Beyond the Stepping Stones discussion

This is a safe place where the talking animals, mythical creatures, and a few magic using Scallions live

Leya absentmindedly swished her sword through the air and she strolled around the Safe Haven. It was about the only place she could think without being interrupted by something that wanted to kill or eat her. She would still get interrupted by nicer creatures but she didn't mind it. She was in an unusually good mood today, and she didn't really know why.

Leya paused and looked over to where she'd heard the flap. She walked over and saw a human. "Hellooooo!" she said with a smile, wondering why she was so happy today.

((Okay))

"Yeah. Me too. It's a nice place here." Leya nodded and sheathed her own sword. "That's a nice sword you've got there."

Leya nodded too. "They're pretty. So, what are you? I don't think a human would have two swords like those."

"Really? Cool! I'm a Kitsune. If you couldn't tell by the ears and tails." Leya twitched her ears and twisted her tails so they looked like just one big tail. "Who's guardian angel are you? Or are you still looking? Is that how it works? You look for someone to guard?"

"That's nice. I just sorta... Survive. It's gotten pretty chaotic to say the least."

"That's my motto." Leya smiled. "I'm Leyanoir, but I go by Leya."

"I know how you feel. Three tails can get pretty ridiculous sometimes." Leya nodded, fanning out her tails.

"Lucky. I can never escape the tails." Leya shifted into her fox form and flicked her tails. "See?"

"Eh. You'd be surprised at how un-soft they are." Leya turned back into her sorta-human form. "They're big. I bet you can really get places with those."

"Not really. I can shape-shift into my animal form, and I can understand any kind of animal, but that's about it. Or at least as far as I can tell." Leya grinned and sat down too so Zara wouldn't have to look up.

"I don't really live anywhere. I'm a wanderer for the most part. But yeah. I come here a lot too. It's a good place to think." Leya watched the ladybug too.

Leya chuckled. "Yeah." She sighed and looked around. "Wanna spar?"

"Um. How about no magic-like things? Like your wings or my shapeshifting."

"Yes." Leya grinned and unsheathed her sword and got into her routine sparring position.

((You have no idea how big of a fan girl moment I had when I read Sherlock on that comment XD))

"Always!" Leya tried to hold back her mischievous smile, and succeeded for the most part, but a small smirk crept onto her face. She waited for Zara to make the first move.

((^_^ Yeah.))

Leya easily dodged the lunge and swiped her sword lightly in a counterattack, the tip of her blade barely touching Zara. "Clarifying question, no majoring injuring? Or no injuring of any kind?"

((I'm not either. XD I just kinda mimick the other person))

"Okie dokie!" Leya deflected the blows and, when she could, put in a counter stroke, making sure that she didn't actually cut Zara.

"You okay?" Leya asked as she lunged toward Zara.

Leya froze.

Her brother stumbled back, almost falling backwards, to dodge her thrust.

Leya laughed. "Are you okay?"

Her brother grinned as he steadied himself. He blew his brown hair out of his face. "Perfect."

Leya frowned and lowered her sword.

((XD It's totally fine! It rememinded me of The Kane Chronicles how the sun god Ra called Zera Zebra ^_^))

Leya blinked then shook her head to clear it. "Um. Yeah." She forced a smile. "I'm just dandy."

((Lol!))

"It's nothing," Leya insisted. "Just a memory." It was actually the truth, at least, Leya hoped the vision had been a memory.

((Gtg))

"Um... Good," Leya decided. She always had a weird feeling after she remembered something from her past, almost like nostalgia or longing. But at least she was getting her memories back. From what should could gather, her mom had been a widow, and she had two older brothers that both like sparring too.

Let's nodded and sheathed her sword. She sighed. "You're a good with your swords."

"I think I have too." Let's nodded. "I might just be a quick learner though..." She shrugged.

Leya realised her mistake. "Yeah. I mean, I don't know how much a lot is to most people but I think I had lots of training," she explained quickly. She smiled and chuckled nervously.

Leya rubbed her arm. "Well... It's a blessing and a hindrance for people to know, so I mostly just keep it to myself. It's more of a hindrance than a blessing so..." She shrugged.

((Awesome! I totally get that! Where did you go?))

((Fun! ^_^))

Leya shrugged. "As long as you don't say anything to anyone, I'm fine with telling you."

"Okay." Leya walked over to a tree and sat under it. "I can't remember hardly anything from my past. All I remember is I got in a fight with another Kitsune, and I blacked out and woke up in a completely different place. I get flashes of memory every once in a while. I just got one."

(Kk)

Leya nodded. "I guess. I was sparring with... I think my brother." She shrugged. "I think it was my brother anyway..."

((Sure. ^_^ That would be cool! I have to make him first though. XD))

((Um... It usually takes me a little while to make characters, but I'm going to only be half on for a long time, so whatever you want to do))

((Yup. ^_^))

((Done and done. We shall continue!))

((Okay. :3))

((Yay!))

"Um..." Leya closed her eyes and searched her few regained memories. "Jasper, I think... Maybe Jasher." She opened her eyes and nodded. "I'm pretty sure it was Jasher. It sounds familiar, and right."

((Yep! Fire away!))

"I don't..." Leya shook her head. "What do you need to tell me?" She caught that Zara called him Jash, and hoped flared inside her. Maybe Zara knew him and could reunite her with her brother.

((I guessed. XD))

"Really?!" Leya jumped to her feet. "Do you know how he's doing? Or where he is? Or even just if he's alive still? When did you last see him?" She blurted the string of questions almost to fast to understand, desperation tinting her voice.

"Oh." Leya seemed to shrink a little. She leaned her back against the tree and slumped down to the ground. "Well... As long as he's alive I still have a chance of finding him... Where did you last see him?"

((Um... Crag? Would Zara go there?))

((Alrighty))

"He was?" A little spark of hope relit in Leya. "Did he often go from world to world looking?"

(Yes, but he didn't leave until he'd searched the place twice. He only finished his first round of Crag, and it's big so he would be nearly done by now)

"But did he often go from world to world?" Leya asked.

"And you said you saw him on Crag last?" Leya stood up.