and gulps. "Well. Um." he is not entirely sure at all what to do. "Why do you want me to kiss you?"

Amethyst smiles, "I didn't say that. I said 'would you'. I like you and you're nice to me. Do I need another reason?"

Kentar blinks and looks around to see if Garnet is around, or Will, but they're not. He makes it quick. The stoat leans down and gives Amy a big kiss but its only for three or four seconds. "There."

Amethyst is a little surprised she was starting to think he wasn't going to do it and then he did. She blinks a few times, "... t-thank you," she murmurs. She briefly wonders if anyone saw them and what others would think if they had. "Thank you very much, Kentar." she says reaching over to give the stoat a hug.

Kentar gently wraps his arms around the rat, quite, quite red. He's nervous that someone saw. "Welcome I guess..."

Aikuen leans against the side of the entrance tunnel. He heard and saw the last bit, the kissing and the hug. He remains quiet the whole time, up to the point of the hug, and he begins to clap, "Bravo Kentar! And you two Amy... That was quite a performance..." he chuckles to himself.

Amethyst hugs Kentar back and grins a little hearing the otter as she lets go of Kentar and leans back again. "Welcome, Aik. And I think a certain beast won't be taking things from me again and I do have a sense of humor. I also have large ears and I must go ..." She steps around the stoat and ducks into the tunnel.

Kentar blinks and watches Amy go. "What...you...rat...I was...tricked into that!" he says after a moment, standing quickly. "Its not what you think Aikuen!"

Aikuen blinks a few times, not getting most of what she said at all. He only saw the Kiss and the hug... everything before that the otter still busy inside. He smiles to Amy and says, "Hi Amy... Bye Amy!" And then to the stoat, Ah, the stoat. He walks forward a little bit, and smiles at him, "So... is there anything you want to tell me?" he bounces on the balls of his footpaws

Kentar nods quick. "She...She tricked me into it. Made me feel bad about taking her lute for a few moments...Thats all that happened!"

Aikuen snorts and laughs, "You took her lute? Bad mistake mate!" he laughs a little bit, and then sighs, "I wonder what she planed to accomplish... in... ahem... tricking you..." he has a hard time not laughing at the picture of the stoat and and the rat locking lips... its just too funny! "Is there anything else your not telling me?"

Kentar frowns and wants to clop the otter one. "Listen to me, she tricked me. I didn't do anything. So don't you dare tell Garnet!" "Don't tell me what?" her voice comes from behind him.

Aikuen shrugs at the stoat, "I wasn't planing on telling her... you didn't do anything wrong... Oh hey Garnet!" he instantly puts on his, 'i don't know anything' face as he stands there as tries to help Kentar, "Oh he doesn't want me to tell you... how... how... i ate the last um... of the... stew..." he cant think of anything better.

Kentar's narrows his eye as he glares at Aikuen. "Yeah. We know how much you like the stew so, we didn't want you to know that the otter here, loves it too." he nods once. Garnet, actually did like the stew, quite a bit. "Oh. Well. Its fine I guess. But its not that big of a deal, so it wasn't anything to keep from me." she smiles and slips her arm under Kentar's.

Aikuen blinks a few times, as he cant believe that worked. He looks at Kentar, and tries to give him a silent conversation. He cant do that, so he looks back to Garnet. Well, he already started digging the hole, mine as well keep digging, "Yah we just didn't want you to be bummed... But don't worry, ill make some later... after we get some more flour..." he shrugs again, and looks back to Kentar, trying to tell him to just tell her... but he probably wont get it.

Kentar looks at Aikuen and gets it fully. The stoat isn't sure he wants to. He's scared of what will happen. But he's scared of what will happen if she finds out from Amy. "Well...that wasn't it." Garnet tilts her head. "I sort of...kissed Amy." The stoat-maid's ears flatten back and she unlocks her arm from his. "You what!?" Garnet growls. "Its not what you think! She tricked me into it, I-" Garnet's already gone.

Aikuen goes open mouthed, and he curses a little bit... both in English and in his language as he watches her go, "That... That shouldn't have happened... that ... doesn't make any sense... I, geeze mate..." he looks down and scratches his head, "Amy is just a Dibbun... if she was near your age... i could understand... but... This doesn't make any sense..." he hmms a bit, and then becomes aware of the stoat, and prepare to be beating to a pulp.

Kentar stands there, jaw hanging from his face. "She's being moody." he nods once. Thats what he thinks anyways. "You know...pregnant maids are always like that...I think." he sits down and fights back tears. He's not sure what to do right now.

Moledeep: Mole Hall

Amethyst ducks into the tunnel and whispers back to the beasts outside, "Yes I am and yes you were." She laughs as she enters the hall and passes on to the cellar to find something to rinse her mouth out with.

Will is read a book a the table and see Amy come in and quietly shadows her.

Amy carries a bottle to the kitchen calling out to make sure it's empty before entering. She gargles with some sprits and spits it out in the sink. As she reaches for a towel to dry her mouth her paw hits a beast. She tenses and moves her paw up the beast to their face. "Uh oh," she blurts out recognizing Will, who's now standing beside her. "I'm in trouble aren't I?" she says.

Will nods and then says, "Yes you are. And now we have a pond, isn't that nice? There a reason you're in here like this?"

Amy nods, "Yes ... I said I wouldn't tell and you wouldn't like it if I did. I played a not very nice joke on Kentar just now. He took my lute."

Will sighs, "What did you do, Amethyst."

Amethyst rolls her eyes, "That's not really my name you know? I didn't do very much. I was going to do something worse but he said he'd 'do anything' to make up for taking my lute. Sooo .... I kinda tricked him into ... doing something that you won't like hearing about ... less then that I let slip that your ticklish. ... What was the question?"

Will closes his eye, "Just tell m- Wait you told him that? Hope he can't fit in th dibbun hole and he doesn't tell Kluna."

Amy grins, "I'd like t hear that if he did though."

Will frowns, "I don't. What did you do t Kentar?"

Amy sighs, "I may have ... kinda ... tricked-him-into-kissing-me." she waits for a response doubting he'll take it well, "I said I wouldn't tell anyone."

Will blinks as her words hit him, "W-why? He took your lute, but w- ... You better hope Garnet doesn't find out about it or anyone else either. You said you wouldn't tell? You just told me."

Amethyst says, "I'm sorry I won't do it again er I won't do anything like that again ... you know what I mean." She slumps down onto the floor, "Of course I told you, I didn't want to but I did. I tell you pretty much everything, unless I forget something and even then I tell you that too so you know if I'm leaving something out by mistake."

Will goes to sits next to Amy. "Everything?" he asks a little surprised.

Amy shrugs, "Pretty much. We're gonna get married so I figured it'd be best if I told you everything from th start, cause less problems later. Trust me on that. My mother wasn't always as honest with my father as he'd have liked and it definitely caused problems at times. So what have you been doing?"

Will puts an arm around the rat-maid, "You really shouldn't have tricked him into doing /that/. Maybe something else not as bad if you'd wanted but not that. I was reading. I-I think I'll go finish my book somewhere else now. ... Thanks for not lying."

Amethyst nods some as Will moves away from her. "Are you mad at me?" she asks.

Will sighs, "I don't know. Maybe a little. I don't know." He shakes his head and walks off to the dibbun hole to read.

Moledeep: Tunnel Entrance

Aikuen lowers his paws a little bit, as he is not being pummeled. He walks over to the stoat and sits down next to him, hugging one knee, "I know what you mean... at least... i hope that this describes, this situation..." he hmms a bit, "You need to talk to her... be nice... be very courteous... and for the love of everything... do NOT mention that she is moody, or pregnant... that's a fast trip to pain..." he has much experience in that... but he not very good at helping either. He takes a deep breath and pats him on the shoulder.

Kentar nods a little then takes a deep breath. "Yes, I know. I know." the stoat sighs. "She just needs her space for the moment. I'll talk to her tomorrow about it. Although. I don't want to get locked out of our room." he thinks before standing. "Alright. I'll be back in a few minutes." he runs off after Garnet.

Aikuen sits there hugging one knee, as he watches his best friend trying to resolve a couple situation, and he mentally wishes him luck. He runs a green pebble through his paws as he thinks again. He chuckles as he realized that he didn't bring... or make lunch for the others... oh well... Fira probably forgot also... and he smirks a little bit.

Kentar returns after a while, looking quite upset. The stoat sits next to Aikuen and sighs. "Can...Can I have a hug?" He asks quietly

From Mole Hall a familer song can be heard being played quite loudly along with a familiar nearly sobbing voice, "Alas, my love, you do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously. For I have loved you well and long, Delighting in your company." She doesn't even make it to the course before the playing skipping and the 'singing' is replaced by somewhat quieter sobbing

Moledeep: Mole Hall

Amethyst sits on the floor of the hall crying not even trying to be quite for once. She doesn't care if anyone hears her or not. Out of tears she just sits there staring out into space wishing she'd tricked Kentar into doing something else like Will'd said.

Kentar sighs and peers into the door way, seeing Amy. "What's wrong Amy?" he asks, slowly going over and kneeling next to the rat, feeling bad for whatever happened. He believes her. She didn't cry the first time.

Amethyst doesn't respond except to shake her head 'no'. She doesn't seem to have heard them.

Aikuen grunts as he is helped up and lead inside, "The day was starting out so nicely too..." He enters Molehall, and sees Amy on the floor crying... he sighs and immediately looks for his son... He knows it wasn't Fira... she is sleeping... Who else could upset her... He calls out, "William!" he says in a low, and very growly voice.

Will had been laying next to a sleeping Racky and thinking over things when he heard Aikuen call his name, and the otter sounded angry about something. He can't think of anything he's done that would make Aikuen angry with him. He calls from the storage chamber, "Why am I in trouble? I didn't do anything."

Kentar sighs and gently places the paw on the rat's shoulder. "Amy. What happened? Go on. You can tell me." he says.

Aikuen glares at Will and points to Amy, "Explain...Why is Amy so upset" he still just stands there, and makes not motion of any kind except to point.

Amethyst blinks and reaches out to touch the paw on her shoulder, feeling it all over before gently pushing it away, "Oh. It's you. I'm very sorry. Very sorry," she murmurs and then she's quiet again.

Kentar pushes it back on to Amy's shoulder. "You don't need to be sorry. Garnet yelled at me but I fixed it all up. She's mad but it will pass." he nods. "Don't worry. Ever."

Will sighs, "I was sitting at th table in here reading a book an she came in and we talked and then I went into th dibbun hole an finished my book an when I was done I put it back in th study an went t sit with Racky an then you called me in here."

Amethyst touches Kentar paw again but is quicker to push it away this time.

Kentar sighs and doesn't touch the rat this time. "Amy...tell me, right now, what's wrong?" he asks in a soft tone.

Aikuen nods and asks, "Okay... Then what did you talk about... You must have upset her somehow, you're the only one who could..." he says the last part quieter, even though he knows Amy can still hear him. Let the stoat deal with Amy, Aik will deal with his son.

Will chew on his lip before saying, "Just stuff."

Aikuen walks closer to Will and kneels down and says softly, "That is not a good enough answer... What sort of stuff William... please tell me..." he takes a deep breath.

Will says, "Just stuff .... and she said something about having played a trick on Kentar." He goes back into the storage chamber and into the dibbun hole knowing the otter can't follow him in there. He hopes the stoat can't either.

Amethyst tries not to cry as she speaks slowly, "K-kentar. Close your eye. What do you see when you do that?"

Kentar already had his eye closed. He then doesn't open. "Nothing. Why do you ask Amy?"

Amethyst sighs, "No, what do you see. Anything? Any colors? Light? Anything?"

Aikuen shakes his head and stands up and calls to his son, still quietly, "When you come out of hiding... I need to talk to you... if you just told me what it was... you would be in less trouble..." he grunts a little bit and walks over to sit next to Kentar, placing his head in his paws, "No its okay... you cant anyway... he went into the Dibbun hole to hide..." he just remains quiet as the rat and the stoat talk to each other.

Kentar thinks for a few moments. "Colors. A bit of light. Why do you ask?" he then opens his eye. "Look Aikuen. If you didn't notice." he stands up. "I'm almost dibbun size." he says.

Amethyst nods, "Ok. eye still closed? ... are you sitting at the table? Hm ... With your eye closed walk to Aik and with it still closed tell me what he looks like."

Aikuen looks up from his paws and looks the stoat up and down. He never really noticed before, and so he waves a paw off toward the storage chamber, "If you can... please... bring him back... tell him i just want to talk..." And then Amy's says that. So he looks up a bit, more toward the stoat.

Kentar sighs and then looks to Amy. "Why? I don't get how this is supposed to help." None the less, he does it anyways, sticking his paw on Aikuen's face.

Amethyst frowns, "You moved. Fine go get your head bit off ... you're back again. You move too much. Ok. Now go back to your chair if you can find it, eye closed of course then .... I'll try to explain. And if either of you laugh or something I wi- I'll come over there and hit you."

Kentar nods and then finds his way back to his seat and sits down. "There. I'm sitting down. Now please explain so I can go and find Will."

Aikuen looks to Amy, and tilts his head. He just did what he told you to do... and yet your jumping down his throat... He sighs and goes back to looking at Amy and says, "I promise i wont laugh..." he says.

Amethyst sighs, "Kentar, you know what Garnet looks like and Aik you know what Fira looks like, right? Pre-pretend you were like me and had to see things the way I do. I've seen most of you once rarely more than that and that's normal for me. My world if you will is well what you see if you close your eyes. But my eyes are not closed and there are no colors unless gray and black count as colors. My world if you will includes me and whatever I happen to be touching and things I know are somewhere near by like tables and chairs and stuff like that, sometimes sleeping beasts as well. It's mostly empty and I'm in the middle of it more or less and that's it. .... voices move in and out of my world and I learn to put names to voices but they're voices and are always moving in and out. .... This is hard to explain but let's say this wasn't just my world but your world too and that Garnet or Fira were there and then," she sighs again, " ... and then you do something really stupid and they're not there anymore.

The only beast you see and talk to and ... and everything is gone ok." She leans her head back and closes her eyes, "....... if you hadn't guess yet .... I told him what I did .... I-I asked him if he was mad at me and he said he didn't know. I've heard him some since then but ... I haven't /seen him/ any."

Kentar thinks for a few moments then opens his eye. "Amy. When Will, Aikuen, Fira and I went north and then east last season, I went blind. Totally blind for a few days. I had to use a walking staff. I had to get the others to tell me what time of day it was. How things looked. I know how you feel. I know everything you feel about being blind. But some beast helped me get my sight back. I only got one eye back, but it still, gave me my sight back. I'm not sure if we'd ever be able to try it for you, but. I know how it feels to be blind. I promise you.

Amethyst nods some. She'd forgotten about that but then Will'd told her so /many/ things about the others, she couldn't be expected to remember it all. She smiles a little to herself, "I'd forgot about that. I'd heard about it some of it, I'm sure a lot got left out that of th account I heard. Like I said before wrong ra- why did Kentar just go into my room? My room does not have a hole in the wall. Did he - ah he's coming back now and he's gone again."

Moledeep: Dibbun's Hole

"Will. Are you in here?" Kentar crawls his way in. If he was bigger, he'd get stuck. But he ends up half way in before he gets stuck. "Er. Ow. This isn't good." he forgets trying to get out for the moment, peeking further in to see if Will is here

Will is laying next to Racky, who of course is sleeping quite soundly. Will lays on his back with some green and brown mottled old wadded up cloth under his head for a pillow. He is not very pleased to see the stoat. "What do you want?" he growls not wanting to be disturbed.

Kentar sighs and rests on the ground where he is. "Will. I want you to tell me what happened. I don't want you running off..." he's blocking the only exit so there's nowhere Will can run. "We're not mad at you. But we also don't know what happened.

Will says, "You know what happened you were there. She told me what she did ... what she made you do."

Kentar nods a little. "Yeah. I was there. Garnet got mad, but we fixed it.

Will chews on his lower lip a while, "You didn't really do anything though ... not on purpose anyway."

Kentar nods a little. "And all Amy did was get a little revenge for me touching her lute. So. She didn't do much wrong anyways. Because nothing happened after."

Will nods a little, "I guess. She didn't have t do it like /that/ though."

Kentar nods. "No. She didn't. But she did. But its alright. I don't mind, Garnet doesn't mind...Much." he shrugs.

Will takes the cloth from under his head and turns it around in his paws thinking, "She like her lute a lot. ... Said her Dad gave it t her back when she could see, taught her t play too. .... She still shouldn't have done that." He continues to turn the mottled rag in his paws not looking at the stoat.

Kentar nods slowly. "I was a total idiot but still. It was my fault." he then looks at Will. "Will. I have a question for you."

Will drops the cloth, actually a small shirt that's missing it's sleeves, letting it fall onto his chest. The observant might note that the fabric and color of the ragged shirt matches the cloth strips in Amy's braid. "What's your question?"

Kentar isn't paying attention to the cloth so he doesn't notice. "Well. Do you remember what Rose gave me for my eyes when I was blind?" he asks. "Do you think we'd be able to get some for Amy? Its. Just a thought. I'd like to help her in some way and well. It worked for me."

Will picks at one of the steams on the little shirt, "I remember. Don't know how she made it or where t find any or anybeast that could make it. Amy said they tried everything til they couldn't 'waste' money on it anymore. Nothing helped some things made it worse even. Don't know if she'd want to or not. If it did work she wouldn't need t stay here or .... I don't know where we'd find somethin' like that."

Kentar nods a little. "I was thinking of going back." he says. "To see what I could find. Maybe a list of things needed to make it. I don't know." he sighs a little. "You think there's anything left? I mean. Maybe. Its worth a shot I think."

Will sighs, "Rose is gone. They won't rebuild it again. And if there was anything there of hers it's probably been sent t Sister Mary by now. She's th one that gets all Rose's stuff now, her an Brother Jullian an May. If they did get something like that they'd use it at th Abbey ... They must not cause Amy was there an none th healers said anything about it."

Kentar sighs a little then nods, closing his eye and resting his head on the ground. "I wish I could do something for her sight." the stoat sighs. "I know what its like to be blind and all I wish is for her to see again." The stoat nods once before opening his eye and trying to wiggle out. "Um..."

Will closes his eye for a moment, "I would be good if she could see and she'd probably be really happy if she could see again .... But th only reason she's here is cause she can't." He looks over to the stoat, You're stuck." he sits up and move to push the stoat's back out of the dibbun's hole, "try t pull yourself out an I'll push and maybe it'll work. Don't know how else you'll get out. Took a long time t get Corbyn out when he got stuck but your not an otter so this should be easier."

Kentar nods and then does as instructed before with a loud pop and a grunt, he's pushed out and lands on his tail. "Oww.." he mutters before looking towards Will in the dibbun's hole. "I still will look for something I guess. Or try to anyways. I'm not a healer but..." he shrugs and stands. "Aikuen still really wants to speak to you Will.

Will nods, "You can try .... don't try too hard, it probably won't work. ... Tell Pa I'll be in there in a little while."

Kentar nods back. "I know. Anyways, I will. See you when you come out." He smiles a little before standing and going out to see Aik.

Moledeep: Mole Hall

Aikuen takes a deep breath again, "He just got lost I suppose... But it looks he found his way..." he stops pacing and goes back to sit down, "If you ever have any questions about the trip... ill be more than happy to tell you about it... and i wont sugar coat it... the whole, real, truth... not just 'stuff'... You know why? Because you deserve to know..." But mostly it keeps the otter from doing anything stupid, keep his mind of things.

Amethyst nods, "I know enough. I know Rose died. And Sarah's son died, think her name was Sarah. And he talked things over with Brutus kinda somehow. Heard he mighta poisoned somebeast, a mouse of some sort an lots of stuff."

Aikuen sighs, "Well there is quite a bit more then that... those were just 'some' of the key points of our trip..." if she wants to know more... she will ask. He takes out the green pebble and starts rolling it around the table. It has great sentimental value to the otter, and he smiles as he watches it roll around. When he thinks about what it means, it kind of blocks out everything... its nice...

Amethyst asks, "What are you doing?"

Aikuen comes back to reality, and stop the pebbles movement with a claw, "Nothing... just thinking about... something..." he scoffs as he knows he cant cover it up, "Okay, I'm rolling around a pebble i picked up awhile a go... it helps me... get through the day... Keeps me... well... sane" he starts to roll it again, little slower though.

Amethyst hmms, "What's so special about your pebble?"

Aikuen smiles a little bit, "Come over here... and 'see' for yourself" he holds it out too her, for her to hold.

Amethyst pulls her self up with the aide of her staff and walks over. She carefully feels over the table for the pebble that made the rolling noise.

Aikuen waits a little bit before saying, "Now it just feels and looks like a normal, regular, boring green pebble... But that pebble has more value to me... then all the gold in Mossflower..." he chuckles and waits to see what she says about it.

Amethyst asks, "Somebeast give it to you or you just find it someplace?"

Aikuen says, "I found it... just laying in the sand... all by itself... and i picked it up, and pocketed it... Its just a piece of quartz... nothing different then any other... but still..." he smiles still, trying to build tension, even though it probably wont work for the Rat-maid.

Amethyst says, "I think amethyst, th rock, is some kind of quartz or something. Heard that some where. Some purple looking rock or something. He's weird. So what so great about your little rock here?" "

Aikuen nods, "Aye, your named after a semi-precious stone, a lovely.... violet colored stone... its not quite quartz... it more... 'stone like' and worth a lot more gold!... it that makes sense..." probably doesn't, but anyway, "I found that pebble the day i told Fira... That i liked her... this rock mean everything to me... it represents what was started on that day, and here we are now!" he smiles as he places the pebble in his paw, and starts to roll it around.

Amethyst nods, "That makes three of us then."

Aikuen blinks a few times, not getting what she said, "Eh? sorry... but What makes three of us?" he asks.

Amethyst says, "You have your pebble that reminds you of Fira. I have th lute my father gave me. And you know about Will." She'd be surprised if he didn't know about Will.

Aikuen ohs, and nods, placing the pebble back in his pocket, "Okay... well then i guess that does make three..." he chuckles lightly... and then he blanks on Will.... sort of. He can think of a bunch that Will has, so he pulls one out, "Will has... the pendant right?" he then wishes that the shot in the dark... that the aim was true.

Amethyst says, "That wasn't th one I was thinking of but he has a /lot/ of things like that."

Aikuen sighs as he misses, "Was it his sword?... Was it one of his crafts?" he sighs again. Will's own father could not tell what his son had to remind him of things... but he had so many... and shouldn't blame him for not knowing. He yawns lightly, and pulls out the pebble again...as he thinks... just let it go, it'll all be fine

Kentar comes into the hall and yawns. "Aik, Will said he'd be out in a minute or two." he says, sitting down somewhere.

Amethyst says, "I was thinking of Denny's shirt actually. But it doesn't matter really. There are a lot of things." She turns her head when Kentar comes in, "Hello."

Will chews on his lip a while before tossing the ragged mottled shirt onto the pile of blankets that line the dibbun hole before crawling out and walking into the hall. "Pa? ... Kentar said ya wanted t talk t me?" He wonders if the otter is still angry with him.

Aikuen blinks a few times... OH! now he remembers... that was a long time ago... and Will never talked about it much or at all anymore... and it makes sense... He sighs and looks to Kentar, "Thanks mate... hopefully he didn't give you too much trouble..." he grunts as he places the pebble back in his pocket, and then he hears Will and he turns to face him, "Eh... yeah mate... come on Will... to the kitchen..." he walks off toward it.

Will sighs and follows the otter to the kitchen.

Amethyst looks toward Kentar's voice, "What do you think Aik will do?"

Kentar shrugs a bit and watches them go into the kitchen. "I don't know." he says with a shrug.

Amethyst smiles a little, "Those words don't sound as bad when you say them. If he were mad at me I could deal with it and if he wasn't I could deal with that but not knowing ... it's really bad. Kinda like a stomach ache but in your head I guess. Never mind.

Kentar nods slowly then chuckles. "Yeah. So. Lets try and distract each other then. I'm sort of wondering why you tricked me into kissing you earlier."

Amethyst sighs, "I'm stupid? No? I was much nicer than my first plan. I was curious and I do like you and you are very nice to me, though I don't like you like that. Garnet is very luck to have you and she can keep you. I wanted you to leave me alone at the time but then I saw the opportunity to mess with your head and well it just went from there. I didn't think you'd actually do it though. All of you are very strange."

Amethyst smiles, "He doesn't like it as much as I do yet though he's getting better at it." She blushes a little, "And you are not telling the otters that either. I will hurt you if you do, with my stick."

Kentar chuckles for a moment before yawning. "I won't tell the otters. I promise." he smiles. "But just give him a nice kiss every so often, and he'll start to do the same. Trust me." he chuckles before yawning. "Anyways. I'm going to go join Garnet and get a good night sleep. C'ya tomorrow Amy." he smiles and on his way out, he leans down and gives her a kiss on the forehead before vanishing off

Amethyst puts a paw to her head as the stoat leaves. "Glad he's not mad at me. He really shouldn't do that though," she chuckles to herself.

Moledeep: Kitchen

Aikuen goes to sit on one of the counters. The place is a little messy, because of what happened with Fira and Aik, earlier today... but this doesn't concern him now... just Will. He pats the counter space next to him and says, "Come on... sit..." so far his voice has been normal, not angry. He just wants to talk.

Will has to climb up the side with the help of a chair, the counter's too high for him to just sit on like the otter does. Once up there he asks, "What'd you want t say, Pa?"

Aikuen takes a deep breath, and starts, "You left Amy... when she needed you... Normally i don't take into the account that she is blind... but when she explained it to us..." he sighs, "... She needs you... to be there for her... You get what I'm saying?"

Will shrugs, "She's been alone before."

Aikuen states, "Yes... but she thought you were mad at her... You left her alone in the darkness, thinking to herself... that you hated her..." he takes another breath again.

Will exclaims, "I did not! I never said I was mad at her ... or Kentar!"

Aikuen states quietly, "You didn't say you weren't... and That is just as bad..."

Will closes his eye and says a little quieter, "I said 'I don't know' cause that's th truth. I'm not mad at her cause she didn't kiss him and it was a trick anyway and I'm not mad at him cause it was a trick and he wouldn't have done that if it wasn't. I don't care what Kentar did .... what she did hurt. I'm not mad at them but .... I don't know. I don't know and that's what I told her."

Aikuen nods, "And that's why she thinks, you hate her..." and gets up from the counter, to look Will in the eye, "And you do know... 'I don't know' is a phrase that we use... when we know the answer... but you don't like it..." he places a paw in his pocket, "And yes... what she did, did hurt you... so Tell her the truth... tell her that it did hurt..." he sighs, "This is all part of growing up..."

Will nods, "Yeah .... I will. ....... Kentar said he's gonna look for something t heal her eyes so she can see again."

Aikuen smiles, "Good for you mate... I didn't want to punish yah for not telling her... and Fira thought up some nice punishments for you. All outside work, and lots of heavy lifting!" he laughs a little bit and picks up Will as high as he can, before carefully placing his son on the ground, and ruffing his head "Now I'm going to bed... you remember to tell her...Okay?" he stands up and walks toward the door, "Its been..." he looks around the messy kitchen, and chuckles, "...A long day..." he stops at the doorway, when he hears about Kentar, "He is?... good for him..." It'll never work... it wasn't the same condition... but this otter remains quiet... keep everyone hopes up. He places his paw in his pocket, before walking out of the kitchen and back to his room, where Fira had woken up, and was waiting for him. He doesn't tell her what happened in the last few hours... she needs not to worry...

Moledeep: Mole Hall

Will tries to hid the smiles forming on his face. While he'd love it if she could see, he fears she'd may leave if she got her sight back. He walks back into the hall trying to look solemn so Kentar won't ask him why he's smiling. Seeing the stoat isn't there after all he relaxes and walks over to sit down next to Amy. "Hi. I'm not mad at you ... but you can't do things like that. .... I don't like it." He runs a paw through her hair and draws her close, hugging her. "I'm sorry," he murmurs in her ear not want to let go. He doesn't mention Kentar's plan, no use getting her hopes up since it won't work anyway.

Amethyst hugs Will back. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have do it that way," she says and takes the stoat's advice by giving the male rat a long kiss. When she draws back she's blushing and grinning. "I am sorry .... and I'll try hard t think things through more .... and other things."

Will nuzzles Amy a little and then he's being kissed. "We can't do stuff like that, remember," he grins, "Stepmum wouldn't like it."

Amethyst smirks, "You know I'll do it anyway. Maybe more if I'm not supposed to. What do you say to that?"

Will laughs, "I think it's time t head outside ... unless you'd rather not."

Amethyst laughs a little too. "We're going outside. Too many otters in here," she says already heading out to the rose garden.

Will nods and adds "And stoats and a fox and a weasel too." He follows her out and keep an eye on her so she doesn't fall in the pond.