Discovering me.

My name.

We got drawn to the forest again as three people walked out of the forest. It was Priska and her parents.

As they walked out, the child said, don’t bother the source of balance, even though he is scared of worms.

Which got me all defensive as I told her to keep quiet saying, that she doesn’t know what she is talking about.

She just made her eyes wide and covered a smile. Which got everyone laughing except kiway.

Who was just as amused, about the worms but he also, seemed to be thinking about something.

When she removed her hand from her mouth, she greeted everyone, then skipped away. When she got to the tree, she waved her hand and said, 'Hi Angelo!'

Then Angelo brought a branch down to her head and brushed it gently.

But everyone accept kiway and me, was already raising a weapon and charging at the tree.

To which it just blew them away, with that trick that it once did on me to keep me away.

While it held Priska protectively closer to its trunk. This time it used less wind because it only made them back up. While with me, I was leaping in the air.

The little girl clapped her hands happily saying that was cool Angelo.

To which everyone was now confused. They thought the tree was trying to hurt the girl.

Angelique was confused, about more than one thing but piecing it together quickly, stuttered.

Th the tree is Angelo? Asking no one in particular, more than making sure, she understood her own thoughts.

Then she turned to me and with that face which she was making I knew. That I had to run, so I ran behind the cave.

Once I had gone around the cave. I ran directly for Angelo and climbed on him again, while Angie was on my tail, still trying to catch me.

Everyone started laughing. Angelo protected me from Angelique for a change, as she tried to get to me.

Angelo made a dome out of his branches keeping me just out of reach.

Angie frustrated started removing the leaves but I heard cracking when I looked on the floor the leaves that she removed dried up immediately.

Shouting I screamed Angelique your killing the tree. Nehu was running to stop her and kiway was speed walking towards the tree.

Angelique had a bunch of leafs in her hands as she got pulled away from the tree by Nehu.

She looked in her hands. Then on the floor. The leaves on the floor had withered and the tree was not healing itself. But why?

Having no one to ask but the tree she asked why are you not healing yourself. I have seen you doing it a lot of times when sparring with Carter. So why are your leafs withering now.

She was saying this with tears in her eyes, because she accepted the tree as family. Even though she wanted to give Carter, a beating for giving the tree a name so close to her own.

The tree removed the dome around Carter letting him out and drew a heart on the floor.

Angelique was stuck. Her brain was blank. She didn’t know how to answer to that.

She gathered the leafs from the floor and gave them to kiway.

Saying find a way to fix this please. Then she ran off and Nehu followed her.

Once she had left I turned to the tree and said thank you for protecting me. Then smiled and said nice try buddy, at least you told her how you feel.

I can’t even tell Tiphany that I like her, never mind love her.

Kiway said out loud, for all to here. I believe Tiphany knows that, just like the rest of the village.

Which made everyone laugh again.I had forgotten that they where behind me.

The tree also waved it’s leafs around enjoying the joke.

Well I was glad to have cheered the tree up a little even though it’s leafs where not yet restored.

Kiway went inside to put the leafs down in his cave and only came back out with one. He went to the Willow tree and got some water droplets from the willow tree.

Running the water droplets directly on the leafs and watching if there would be any changes. Then he went inside again mumbling to himself.

Priska’s parents said goodbye, for formality sake because they knew kiway wouldn’t here anything they said while he was in this problem solving mode.

So Priska and I said goodbye instead, as they walked out of the cave and into the forest.

Then I said let’s get out of kiway’s hair and go play with Angelo. Priska stood up and walked out of the Cave with me.

We just sat there with our backs on the tree trunk, telling tall tales in order to entertain Angelo.

Priska then said why don’t we decorate Angelo. He might end up happier.

I watched for the tree’s reaction. The response was exactly, what I thought it would be because it folded its leafy brunches.

Indicating that it didn’t like this idea. Yet I encouraged Priska’s idea prompting her further, by asking her what would we use to decorate Angelo.

We got up to search for decorations.

My plan was to get back at Angelo, for laughing at me when kiway teased me about Tiphany.

Priska ran at the edge of the forest getting flowers, vines and smooth colourful rocks.

While I got, big shiny seeds that could be hollowed out and some thin vines to make a, seeded neck lace. But to it this would be a trunk lace as it will hang around it's trunk.

Then once we where done collecting everything, we went back to sit under Angelo as we worked on our mini project.

As I worked and the trunk lace had quite a few seeds on the vine, I noticed that the seeds that I picked up where many, but the string was not becoming heavy.

From instinct I looked at the start of the string, where I had made a not to keep the seeds from falling out and noticed a leafy branch taking a few seeds out on the other end.