Bird Furious

Haly: wipes away her tears and rushes over “Are you okay? Um, um…” frantically hovering “What’s wrong? Marshmallow?” Offers, thinks better of it, and throws it away “What should I do?”

GUYS LOOK OVER HERE IT IS A PEOPLE! HEY PEOPLE On a scale from G to Quarks, how insane are you? I’m around 15 astroions.

Haly: “No… I mean, exciting things. But…” fails to stop a tear “Essa said that if I stay, things might break. And—“ full on crying now “—she made me come back, and I want to go back, but I can’t and I’ll never be able to go back, and I don’t want to think about this anymore.”

Haly: squinches her face, trying not to cry “You could say that.”

Haly: sees TAAron “You’re alive! Yay! That’s a plus.” Suddenly looks concerned “You’re not fine though. What’s wrong and can I help?” Walks over

So pretty, even though I can’t quite tell what it is… love it still! 8/10

How dare you not add chocolate! The chicken is sad now.

Haly sees him “Nameless! How are you? Hows TAAron? It’s good to see you!”

Haly goes to the library and looks around, growing distracted with the sunlight and turning herself into a wind chime so she can throw rainbows everywhere

THOSE POOR PEOPLE! Afraid of thirteen… how EMPTY life must be without thirteen… Have you written poetry? Have you painted a moon? Have you ambushed people with snow? Do you like mud? Which shape do you like the most?

Haly flopped onto her bed and started a random CD in the CD player she’d installed in the wall. I can’t believe this. How could they take this away from me? A line of poetry from a Kellan chronicle translated itself in her mind. Search a hundred days, you’ll never find The fragments of this broken heart of mine… She blinked, realizing how melodramatic that sounded. Okay, enough fun. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. The music slipped into her thoughts, misplacing them to make way for itself. You’re in my mind all of the time, I know it’s not enough… She was fine. Life was fine. She’d find a way. Wind chimes were content with life, and they didn’t live in Nayo. Well, if the sky can crack, there must be some way back… Haly kicked the CD player. “Shut up. Don’t taunt me.” She could make her own music. She started to hum a snatch of song, a sort of riddle song: It leaps and it shivers Completely untethered Small as a movement Large as a word ”I should go check on TAAron,” she mused. “See how Nameless’ doctors are coming along.” So she skipped down the corridor and knocked on the infirmary.

After a lifetime of tears, Haly found a little bit of anger. She cultivated it, carefully eased it, stretching it. How dare this person tell her what to do! She jumped to her feet, fists clenched. “I won’t go. I refuse. You can’t make me!” Essa sighed and bit her lip. “Well, I can actually. Look. If this is between shattering your dreams and killing millions of people…” At this, the anger Haly had held close evaporated, replaced by emptiness. ”You…” Haly licked her lips. “You really think it could be that bad? You really think…” her words came as a whisper. “You think I could actually break the Radiance? For good? I could actually kill them?” “Think of it this way,” Essa told her. “Yes.” Haly swallowed fresh tears. “I’ll go back.” ”Good girl. I’ll arrange a visit for you after everything’s stabilized, all right?” She looked down at her clipboard, then searched around her. “Anybody got a pen?”

“Haly!” Haly looked up from crushing a root. “Yeah?” Valy led a nine-year-old girl with a clipboard and a black business suit over. “Im not sure. Essa wants to talk to you.” “Excuse me.” Essa shooed Valy away and turned back to her quarry. “You can’t be here. If you stay, you risk breaking… certain aspects of this world.” Haly froze. “Wh…what? What are you talking about?” Essa sighed. “The Radiance. You can’t be here when Lumi rises again.” ”Lumi comes back?” Halys eyes shone. “Really?” Then she remembered what Essa wanted. “I can’t leave. I can’t. This place… it’s too perfect.@ Essa growled in frustration. “Do you Want to break the Radiance? For GOOD?” Haly gasped. “I… break the Radiance? I…” ”Yes. It’s a large possibility. You have to come with me, back to the clinic.” Haly slumped to he ground. “But… then I’ll never feel the Radiance. I’ll never see Javenaire, or beat Valy in a fight, or… or even…” sobs started escaping, and large tears. Then they became uncontrollable, bursting from her like a tiger burst from a cage.

Fortunately, Bob was nice.

Girl: “Im going to bring her back. You better go to bed.” Vanishes

Girl: drops the pencil “WHAT? That… that… that o’shanon lor! I can’t believe this. I-what-how-grr!” Walks beiskly toward the door “Thank you for your help. I’m off to get that kadanil.”

Fortunately, it had gems.

Girl: “Right.” Scribbles “And Nameless? Do you know where I might find Haly?”

Fortunately, there was a flip flop.

Fortunately, there was nothing to hope for, because there was nothing fortunate.

Sorry double post…

Girl: grins “Yes you do. It’s wonderful, but also pesky. Anyway. Nameless? TAAron? Haly? Can you direct me to them?” Girl: “Not in very good shape, though. Get better soon.” Scribbles “Anyway. Nameless? Haly? Can you direct me to them?”

Fortunately, the frostbite learned to freeze the frog as a big sapphire.

Girl: “Taking roll. There are certain universes with very delicate equilibriums that could, if people as powerful as you clinic people were to interfere, be completely thrown off kilter. I need to make sure you’re all here.”